Who knows! This might be posted in enough time for me to have a normal bedtime….

1. Things never break all at once. A piece on the steering mechanism on the lawn tractor broke on Monday. When I took it apart, my dad had apparently fixed it once before. The part could be put back together, which I did, but the hood was very precariously attached. I went through my bucket of nuts and bolts and found a bolt that would work, but no matching nut. I was off the Ace Hardware to buy a nut. (As I left the house, I texted Nina to tell her where I was going. She responded, “A peanut?”). I got back, securely attached the hood, and headed out to mow between rainstorms. I got the front partly finished when the steering part broke for good. The mower store had the part, but it needed a nut. Once again, no matching nut was found at home. Another trip to Ace Hardware. Of course, buying one nut is weird, I’m sure I’ll need another nut of those sizes sometime again in my future. The nuts and bolts bucket has been resupplied.
2. We’ve certainly had a lot of rain. The paper said we had a record amount of rain over the past weekend. We never get long-lasting rain here in Pocatello. We get storms that blow through. However, on Sunday we had a rain that lasted all day and well into the night. I’m pretty sure if I looked closely, I probably would have been able to see the grass grow. By the time it stopped raining, and the mower was fully fixed, I had to mow grass about four or five inches tall.
3. Someone said something about all the rain. I remarked that I was getting worried about something starting to grow on the top of my head. “Fungus, or algae?” he asked.
4. Nina got rear-ended last Friday. The result was a couple of small dents in the back bumper that really should get fixed. The guy handed over an insurance card in someone else’s name, claiming it was his girlfriend. While the whole story isn’t in, yet, he probably doesn’t have any insurance. Some states have started requiring insurance companies to feed insurance info into a database so that the police can verify insurance information at the time the accident is being investigated. We need that here in Idaho. There are just too many untrustworthy people.
5. We’re in the midst of planning The Big Trip East. We’ll go from here to Connecticut and back with the main purpose to be at our granddaughter’s baptism on June 20th. Is it safe to put on my blog that we’re out of town for a period of time? Will someone look and decide to break in? I’m thinking it’s safe, but there are just too many untrustworthy people.
6. For two months in a row we’ve gotten our Home Teaching done before the middle of the month. That’s scary. Tradition is definitely being broken.
7. I’m always surprised at how many people cannot follow written instructions. I’ve been assigned as part of my High Council work, to conduct a preparedness survey for the Stake. The survey was to be conducted in each Ward or Branch in the Stake last Sunday. Good instructions were included on each survey form. Also on top of the package was instructions on what to do with the completed forms … which was to call me to arrange for me to pick them up. The instruction even included my phone numbers. No one called. Of the nine Wards and one branch, not one called. I had to call them. One person said, “I didn’t know what to do with the surveys, so they’re locked up in the office at the Church building. Can’t get them until Wednesday.” When I told him the instructions on what to do with the forms was on top of the package, he said he hadn’t read it. My amazement continues.
8. Last Thursday I went to Montpelier to a meeting of all the community organizations. My part was to do a ten minute presentation on how they might use Google Calendar to be able to have a comprehensive master calendar for the city. I was first impressed by how many organizations were present at the meeting: 17 different community organizations from Little League Baseball to Enough is Enough, from the Arts Council to Parks and Recreation. I was then impressed by how much energy and interest there was about getting a comprehensive community calendar together. Every organization said that they’d build a Google Calendar and a woman who works for the City volunteered to do the master calendar consolidation. I think this might actually happen!
9. Saturday afternoon my siblings, Nina, and I went over to Soda Springs to celebrate my parent’s 65th Wedding Anniversary. They were married in June 7, 1944 in the Salt Lake Temple while dad was on leave from the Army. D-Day was the day before the wedding. A couple of weeks later dad left on a troop ship for Europe to see duty in France and Germany. Mother was pregnant when he left and dad was notified by telegram the following year in March when I was born. His unit was poised to cross the Rhine River the day he got the telegram. Sixty-five years is a remarkable feat and definitely needed to be feted.
10. Today we had a mostly sunny day, the only day this week forecast to be partly sunny. If it’s raining on Saturday, I probably won’t go to the Farmers Market. That activity has resulted in a couple of sales, but definitely hasn’t been the market I was thinking it would be. I’ll have to rethink how to do this next year for sure.

Hope your week has been good for you, too!