Steve and Elise and I celebrated the new month with a cookout (bacon wrapped sirloins) and a little bonfire (toasted marshmallows). The weather was absolutely perfect and there were no mosquitos!
The week began with FaceTime piano lessons with Noah, Lucy, and Quinn. They are doing so well! Emily says that they welcome the break from schoolwork to play the piano. Noah has just taken off with his playing. I also heard him play his cello and he is great on it, too. I guess I will have to say "Thank you, coronavirus for making my grandkids so bored that they resort to practicing!"
Some GREAT news is that James has resumed work on the house. He has been tackling our gutters (which, due to the settling, drain the wrong way) and our deck. Hooray for moving forward. Maybe we can list the house by the end of this month???????
I worked at Music Suite two days. Here I am at work.
Steve and I watched three movies together throughout the week: "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind", "The Farewell", and "Incredibles 2". Of course, we had seen Incredibles twice before but it was a first time for the other two where it was interesting to see how different cultures live their lives. It was shocking to realize that death by famine is still going on! And, I hope I never have to attend a wedding event in China....SOOO LONG!!! Oh, and I watched two movies on my own - "JoJo Rabbit" (funny, sad. JoJo and Yorkie are the cutest little boys EVER) and "Tall Girl" (oh, how I remember those days being the tallest girl around!)
I managed to fill my week with various activities:
-sewing curtains for the downstairs bathroom and a slipcover for the rocking chair cushion so it now matches the piano bench cushion.
-washing door and window trim (all done in semi-gloss white) and touching up the dings in the paint
-working on an oil painting (my first since returning from Arizona)
-riding bikes with Steve every evening
-short stops at Dollar Tree, WalMart, and the post office one morning
Gas prices are AMAZING right now. As are airline ticket prices. Yesterday, I booked a trip for late September / early October to Utah and got two round trip tickets for just $411!!!
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