Nina and Pam drove to Salt Lake to spend the night at Heather’s house before Pam gets on the airplane back to Cleveland, Ohio tomorrow morning. So it’s just Bradica (the dog) and me tonight. She’s not much company — in fact, she’s sound asleep on her bed in the family room. I expect in about a half-hour she’ll be in here with me, prancing around in hopes of getting her night-time biscuits. She doesn’t get them until about 10 pm when she gets put to bed, but she’s always hoping that we’ll get around to it sooner rather than later.

It’s been a very busy week and weekend. Last night Nina and I went to the first event of the season at the Performing Arts Center. George Winston put on quite a show on the stage — mostly with the piano but also including two guitar pieces and one on the harmonica. His ten-minute fantasy on “The Saints Go Marching In” left us both breathless and tired. I’ve never in my life seen anyone play the piano so fast and all over the keyboard. It was definitely the hightlight of the program! We enjoyed last year’s programs so much that we purchased season tickets for all the events at the center. Unfortunately we’ll miss the concert next Friday evening featuring the Orchestra At Temple Square. We’ll be in Colorado Springs but the tickets will get good use by some friends.

Nina will be back tomorrow evening and we will have one or two days of normality. Then we’ll leave on Thursday for Colorado Springs where some very good friends are celebrating (in a big way) their fiftieth wedding anniversary. We’ll take the motorhome and stay at the Garden Of The Gods Campground for the weekend. That just might be our last trip in the motorhome this year.

I had a few pictures from the past couple of weeks which are posted in the picture album.