I totally forgot I had a dentist appointment this morning. Luckily, Dad and Claudia were running late or we might have been in the mountains when they called. I hopped on my trike and they were gracious enough to do my cleaning and checkup even though I was late.
I took Dad and Claudia up Pine Creek Road in the Hitt Mountains. We did a little hike, and they got to see the Sturgill Peak Lookout (from a long distance), and the Wallowas (from an even longer distance).
After that, we went to my house and did some maintenance. They helped me with the last section of tangled fencing and barbed wire. Then we did some caulking at the house and tried to repair one of the front stairs that had cracked. The repair didn’t take so I roped them off after we came back from dinner at Dad’s Place in Council.
Then I had a couple neighbors over to meet my parents, and we all chatted for a bit before it was time for Dad and Claudia to get back to the hotel so they could have time to pack before getting to bed. We need to leave town no later than 8 tomorrow morning, so we’re planning for 7:45. I’m going to miss them. Dad says he’s too old for this kind of trip; next time my brother and I will get to do the road trip and they will fly in to meet us in Boise. I think that would be a different kind of good time. Maybe we’ll go through Montana.