Oh, What Do Old People Do in the Summer time?

 

They go to the doctor, to movies, to the antique store, and secondhand stores, and church meetings, and to the temple and they mow lawns and they go to Barbershop Practices and Performances, and Plays, and Garden Show Tours and art show and sales, and they to wedding receptions and garage sales, and they also visit other old people who are not well.  They also go to church and write Blogs.  There you have it.

So, our week started with my final medical test to get clearance for our missionary papers to go in.  We've been working with a sister from the missionary department who was ready to send our papers back the previous Tuesday.  I told her I had an appointment for Friday of last week, so she said to let me know how soon I could have the test.  It turned out to be Monday, so she held on to them.  Dad called with the clean results of the test, and she sent them off.  We're still waiting for our official assignment, but no one anticipates a problem.  Yay.

I spent the rest of the day and part of Tuesday finishing up the 20 gal bin that is the 9th of 18 I'll need to have ready for restocking my booths, thanks to Becca and my friend Mary.

Tuesday night I went and saw The Bread Winner, with Nate Bargatze.  As much as I like the comedian, I was not a fan of the movie.  Lucky Dad got to hang out with the Stake Presidency instead.

At work on Wednesday, I laughed when I saw that someone had brought us an empty box (for packing up orders, we love recycling boxes) from the Mosida packing plant, that made me smile.

I brought in the first of the hats I hope to fit into the 'Haberdashery' booth.  

I thought this was a fun genealogy shirt, and sent it to my favorite Genealogist, Robin.

Here July and Kathy work together getting a crazy quilt put back into a locked case.

Oh, oh, Julie caught me.

Emily went to the Alamo with her family this week and checked some of the casualties for relationships.  This was Dad's closest relation, he was a fifth cousin, several times removed.

When I got home from work, Dad reminded me that we had the Wright wedding.  Here is Johny's mom on the left, then Denise and Todd Ekins and then Johny.

Here they are as they finish a dance.

Dad and me with the bride and groom.  I taught Johny in Primary when he was 4 or 5, oh my.

And here we are with Emily's folks, the groom's grandparents.  They lived in our ward when we first knew Emily, then they moved to Bear Lake, while Emily and a sister and their kids stayed in the house in the ward.  (Emily was the nurses aid that we hired to shower Grandpa Perkins the last year he lived with us.

Dad gathered a few of the pictures from Kai's hiking adventures.

He has now finished up around 900 miles of the trail.

The full trail is around 2700 miles, Dad says he about as far north as San Francisco.

On Friday, after working some on bins, we did some errands then headed to my favorite DI, then to the Bins, shown above, in West SLC, I could not believe how many people were there picking.  I managed to buy $25 worth of books, by weight, while Dad ran and got Cafe Rio.

We took the food with us to Tooele where we stopped and ate the goodies with Joyce.  We had hoped she'd be up to attending the garden tours that were being hosted around the valley, but she was just not up to it.  Still, we had a nice visit and caught up.

I met a guy at Treasures about 6 weeks ago who was buying antiques to fancy up his yard for a garden tour.  That is how I found out about it.  It was the best of those we saw and the only one where that we took pictures. The others were mainly nicely landscaped properties, and there were very few flowers, which are always my favorite feature.   This 'old jail' was part of a float last year, and our friend decided to cut it in half and add it to his shop of western curiosities.

The red diamond railway sigh is what he bought at Treasures that day.

There were a lot of animals including these lop-eared bunnies.

Also, several of these stands with miniature scenes in them.

He had a full-size Pegasus, that must have once been at a Mobil gas station. 

Next it was back to SLC, where we attended this performance of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Marion Pack was one of our missionaries and now teaches school out in Saratoga Springs.  She does a good job. 

Here we are with Marian after the show.

On Saturday I was off to garage sales until 2:00.  Dad ran some errands while I was gone.  I bought this rusty old roller skate to make into a spool for winding with ribbon or lace.  I thought it was adorable.

Eva and her folks stopped by to get a Popup for Lu who has gotten into another arts show. Way to go Lu! Eva said she's been wanting to read Wuthering Heights and since I happened to have a copy ....

Then we were off to SLC again, this time we went to the 135 show at the Cottonwood Country Club.  I thought that this version of Girl with a Pearl Earring, was interesting, as a collage of Buttons.

So fun.

We are trying to slow down on buying art, as we prepare for our mission, but managed to find these three.  Interestingly enough, all three pieces of art are from people we have bought from before. I thought it was interesting that the little strawberry painting was by a gal who recognized me and remembered that I had bought a mushroom painting from her a few years ago at Flea.o.logy.  It turns out she lives just down the street from Sheri Oldham.  Dad found a picture of the mushroom art in the upstairs hall.

These are the $100 pieces that Kristen Tye brought.  The one on the bottom left is the one Dad wanted, while I like the one on the bottom that is second from the right.  I needed one of her small ones to finish off the display of her and another artist's, works, that is in the main floor hall.

Then it was off to see the Beehive Statesmen's Summer show.  This quartet sings with Dad's chorus The Saltaires.

So that was pretty much our week.  We went to church today, and watched Follow Him, besides taking dinner and visiting with my Primary teaching Partner, Janness Morgan, who was hit by a car while out walking on Friday.  It was pretty harrowing, a young driver whipped around a corner as the light turned, while she was still in the cross walk.  She says she remembers nothing until the paramedics helped her into the ambulance.  She had to have staples in her head for extensive cuts, and said she was bleeding like crazy, but they put her back together and she went home.  Whew. 

Missions, Missions Everywhere!

 

Dad went to the Memorial Day Service at the Payson Cemetery Monday.

Tuesday morning, I went to get two crowns on my teeth in preparation for our mission,

Then I took Alysa to Tooele, where she saw her Dad and his girlfriend Geniel, and we got to hold new kittens. 

Next, we visited Joyce.

Then it was off to the Draper Temple to join Eva as she received her endowments, in preparation for serving her mission in a couple of months.

At 8:00 A.M. on Wednesday morning we got to sit in as the Humpherys conducted a closing interview with the Lehtinens, our Finnish friends who are finishing up their three-year mission as Mission Leaders the end of June.  It was a wonderful reunion for us, and so great to hear about their learning and growing experiences, as well as the miracles that took place during their tenure.  Someday soon, the transcription of this interview will be available on the Church History Web Site.  How cool is that?

Then I headed into work, I cleared off a cupboard I had sold so it could be picked up later in the day.

Then I put up 75% off signs, in preparation for closing the booth to make my booths at the mall more manageable for my friend Mary.

I'd made these sewing kits on Monday for my new sewing booth.

This is my favorite.

On Thursday a gal from my home ward, JoLane Moulton came in with her niece.  This is me with her sister Cheryl Mouton's daughter.  They saved our numbers, spending half of the money spent at the mall that day.

After work I headed to the Stake Center where I gave a short presentation to the Bishops at their quarterly council meeting about the importance of having a Ward Historian, and how easy it is to do the job, by just encouraging auxiliary heads to post on the Church History Site when they host an activity.

Next it was off to my book club where we discussed the book, Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter.  Refreshments were an assortment of Breads and Spreads.  We had a couple of new gals join with us. 

So I looked around and wrote down who was there, a preschool owner, a Professional Scouter (Holding one of only 22 bachelor degrees in Scouting in the world) a Lawyer, a College Math Professor, a Special Needs School teacher, a Jewish Psychologist, a Forrest service Naturalist, a Hair Dresser, a Pathways student, a Woman who works remotely while attending to the needs of her autistic son, and an antique dealer. No wonder we have great discussions.

The next day was the school breakfast for Charlie and her friends as the school year winds down.

How cute is she.

Just for kicks and giggles I like this window mural done by a shopper I met at Treasures 20 odd years ago. She lives in Pleasant Grove and is a professional artist, as you see.

Also, on Friday I got to meet the Urologist who will be doing a procedure to make sure I am all clear for our mission.  The procedure is next Monday, pray all goes well, please. It the final step for our mission papers acceptance, and hopefully an official call.

Dad got to chop up another fallen tree branch, that fell during the high winds this week.

Not the biggest we've ever had, but it filled the garbage can.

Meanwhile Kai was bonding with trees in a different way.

As he continues his travels ...

Along the Pacific Crest Trail ...

It's all good for the appetite too.

Eva was also enjoying time out in nature, as you see here, she was hiking angels landing. Apparently she was not on her own...

Trevor and Eva

Becca

And even Davin worked his way into this one.

The stairway to Heaven...

Can you identify this shadow?  Neither can I

I finally found a black and white version of the picture that Alysa and her new red hair brought to mind, a few weeks back, Julie's hair was actually also reddish.  I definitely see some resemblance, though Alysa here is almost 23, and her grandmother is more like 27 in this photo. (the baby is Alysa's Dad Todd)

AI missed on the hair color and made it too full.

But I like the tea party setting for them.  Maybe we get tea parties in Heaven.

On Saturday I finished up a couple more boxes, so I am now at 8, but though I still have lots of books in line to be loaded (20 per monthly box for the mall) I'm running out of smalls, and will need to do some shopping in my house, as well as at thrift stores and garage sales. 

The picture is of us at Nadine's having dinner.  We watched a fun Halmark movie afterward which is called, 3 Bedrooms, 2 baths and 1 Ghost, afterwards, it was a lot of fun.  

This morning we were off to Clark and Kimberly's farewell, as they head to New Zealand, on an MLS mission.  (Member Leadership Support) I loved how they defined it.  It is moving somewhere else where you live in and serve in the Church, just like at home.

The east entrance of their building is at the bottom of ascending stairs. (It's in Olympus Cove built into a hill) As you walk in it seems dark, until you see the huge portrait of Christ's second coming. Yes, the surroundings are lit by the Light of Christ.  It was amazing.

The building is also unusual in that half of the front of the chapel is dominated by these windows; the other half is a normal wall covered with the pipe organ pipes.  I mean, who could cover that view of the foothills of Mt Olympus. 

For the strength of the hills was the perfect hymn as we looked at the majestic hills behind the chorister.

Here we are with John Boren, Clark Sevy and his wife Kimberly. John was telling us how these fine men, and others engineered the carrying in and setting up of a VW bug in the foyer of their ward building back when they were teens.

And last of all, Dad wants to note that the Finns won the final game of the World Hockey Championship.  Go Finland!