Take the Leftovers on the Road.

 

The Christmas Cactus that blooms
most exuberantly at Thanksgiving

Wherein RantWoman grumbles about transportation realities and the RantWomen had an awesome time anyway.

The first invitation: The Weedwhacking Wenches inquired: would RantWoman and RantMom like to join them for roast Turkey. The RantFamily already had plans, a feast in the dining room at RantMom's new retirement community.

The Wenches wanted to roast turkey at home in Lynnwood, so the next invite iteration: what about leftovers Friday or Saturday?

For the record, RantWoman LOVES Thanksgiving leftovers: turkey sandwiches, soup, casseroles, turkey enchiladas, yams, various cranberry relish and sauce.

RantMom feels the same way and there was the shadow of an invitation to RantMom who also really enjoys the Wenches.

RantWoman also owed RantMom some of the off the cranberry bag cranberry relish and t

But....

Transportation!

RantWoman was not excited about helping RantMom figure out paratransit between King and Snohomish counties.

RantWoman THINKS she has figured out how to use MetroFlex from the Renton Transit Center to RantMom's but has not tried it since updating some info in the MetroFlex app. More importantly, RantWoman has not figured out whether the Renton Metroflex zone goes all the way to a light rail station. Sigh.

Never Mind. Although RantWoman loves the Community Transit Zip, RantMom is NOT enthusiastic about trying the Light Rail with her walker anyway.

But WingNut DRIVES.

After a bit of texting back and forth, RantMom let RantWoman and the Wenches invite ourselves to her house with turkey, sandwich makings, yams, cranberries, and...conversation!

One theme of the conversation: after YEARS of living in Seattle, RantMom has finally unpacked some treasured family pictures. One picture, a print RantMom recently had framed of the farmhouse where she grew up.

Another picture: a somewhat stylized painting of the house where the RantFamily lived long ago in the last century in Gunnison CO. And hah! Thanks to Nephew's travels a couple summers ago, an actual photo of the very same house.

Gunnison House

 

Tune in after another holiday for more tales of leftovers on the road!