Double meaning here. They DID have rain showers in Central and Northern Uah. We We still have none here in the south.
Nick has done all the framing down there on his own. Mike has the bathroom expertise he needed for next steps. The shower, mostly. And some plumbing question.
Mike and I drove up to Herriman to spend a day at Nick and Kaylee's house. It was the kids' first day of school! But we didn't get there till 11pm, so we didn't see any of the kids. Kaylee is teaching at Emily's preschool MWF this year. Jane was excited to return to elementary school on day 2, so that's good. Emily is in preschool, Jane is in First grade, Logan in third grade and Rachel in 6th grade.
We left Cedar city so late (7:30 pm) because I was hosting our August Relief Society sisters here for dinner Wednesday at 6. We ate Eggrolls in a bowl, two kinds of green beans, bell pepper and cherry tomatoes with ranch dressing as our salad, with rhubarb/raspberry cobbler and ice cream sprinkled with more fresh raspberries for dessert . Yum yum! Garden fruits and veggies😀.
I didn't tell them I was waiting for them to leave so I could go. But Mike got our truck packed while we were eating ( I did bring him a plate of food back in the bedroom so he wouldn't have to leave hungry), I got everything all cleaned up, and when the last person was gone, off we went! Nice, uneventful drive, our favorite kind. So blessed.
I didn't sleep worth beans on Wednesday night, though. I was awake a LOT. Mike went for a walk Thursday morning after we saw grandkids and had some breakfast. I went with him, but he was going too fast for my still-sore hip. I told him to "press on, walk your pace" and I took a cautious, slower route just through their neighborhood. 16 min. That's all I felt comfortable doing.
I don't know what I did to my hip joint last Friday, whether it was a twisty move at pickle ball or an exercise I tried ( for hip strength, ironically), but it hurts to step up with my left leg. Stairs have to be taken one at a time.
So I rested all day Saturday last week ( read a Mrs. Pollifax mystery, did laundry). Took ibuprofen. Such a wonder drug. It's been a week and sometimes it's better, sometimes it's not. I can walk with no pain, but I'm nervous about making a wrong move since I'm not sure exactly what I DID to injure it.
In Herriman on Thursday the 21st, Mike helped Nick with materials shopping, I came home from my walk, read the newspaper a bit online, and took a nap. When I ventured upstairs ( with much help from stair railing and the wall!), nobody was home, so I just read and petted their sweet puppy, Roz. Kaylee had taken Emily to her "Upstart" online preschool program orientation.
We just had a relaxing time with Emily. We ate lunch together and played some games. We visited briefly with the other kids when they came home from school. Played one and a half games of "Happy Salmon". That was silly fun. Mike and Nick worked hard. We left at dinner time(5), stopped for a great burger at Apollo Burger and had another wonderfully uneventful drive home to cedar and were home by about 8 :30 pm or so. We DID enjoy gorgeous sunsets going and going home.
This morning I picked our bountiful harvest. And now I'm tired🥱
Green beans, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers ( kind of small) BIG cucumbers. There were raspberries, too. I thought Anne Diekema from the Library was going to come and pick them on Thursday, but it didn't look like she had. She came to our RS Dinner on Wednesday night, too. She requested to see my garden, so I took her on a tour, gave her a cucumber and gave her instructions on how to pick the berries. I picked about two cups full this morning. So, if she came, she took a cup and then left.
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