Ten Things (maybe) For Whenever This Gets Posted

General
  1. We got home from the Big Trip East around noon on Saturday, July 4th. After unloading the motor home we were both too tired to do anything else. Our Independence Day Celebration consisted of Nina making some of her (delicious) potato salad, her (famous) bbq beans, and grilling some chicken outside on the grill. I think I heard some of the city’s fireworks just before I went to sleep.
  2. Sunday was a pretty busy Church day with lots of catch-up for being gone for three weeks. Otherwise it was very uneventful. Two nights in a row in our own bed was very nice.
  3. My cousin Cheryl along with husband Sean and their four kids arrived from Boise on Monday mid-day and stayed until Thursday morning. We had a great time with them here. The boys are a lot of fun and the baby Cerise was delightful. We convinced them to stay a day longer than they planned and we’re looking forward to their coming again or us going over to Boise to visit with them.
  4. Before coming, Cheryl sent me a text message saying her son Kendal wanted to bring a game “Settlers of Catan” over so we could play it. Of course he could bring it! We finally got enough time to play the game Tuesday evening. It’s a board game originally from Germany and it was a lot of fun. So much so that when we were in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, we bought the game. Now we just need people to play it with.
  5. Our granddaughter Kendra (Trevor’s daughter) spent a week or so with our daughter Heather in North Salt Lake. We picked her up on Wednesday and she’ll be here with us through the weekend. It’s been a long time since Kendra’s been here with us and she sure has grown up. She loves music, loves to read, LOVES to text. We’ve really enjoyed having her here. We’re rather boring people, so it’s good that she’s willing to put up with us. Upon her return she’s got a very busy schedule with Girls Camp, Theater Camp, and Band Camp and then school starts again. She’ll be a Sophomore this year. She’s getting pretty dang grown up! Trevor would be very proud of her. At her request I’ve set her up with a blog.
  6. I think our grass was long enough that we could have bailed it and sold it for feed. We’ve certainly had plenty of rain (although none of our tomato plants survived) with June setting a record for the amount of rainfall and the number of days with rain. Paradoxically, in May the long-range forecast was for less than normal rainfall, hotter than normal weather. That hasn’t happened, yet. Today was another day when the air conditioning was not needed.
  7. Mother finally no longer has to move sprinklers. On Wednesday an automatic sprinkler system was installed. She is ecstatic and threatens to do the Happy Dance. Nina says she has to wait to do that until we’re there and Nina can film it.
  8. Dad, on the other hand, is desperate for me to bring him to Pocatello so he can get a scooter and be able to get out of the nursing home. He thinks that plus a ramp will let him go home. Unfortunately, that’s not possible. Some people never acclimate to a nursing home and he’s definitely in the non-acclimating class.
  9. Mother’s only surviving sibling, Aunt Marjorie, has been having some pretty serious health problems lately. Surgery would normally be required, but her health is so frail the doctors are afraid she’d die on the operating table. So instead, she gets to die a much slower and much more painful death. Not sure I understand how all that works.
  10. The slide-out on our motor home broke today. It is extended and now will neither retract nor extend. I’m thankful it waited until we got home to break! The list of things needing fixing in the motor home is rather lengthy anyway. We’ve got several more short trips planned so I need to get busy getting the motor home ready to go.
  11. And I made it to ten. Just not on Tuesday. Oh well.

2 thoughts on “Ten Things (maybe) For Whenever This Gets Posted”

  1. I was beginning to think we would never hear from you again. Now I understand why. Too much company and fun!! Let us know about fun together sometime before surgery.

    DCS

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