Alive and Kickin'

Yup, we are! Sorry it's taken me almost two months to update this, but basically things are going well.  We met with Dr. DaGraca in August and found out the chemotherapy is working at keeping the cancer stable. Tom has been tolerating the chemotherapy quite well, meaning he has not had major side effects. So he is now on a two month on, two month off chemo schedule. Yaaaay, no chemo until October.

We have been carrying on as usual, so I suppose now I can get on to my favorite part of this
blog...posting photos!

Tom with some of his treasures.

My friend Laura, came out from Massachusetts  to visit and see the eclipse. We stayed in Lincoln City and although it was hit and miss for a while, alternating between sun and fog, we did experience totality and yes it was awesome. Later in the day we wandered into town and Tom scored some treasures at the Rocking Horse Antique Mall.

We had a few days in Portland and visited the Japanese Garden which had a Kabuki display and the International Rose Test Garden. We lunched at Elephants Deli where everyone can get what they like. The girls and their guys were able to meet us for breakfast at Jam on Hawthorn and not only did we have a fun visit and excellent breakfast, but we got to wait outside for an hour before we ate, becoming part of the hip Hawthorn scene.

Attention!!! Blogger is not supported by Google anymore and I have spent hours trying to upload photos and arrange them in some order to no avail.  I will end this post and make another one of just photos and captions that you can look at if you are interested.

Laura in Rose Garden.

Logan, Alli, Aaron, Amanda and me waiting
for a table.

Of course we went to Saturday Market, which has
been going on since the 1970's.

Checking out the shops on Hawthorn

Kabuki display