Sorting and Shows

Yep shows, Hallmark shows, Antique shows, Vegas Shows, TV Shows, Broadway Shows, FanX shows and shows at the movie Theater. 

On Monday Dad started one of those chain projects.  He sturdied up this old Wyoming school desk that was Julie's to hold the Swedish cupboard I stripped this summer. 

Then I cleared out the cupboard on the top here, that was in the family room with my baby dish collection in it.  Next it was off to the antique mall, along with the former base of the Swedish cupboard to be a display at the antique mall, because I needed more locked space for much of what I am bringing in of Julie's. The base shown here is just a modern piece we found on Market Place to temporarily hold the Swedish Cupboard until I found a nice antique base for it.

Later in the week I got the Halloween stuff out of the parlor and dining room.  I refilled the Swedish cupboard, again with the majolica.  I don't love that the cute scallop detail on the top of the cupboard is covered by the pitcher collection, so I will likely change that.  

Meanwhile Scott was downstairs working on the floor of the spa room.  This blue stuff becomes invisible as it dries and is necessary to help the self-leveling cement adhere to the preexisting cement. 

Here's his first layer of the self-leveling stuff.

Then the laminate flooring goes down.

He even managed to get it under the sauna ... of course this took his workdays all week to accomplish.

Back to Monday night, we met up at Heuer's again to work on the sorting project.  We also had a nice dinner, and a Halmark Christmas movie afterwards.

Jeff took advantage of the extra hands, yes Eric was there too, to do some adjusting on their bed. 

In working on sorting more of Julie's goodies, I ran across a ticket to this play she attended in New York, that had her boyfriend, Edwin Owens, acting in it.  I took the opportunity to include a bit about the play she attended and a picture of Edwin, probably taken long before she knew him. They met while they both working on Howard Dean's campaign back 2004, I know that she lived with him in NYC for a time and that his ashes are buried in her garden in West Virginia. Edwin passed away in the fall of 2006, while on the road with a Broadway Company doing a play in Texas.  I know she was so happy with him; I feel so bad she only got a bit more than 2 years with the man she considered to be the 'Love of her Life'.  I think a few of the things I've gone through are actually his.  His bio said he was a practicing Buddist.

And speaking of Broadway Shows, I am so excited to see the movie of Wicked that is coming out next week. Lots of fun press out there.  Here are some pictures of actresses who have played Glinda and a few who played the Elphaba character, aka the wicked witch of the west.

I also decided to get rid of this mantel and top, so I took pictures to list it on Face Book Market Place.

I finally found the other picture of this set, that had seemingly disappeared and was able to frame them in matching frames for the Carriage House.

Wednesday at work I installed these shelf that Dad had cut for me, after I measured for them on Monday. I am definitely needing more space, as I am going through the goods in the Carriage House in anticipation of Thanksgiving dinner which, yikes, is next week. 

As always when we don't have evening events to attend, we watched Monk that night, in fact we watched Monk on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.  Definitely loving this show, Thanks for recommending it, Emily.

Dad picked me up after work on Thursday and we meet up at Thanksgiving point with all these holiday hoodlums.

Robin loves Duane Johnson and masterminded it all.  What a fun movie. Sort of Elf meets 007 ... a whole new genre. The Polar Bear was my favorite.

On Friday it was back to sorting.  I got a whole bin of dolls, nothing valuable or, perfect, so I am trying them on Market Place, no interest yet.  

Now here is a valuable doll.  Britt and Charlie were in DC all week taking care of Parks. 

Doesn't he look adorable with his new head gear?

Cousins.

Friday night Dad took me to the Acorn Antique show in Ogden, where I ran into a few friends.  It's probably been ten years since I actually did this show.  Dad and I agreed I probably did it four or five times.  This is Holly and Jeanine.

Here I am with Cindy, Noel's widow.  I worked with Noel for years, and he always had exactly this same spot at this show.  He passed away four or five years ago, but Cindy carries on. 

Here are Bruce and his sister.  I found a few things in his booth.  He is at Treasures and the Grove with me, as a dealer.  After the show Dad took me to Applebee's for Impossible Burgers.  Yum.

Here are my goodies from the show.

On Saturday morning as I was about to head up to The Grove to work, this man pulled in the driveway.  I told him I was leaving for work, and he would need to move.  He said he would after I talked to him.  It turns out he is Dean Brook.  He and his wife Debbie lived up 7th North in Orem from our house next to Becca Brimhall.  Small world.  He told me that both he and Debbie grew up in Payson, and that they had moved from their Orem house in 1996 to a house he built in Santaquin.  He asked about how Ben was doing, and I had to share that sad story.  He then told me that his son, I forget his name, who was Ben's age and friend, was still living at home with them, as he had developed schizophrenia in his twenties.  So sad, he was with Dean and I got a chance to talk to him, he didn't remember me, but he remembered Ben.  Now that I know they live close by I am thinking of doing a South County- Geneva Heights 7th ward Ex pat dinner.  There are quite a few down here, both Mason families, Patty Smith and one of the twins, the Shumways and the Hursts, whom we personally sent to Payson.  Crazy!

At work I had taken a whole bin of ornaments that I had decorated the white tree with, some 6 or 8 years ago.  Yeah, time to find the goods a new home, because I am never going to that tree again.  These are some ornaments that I made.

Trevor, Lu and Rosie dropped by to see me at the Grove and to pick up Dad's BYU mug (from the trunk of the car) for the game that night. It was so fun to see them.  Trevor stood in the line and made a crack about how slow that clerk was, I looked up and didn't recognize him for a sec.  Then realizing who it was, I said something like "Hey, I gave you life, and this is how you treat me?'  the customers all laughed, it was so fun. 

Penny and her Papa at the game

The whole gang

Dad ran into Ryan Poulson who is Brittany's age and grew up in our SLC ward.  Oddly, he now lives up by Brittany but came down for the game with his son.

Someone else did some traveling to have some fun as well.

Darby and Dallas went down to Vegas to see a show.  They also got to have some sushi. 

Making memories.

And last of all is this adorable picture of Robin and three of her Grandgirls.  These are Tami's kids. Robin was watching them while Tami and her husband went to sell books, they usually do the Fan-x shows, and sell online, this time he was signing books at a bookstore in Ogden.  Too bad we didn't know we could have stopped by when we were doing the antique show in Ogden. Hanging out with those cute girls sounds like fun to me. 

 

Expect the Unexpected

Yep, I just quoted 'Dan in Real Life', but that is just the kind of week it was.

To start we are saying happy 2nd birthday to our Johnny boy, a week late, as it was last Sunday, because surprisingly, Dad forgot to post for him.

and here are more pictures of the birthday boy, that Emily sent later.

Monday was full of working around the house.  Dad's is continued work on our spa room downstairs. 

Mine was involved in going through more of Julie's boxes. Washing fabrics and clothes and cleaning hard goods. (I wore one of her dresses to Church today.) I have loved sorting her stuff and thinking about her, and how much I always admired and loved her.  The thing that her possessions seem to bring into view, is that she and I are very, very much alike.  There are so many things she had, that I either have or wanted to have.  Her crafting stuff is great! Her clothes are very much like my clothes, above you see my favorite sweater, and hers, side by side.

Here we are together 24 1/2 years ago at our Mother's funeral.

More of the same on Tuesday for Dad and me, including me taking some of the goods into the mall and spending 6 hours there, before Dad came and got me to go to Heuer's for a box sorting party. They are dealing with Jeff's mom's many, many boxes of papers, pictures, letters and files.  We each did between 2 and 3 boxes before rewarding ourselves with a well vetted Hallmark movie, that we all liked. And yes, there was dinner too.

At work on Wednesday, we had these two Charles Shultz's Peanuts collectors in the store.  I told them, as I usually do, that Charles Shultz's daughter lives in Utah, did they know that?  To this question Missy said, surprisingly, YES!  She is our mother.  How fun is that, Missy's brother is also named Charles, after his grandfather.  

In other surprising news, Dad saw this news item on Sister Lehtinen's page in Finland.  Yep, that's right, the president of Finland is walking down the street and runs into a couple of Mormon missionaries and allows them to do a selfie with him. 

Here's yet another surprising picture, Our Hannah is the one with the mermaid pose, how cool is this!!

Then when I saw this adorable post for Parks, I started scanning back on Brittney's Insta page.

Then I found Van's earliest post, which includes these pictures of Spencer and Ben, it made me so happy that I put them together as a collage.  I just loved getting to review all of our Spence-Brit's kids monthly shots. Doing this made me laugh, as I was going to do a named blend with Spencer and Brit's names, like Beniffer and Brangelina but since theirs came out to be Spit, I decided not to do it.  

I found time this week to hang the painting we had purchased at the 135-show last week.  The one on the far left here is the largest of the 6.

These two by Kristen Tye in the parlor. 

This is my fav, it's of Big Cottonwood Canyon.

This set of three cottage paintings found a home in our garret. 

Here's a cutie, no surprises there.

At work on Thursday, I put out a couple of Julie's collections, like these Giraffes. 

On Friday Dad filled the locks in the basement with cement.  The cement mixer did not fit down the stairs, so Dad had to haul it down by the bucket.  I am getting so excited.

Meanwhile I was washing some of the goodies from Julie's estate.

Looking them up for pricing purposes is an adventure.

But I got to listen to the book I have been waiting for on Libby for four months, while cleaning them and looking them up.  Barb recommended it, and I love it too.  Thanks Barb.

On Saturday morning I went to the Springville Library to find some books at their book sale.  Not a huge haul, but what a lovely building.  I adored being welcomed by this Paper Crane Mobile in the multilevel entry. It reminded me of Spencer and Brit's wedding.

The guy back home was keeping busy ... here is his progressive picture for the week.

Then I had a couple of young women from the ward come and help me put the garden to bed for the winter, McKenna Terry and Victoria Eddie.

Then Dad ran to Spanish Fork for our bi-weekly Indian Food from Dave and Bri's (Davahnna?) neighbor.  He gave Dad this deep-fried tube to try.  It was kind of like a giant bugle, without the seasoning. 

Next it was off to the Grove to add a few Christmas items and take out the Halloween.  The blue pots are from my collection in the family room, as we are trying to downsize a bit. Isn't that unexpected?

A few of the children's dishes from another collection.

And a group of vintage (50's) trees that I got at Aunt Julie's.

Then it was time for these three Utah graduates to go to Trevor and Nell's (Trevanell) to root for BYU as they played at the University of Utah!! Now that was an unexpected game, for sure.

Trevor read us all a book about a former and memorable BYU-Utah meetup. 

He did a fine job!! But in the end, I think the game we witnessed might be even more memorable.

Comfy checking stats during the game.

Here he photobombs our photo.

Eva was not as committed to watching the game as the rest of us, but it was fun to have her around.

Lu and Mom

And Penny really got in her laps, biking 15 miles by the end of the game.  What a woman!

Today we had our Primary program, which was simply amazing.  Our President spent a lot of time on her knees and the result was the most spiritual program I've ever enjoyed.  She had each of the families that have primary kids come up and as a family and give one part and then stand to the side for a few minutes, she did 2 or 3 families at a time, so the parent's helped the kids if they needed it, but for the most part they didn't.  There were families with a mom, a dad and kids, some with a single parent and kids, 2 brothers who are divorced and living at their parent's home with shared custody came up together holding infants, and a couple of toddlers besides.  My favorite is our friend Emily Wright, who came up with her recently divorced sister, and her five children, together.  Families are what they are, and there is love for all.  Of course, the singing was wonderful, as the whole congregation got the words to all the songs in their program, and many sang along.  The chapel was so full of love I thought it would burst.

The picture shows all the kids (including the 9 in our class) in a circle on quilts around a faux, flickering campfire.  I had tears in my eyes through both meetings and had to wipe the spillover several times as well.

And look who tuned up at a Missionary farewell that Trevor went to this morning.  The funny thing is that the Dad of the missionary, a friend of Trevor's, grew up in our Orem ward, after we moved out, he lived in the Dicou's house.  Too many coincidences there to even keep track of.  We're still sure how they know the Ramirez'.

Here he is with Gustavo, who, with his family, is back attending our ward again, which we love.

After church we did both tithing settlement and a ministering accounting for me.  It was a truly spiritual Sabbath.