Another week has gone by, it was a covered in paint week. On Monday I got things ready for our We-Can meeting, I spray painted several elements, and had yellow and black paint on my fingers all day. Here Carol she is a fellow We-Canner, so you can see I wasn't the only one covered in paint.
Here are more of the gals hard at work.
Our color scheme is black and yellow, the 'B's are in remembrance of Ben, to whom we are dedicating the tree.
Here are some with their dots.
Dad was home taking off the aluminum windows from our former bedroom windows.
That night we were excited to get to go and give a Family Home Evening lesson at Trevor and Nell's. Dinner was also included, thanks. Since I'm so into bees and beehives at the moment I decided to give a lesson on Utah and Beehives ... It was pretty fun. Then Dad read a story about a quilt that a family made in the 1940's for post WWII packages for Europe. Later the Dad was called to Finland to open a mission there for the first time, and their clothing, food stuffs and linens were all stolen when they were shipped from the USA. They had to ask the church to replace the items because they were not available for purchase in war torn Finland. Guess what quilt was on the top of one of the boxes. Yep sometimes its us who needs the help.
Afterward we stayed on to participate in their family scripture study.
How cute is Penny.
On Tuesday Dad worked on the windows again, here is the before picture from Monday.
This is the window with the original white paint on the frames. Dad both calked and painted them on Tuesday.
This is how it looked on Tuesday afternoon. I spent the day taking down the outside Halloween decor, which Dad finished by hauling the iron fencing from the faux grave yard back to the side of the house.
Dad asked me to document the medallion now that it is starting to fall apart. Note the curlicue on the right in the middle top. That is a resent loss. Anyway, we love telling people that the facial expression on the two sides are: the wife of the couple who built the house, so pleased with her new house, and on the right is the husband, who was horrified when he saw the final bill.
I worked on Wednesday, getting out and pricing the several items I had found junking the previous week. This picture is of a lovely old ornament that another dealer brought in,
Dad got the leaves all mowed up that day, did property taxes, and drove around ordering windows for the living room.
The next day, Keith, who works in the north building, came over and wanted to take a selfie with Richard and me. Later he sent me this ... he's really getting techie, don't you think?
Dad went back to the temple that day, after it was closed for two weeks of cleaning.
After work I drove into Provo and met up with Terry Kew to go and visit her Mom is a care center (lovely lady) and then to her mother's house, which the family is cleaning out. I wish I'd had taken a picture, this lady was a serious collector, she makes me look spartan. I was there to catch any items of value before they gave much of it to DI. Terry gave me the Bee items for the Bee/Ben tree, and the little trees are for the Dr. Suess Tree I think I'll do after this next mission.
I got home before Dad, because he went on a temple cleaning assignment. I guess they have a volunteer crew of about 45 every night to go over everything. Dad said he mostly did dusting, sanitizing and some vacuuming
On Friday we boxed up the indoor Halloween decor, 8 20 gallon bins, a Calderon full, a witch mannequin, the big pumpkin sign, a contractors garbage bag full of plastic pumpkins and skulls, and a folding chair that says "Sit for a Spell" all neatly labeled and stored together.
Then we got the barrel top desk up to the big guest room. Whew, Dad actually rolled the bottom part up the stairs by himself.
Then we went to dinner at Skipper's Fish and Chips, which we used to love early in our marriage, in fact my water broke just before Ashley was born in the the Skipper's parking lot on 21st South.
Ashley and Zac were at Nenna's early birthday party in Spanish, but we dropped by their house to see it in all its newness. Its all so nice, having lived there I know that they fixed many of the funny little issues it used to have. Nicely Done Halls.
Then we went to see 'Anything Goes' at the Hale Center Theater. It is more of a variety show with singing and dancing, threaded through with a simple plot. We loved it.
At intermission we got to visit with these cuties, as their family and Dad had arranged it so that we saw it the same night. So fun.
On Saturday we got busy painting the trim in the living room. Dad painted the whole double huge front window frame, while I did this and got started on the archway into the dining room. We are not going to paint any of the red oak, such as the fire place and the spandrel between the living room and dining room, so not to worry.
We took a break intending to walk up main street to a new bakery and sandwich shop there, unfortunately they had two soups and one sandwich, and none of them were vegetarian. So we headed further south, and had Mexican food, which was delicious. We stopped on our way home and got a sweet roll at the Bakery place because a kid from our ward was working there.
I had bought this hand hooked 1930's wall hanging from another dealer for $5 on Thursday. It had probably collected rain water while hanging on a wall at some point, as it had water marks in the sky. This is the second soak water draining away. I soaked it once more.
Its far from perfect, but even Dad likes it. These hand hooked rugs were a big deal when he was in Finland the first time, though I never saw one with this subject when we were there, and that is what I love.
That night we were exhausted by the time we got to Davin and Bri's to watch their kids while they went out to dinner. Here I am with Adi taking it easy and watching The Incredibles II, it was fun to be with the kids, and Davin and Bri got home before the movie was over so we got to watch the ending with them. That was fun.
Church was great today. It was one of our final 3 hour blocks. In December we have a special stake conference, and two weeks with just sacrament meeting. How strange is that.
Dad went out and took sacrament to the shut ins after church, while I fixed dinner. After dinner, we were pleasantly surprised by a visit from the Summers. That means that when you include the fact that we saw Ian when we stopped to tour Ashley and Andy's newified house before the play on Friday, that we saw at least one of each of the families with children who live in Utah County. The Grand kid time was the best. We love them, and love getting to know them better. Tonight we found out that Reagan is quite the budding artist.
Well that was our week. We hope yours was nice as well. Thanks for taking the time to keep up with us by reading our blog. xoxoxo
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