Saturday is a Special Day...

 Breakfast on the deck this morning.  Check! 

Laundry. Check!

Dust whole house (well, not the basement). Check!

Grocery shopping. Check! I jokingly "fired" Mike a couple of weeks ago from this job that he excels at. But today I apologized  and conceded that he's the best. I fired him because he buys donuts and cookies and sugary drinks. Well, that's MY problem, so I will attempt better self control and let him be the super shopper. He really IS good at it. He is a bargain hunter extraordinaire. And I really do hate shopping and dont do a very good job of saving money or getting good bargains.

Vacuum entire upstairs. Check!

Scrub 2 toilets. Check!

Wash 1 small little red car on the lawn. Check! (What about the big red truck, you say? Uh uh. Too big. Mike can drive it to the car wash!)

Briefly assist Mike with moving a heavy fence section to replace it on the north side of our house. Check!  Hopefully that will keep the neighbor's wandering cute pet bunny from eating my sprouting garden stuff. I had to replant the green beans . (Partly from bugs, too.)

Made and enjoyed a yummy late lunch of hot dogs,  potato salad, watermelon and chips. Check!

Changed our bedding. All by myself. Check!

Paid the power bill. Check!

Did maintenance on my vacuum-- Check!  Empty canister, clean filters, clean all the thick Caroline hair off the roller bar-- it was so full I couldn't see what color my vacuum's roller brush bar was! But I'm still glad C cleaned her room well before leaving for Nevada this summer.

Collapsed on my couch with some ibuprofen for my aching back.  Check!

I'm hoping to get out and prune off a dead stem from my rosebush. Mike also mowed our lawn this morning. About noon, one of the young men from our ward ( who is about 20 now and going to school up north) that Mike taught stopped by to visit him. That was fun for them. Jason brought friends from school with him and I "served" them all Otter Pops while they visited together out on the front lawn.

Last night, Mile and I went with other ward members and cleaned the temple from about 10 pm to midnight. It's always a neat experience to be able to serve like that, and you know its appreciated .  Of course, its really not "cleaning," because theres never any dirt or dust on our cloths or mops. So , we are sanitizing all touch points and hard surfaces. And " dusting" all surfaces, vacuuming (clean) carpets.  We have appointment to actually ATTEND the temple. ... in August! That was the first time I could get and it's for 7 am! 😬

Free Fishing Day, June 12, 2021

You'll need to click on the photo above.  There were about 10 horses with riders who walked right behind us on the trail while were were sitting there fishing!  It was quite exciting. They stopped at the top of the pond to get a drink and then went on.  Quite exciting. They were only about 8 feet away from us. One apologized for interrupting our fishing, but we thought it well worth the interruption. (I like horses.)

Those fish were just teasing us!  They were swimming back and forth, looking at our bait and then swimming right past it.  Little teasers.

The only catch of the day. We released it. Rachel was sad about that since she really wanted to bring one home. But one small fish?  Really?  Hmmmm. Maybe next time.

 

Tuesday and the Temple

 

Water features outside on the temple grounds.

The last time we drove by the San Antonio Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 2018, it was closed and they were re-doing all the beautiful stained glass windows. The parking lot was a staging area to clean and remount them. I think there had been some water or moisture between the stained and clear coverings. 

THIS time, we got to go in and it's lovely. We had a group of ten of us to help do proxy baptisms for some family (local, from Comal county) .  One of the temple workers even had ties to Cedar City and even tiny Kanarraville, Utah. Small world.

We sent Tandy off to have breakfast with her kids and the two others who joined us, Damian drove the old folks back home. (We had already eaten our breakfasts at home). 

Damian took me for a quick drive in his new sporty blue Chevy Corvette Stingray. Fun. Fast. Loud. Bright blue. Square steering wheel. And it's really rare. There are not very many of them around at all.

Tonight is our flight home. Sad to go home. It's been fun and relaxing. 

Memorial Day, May 31, 2021

 Lexie graduated today. Over 750 were in her class. Lots of names! Very short speeches. An AMAZINGLY speedy, well-practiced choreographed entrance and exit of all 700 plus in less than three minutes each time.   Wow!! 

Lots of picture taking afterwards. One spectacular grilled feast at home with the family, fun games late in the evening.

Oh, and I went for a swim in the morning. I actually swam laps for about 20 minutes. It felt really nice. 

Mike's been reading.  We have all been eating tons. They just have really great snacks at this house and i have no self control. 

Zero mosquito bites. That's a good deal for me. 

Sunday I was relaxing on their swing. 

Games on Monday night. 

Getting measured for height is SERIOUS business around here! Mike has shrunk. Kids have grown. Lots.

Lexie is Our second  High School graduate. Caroline was the first and she was thoroughly cheated out of hers because if Covid. She rode with classmates in a parade through their town.

She is only about 4 rows from the front.

But look at ALL the chairs!!