Okay, that was just bizarre...

I thought everyone was being really quiet yesterday. A bit odd for a Friday, but you never know. In fact, there had been very few posts after about 1:30pm. Until I logged on this morning... when suddenly there were 175 or so posts since 1:30, all in a jumble (the time stamps are all over the place throughout my friendspage). Weird. Really weird. And now I'm wondering how often this happens and how much stuff I've been missing.

I know I haven't posted much lately, and I should probably do a big ol' update entry... but it's going to have to wait. We're about to head down to Portland for the weekend (my grandparents are flying up from Sacramento and my folks are driving over from La Grande... meeting up with my step-siblings who live in the Portland area), and there seems to be absolutely no extra time, these days (and it's about to get worse, since we "lose" an hour tonight *grumble*). But hey, I get to spend a few days with my family... and we'll probably stop at Sowerby's down in Centralia so I can have haggis, neeps and tatties for lunch. Yay!

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Well, we drove through Centralia on down toward Chehalis, watching for the sign on the freeway to let us know the exit for Sowerby's was coming... and we never saw it. We did, however, see the old farmhouse that used to be Sowerby's standing empty by the side of the road. All of the flags were gone, the sign was gone and when we drove back and pulled into the parking lot, it was obvious that they'd already pulled out all the memorabilia (the inside of the place had been practically plastered with photos, postcards and newspaper clippings from England and Scotland).

*whimper*

From what we've been able to glean off a Lewis County community website, Sue (the owner) has moved back to England. It seems rather sudden... and I can't help but wonder if the two weeks they had to be closed because the restaurant was just an island in a really big lake ended up being too much of a financial hit for them to absorb.

But now I'm left really wanting some haggis and, as far as I know, there's nowhere else in the Pacific Northwest that sells it. :-(