Very Hot & 4th of July Fun...

Monday, June 29th, we were about to begin the hottest week so far this summer. Highs in the 90+ range sometimes feeling like 100. Then, you add that southern humidity to it and it makes for a stay-inside-grateful-for-air-conditioning kinda week. 

I was up a couple of hours before Claude this day. I headed to Sandiland to see what I could crank out before he woke up. I printed and disbursed the July Relief Society newsletter. Then I sent an eMail to Jennifer Barber with the announcements and lessons for July. Jennifer creates the Sunday bulletin. I also corrected the date on the church calendar for the July Relief Society activity. 

Claude woke up and I tempted him with a biscuit run and the offer to sit in the Jeep and go over The Drive which is our big trip this fall. We are looking at a three week drive. Hence, The Drive with capital first letters. We waded thru my grid of 17 pages. No way we can do all of this in three weeks. We need to pare down and I wanted his input so it wasn't me making that kind of decision for both of us. Now I could rework the grid. 

When we got home I started the laundry. Then off to Sandiland to send out eMails to a lot of sisters in the ward to try and get information for future Spotlights in the Relief Society newsletter. My plan was to make a list of all the ladies that have not been a Spotlight in the newsletter with their eMail addresses and phone numbers. Then to create a generic letter to be sent. Then I sent individual eMails to 29 ladies. I would send a text to the one I did not have an eMail address for. I received two eMail responses that their eMail address did not work. I then sent these two ladies a text. I have received seven responses so far giving me Spotlights through February 2027. That feels so good to me. As their responses have come in, I have created a page with the answers to their questions and their pictures on it. Now I can simply copy and paste through February 2027. Whew!! Then, I took a break and cleared things off the DVR.

 

I did go to the mailbox and noted how happy our hostas were in the front flower bed. This is their second summer and they are thriving. This sent me on a quest to check on a few other flowers in our yard. 

First I looked at my Lucifer plant with lots of blossoms. I love this vivid red color. The flower is also very interesting. It on the side of our home so I have to be sure and go to look at it. 

This is our Columbine. It cracks me up when the blossoms fall off and you have this whatever it is left over. The sun hits it and it is a funny color of gold and orange. It reminds me of Donald Trump's hair! Yike!!

I mentioned to Claude I was thinking about Spam and remembering a stir-fry we used to make with diced Spam. He made that for our dinner. Yummy! Then I watched some Castle with Claude and did a little more crocheting. 

Tuesday, June 30th, was Drew's birthday. He is our grand son-in-law. I posted this on our family Facebook page: "Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear hockey-loving, family-loving, grand son-in-law of ours, Happy Birthday to you, Drew Roper!! Love Ya Bunches!! 

Katelyn sent us a copy of the talk Drew is going to give in Church. Very touched by his testimony. 

I spent my day working on The Drive grid. 

We went to Burger King for dinner. Then home to watch the next World War II documentary with Tom Hanks and some more Castle. I did a bit more crocheting. This picture is a same of the pattern and yard of Raelyn's Christmas present afghan I am crocheting. 

Wednesday, July 1st, Claude went grocery shopping. 

I had two main goals. Clean the other two bathrooms in our home and change the linens on the guest bedroom bed. Got both of those done. Yeah me!! I also got the living and dining room vacuumed. And, after I showered, I clipped my toenails. This gets harder to do the older I get. 

I posted this on the Ward Facebook Page. A church-wide fast was suggested for everyone on this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This would be done on Sunday, July 5th, our regular Fast Sunday. I read a very disturbing bit on Facebook. A man said it was okay for now to let LDS people vote but since by-and-large they are very conservative it should be considered in the future to not allow them to vote. Really! 

I talked Claude into Dairy Queen for dinner. They have chicken tenders and gravy to dip them in. I have not had that in forever. We went and had a tiny ice cream after. 

In the evening we watched Castle and I did a bit more crocheting. 

I also did some texting with my BFF Laura Carter. Her oldest grandson would be getting married over the weekend. She was headed to that wedding. That is a big moment. Laura had fought cancer and beat it and completed her PT to be able to use her arm again and gain strength. She has worked very hard and this is a great reward to be able to go and see this loved grandson get married. 

Thursday, July 2nd, we both woke up feeling like the holiday weekend should start on Thursday. 

I ordered me a pair of Clark sandals. They were have a really good sail. I have never gone wrong with Clark sandals. 

I also received my American the Beautiful Senior Lifetime Pass to the national parks. I came in a plastic holder you can hang on your rearview mirror. Way cool. I have printed copies that came as soon as I signed up for and paid the fee for the pass. I have that digital version on my cellphone. I also ordered a credit card sized version and that is what came in the mail. Very happy to have these. $80 will cover national park and other park entries for the remainder of my life versus $30 per visit for a day pass. 

In the evening, the missionaries came for dinner. Claude cooked up pot roast, mashed potatoes and grave, candied shredded carrots, rolls and tossed salad. He prepared strawberry shortcakes for dessert. There were three missionaries this time. They gave us a spiritual thought about finding joy. Good to have them in our home. 

Katelyn posted this cute picture of our Kennedi. Oh My Goodness. She is really stylin' and had chosen food to eat from the major junk food groups!!

Scott Meadows was the pastor of the Sadieville Christian Church. We interacted with him a lot when we lived in Sadieville. He left a little before we did and took a position with another church in North Carolina. He posted a question on Facebook about one of the most dangerous toys we played on during our childhood. I found this picture on the Internet and shared it. I don't these are even allowed on playgrounds anymore. We would load them with as many kids as we could get and then an adult would run and spin it as fast as they could possible get it going. It was great fun. It was fun to see others comment that they also remembered this fun piece of playground equipment and love it as well. 

Friday, July 3rd, we would begin our 4th of July weekend by doing yardwork all morning. In that 90+ degree humid heat. Oh my goodness. We took breaks and consumed lots of liquid during those breaks. Then we stayed inside and rested all afternoon. 

We left our home before 5pm and headed toward Renfro Valley, Kentucky with a stop at Burger King in Georgetown to get burgers for dinner to eat on the way down I-75. We were headed to see the Oak Ridge Boys. I received an eMail that tickets were available. They were having lots of festivities in Refro Valley that day culminated in an 8:30pm concert in the New Barn Theater by the Oak Ridge Boys. We have been there to see them before and they are getting older but still but on a great show. 

They sang "Gonna Take a Lot of River" (to wash these blues away). I always get a kick out of this song. The chorus has one line that says "Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio". I believe it take a great deal of talent to get the word Monongahela into the lyrics of a song. Add to that Mississippi and Ohio and who have a master of writing lyrics!

Their base singer has such a fun voice and it sounds so very deep. I love to hear a male chorus sing much more than a female chorus. I told Claude as we left, "I would pay for this concert just to listen to him sing those low notes." Claude knows I really love the low notes. When we sing hymns in church, he makes sure to his the really low notes in the bass so I can hear him. We always look at each other and grin. Claude turned to me after my comment and said, "If I had a voice like that we would probably have 12 kids instead of three!" We both laughed really hard at that comment. I assured him if his beard were scruffy and he was wearing a plaid flannel shirt and smelled like a campfire and sang to me with that base voice, we probably would have 12 kids. Such silliness in old people who have enjoyed a lot of years together.

We totally enjoyed ourselves at this concert. At one point, they asked the audience to stand and we all sang the National Anthem. It was so moving. Grateful to live in the United States of America.

Saturday, July 4th, I slept in because of a very poor night's sleep. Grateful I can sleep in when that happens. ABC and The Disney Channel partnered to do 24-hours of television about America. They were all over the United States with stories. The segment I totally enjoyed had to do with the 7 Wonders of America. In case your were wondering, they are: The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Sequoia National Forest, the Appalachian Mountain (Blue Ridge Parkway), the Everglades, Hawaii Volcanos, and Niagara Falls. We have been to all of these places with the exception of Sequoia. I went there as a child but Claude and I have not been there together. This was a wonderful documentary. Totally enjoyed it. Saved it to watch again. 

I took these pictures to share on Facebook of our home on the 4th of July. Our neighborhood places flags by everyone's mailbox. They simply stick them in the ground. Claude likes them placing flags but he doesn't like the flag touching the ground. He moved ours to the top of our mailbox. 

I purchased tickets for us to go to the Georgetown Theater to see Young Washington. This is another Angel Films project. It was very well done. It covers Washington's life as a little boy to a young man. His defeat fighting the French. And his eventual determination to stand up for America, not the British. The actor that played Washington is a young model that is 6' 4" tall. He did a really good job. I noticed Andy Serkis was acting. He played Gollum in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings movies. It was good for me to see him in another role. I have really pigeonholed him as Gollum. He has a much greater range as and actor. I would highly recommend this movie to others. It was graphically gory in the fighting scenes. That gave me a feel for what war was like. 

After the movie, we had dinner at Fazoli's. Then went home to enjoy an Eagles concert on our television. 

When it got dark enough, we went out to see what we could see from our yard for fireworks. Two doors down they were setting off some for the children that live there. 

Claude watched between the neighbors houses across the street from us. The view is of the fireworks at the fairgrounds in Georgetown. I call the first picture "Anticipation" and the next two are "The Reward".

Over our neighbors tree the entire time we were outside was this white light. It stayed in the same place. I am pretty sure it was a drone taking pictures of the fireworks in Georgetown. I assured Claude it was an alien!

Then I went to our back yard. The people behind us were getting off great fireworks. 

We enjoyed the fireworks which we didn't have to purchase. Then we went back inside to watch more Eagles concert. Not a bad evening at all. 

Sunday, July 5th, the cutest thing happened during sacrament meeting. The Georgetown Ward meets before us. There was a baby blessing during their sacrament meeting. They forgot to put the microphone on the cord away after the meeting. It was laying on the floor in front of the stand. Cassie Zitter came in with her two little kids. At one point, Lincoln (he may be two years old) must have noticed it. He managed to escape the bench and get to the microphone. Fortunately it was not on. That was not a problem for Lincoln. He wanted to hold it and pretend. The Dymocks were sitting in the row in front of us. Zak got up and retrieved Lincoln and sat him on his knee on their bench while Cassie found something to distract Lincoln. All went well until time for the closing prayer. Lincoln escaped again and got that microphone and held it like he was talking or singing or something all through the prayer. Claude was in stitches. Cute moment in time.

We had Jimmy John's for lunch. Then nap for Claude and Blog and pictures for me. 

Our evening may hold a Dairy Queen run for ice cream. Then television and crocheting. A good Sabbath Day.

Rain, Jeep, Crocheting, Music, Biscuits...

Monday, June 22nd, after a rainy night, Claude headed out for errands. He had an appointment with Dr. Fine, our podiatrist. The ankle Claude broke in Rome in 2024 is still a bit swollen and probably always will be. He had his toe nails clipped and will go back in three months.

Claude headed to Tire Discounters to have some things worked on his Jeep. He gave me a call because they could take the Jeep right away. I left and picked him up and we headed to Bojangles for a biscuit. The lady at the window recognized Claude, even driving my Buick. It seems Claude had stopped after seeing Dr. Fin for a biscuit. She smiled at Claude and said, "I see you are back and your brought your sidekick with you this time!" We all had a good chuckle. 

When home I continued work on finishing the previous weeks Blog and labeling and filing my pictures for the week. I posted on Facebook and via eMail the Relief Society lesson for the coming Sunday and the announcements for the week. Then I got a good start on the July Relief Society newsletter. 

The Jeep was fixed so we picked it up. 

When home, Claude made grilled cheese with macaroni and tomato soup for dinner. We curled up to watch Castle.

Tuesday, June 23rd, was the day we set aside to go to the temple. We would try the 11:30 endowment session again. This day the endowment room was full of people. That is always a good thing. We had a wonderful session. As we drove home, I shared with Claude some insights I gained this time and Claude shared some he gained. It is interesting we have been going to the temple for 56 years and we are still learning things. 

We did stop at Taziki's for lunch on the way home. Their falafel is so good and I love their rice as the side dish. Yum!! Great tradition we have started.

We were stuck in a long traffic jam on I-64 coming home because of a wreck. 

Once home, I spent the remainder of my day crochet on Joel's afghan. I had all the body of the afghan finished by the end of the day. Only the border and burying the ends of yard were left. Yeah me!!

Wednesday, June 24th, I started my day spending some time going over what the Church has sent about the changes in our Sunday schedule beginning in September. I narrowed it down to two documents. One was a brochure produced by the Church and the other was a one page Word document with specific instructions for Relief Society on it. I shared both of these on the Google Drive with the rest of our Relief Society presidency. 

Claude had a tie he loves that needed restitching in the back. I got the repaired. I also purchased the planetarium tickets for our visit to Nashville. Choice privileges sent me a letter apologizing for the frustration experienced at the Muskegon hotel. They wanted to give me points to compensate but they wanted to put them in a new Choice Privileges account. Since I already have a Choice Privileges account, I really didn't want another. I sent a thank you to them for their generous offer and requested them to please add them to my existing account.

Claude was grocery shopping during this. We haven't done grocery shopping in about two weeks or more. It is the first time in the four years we have lived here that the bread basket as completely empty. Yep, we needed groceries. He had a struggle and he ended up with two carts once the groceries were checked and bagged. Bless his heart. 

I spent the remainder of my day crocheting on Nelson's Christmas afghan. I completed it by the very end of the day. My arm is worn out. Claude really liked this finished afghan. 

We received a request from the Mott's about using my key to the church. Bro. Mott came in from Lexington to borrow the key and get the bag his wife left in the church. They were leaving on a trip the next day and were very grateful there was a key close to get them in to retrieve this bag. Felt good to be helpful to someone else. 

Thursday, June 25th, Claude had a hearing aid appointment. However, he left early enough to make two stops before that appointment. His first stop was Chick-fil-A for their chicken mini's. He loves these. While we mostly have biscuits at Bojangles because they are so good and you can get them any time of day, Claude loves Chick-fil-A's chicken mini biscuits a lot! He left early enough to get him some for his breakfast. Then he went to the tire store to have them reset his gage for oil changes. They did an oil change on Monday and the warning light was still coming on. Then he went to his audiologist. One of his hearing aids was not holding a charge. This happened to the other one a while back. Now the hearing aids are out of warranty. They sent the hearing aid off to be fixed and gave Claude a loaner to wear.

I placed an Amazon order. I have learned to save to a list this things I might want. Then, when I order, it is over $35 and I don't have to pay for postage and I don't have to pay for Amazon Prime. 

Claude went to take his nap. I had a very quiet house for a while and that is just what I needed. I wanted to work on Raelyn's afghan. I had tried to start this afghan the hotel in Dayton when we were driving home from our Chicago / Michigan run. It was a very difficult pattern to get started and I couldn't focus like I needed to with the television going. Now, Claude was asleep for a while and my home was quiet. I had the yarn and pattern ready to go on the loveseat in the living room. I sat down and went to work trying to figure out this pattern. I crocheted a bit on this third row where the pattern of the afghan really begins. I bet a crocheted and torn out about 5 or 6 times before I was comfortable that I had it right. I could see what they were trying to do. I completed that third row and again had to tear it out a few times till I got it right. The fifth row was a lot like the third row. As it turns out, once I got the pattern down, it repeats two rows for the remainder of the length I want for the afghan. Whew! By the time Claude woke up, I had several rows complete and could see what I was going for. Yeah me!!

Friday, June 26th, I woke up craving donuts from Frank's. I was awake way before Claude. I thought about sneaking in and getting dressed and going and purchasing the donuts before Claude woke up. I kept talking myself out of it. I am still working on my intermittent fasting diet. I am not to eat before lunch time. When Claude woke up, I suggested we go on a donut run. He never turns me down on these ideas. We went to Frank's, got donuts and me a chocolate milk, returned home and enjoyed our donut breakfast. 

I opted to bag anything else I might want to do during the day and concentrate on a good start to Raelyn's afghan. A day of clearing the DVR while crocheting. 

In the evening we went to the Lexington Kentucky North Stake Center for a Watch Party. The Tabernacle Choir had performed at the Hollywood Bowl the previous two nights. Members that don't live in that area were invited to gather at their stake centers and had a watch party to view the taped version of this performance. It has been 100 years since the Tabernacle Choir performed at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition, this performance was a fund raiser for three international organizations that provide care for women and children in dire situations. There would be a host of guest artists who would perform. Claude is the historian for our stake and was taking picture and notes for a history entry.

Donnie Osmond was the last guest artist. He was wonderful. Strong voice. He sang a number of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. He was surrounded by kids from the audience. I am sure they were chosen before and practiced but it was sweet and tender. He let one of the little boys try on the coat. Then he had the choir, children and the audience sing with him the first verse to "I Am a Child of God". Donny sang this in church when he was three or four years old. You could feel the Spirit so strong during this. 

There are two pictures of the final stage bow because the guest artists were so many it took two times at the stage to recognize them all. To the left are Sebastian Arcelus and Stephanie J. Bloch. They are husband and wife. He was the emcee for the evening. We knew him from the television show Madam Secretary. She is an award winning actress from the theater. Together they starred in "Into the Woods" more recently on Broadway. Next to them are David Foster and Katharine McPhee. This is another couple. We watched them perform in Andrea Bocelli's anniversary show from his home in Tuscany, Italy. Between these two couples is a young man, whose name I do not have, who performed "The Prayer" with Katharine McPhee. Then you have Donny Osmond and Mack Wilberg, the chorister and director of the Tabernacle Choir. 

The next stage bow was for the Bonner Family. I saw them several years ago at Time Out for Women. They are excellent. Such energy. It was good to see this three generations of family perform. 

It was an excellent evening for Claude and me. We had BD Mongolian Grill for dinner and then enjoyed this amazing show. Excellent evening. 

Saturday, June 27th, would be a rainy day in our home. I did manage to deep clean our bathroom. The remainder of my day was clearing the DVR. Claude made BLT's for dinner with a pasta salad and corn on the cob. We were 'eating good in the neighborhood'. We watched Castle for the evening. Very low-key day.

Sunday, June 28th, we enjoyed Sacrament Meeting very much. The Wensel's spoke. They moved into the ward and to Georgetown Thanksgiving time 2025. They had three little kids. The parents, Sarah and Daniel, each spoke. Daniel was called a couple of Sunday's ago as the new 2nd counselor in the bishopric. Sarah is a Primary teacher and a Valiant Activity Leader. Wonderful family.

It was Relief Society lesson Sunday, so I spent my morning making sure I had all the sisters on the roll. 

We enjoyed Chipotle for our lunch. Then home for Claude to take a nap. I would watch an episode of Northern Disclosure. 

I will complete my Blog for this week. Then the evening will hold crocheting, working of the Relief Society July newsletter, going over the grid for The Drive with Claude, and/or watching television. Some combination of some of these things. A good Sabbath Day.

Eyes, Travel Grid, Yard Work, Spamalot, Father's Day...

Tuesday, June 16th, we returned home from our Chicago / Michigan trip. We quickly unpacked and I headed to see Dr. Richardson, our ophthalmologist. It was a six month checkup. All went pretty much as expected. I assured him I loved my new glasses for distance seeing. So much better. But the bi-focal part was not working pretty much at all. I can us that part of my glasses when I crochet but all other uses of the bi-focal portion are useless. My lower quadrant of my vision in each eye is getting worse. He checked my retina. It was in good shape. He tried several other things including reviewing the notes from the doctor he referred me to about possible glaucoma. Bottom line...it is cataracts that are doing this. I would qualify for cataract surgery now but the glasses are helping a lot so I will wait a bit for that. I will go back in six months and will need to tell Dr. Richardson when I am ready for cataract surgery. 

We opted for dinner at McCallisters. Then home to watch another episode of the World War II documentary with Tom Hanks and Castle. My body aches got worse at the evening wore on. 

Wednesday, June 17th, I caught up on my Blog of our trip and getting pictures labeled and filed. I did the laundry, my fingernails and watched three Northern Disclosure episodes. That was it for a day of feeling awful. 

Thursday, June 18th, woke up thinking I was much better. A little sluggish but better. So I went with Claude to Morehead, Kentucky to unload a truck from Salt Lake City to help with foodbanks in Kentucky. This always feels good to do. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is donating 250 truck loads of food to different places of need in the United States to support the United States as it celebrates its 250th anniversary (the Semiquincentennial) of the Declaration of Independence. Twenty food banks in this part of Kentucky came to pick up these donations. The truck actually came on Wednesday, June 17th, and the pallets were unloaded from the truck and places in a long line in the Highway Departments shed. On Thursday, every group signed in and was given a paper with the items they would receive and a number of their place in the line of trucks to pick up items. Volunteers were stationed in front of each pallet of boxes. Two men were given checklists of who was coming and what they were to receive. The trucks entered from the back of the Highway Department shed. They slowly drove up the row of pallets at the direction of the two men with the clipboards. As they came to a pallet, they stopped and the volunteers put the number of boxes they were to receive in the back of their vehicle. Then the trucks eventually exited out the end front end of the shed. Very efficient process. Samone Ratcliff is our JustServe Coordinator. She does and amazing job working with all these agencies and preparing all the paperwork for the distribution of goods. Claude was there to gather pictures and notes to write-up a story for the Lexington Kentucky North Stake history. I helped with giving things out and then clearing out the cardboard and pallets as they were emptied. When we finished, I was a sweaty mess and clearly not up to full health. I would go home and to bed. 

Michael shared a photo album he made in Google Photos of him and Bailey. He took her to a cooking class. Michael and Andie have done several of these over the years in Kentucky. Bailey has always wanted to participate. It seems Michael, being the good father he is, made that happen for Bailey while she is home for the summer. Look at the smiles on their faces. Looks like that made great memories and had a really good time together. 

I was supposed to attend our June Relief Society activity. I was clearly not up to it. As the secretary for our Relief Society, I usually make sure pictures are taken. Whitney Garrett, 2nd Counselor, made sure I got these two pictures. Erika Snow let us use her home for the cookout and she provided a talk about dealing with adversity in life. Whitney said it was light in attendance, which is normal for the summer, but they all had a really good time. It was a rainy day so I am grateful the rain held off for them to have this event. 

Friday, June 19th, after a very poor nights sleep, I woke to finish my work on the grid for The Drive, our big road trip later this year. During my night of not sleeping, I made good progress on setting up a good draft of the grid this day. I was trying to find times from one place to another and factor in time at the site to see how many days we would actually need for this trip. This just takes time but if very worth all the effort. 

Claude mowed the front yard.

In the evening, we were to go to the Lexington Opera House to see Spamalot. As we drove, we were in a line of traffic waiting for a chance to turn left during rush hour traffic. I took these pictures of the scenery and posted them with this comment on Facebook: "If you lived in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, you could enjoy black fences around green fields with thoroughbred horses enjoying their home. Not bad I tell you, not bad at all."

We stopped at Firehouse Subs on the way into Lexington for our dinner. This is our habit. We love their sandwiches and they are right on the road to get into downtown Lexington. When we were finishing the Squires and the Christensen's were coming in for their dinner. So fun to see friends from church when we are out and about. 

We enjoyed Spamalot. We have seen this before but we didn't remember exactly what was in the show. I remembered the first one focusing a lot of the comedy sketches of Monty Python and their movie "The Holy Grail". This production was all about a play on "The Holy Grail". They were good to includes hints to the fact they were in Kentucky by including a line from "My Old Kentucky Home" in one of their musical number and other things. That recognition is always fun. Like other entertainment that gets an update for today's audience, they added some bawdy humor that really didn't need to be there. They did this to my last live viewing of "Les Miserable". I loved this play and always got us tickets when it came to town. After the last viewing, I have never gotten tickets again. While I totally enjoyed laughing at old British humor in Spamalot, I really did not care for the bawdy additions. Not necessary.

One of the things that we are seeing with productions nowadays in this big screen added to the set and amazing scenes projected onto it. Some are so very lifelike it is unreal. They combined this one with some set features that were solid and the actors could walk on them, stairs, doors. It really is an amazing addition to theatrical performances. 

Saturday, June 20th, it felt good to wake up after sleeping well. I was up way before Claude and went right to work on The Drive grid. I was able to complete this really good draft and print two copies. Next Claude and I will go over what I now know and determine what to cut out of the trip and what to leave in. 

Claude wanted to get the back yard grass cut. However, these amazing rain, wind, thunder and lightning storms and brought lots of branches from the trees to the ground. I went out to pick up these branches. Claude started to cut the grass where I had cleared branches. Then he got the manual trimmers and clipped some of the low hanging branches. Claude cut the rest of the grass while I cut up those branches and put them in the garbage and trimmed back my ivy. We were grateful to have the yard in shape and I always enjoy when we work together in the yard.

Claude would lay down for a nap. I watched a documentary on the brain. I saw this one once before and saved it to give it a second viewing. Lots of information about how the brain works and I didn't get it all in one viewing. It was interesting to view again.

We had decided to go to dinner for Father's Day on Saturday afternoon as we felt it would be much less crowded. We went to Montana Grill. My guy enjoyed a bison steak. He does enjoy a good steak. I had bison nachos. These are definitely the best nachos we have every had anywhere. 

When we got home, I realized Claude's sandals were sitting on the floor. I remembered pulling out his big cowboy boots for the kids to play in. We all do this with adult shoes and little kids feet. I felt the need to try on Claude's sandals. I took this picture and shared it with our family on our family Facebook page. "Time for a chuckle...Remember giving little kids adult shoes to play in? I found Claude's sandals and thought I might try them on. Go ahead...have that chuckle now!"

In the evening, we watched Castle and I did some crocheting.

Sunday, June 21st, was Father's Day. The Primary kids sang two special musical number. The Young Women gave beef sticks to all the fathers. I am not fond of this as a Father's Day treat. They give mothers a My Old Kentucky chocolate candy bar. I wish they did that for Father's Day as well. Claude loves beef jerky but definitely doesn't care for a beef stick. I played the piano for Primary. The ladies covered all the men's callings so they could meet together the second hour and have ham sandwiches. Now, that is a better Father's Day treat!

Claude and I went to Jimmy John's and picked up sandwiches for our lunch.

When we got home, Jake and Claude talked for a bit. It is always a good thing when we talk with Jake. He shared some insight into how they are using a remake of a part of the hospital in the new version of Scrubs. Fun to hear them chatting. 

I gave Claude an Ariat shirt. It is dark blue and made of a fabric and in a style that breathes. It has a piece of cloth sewn into the tail that is the type of cloth you use to clean your glasses. How cool is that? When we were at the rodeo in Las Vegas, all the cowboys were wearing Ariat shirts. I felt like my cowboy should have his own Ariat shirt. Claude was very happy with it. 

Claude had a great nap. Then we went to Dairy Queen for an ice cream. Claude loves a peanut buster parfait. I had my usual small strawberry sundae. 

When we got home, Claude picked out our television viewing for the evening. It was a very nice Father's Day for him.