Last night we stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lake Oswego, and this morning visited my former mother-in-law, Mom Powers: 96 years old and still going strong.

A morning with Mom Powers

She lives in a very nice senior community, but complains that most of her acquaintances there just want to “sit around and eat cookies.” That’s not good enough for her, so she was in the midst of preparing an “arts party,” where participants would decorate a couple of small tree-like sculptures with a variety of objects.

Now we’re on our way north, up the east side of the Olympic Peninsula to Sequim, Washington, and a night in a caboose!