Monday, June 16th, I did the laundry. There are certain things that are never-ending. Laundry, dusting, dishes, vacuuming, weeding, etc. Now laundry is a weekly chore, sometimes a little over a week, and it is usually only four loads of regular clothing. A far cry from the days of a family of five running through school and work clothes. I am always thankful I have a washer and dryer in my home. I remember the days of using a wringer washing machine in the driveway of our home in Louisiana as a child. We would then hang the clothes on the line. When we brought them in, we had a big glass Coca-Cola bottle with a stopper in it that was a sprinkler head. All that had to be ironed was sprinkled and rolled up till ironed. It was a process. I remember living in our little home in Denver and having a washer in the basement and a clothes line outside. Loved sheets off the clothesline. Since then, we have always had a washer and a dryer in our home. Not having to use a laundromat was heaven. So, while laundryis hear to stay, I am grateful for the improvements to the process through the years.
We had wanted to go to Cattleman's Roadhouse for Claude's Father's Day meal. He loves a good steak and they have provided that the last two time we have dined there. When we got to Cattleman's Roadhouse, there was a 40-minute wait for a table. Claude really didn't want to wait 40-minutes. We opted for the Mexican restaurant and had a lovely meal. But that desire for a good steak was still there. So, Monday evening we went to Cattleman's Roadhouse, where there was now NO wait, and Claude enjoyed a good steak and I enjoyed my Honey Bourbon Glazed Salmon. We were both very happy with our meals.
Tuesday, June 17th, we had a biscuit run in the morning followed by a trip to Kroger. We were going to have Bailey over for a visit. We requested a grocery list from her and we needed to pick up those items before we went to get Bailey. The Mini's are really good when we ask for this list. Hayden has a list on Google Keep that he keeps up-to-date for us. This is contains nutritious foods and some sweet treats. Bailey usually says, "I usually like what you have on hand." Then she provides us with a few things she wants. This time it was cucumbers, Snickers, three flavors of Uncle Ben's microwave rice, and popcorn. Easy to please, isn't she?
We drove to LaGrange in the afternoon and retrieved our girl. She was all packed at ready to go. We visited with Michael and Andie. Turns out Michael didn't know we had the kids make a grocery list for their visits. Now Michael wants to make a grocery list when he visits. I told him he should do that and then come have a staycation at our home while we go to Greece later this year. That sounded wonderful to him!
Before we got home, we stopped at McCallister's for a good meal for dinner. When we got home, Bailey brought her stuff in and set up the guestroom for herself. Then she had me follow her to the kitchen. She put a sticker from Campbellsville University on the fridge. How fun is that?!
We had a lot of Castle television shows DVR's. Bailey wanted to watch those. We spent our evening snacking and watchin Castle. Wednesday, June 18th, we agreed we would all sleep in. Then we would start our Harry Potter Fest. The day Bailey graduated she said to me that she wanted to have a Harry Potter Fest before she headed to college this fall. Claude and I had nothing on the calendar for the week days and set up this time for Bailey's wish to be granted. We had cereal for breakfast and then spent the day watching the first four Harry Potter movies. Breaks between to get something to eat and stretch. I made tuna salad for lunch and we had little croissants to put it on. Yum!
We had storm warnings for the evening. We leave the blind on the door to the patio open all the time. Bailey was sitting in my recliner when the storm hit. The wind was ferocious. Bailey looked out the door from the recliner and said, "That looks like a hurricane!" It truly did. Very black and lots of wind and heavy rain. At one point we heard a whack on the window to the dining room. It was a limb coming out of the trees. We were save in our little home.While watching some more Castle to fill out our evening, Claude was playing with his phone. He came across some pictures about how they do surgeries. He found one on reverse shoulder replacement. He had me watch it with him. It was drawings of what they repair and how they repair it and then what you arm has to use to make it work. In all of this with my shoulder, I had not realized they don't really fix those torn places in my rotator cuff. After the surgery, what I was doing is training my deltoid muscle to do the work of moving my arm. Now I understand why everyone kept saying, "Strengthen that deltoid!"
Thursday, June 19th, morning I was awake and out of bed first. I looked into our back yard to check for storm damage. In the back by the fence near the shed, a large branch broke off of one of our trees. It didn't damage anything. It was a bad storm and a lot of people had downed trees that would need to be cleared away. We only had one big branch and some smaller ones down in the yard.
When everyone was up, we had our cereal breakfast and watched the next two Harry Potter movies. Then we told Bailey we needed a break and to be out of the house for at least a little bit. To do that, we proposed a drive-thru to pick up a nice lunch. Jimmy John's was the one all of us wanted. Then we came back and watched the last two Harry Potter movies. In the evening, Bailey wanted to see more Castle. Now, the funny thing about this Castle viewing is that Bailey fell in love with Nathan fillion in the television show "The Rookie". She has watched all of that. Michael, her father, is now wading through "Castle" which also stars Nathan Fillion. Michael wants Bailey to watch it with him. She has been begrudgingly doing that to tease him. Turns out, she really likes the show and was very happy she could watch them at our home. However, we are NOT to tell Michael about this so she can continue to tease her father. Oh My!!
Friday, June 20th, Aubrey Anne (Bre) posted this picture on Facebook. She is beautiful.
Bailey slept very late. Claude left the house to run a few errands while I settled at my laptop to do a few things I had not done while having Bailey with us. When Bailey woke up, I had just come in from picking up all the twigs, sticks and branches in the back yard. It was hot and I was needed to rehydrate and rest a bit. Bailey put on another Castle (the girl was really happy watching Castle). When Claude got home, we loaded the car and drove Bailey home with a stop at Taco Bell for lunch to be eaten in the car while we drove. I just want to say how nice is it to have a granddaughter who wants to spend time with her grandparents. A generational thing happens as you age and grandmonsters age. It is nice to find a place in that distance were we meet one a shared love and enjoy time together. It definitely felt good to have one of the things Bailey wanted to do before college accomplished.
Saturday, June 21st, was back to reality. We got up and showered to begin our day. Then off we went to Chick-FilA for Claude to get him chicken mini-biscuits. Now, the poor guy has struggled with the name to give people at these places when you place your order. When she asked for the name for his order, Claude looked at me and said, "What name was I going to use?" The girl was amused. Then Claude told her Thor. We continued on to the pick-up window. Our Chick-FilA has two lanes of traffic. They brought out our order and I looked at the sticker on it. I was sooooo happy. First, they spelled Thor correctly. Last time he said Thor and they wrote Ford. Goodness. The thing that made my heart very happy was they put the color of my Buick as purple!!! I picked out a midnight amethyst from the book as they didn't have one on the showroom or in the lot that color. In the book, it looked like a very nice shade of purple. When the car was delivered, it was really hard to see purple. If the car is clean and in the sunlight, you can tell it is a purple shade of amethyst. How happy to see someone saw that and actually used it to identify my car. Very happy about this. We now knew we would have a great day!
After breakfast, Claude dropped me at Walmart to do a little browsing and shopping. He took my car to the tire shop to have the tire sensor replaced. Turns out, it needed two new sensors. Then Claude picked me up and we headed home. On the drive home, Laura called with great news. She does not have to have chemotherapy. She will do some PT to get her arm read to be in position for radiation, but NO chemo. This is great news and a tender mercy for her. So happy she shares these good things with me. Happy she share the difficult and bad but we both rejoice with the good news.
Claude went to work in the yard. Mind you the temperature was in the high 80's and he still cut all the grass and trimmed some branches in the back yard trees. He changed a light bulb in the living room. He was one very busy man.
I concentrated on the Relief Society newsletter for July. Then I found possibilities for our Acropolis tour when in Athens. Claude sat with me after my research and we picked out one and I booked it. It can be canceled if I find something we think might work better.
At 5pm, the Georgetown Ward youth were have a big fundraiser. They were washing cars, having a silent auction, serving a meal, and had bouncy houses. We wanted to get our cars washed. We both drove over and had our cars washed and vacuumed. So nice to have that done. We had dinner at Burger King and ended our evening by watching Silverado and Broken Trail. Nothing like good cowboy movies on a Saturday evening after a full day.
Now, for a bit of humor. I told Laura about our difficulty in getting fast food places to get Claude's name, or he pseudonym of Thor, correct on a food order. In the evening, Laura sent me a picture of their fast food order. He hubby is Howard. How hard is that?! They got their order and they put 'Caward' for his name! Oh My Goodness! We all had a good laugh.
Sunday, June 22nd, today has been a great day. I was able to substitute in Primary today at the piano. Now, the beauty of that is really a little miracle. This last week I was looking for my light rain jacket. I couldn't find it anywhere. I looked in the cars and all the closets. Claude looked in the cars and all the closets. Claude drove me to the church of errands one day and I looked on all the coat racks and in the closet that once served as lost and found. No jacket. I had started looking on line for a new jacket. Today, I went back to the Primary room to play and Lo, and Behold, on the floor behind the piano was my gray jacket. I must have had it one two weeks ago when I was substituting in Primary at the piano and left it there. What a blessing to get that little jacket back. It is very light weight and I can roll it up and put it in the bottom zipper area of my backpack, it has roll up sleeves that snap when you get a little warm, it has a zipper pocket for me to secure my cellphone in when we are out traveling. This little jacket has been all over the world with me and I want to put a few more miles on it. I did tell Claude I will probably still look out for a replacement. It won't hold up forever. So very happy to get it back.
After a Zaxby's lunch, Claude laid down for his Sunday afternoon nap. I set out to clear some of our DVR things off the DVR. Then I came back to get the Blog done today.
It has been a good week and a good Sabbath Day!