The glass-fronted beach
house overlooking the ocean
from a high bluff in Oregon belongs to the family
of the
2nd wife of our next door neighbor here in
Seattle. Bruce
and Connie--who used to live here in the place we
rent--
invited us down there for the weekend and so we
went.
The house is fully furnished and there are plenty
of old
LPs and lots of books to peruse as the surf pounds
dully
outside and bourbon cracks one's ice. I read Horton Hatches
the Egg and had no trouble with it except a
little bit at the
end... I could accept an elephant sitting in a
tree for 51
weeks, being kidnapped by a circus, then hatching
a
hybrid flying bird-pachyderm, but why the greedy
ring-
master would then restore both big-eared
moneymakers
to the wild just didn't make sense. Oh well, as
this little
family seen pedaling down the middle of Highway
101
on our return trip demonstrates, strange things
do occur.
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