Noah was lucky to have two sets of grandparents in the audience. Joe and Vicky came into town Friday evening and are leaving tomorrow. They have been staying in our guest room since Emily and Joe's house is pretty full. We haven't seen them much, though, because they have been in Ballwin both days and we were in Columbia all Saturday up until the concert and today, we were in meetings.
The ward choir sang a beautiful Rob Gardner number called Fill My Soul in September and it was a shame to perform it just once so we offered to "go on the road" 😃and sing in the Tower Grove Branch this morning. Their meetings started at 10:00 and ours don't begin until 12:30 so it worked out timewise. We had a Self Reliance and Resource Center meeting at 3:00 so we just went from one meeting to another. We got home at 4:20 and I put on my comfortable sweats and haven't ventured out since then.
My huge project this past week was getting the civic orchestra program ready to go to the printers. I spent almost all of my time on Tuesday working on it, sending pages to Jayne, another cellist and an amazing editor, for proof reading. We continued doing this back and forth Wednesday morning until finally everything looked good to both of us and I was able to send everything to the Ink Spot that afternoon. Whew!
My continuing project is the Afghanistan women sewing. This week, it was looking at three sewing machines to determine if the problems were more than just a thread tension issue. They are and I have three machines sitting in the library waiting to be taken to the repair shop next week.
Steve and I had our flu and covid shots on Wednesday. For some reason, Walmart Pharmacies in the state of Missouri - or maybe just the city of St. Louis - were not offering the covid shot. BUT, Walmarts across the river in Illinois were so we made our appointments for the Fairview Heights store. It was a 30 minute drive away and we took Fred with us to get his shots, too. Both Steve and I had little to no reaction to the shots (we got one in each arm) aside from my arms feeling tender for two days. Fred, on the other hand, was laid up for three days! Poor guy. Since Wednesdays are our usual grocery shopping days, we just did it over in Illinois. Aldi is right across the street from Walmart. And, there was also a Culvers in the same parking lot so we three had lunch there before heading home.
Our trip to Columbia was packed with visits - Melanie, Elizabeth (we drove her to a "No Kings" protest), Steven and Tamara (lunch at Culvers again - yummm), Wendy Remus to get sewing supplies for Days for Girls which I am going to sew for again, the Amish stores (Steven joined us), and finally Elise before we headed back for the concert. Missouri finally got rain yesterday so we drove all the way home in a fairly heavy downpour. Construction and an accident caused us to come to a complete stop twice which added an hour to our drive and we got to Noah's concert ten minutes before it started! While driving in the rain is not fun, I am SO THANKFUL for the rain.
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