Woodinville WA

The one remaining area that we had to check out was downtown Woodinville. We hadn't seen the Woodinville Florist shop yet and Josie wanted to try to chase down the former owner, Dolores, who was a good friend and was the person who hired her for her second floral job about 25 years ago. Dolores had sold the shop, which we knew, about 7 years ago and retired to Montana for the summers and to spend winters in her home in Duvall. We discovered that the shop had moved - like Redmond Floral - to a new location on the edge of town. We again were surprised at all the changes in town and we finally located the shop. I took this shot after we drove up to the new location:

while Josie was taking this shot:

We talked to the new owner for a while to try to get a number for Dolores but the new owner lost track of her about 2 years ago.

We drove to Duvall to try to locate her house as we thought we remembered where it was located. We didn't, so we stopped at an Espresso and Ice Creamery in town to get a cone and we asked the store clerk if she knew about her. We did get some info - that she was still in town - and we went next door to the City Hall to get a phone book and try to find her telephone number. We found it and Josie connected with her and had a nice long conversation. They are selling their property in Montana to spend full time in Duvall since they are getting too old to travel back and forth. She and Josie vowed to stay in touch and it was a nice ending to the day.

I will try to get an appointment scheduled today or tomorrow at the Jeep dealer in Puyallup who did not fix our overheating problem two weeks ago. It started doing it again yesterday so I'm almost certain it is a sticking thermostat that needs to be replaced. We'll find out soon, I hope.

Other than that, we are about ready for the start of our trip to IL which will begin Sunday when we travel to Seattle to check into our hotel for the night...