A nice November week, even with a cold

Have you ever driven down the road in the middle of a leaf flurry?  Steve and I did this morning.  It was pretty fun.

This week started off bright and early Monday morning in a seminary class room.  I am now a substitute seminary teacher – I know, I know, I was needing more to do in my life, right?  It was a pretty easy gig –a class of six students and only four were present that day.  And, all four were pretty subdued – fairly typical, I suspect.  So, it went well but it DID throw a kink in my usual morning routine.  So did Friday’s Rock Bridge orchestra’s quartet gig at a big state-wide teacher meeting.  We all had to be at RBHS by 7:00 a.m. so the kids could play background music for 45 minutes.

Some home-improvement activities lately.  Steve and I cleaned the garage last Saturday and have been dropping unused/unwanted items off all this week at the curbside for trash pick-up, or to Hazerdous Waste disposal, or Habitat for Humanity, or Second Chance, or Goodwill.  We WILL park both cars in the garage by Thanksgiving, by gum.  AND, I resumed painting – I STILL had to paint the downstairs hallway and the three remaining doors (studio, bathroom, pantry)that were not done when the sports room and Noah’s Ark room were painted in June.  Got that project done Thursday/Friday.  Now, all I truly have left are the bedroom-sides of the quilt room and family history room doors upstairs.  I plan to do those this week.  Again, Thanksgiving is my self-imposed deadline for completion. 

Speaking of house.  Remember that our house has a shifting problem?  And that we decided to NOT pursue a 30K+ foundation repair?  I am SOOOO glad we made that decision because in the last six months our front door stuck and now it doesn’t and our back door couldn’t be locked and now it can.  Go figure.

Steve and I attended Rock Bridge’s fall musical, Seussical, on Friday night.  We went partly because I got two comp tickets and partly because I wanted to support my orchestra students in the pit and on stage and partly because Bryce Lafond had a lead role as Horton.  And, I expected a typical high school-quality performance:  out-of-tune pit (especially trumpets), average singers, cutting-out microphones, and awkward acting/dancing.  Well, was I completely surprised!  It was an amazing production from stellar pit (well, they DID get a ringer to play 1^st trumpet – a band teacher at OJHS) to fabulous singing/acting by all the leads (female  AND male) and the entire cast.  Bryce has a wonderful voice.  The girl who was the Cat in the Hat was Broadway-level good.  AND, all the microphones worked ALL THE TIME!   In spite of a rather random plot, we were entertained and impressed.  

Finally, we went to the temple yesterday and then joined Emily and Joe and kids in Historic St. Charles for an hour or so of just wandering.  Here are a couple of photos….