March came in like a lamb this year and we have been enjoying lovely early spring weather. Temperatures still drop down into the 30's every night but they have climbed up to the 50's or 60's during the day all week. It has been so nice. The doggies have shed their sweaters and they got baths on Tuesday. Steve and I got our first Covid shots on Monday. YAY!!!! It was a little stressful at first because I was not sure where in the hospital the shots were actually being given and I was just positive that our late arrival would cause them to say "Oh, so sorry. We had to give your dose to someone else" but, happily, that wasn't the case. Everything went quite smoothly with no lines and, during our fifteen-minute post shot waiting period, we got to watch part of the "Sound of Music". It was all great!
Tuesday we voted in a primary election for mayor and alderman. We brought Fred, our blind neighbor, and, while Steve's and my voting went very quickly, Fred's experience was less satisfying. The election judges couldn't seem to get the voting machine to adapt to his disability for the longest time. But, eventually, they got it to work and Fred says that next time he will tell THEM how to get it to work! Larkin came over for preschool and she just LOVES stuffed kitties so she brought her three to play with my one stuffed cat and they had a tea party in the basement play area.
Wednesday we did grocery shopping. Thursday we got an oil change for our car. There is a shop literally down the street that we decided to try and they were just great! Their prices were reasonable and we could walk home after dropping the car off - which is what Steve did. And he brought the dogs so they got a little walk, too. A couple hours later, I did the pick up (sans dogs). Beckie came over for dinner that night - I tried a new recipe that we all approved of - and she stayed a bit to watch the first part of "Thor" before she had to leave. Steve and I had watched "Iron Man 2" earlier in the week. (continuing with the Marvel universe viewing sequence)
Friday was a busy day. I had an almost three-hour quartet rehearsal in the morning and I taught music lessons at the Southerlands in the afternoon and that takes almost three hours (three piano lessons, one cello lesson, one violin lesson). We watched the final episode of "WandaVision" in the evening. I also finished watching "56 Up" , the documentary featuring about 10 individuals from England who have been followed every seven years since they were seven years old ("7 Up, 14 Up, etc). I watched "49 Up" earlier in the week and now I have seen all but the most recent one - "63 Up". It has been very interesting to see these people, who are only about two years younger than me, grow up.
Saturday morning, we gathered another load of wood mulch from the free site at the nearby park. This is for our backyard turn-around area and one more load next week should get the entire area covered. They also had some beautiful black dirt so we brought home a few buckets of that for future garden plans. At 11:00, I had a cello lesson with Ethan. Steve and I helped the missionaries with a new-member lesson at 2:00 and then we loaded our bikes onto the bike rack and drove to the meetinghouse where I pruned some rose bushes there (don't worry, I got permission from the bishop) and we took a bike ride along the River Des Peres portion of the Great Rivers Greenway. It was getting late in the day and we really don't have much stamina at this point so we just rode for about forty minutes. After dinner (which was a left over night),we watched Steve's March movie, "The Scarlet Pimpernel". And, that was our week.
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