Nauvoo and beyond...

Yesterday, the Columbia stake single adults took a day-trip to Nauvoo.  We had 13 individuals (which included Steve and me) in three vehicles.  
 
 Standing:  Walter Minner, Lizzy Crippen, me, Melanie Johnsen, Steve, Betty Stowe, Ted Devere, Natalie Johnson
Sitting:  Nancy Roark, Luana Harrison, Hollie Spencer, Betty McKinley, Yvonne Washburn

 We left at 8:00 am and didn’t return until 9:30 pm.  
 
  Some of us attended the temple while the rest took a wagon ride around Old Nauvoo.  We ate lunch at Grandpa John’s Café in downtown Nauvoo.  

 
 The flowers on the temple grounds were gorgeous.

 



 

 
 
 Look, they even had tablets in their schools back then
 


 
 I love this desk from the John Taylor home

 
 Potty training, 1800's style


 This shaving stand actually belonged to John Taylor

The rest of the week was fairly typical – I got a haircut, did some visiting teaching stuff on Thursday, I worked on doll clothes for Lucy’s birthday gift.  I had RBHS on M-W-F...we are working on our final concert scheduled for April 30th.  I substituted in seminary on Wednesday and Friday.  

 My Netflix this week was “Ghandi”.  I must have put it on my list when Richard Attenborough died and I read all the movies to his credit.  Steve truly had NO interest in watching it but I found it quite interesting.  It is a long film and it took me two days to get through it. 

One of the several private students I teach in exchange for work (like cleaning) had a lesson on Friday afternoon and she helped me with a project I had been wanting to do for several months:  pull down some old stored items from the very back of our over-the-garage attic.  It is a challenging attic because you can't stand up in it and there are beams every two feet or so to crawl over.  Plus, there are nails poking through the ceiling (they are holding down the roof shingles) so one really has to crouch-crawl all the time while up there.  Erneisha and I must have hauled about 10 tubs and/or boxes out.  Tubs and boxes that contain children’s clothing, toys, games, home pre-school packets, dress-ups, an unused violin case and cello case…It was dirty, dusty, and somewhat warm work.  And, now the task of sorting lies ahead of me.  Yay.  

Steve spent his spare time this week working on a talk he had to give today in Linn.  I was assigned to speak in Moberly.  Steven was assigned to the Highlands ward.  Lambsons were all over mid-Missouri today.  So was spring rain - which made for some beautiful cloudscapes above a landscape of redbud, dogwood, and all kinds of trees in all shades of green.