Wow, time is really passing quickly...I really have very little to write about the week. It was my last Monday to drive Afghanistan families to summer activities. We are on a short break from all Kindness Begins With Me events until after Labor Day. So we will have Thursday nights and Monday mornings free for a couple of weeks.
On Tuesday morning, I made a batch of grape jelly from some of the concord grapes growing on our backyard fence. There are still many clusters of green grapes that need to ripen so I have another batch coming up - probably next week. I am picking so many cucumbers and yellow squash and cherry tomatoes but I pulled up all my green bean plants on Monday and planted more on Tuesday for fall harvesting. I also planted some lettuce in the same raised bed.
I finished - for real and completely - all the red deck painting on Tuesday when I put second coats on the poles that we will install to hold string lights. I know I am completely done because the paint cans are back down in the basement and my painting clothes have been laundered and hung back up in the downstairs closet. We bought string lights at Menards on Saturday and Steve hopes to have the poles up and the lights strung by this coming week.
I spent much of my free time this past week working on music: Finding and ordering Christmas songs for the ward choir, arranging a piece for string ensemble to be played next month in Sacrament meeting, putting together all the paperwork for my home school orchestra class that will begin the second week of September, and practicing a cello number that I played in Sacrament meeting today.
About the only thing we watched this week was the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy. It is an old film starring James Cagney and it is about the life of George M. Cohen. It was entertaining.
On Saturday, Steve and I worked a double shift in the baptistry as the Pynes were finishing up a family reunion/vacation and they couldn't find anyone else to sub for them. Boy, it was exhausting! Happily, when we got home, the only thing on my "to-do" list was a cello lesson at 3:30 because I don't think I could have mustered the energy to do much else. We DID drive to Ballwin that evening to go to Menards but, more especially to spend time with Emily, Joe and the kids (well, not Noah as he was at work) at the Ballwin Days carnival and fireworks show. We parked our cars at a nearby Lowe's parking lot and took a shuttle over to the event. I can't believe how little space there is between seats!!! Poor long-legged high school students who have to ride them every day to and from school. While Emily and family went on rides and bought treats, Steve and I were content to just sit on our lawn chairs and relax until the fireworks started. And, we had SUPER seats for that. It was a great display.
I will finish with some photos of our time at Ballwin Days and some pictures of around our yard.
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