This is what I did with SOME of the onions from the garden. Their tops had fallen over and I'm constantly treading on them while berry picking, so I picked them, braided their little dead wilted tops and hung them in the garage. Only it's not fall and my garage is over 90 degrees some days!
Well, it is chipped no more! She noticed over the weekend, or rather Donna and I noticed, that she had a chipped front tooth. It was her left front one, the one that had been badly chipped when she was little. The dentist then in the 1940s just shaved off her teeth to kind of match. She's always had a little bit of a divot on that left front tooth. She still does. But now instead of having another little chip and crack in the center of her smile, it's all nice and filled and smoothed in. Very quickly, too. We called on Tuesday, and they were able to get us in on Wednesday at 8:00 in the morning! Nicely done.
She is happy with it. Modern dentistry is so amazing. They cure the filling substance with an UltraViolet blue light, or some kind of light. Black light? Haha. Whatever the case, the teeth are white the fillings are white and all is good with the world. We hope it lasts. The other one had lasted 80 years!
Her strength and energy is lasting, too! That is really exciting. Yesterday, the Our House bus took a trip to Smith's, and she went. Today, after the dentist we made a stop at Our House Assisted living, filled up her pills for the week, updated her meds list ( a new druge-- nitrate-- is working) then we went on to Walmart for some items and she circled the entire store almost. Pretty cool. Nice progress.
Donna came from Georgia this weekend for a quarterly visit with Mom. Robert came down from Provo for the weekend, too.
Visits with Mom are nice. Mom and Donna went out to lunch today. ( I opted for a nap-- early day at the temple).
Mom stayed in for Dinner, but Donna joined us for tacos here.
And then GAMES. I'm so glad we all enjoy some good fun family game time. It was great. But that was AFTER I got done ushering at Shakespeare tonight. So the silliness began way before 10 pm as we were all pretty tired.
Tomorrow the three of them will go out to breakfast together. Mike and I have our first-Saturday-of-the-month morning Temple shift in the office so we won't be joining them . And I have to usher at Shakespeare in the evening again.
And we've had rain! Unfortunately, there has been a bit of flooding in the Westview drive areas. My garden is well-watered and is actually muddy. Yay for water!!
Once upon a Time about 11 years ago I was invited to give a talk for Alexa Leilani Liebhardt's baptism. They were living in Southern California at the time, and Avery Sumida was being baptized too. Now, Avery is preparing to serve in the Florida, Jacksonville, Spanish-Speaking Mission. In 2 weeks I will get to attend the temple with her as she receives her Endowment in the Provo City Center temple. Alexa Leilani Liebhardt is a student at Texas A&m University. Both young women, growing up so beautifully. It makes my heart happy.
Just tonight, I received a phone call invitation from another granddaughter, Rachel Liebhardt. She invited me to give a talk at her baptism which is coming up on September 3rd.
I feel honored to be asked to participate in such an ordinance as this. And, I just wonder where the next 10 years will bring our little Rachel.
Aunt Tuny drove herself to Cedar City on Thursday. She and Mom have been just chillin' together, eating out, getting (just a little) lost looking for pet sitters, visiting, walking, tending to Tuny's Teddy who came this trip. Aunt Tuny says she's boarding him next time and I invited her to stay in our newly- refinished Sorensen Family Guest Room.
All I have left to do is hang the pictures/ art on the walls. Yay! I only packed it all up one year ago. A year. Welcome back, Guest Room in the Basement.
