The week started with a dark cloud hanging over my head - and not a rain cloud, which I wish it was. I had a colonoscopy scheduled for Tuesday morning. That meant a light diet on Sunday, a liquid diet on Monday, the disgusting prep to drink, and then the procedure. With that dark cloud, I just had a hard time feeling motivated to do much of anything on Monday and, on Tuesday, I really couldn't do much. My brain was just too foggy from the anesthesia. I watched a lot of "Manifest" on Netflix which reminds me of "Lost" from the early 2000's. I watched the first episode of "Loki". Happy news is that the two polyps that were removed were "hyperplastic" meaning I don't have to have another colonoscopy for ten years. HOORAY! The other happy news was that I could indulge in a 710 calorie Dairy Queen peanut buster parfait after I left the hospital.
Another smaller dark cloud at the beginning of the week was our car air conditioning. Steve and I had noticed it phasing in and out of cool for the week before and on Sunday, as I was driving home from another long string quartet extra rehearsal, the cool never kicked back on. So, it was time to take it to the shop but that was rather complicated because it is our only car and I had my Tuesday procedure and Steve had a doctor appointment on Thursday and we needed to go grocery shopping. I tried to rent a car but that was a joke! No Enterprise cars available for rent anywhere in the metro area for a whole week and it would cost $100 for just one day! Holy cow. (I have listened to a podcast since then and evidently, rental cars, used cars, and even new cars are hard to find right now thanks to Covid and a few other natural disasters that shut down semi-conductor plants around the world). Happily, Beckie came to the rescue.....I scheduled an appointment with the mechanic down the street for Wednesday and she dropped her car off Wednesday afternoon for us to use until the car was done. Thursday morning, we were able to do grocery shopping around Steve's doctor appointment. The very sad news is that the car needs a whole new compressor and, at $1,100, we just can't justify sinking that much into an 18 year old car with over 200,000 miles (we actually don't know how many miles it has because our Carfax report stated that the odometer was turned back at some point in it's life!). So, we are going to try to make it with just open windows and doing as many errands in the cooler morning hours.
Dark cloud #3 was a UTI that I developed mid-week. It came on quickly and might have been because of the colonoscopy? Happy to be on antibiotics now.
Now, on to some good news.....our handyman has got the downstairs shower up and running. He was able to re-use the faux-tile plastic panels (keeping us from having to buy a fiberglass shower stall) and he discovered and replaced the reason for the leak - it was a cracked drain. He also put up the two walls to enclose our guest sleeping area. He still needs to put up trim and hang the door and then I get to paint but we are making major progress. Below are some before/after photos
My string quartet, the Carondelet Quartet, had two performances this weekend - both at 3:00 in the afternoon. Saturday's was at the historic Lutheran church in our neighborhood where we regularly rehearse and today's was at Intersect which describes itself as a place that combines all the arts together in a beautifully restored Lutheran Seminary building built in the early 20th century deep in the city (you can Google it). You can see that the space where we played today is also an artist gallery.
We performed the "Lark" string quartet by Haydn and a five-movement Fantasie by Samuel Colridge-Taylor, a British/African composer from the late 19th/early 20th century. I think we sounded pretty good. Noah, Lucy, and Quinn came to Saturday's performance. Steve, Beckie, and Kyle came to today's concert. Overall, we had about 30 people each day.
Saturday morning, I drove to Ballwin to help Emily with her yard sale. Although the forecast was for temperatures in the upper 90's, we awoke to some cloud cover which really made things pretty pleasant and, when the sun was out, there was still a nice breeze when we sat in the shaded garage. You can see that Quinn and Noah helped to promote the sale. And, they actually brought in some business. At noon, I drove back home with Noah, Lucy, and Quinn so they could attend the concert and have their music lessons afterwards. We fed them hamburgers and corn on the cob for dinner and then I drove them back home.
And, last evening, we actually had some GOOD dark clouds in the form of much needed rain. My little rain gauge registered almost a half inch. So grateful!
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