I have very little to write about regarding the beginning of the week. I pulled up the bean plants that were slowing down in their production and replanted more beans for a second harvest at the end of September. I also pulled up my dead zucchini plants and planted more seeds. Steve's diabetic nurse requested that he try to do some kind of exercise after dinner every night so we took a bike ride Tuesday evening and walked the dogs on Wednesday. We are fortunate that we had cooler temperatures (and rain) to make that exercise more pleasant. I am officially no longer the administrator for the civic orchestra and I am so relieved to be done. I am not particularly great with keeping up with email and to have TWO accounts to steward was draining. And, with August, the orchestra emails will be ramping up for the new season. All I have to do now is show up to rehearsals and concerts and practice my part. Oh, I will have programs to put together but those are finite projects - not open ended like everything else the administrator does. Speaking of practice, I have really fallen off the wagon regarding practicing any instrument this summer so when I pulled out the cello to play for 30 minutes Monday night, my poor fingertips could tell! I am trying to resume a practice routine every evening to keep my 67 year old brain challenged.
The "big" news of the week is that we traveled to Greenwood on Thursday afternoon. We brought Elise because she and Julina attended GenCon on Friday. Notice the braces on Julina - her bite was causing her teeth to loosen and this was the solution. She wore a Herbst appliance back in high school and braces probably should have followed at that time. Oh well, better late than never.
While Elise and Juli were having fun at GenCon, Steve and I puttered around the house. It was put on the real estate market earlier this week because Alex wants to move more out into the country. One of his wishes is to be able to shoot his many guns right from his back porch. Another need is to downsize and have everything on one level due to his wheelchair. So, he has been the driving force for moving from the house in Greenwood. It is a large home on a huge lot but it suffers from quite a bit of deferred maintenance and it is being sold "as is". That being said, all the pictures that were crowding the front hallway were removed and the walls were painted. Everything taken down was put into laundry baskets and shoved into the outside storage shed. I discovered this when I went out to put away a ladder and shovel that had been left out. I brought my gardening clothes prepared to do any touch-ups to the yard but discovered that, aside from a lone invasive honeysuckle plant and a small poison ivy plant, everything looked pretty ship shape. So, instead, I straightened up the storage shed and discovered all the wall pictures. Happily, there were several recently emptied totes that I could store almost everything in and I just had to get one additional one that was longer and taller for the remaining few. Alex identified several pictures he no longer wanted and I removed the pictures and donated the frames to Goodwill on the way to Walmart for the larger tote. Steve baked a batch of bread and I cooked a pot of pinto beans because Juli had requested I make her a batch of bean blobs to freeze. This goes way back in our family history - I would cook up beans and then mash them and season them with taco seasoning mix and then put them into muffin cups to freeze to provide serving-size portions of refried beans for burritos or whatever.
Saturday, Juli, Elise and I said goodbye to the boys and drove up to the temple for an initiatory session.
After we finished, we changed into traveling clothes and drove about an hour and a half south to the little town of Milan, Indiana. Fans of the movie Hoosiers might recognize the name as the location of the actual basketball team that beat all odds and won the state championships in 1954 and who inspired the movie. An old converted bank now houses a small museum just chock full of memorabilia from the actual team and from the movie. Having lived in Indiana for many years, and having loved and watched Hoosiers even longer, Julina has visited several towns / locations where the movie was filmed but she had never actually been to Milan so this was a check off the bucket list for her. Below is the museum.
Alex viewed a possible house to buy located south of Greenwood in Nashville, Indiana. He went down to see it on Thursday but Juli had to work so we decided to at least drive by the property on our way home from Milan. It is in picturesque Brown County with plenty of hills and woods and rivers. This house is on a very narrow, one-car lane called Grandma Barnes Road, deep in the forest. It is at the tip of 5 acres of woods and hills, on the only really flat part of the property. About 30 feet from the back door is a steep hill that truly could hold a target for Alex to shoot at! It is all on one level with a large detached two-car garage so it might actually work out, aside from being in the middle of nowhere! And being next door to hillbillies, complete with a confederate flag! Yikes! Must be the reason for the brand-new privacy fence erected between the two properties 😄
After our brief look at the outside, we wound our way back north to Greenwood but just had to stop off at a beautiful overlook to take a photo or two...
Today was church and then we packed up the car and dogs and now we are back home. Happily, we encountered no traffic delays on the return trip which was a huge difference from our drive on Thursday. Then, we had two significant delays - one due to construction and the other was an accident - which put us at Juli's after 10:00 EDT.
Steve and I found time to watch the 8th and 9th episodes of season one of Strange New Worlds while at Julina's and I watched Justice League Wednesday night while Steve was at youth activities at church. I couldn't remember seeing it before but, as I watched, I realized that I actually had. I guess it was pretty forgettable?
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