April ramblings

I will begin with some fun photos from the bird feeder....

A friend from church was going to be away all day for a meeting on Tuesday and she asked if I could let her little dog out to go potty in the afternoon. She lives quite close so it was a very easy task. This is Talia. She is very old, blind, and sweet as can be. 

I have started taking photos of tombstones a new section in the cemetery across the street. This is my fourth section to cover in four years. Slow and steady wins the race....

Steve had to take his euphonium to the shop on Friday and it turned out to be a super easy fix - the cork from his spit-valve had fallen out and that eeensy teensy missing piece just wreaked havoc on playing the instrument! The shop didn't charge for the repair so he bought a book of euphonium solos as a way to show appreciation and our credit card was denied! When he got home and told me, I immediately called the credit card company and someone had stolen our number and was trying to make purchases! Aaak!!! So, we will get a new card and I had to contact all the places that automatically deduct payments from that card - what a hassle! But, I am glad it was caught early. The last legit purchase I made on that card was on Thursday night at a gas station that had really good prices - much lower than all the surrounding stations. And, I think that is where my number was stolen. Maybe the station was getting kick backs from credit card thieves??? Won't be visiting that station ever again -

Weather and time actually worked together and Steve and I were able to take a bike ride around the neighborhood Friday evening. 

The choir number I had planned to sing in May had to be totally scrapped. First of all, I wanted to sing it Memorial Day weekend which was a super dumb idea since most of the choir will be gone. The only available day to sing was Mother's Day but the song is kind of difficult and we would be pressed to learn it by then.  And, it is not a Mother's Day song.  So, this week, I spent the time to mash together three Mother's Day songs from the Primary children's songbook and I entered them into Finale and viola! We have an easy piece to sing for May.

We watched two movies this week - The Flash on Monday (never seen before - I have also never seen the television series so I was not comparing the two. I though it was funny and entertaining) and Pelican Brief on Friday(both of us have seen it. Good movie).

A friend in the ward received her endowments on Saturday afternoon. Steve and I attended and we are in the below photo taken afterwards. The friend, Darlene, is in the middle.

Also on Saturday was the symphony. Selina and Jared Forsythe had four tickets and they invited us. We gladly accepted and we fixed a steak dinner at our house before hand. The program featured a relatively unknown mid-twentieth century female composer from Poland - Grazyna Bacewicz - and her Concerto for String Orchestra which was very lovely and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler that was amazingly awesome. I am generally not a fan of twentieth century compositions but these were very listenable. The big draw was the Dvorak Cello Concerto. The cellist was young, from Romania, and extremely talented. And he did two encores.

 

Today, I spoke in church. I also taught Primary. And we had a Self Reliance and Resource Center meeting at 5:00. It has been a busy day!

below are the meeting attendees: Roc, Dawn, me, Evans, Steve, Kurt, Fred, Mariam, Dan and Mike