Noah was here last week! Emily had a photo session in Sedalia Tuesday afternoon so she drove to our house, left Noah in the hands of me and Beckie (when I was teaching) and continued on her way. She got home late enough that they stayed overnight and left Wednesday morning. I got these cute photos of Noah playing with Grandpa’s trains before they left.
Christmas and birthday came early to me last week. I received an Amazon gift certificate from a family of a former cello student in my e-mail in-box for – get this - $100.00! Guess what I have already spent most of it on???? Yep, several DVD adaptations of Jane Austin books. I now have the BBC version of Sense and Sensibility, two versions of Emma, and the BBC Persuasion. Oooo, I am so excited.
Steve and I went to the St. Louis temple Friday evening. We went early so he could be set apart and be trained as a veil worker. Then, we joined the rest of the stake presidency and the high council for the 7:30 session. Afterward, we enjoyed light refreshments in the temple cafeteria while listening to the first temple president tell some of the miraculous stories of how the St. Louis temple came to be. It was a great (and late) day.
Saturday we drove up to Moberly and then west about fifteen miles to a pecan orchard that also happens to raise buffalo and sells the meat. So, in addition to buying six pounds of pecans (nuts - my favorite food!), we also bought two pounds of ground buffalo. Gonna have buffalo burgers next month….mmm, mmm, mmm!
Civic Orchestra had their first concert of the season on Sunday night. We played the Outdoor Overture by Copland, the Vaughn Williams oboe concerto, and Beethoven’s 6th Symphony. Lots of difficult music but I think we performed them all very well. I never tire of playing Beethoven and the Pastoral Symphony is just so joyful. The Civic Orchestra just gets better and better and it is a real shame that so few people attend our concerts. It fell at the end of MU’s super-celebratory homecoming weekend so I suppose that might have affected the numbers in the audience. Only Beckie was able to attend from the family. Steve had home teaching (and he has so few evenings open to fulfill that duty that I completely understood). Steven had a shortened nap due to his stake public affairs meeting in the afternoon so he needed to sleep. Oh well, maybe next concert when we play Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight!!!!!
