Every day last week, there were billowing white and gray clouds somewhere in the Arizona sky. And rain has fallen. Arizona monsoons are often quite violent and this is what we encountered on our Tuesday morning bike ride. A palo verde tree completely uprooted.
Folks around here complain about the humidity brought on by the monsoons - 35%! Poor babies. All I can say is I hope they never have to live in Missouri with 85% humidity. I can remember when I was a girl visiting my sister, Jerri, and her family who lived in Mesa. The typical type of air conditioning at that time in the Phoenix valley was the swamp cooler based upon the evaporation principle: a fan blowing air over a water saturated pad. As you can imagine, THAT didn't help much during the monsoons and I recall laying on the couch right under the air conditioning vent and still feeling miserably hot and sticky.
We now have two senior sister missionaries serving in the mission - Sisters Jones and Ziegler. They came to the office Friday morning just as our regular start-of-the-day devotional began. They took our photo and joined us for the spiritual thought and prayer. That is Elder Wall on the right.
My music teaching has eased up a bit this summer - Scott is not doing piano lessons at all until school begins and Erik and his family are in Nauvoo during the month of July to participate in the pageant. All I have is Lottie. I was a bit concerned about her cello position during Thursday's lesson so I took a photo of her and had her take a photo of me so she could compare and see what we should fix. I'll share those photos...
In my continuing sewing endeavors I worked on a blouse for me and I have watched five of the six episodes of the BBC "Pride and Prejudice", the "Princess Bride", and the movie "Get Smart". Steve remarked that, while "Get Smart" was appealing to all ages, that only the Boomers could really appreciate it since they grew up on the original show. I agree. It produced quite a few belly laughs.
The Phoenix Temple is only about a fifteen minute drive away. Because of it's proximity, and because of the messages given in the last General Conference about temple attendance, Steve and I are trying to attend once a week - usually on Saturdays. I am loving it.
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