Some lovely spring weather we are enjoying. I heard peepers for the first time last week which is a certain sound of spring. Noah and Emily came for a visit Wednesday and stayed until Thursday morning. Noah is now not sleeping in a crib so he took the finch room bed and did just great. He enjoyed Alfred, of course, and the trains downstairs, as usual. He also “helped” me clean the garage while his mom cheered us on. (pictures to follow)
Tuesday was the Ides of March and the CIS drama/music department celebrated with a night of Shakespeare. The choir and orchestra presented a 20-minute program of music inspired by Shakespeare. The orchestra played two numbers from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream – the Wedding March and the Nocturne. Throughout the school were presentations of various acts from Shakespeare’s plays and guests could take in several during the evening. It was quite a shuffling act since many of my string players were also in these dramatic presentations. But, it turned out really well and it gave the orchestra a chance to show off a bit. Up until this year, the CIS advanced orchestra was ……um, well……not that fantastic. It was small and there were amazing musicians that did not participate. However, when CIS changed its start time to 8:30, all the amazing musicians just came out of the woodwork and we have made remarkable strides. And, people are noticing.
Thursday morning, Steve and I had a chat with a fellow at the MU retirement benefits office and were delighted to learn that he can retire with full benefits in four years! Actually, less than four years since his last day could be January 18th, 2015. Wow. That must mean we are old…..
Speaking of old, we oldsters are both assigned to advise the stake Young Single Adult committee (due to our callings) and they had a fun activity Friday night at a city park. It was beautiful weather so Steve loaded up our bikes into the back of the truck and we made a brief appearance with the youngsters before wandering around the park on our bikes. We cancelled out all that calorie-burning exercise, though, with a visit to Culver’s for some frozen custard afterward. But, at least we broke even? We also learned that Culvers is test-marketing a gluten-free bun. How wonderful will that be???
And, speaking of gluten-free, we had a celiac family from the Highlands Ward over for dinner on Saturday night and just stuffed ourselves with all kinds of delicious gluten-free Mexican food and cake. Mmmm. Then, I stayed up too late and watched “Despicable Me”. It was delightful! I want a minion.
Sunday was third for the month so Steve spoke in the University Ward. I didn’t have a speaking assignment but I decided to visit the Fayette Branch where, coincidentally, Steven (jr) had a speaking assignment. So, Steven, Tamara, me, and friend Jason Bell all ventured up to Fayette for the day. It is quite a small branch but full of incredibly nice people and they always have a pot-luck on the third Sunday so we got to stay for that! The Jamisons are in that branch and they are exploring going gluten-free so even I had plenty to eat. They brought tapioca pudding for dessert. MMMMMM – my mom made that all the time and it is so tasty (even though my dad called it “fish eyes in snot”)
So, it was a nice mid-March week here in Columbia.
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