After a gloriously unseasonably cool spring, summer has finally arrived where everyone stays in their air conditioned environments most of the time. Mornings are still tolerable and Steve and I still go on our 6:00am walks or bike rides. I saw this tenacious desert flower one morning...
As temperatures have heated up, we were dismayed on Thursday when our car air conditioning seemed to phase in and out of cool mode. It continued on Friday and, on the way home from the office, our engine even began to overheat. I am sure you can imagine our 30 minute drive home with windows open going 65 mph and the heater going full blast in an attempt to keep the temperature gauge away from that big red H. It was the longest drive of my life! Saturday morning, Steve checked the radiator fluid and it was WAAAY down!!! He filled it up and we took a test drive to Wal-mart - first with the AC off and the windows down. Temperature stayed normal. That was good. Then, we drove around a bit more with the windows up and the AC on. No phasing in and out of cool mode. More good. Maybe that was the problem all along???? We have an appointment set up with our mechanic on Tuesday and I think we will still keep it just to make sure everything is all right since we are preparing for a lot of driving during the last two weeks of June (family reunions) and mid-July when we drive home. The frustrating thing is that we just took the car in last Tuesday for a routine oil change. Don't they check all fluid levels??? I guess we stop depending upon that to happen from now on and check all our fluid levels ourselves every month. Even in our mid-sixties, when we should know everything, we still are learning.
Salt Lake sent someone to train our new Financial coordinator on Wednesday. Her name was Whitney and her training took most of the day and she also trained the Housing coordinator and Steve, the Vehicle coordinator. And, she took the whole office to lunch. I was elected to choose the place and I picked Thai food. Here we are at the restaurant...
(me, Whitney, Sister & Elder Poulson, Elder Wall, Elder Williams, Steve)
We had planned one last Arizona outing for yesterday but with our car problems, we just stayed home. It was a lovely, peaceful, restful day for which I am very grateful. We watched an interesting movie called "Jack and the Beanstalk - the Real Story" which was a Hallmark mini-series made in 2001. It had an all-star cast and it was good story. We also watched "Breathe" which was also quite good.
Last Saturday, if you will recall, we were supposed to have Eric Stott and his son Xang (pronounced Sang) over for pizza but he completely forgot and double booked. We rescheduled for Tuesday evening. I admit, going into it, I was kind of resentful of having to alter my usual Tuesday night schedule to accommodate someone's forgetfulness. But, the dinner turned out to be very enjoyable. Eric and Xang came but so did the daughter who is going to college - Dalia - and her boyfriend Garrett. We had lively and pleasant conversation and everyone liked the food and they didn't stay too long (at 8:30 each evening is when we start our end-of-day routine).
Speaking of end-of-day routine, I try to spend my 8:30 - 9:00 time sewing and practicing. Fifteen minutes on each doesn't seem like very much time but it is amazing how much I can accomplish over a weeks time. This past week, I had a dress to sew for Lucy and I am accompanying two musical numbers for tonight's Why I Believe devotional. And, throughout the week, I worked on both and am happy to report that Lucy's dress just needs buttons to be completed and I feel prepared to play tonight.
Steve has had intermittent right ankle pain for the past few weeks and he decided to see a doctor about it Thursday morning. Happily, the office has a walk-in option so that is what he did and he was able to get in right away with Dr. Willden. He ordered some x-rays at a lab right next door and Steve also has a July 8th appointment with a local podiatrist. Happily, the x-rays aren't showing anything too serious so Steve will just have to occasionally hobble around until then.
My adult cello student, Nate Coons, is baptizing his daughter this weekend and so both sets of grandparents came into town to take part. And, with that, he wanted to reprise his two cello solos he performed at my May 16th recital. His two oldest children are taking piano lessons and they wanted to perform. He also talked his mother to play something on the piano and me to play some Bach on my cello and so we had a little recital Friday night. It went very nicely.
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