This is what the last two weeks felt like:
I'm kind of tempted to just post a picture of my calendar for the last two weeks and leave it at that. Because the last two weeks were CRAZY busy. Even pre-pandemic they would have been considered busy. But after a year of life at a slower tempo these last two weeks felt like a video game where everything just goes faster and faster.
The good news is that I made it through the last two weeks and lived to tell about it. So let's take a look back as I marvel how I made it through.
We're starting this on Monday April 12th. I had work on Monday morning like I do every day Monday through Thursday. Work has been really good lately. I love that I'm no longer doing receptionist things and I can focus on insurance and billing. Those two things keep me super busy.
On Monday afternoon Charlotte and Lydia had their ISAT tests. These were done in the same location as Derrick's had been the week before. I dropped the girls off then ran some errands. I have a bunch of business books that were taking up room in my bookshelves at home. So I took them to work and put them in my office there. After dropping off those books I stopped by the library to drop off other books and pick up new ones. And then I went back to the testing location and hung out in the parking lot until the girls were done.
I don't remember what else we did that day, but there are a lot of Lego pictures on my phone so we'll assume they happened this day.
Lydia worked really hard on building a yacht. She looked up ideas for it on some website and then built her own.
Well Tuesday's windstorm was blowing from the complete opposite direction than usual. The wind blew so hard that the fence actually started leaning toward our neighbors yard.
The wind was so crazy. At work we have a sort of internal hallway between several office suites. The doors to that hallway wouldn't stay shut because the wind was blowing directly on them.
When I got home the kids proudly showed me the box that Fedex had delivered. Inside was basically a stick. But one day this stick will be a Northern Catalpa. I had no time to plant the tree, and really it was too windy to even think about it. So I just put the stick in a bucket, watered the roots, and put it in the basement.
Derrick had speech therapy like normal. After it was over we ran to the store to get some ingredients for our dinner that night. I'd promised Derrick a gumball, but when we were all done I realized I didn't have a quarter.
Not a problem though, I had spare change in the car. So we went to the car and dropped off the groceries and grabbed a quarter. We went back in the store and Derrick picked one out. Then we went back to the car and I realized I'd locked my keys in the car. I'd set them on the front seat when I grabbed the quarter, but I forgot to pick them up again.
We really could have just walked home because we weren't that far away, but I needed some of the food I'd just bought in order to make dinner.
Thankfully I had my phone so I called Brandon. I was worried he'd be on a mobile call in Jerome or somewhere far, but he was at the shop. So he came right over and unlocked the door.
Whew.
I was able to get dinner made and still have time to practice my bass. But I ran into a problem there as well - I couldn't find my rosin. The last time I remember holding it was a few days earlier. Veronica had knocked it onto the floor and I asked her to pick it up and hand it to me. She did and I vividly remember holding it. But I had no memory of what I did with it next. And I couldn't find it anywhere. So when I went to rehearsal that night I had to borrow rosin from one of the other basses.
Other than that, rehearsal went well. I was figuring out some of the part and also figuring out which parts to fake it through. I had no qualms about faking. When you are the 4th chair string bass, part of your job is just to look impressive. The other three are taking care of the sound.
After rehearsal we had a symphony business meeting. Our director gave us the dates for the concerts for the 2021-2022 season. It was fun to put those 2022 dates into my calendar. I love being associated with people that like to plan ahead.
I'm trying to remember anything specific about work on Wednesday. Nothing is coming to mind.
My rosin did resurface sometime on Wednesday. One of the kids found it down the living room couch. And all sorts of interesting things were stuck to it. I could have just cut those parts off, but the case looked like it had been chewed (Marsha!) and the lid was missing. I decided I should just buy new rosin. I've been using a bass, bow, and rosin from the College of Southern Idaho rent free for 8 months. The least I could do was buy $15 rosin.
So when I dropped Charlotte and Lydia off for their ISAT tests on Wednesday afternoon I took Derrick and Veronica with me to run some more errands. One of the places we went was a music store and I bought more rosin. I'm so glad I did. It was much better than what I had been using and it made my playing sound so good.
Another store we went to was the Dollar store because Derrick wanted to use some of his birthday money to buy a bag of popcorn. Then I dropped Derrick and Veronica off at home so they could watch Octonaught's Ring of Fire (again) while I went to wait for Charlotte and Lydia.
About 5 minutes after I got to the testing center one of the girls was brought out by one of the teachers. She was sobbing. She'd been super stressed out by the test. I talked to her about it. I thought I'd made it pretty clear that I didn't care about these tests or the scores the kids got, but I guess this child didn't know that. She was so worried that she'd have to repeat 4th grade if she didn't do well. I calmed her down and talked to her about it. She felt a lot better. Later I told her, "they let Derrick keep going up a grade and he's still on a 1st grade level. You don't have anything to worry about."
I didn't make the girls do any work at home on test days so when we got home they went right back to Legos. Here's more progress on the yacht.
That night I volunteered to do the grocery shopping. Normally Brandon takes care of it, but I needed a break. Plus since I'm usually the one cooking dinner I like to go grocery shopping every once in a while to get some new meal ideas.
While I was at the store I remembered that I've wanted to try laundry striping for like a year. So I looked up the cleaning products for that. (Powdered Tide, Borax, and Arm and Hammer Washing Soda.) After all the groceries were put away I tried out laundry stripping. This is primarily for athletic wear so I started with those clothes and our swimming suits.
All these clothes had been washed in the washing machine.
But it was pretty obvious that they weren't "clean." This is what the water looking like in the morning.
I tried this out with a few more types of fabric. Nothing else was as bad as the activewear, but I did notice that the whites seemed whiter when they were done.
I did a load of towels because I'd heard it would make them softer. They had the least dirty water, and I didn't notice any change in how soft they were. But maybe that's because they I didn't add Calgon to the water. I hadn't been able to find Calgon at winco and it wasn't worth a trip to walmart.
Normally we do horses on Thursday afternoons, but they were moved to Friday for some reason this week. Maybe because of weather? I don't remember. I literally don't remember anything about this day.
But I do remember Friday. This was the frist day any of the kids have set foot in their elementary school since last March. The district has been providing Derrick with online speech therapy for most of the school year, but it was really ineffective. We decided to having him start going to the school for speech therapy. This was is first time. I took him over and we went to the front office. They called down Miss Hollie and she took him back for 30 minutes of therapy. He was so happy to see her. And he was really excited to see the lunch room. After we were home he talked for a long time about getting lunch at school. I told him he could do that in August.
In the afternoon we headed out to Buhl for horse back riding lessons. I have the kids each signed up for 8 half hour lessons. But we only go out there once a week for an hour. It was going to take us a long time to finish up the lessons at that pace. So Miss Mary had her husband come help. He worked with Veronica while she worked with Lydia. And then her husband worked with Derrick while she worked with Charlotte.
I didn't get great pictures. Here's two of the kids. (I don't remember which ones)
And two others.
Earlier in the week Lydia had figured out she had enough money for a $15 skateboard from Walmart. We'd ordered it and had it shipped to us. It arrived when we got home. Lydia was so excited.
But one day it will look like this.
Later that night Brandon and I cleaned up the garage. I had a DI drop off scheduled for Saturday so we were getting things ready for that. We had some bikes that the kids outgrew so I put them on the ward facebook page. Veronica's "Rainbow Bike" went to a very happy 5 year old.
We had two families come and we had a nice time chatting. This is probably how we'll do all our meetings this summer.
After the meeting I went home and went to work on the garden. I'll show the progress in a little bit.
In the late afternoon Brandon and I went on a date. We dropped off the DI stuff and went to Costco to get my picture taken for an account Brandon had already set up.
The best part of the date was dinner. We went to a local place called the Shake Shack and got burgers and shakes. It was really yummy.
Here's the long view. It's still very much a work in progress, but I do like how the firepit and the bricks look.
On Sunday I looked out the window at the fence and realized that it needed to be our first priority. It was back to leaning our way and I was so worried it would fall over and take out the cherry trees.
So after church we had our neighbors come over and talked with neighbors about fence. We figured we could start taking it down on Wednesday and hopefully have it back up by Saturday.
Sunday was such a nice day. I spent a long time watering different parts of the yard. It was fun to really slow down and look at everything.
Brandon made dinner and we ate it out side. We love our covered patio.
Brandon also made this delicious trifle for dessert. Everything in this came from our "food storage." (Our definition of food storage extends beyond wheat and beans.)
I told everyone I wanted to go for a walk on the canyon rim trail. Derrick got his shoes on and then decided to wait for us on the car. He thought he was so funny.
Ha, this is the one selfie I took on the walk.
We stayed for a while at the jump site and then walked back. We saw lots of cows on our hike, but these are the ones that got the closest.
On Tuesday it was Brandon's turn to get up early. He went to get his second dose of the Moderna COVID shot.
Ha, this is the one selfie I took on the walk.
We saw this cute little critter.
Here is the view looking back toward the temple.
We were heading toward the Evil Knievel Jump Site.
The kids had fun sliding down the hill.
I walked a little farther so I could see Shoshone Falls.
Okay so if you've read through this so far you might be thinking. That sounds busy, but it's not super busy. Well just you wait. Because this next week was the busiest week of the whole school year. Honestly the busiest week since COVID started.
The funny thing is that if I'd made different decisions this year I wouldn't have even been home this week. This was the week of the Parent Retreat for Idaho Parent's Unlimited.
I'd gone through the process to be selected for this retreat/training for 2020. But it was cancelled due to COVID. When it was cancelled IPULs staff assured me that I would have the opportunity to attend in 2021. So in January when they reached out to me to see if I was still interested my first response was to reply back with "OF COURSE." But then I realized I probably shouldn't go.
The main reason was because of childcare. When I'd planned to go in 2020 my kids were in school. Brandon's parents were going to come to help with the kids, but they really were only needed in the afternoon. This time around they would have to watch the kids all day, and help with school. I just couldn't ask them to do that.
Also when I looked at the calendar I realized that I had a symphony concert that Friday. I would have had to choose between IPUL and the concert.
So with a heavy heart I told IPUL that I couldn't go this year.
There were many times this week that I thought, "I wish I could be there, but I'm glad I'm here. No one could replace me this week."
So let's look at the insanely busy week that was Monday April 19-Saturday April 24.
On Monday I had to be to work at 8:00. The receptionists couldn't cover from 8:00-10:00 so I agreed to do it. Luckily there weren't a lot of phone calls so I was able to get my work done without being interrupted.
After the receptionist arrived at 10:00 I moved into my office. I kept hearing what sounded like a giant truck drive by the side of the building - which is impossible because that side has a field on it. It was really the wind. It was another windy day.
Charlotte and Lydia had ISAT testing again that afternoon. I'm trying to remember what the heck I did while they were testing. Maybe ran errands with Derrick and Veronica again? I vaguly remember driving around and having the wind push on the car so we must have driven somewhere.
I just remember being super tired. It had been a long time since I'd had to be up before 8:00 on a Monday morning. (I know, I know, I'm so spoiled.) So I was so happy to pick up the girls and then come home and take a nap.
When I woke up from my nap I looked outside and noticed that the fence had fallen down. It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but the section of it behind the tree house is laying flat. It fell toward the neighbors yard and so my cherry trees were spared. Plus the section by the cherry trees didn't fall down.
So that night, after dinner we went outside to take the fence down apart.
I waited to go into work until he was home again. The shot went fine, but Brandon was worried about side effects. He doesn't react well to any shots so this one was probably going to cause him some problems.
I got a call from Derrick's Speech therapy place. They had to cancel therapy that day. They asked if they could reschedule. I told them this week was crazy so we were just find skipping a week.
I used that chunk of time to work on the pre-concert slideshow I'd been making for they symphony concert. I'd been working on it since Sunday, but I got it nearly done. I felt it needed more pictures of the musicians so I emailed Amy Toft to see if she could take some. Amy is in my ward and is also in charge of publicity for the Symphony. She was my connection to the Symphony.
Rehearsal that night went really well. We had very talented guest musicians. Allen Vizzutti is a trumpet player and also composed or arranged the majority of the music we would be playing. His wife Laura Vincent Vizzutti is a piano player. She grew up in Filer and two of her sisters also played in the symphony. It was great to rehearse with both of them. And check out this great picture Amy took.
Brandon wasn't feeling great when I got home from rehearsal and he went downhill during the night. He was running a fever in the middle of the night. He was shivering and trying to cuddle with me so he could warm up. But externally he was super hot. It was like trying to sleep in an oven.
In the morning he was still running a fever and felt terrible. So he texted his boss and told him he wasn't coming in. Brandon has kind of secretly wanted COVID this whole time so he would have an excuse to stay home and do nothing. This was his last chance to get work off due to COVID.
Since Brandon was staying home all day I could stay at work longer. And I'm glad I could because Wednesday was a fun day at work. We don't get a lot of mail on Wednesday so I don't have to worry much about the daily minutia of processing payments. Instead I like to do some work on streamlining operations and preventing errors. We've had some concerns about our intake procedures. I talked to my boss about them and he proposed some solutions. I spent the rest of the morning hammering out the new intake process. It's so fun to be involved in a growing company.
I went home for lunch and then took Charlotte and Lydia to their last day of ISAT testing. Then I went back to work to take care of more things there.
The girls had brought the kids phone with them to the test so they called me when they were done.
We weren't done with activities for the day though. All three girls had a Girls Activity at the church at 4:30 and actually Derrick was supposed to have a Boys Activity hike at Dierkies Lake at 5:00. When I realized that I was supposed to be in two places at once I'd asked my friend Kaymie if she'd take the girls so I could supervise Derrick on the hike. But thankfully the Boys Activity was cancelled when the leader, Amy Toft, double booked herself with some symphony promos. (Amy and I were both running every which way this week.)
So anyway, I took the girls to the activity and Derrick stayed home with Brandon. Brandon was feeling much better and he took care of making dinner. So that gave me nearly half an hour of free time. I spent it wandering around the garden section at Home Depot.
When we were all home again and dinner was done I went outside to water the garden. Derrick was "helping" me, but he thought it was funny to keep turning the water on and off. I played along for a while, but it got annoying after about the 5th time. Then Derrick wandered over to the new garden area and played in the dirt. He does this all the time so I didn't think anything of it. But I was not happy when I realized that he'd moved on to scooping up mud from around the newly watered blackberries and then throwing it on the white fence.
That was kind of my limit for the week.
I didn't even get that mad. I just realized I needed a major break. So I left Brandon in charge of bedtime and just went for a drive. I ended up driving to Twin Falls Park to see the remaining waterfall of the Twin Falls (one was blocked off in the 1920s when they put in a hydroelectric plant.)
I'm always amazed by this waterfall, and the fact that I see hardly any other people here. If this was Yellowstone the place would be covered in tourists. But I was the only one there.
Then I drove back home and just sat in the car for a long time. Brandon came out and talked to me. I told him I was okay, this week was just a lot.
Brandon was feeling all the way better on Thursday. And this time it was Marcia's turn for shots. Brandon took her to the vet.
This was kind of a sad day. It was the last day that Miss Nisha would be working with Derrick for therapy. She'd been working with him since . . . I think before Christmas, but honestly I'm not sure. It's been a long time and a lot longer than any of his other therapists. She's been such a big help with him. I was hoping she'd work with him for a long time, but she had some things change in her life and decided to marry her boyfriend in Utah. I'm so happy for her, but we are going to miss her.
In the afternoon we headed out to Buhl for horse lessons again. I'd brought a Better Homes and Garden's Magazine and looked at that while the Lydia and Veronica did their lesson. I didn't notice it, but they went on a long ride around the whole farm.
Then Derrick and Charlotte did the same thing.
That evening I had another double booking. I had Symphony Dress Rehearsal at 7:30, but I also had a Relief Society Activity at 7:00. I knew I should just skip the activity. But I've really really really really really missed Relief Society Activities. And this one was a night where we got to share book recommendations. So I texted the lady in charge and told her I really wanted to come, but I could only stay for 15 minutes and could I please do my book recommendation first. She said yes and added she was happy to have me there for any amount of time.
So that evening I put my bass and my books in the car and headed to the church. I got there a little early, did some socializing, shared my book recommendations (Jen Fulwiller's books of course) and then left when my 7:15 alarm went off. I ran into Amy Toft in the parking lot. She was coming from her Yoga class.
Rehearsal was such a joy again. I'd practiced nearly every day for the past two weeks and I was playing about as well as I felt I could at this point. It felt so good to be on stage with all the other members of the Symphony.
Friday was a day off of school. I'm so glad I arranged my schedule to have Friday's off because I always need the time to use for school. Finishing up school for the week was more meaningful that usual because we weren't just finishing some subjects for the week, we were finishing them for the YEAR!!!!!!
Charlotte and Lydia both finished their Language Arts Books. And Derrick finished Reading Eggs. (Veronica had finished it about 3 weeks ago.) Here are all the kids crowded around Derrick as he did some of the last levels. We have a nearly identical picture of the kids doing school last year. And the same caption applies. This is the modern equivalent of a 1 room school house.
I sent our report email about school to our mentor and all of a sudden it was almost noon. We had a quick lunch and then we drove out to Filer for an afternoon on the farm of one of the Venture Upward Mentors. This was my kids equivalent of HEAVEN.
Here are the girls with chinchillas.
And here's Veronica on the horse.
The kids loved the farm and honestly could have stayed there overnight if I'd let them. We ended up being there about 2 hours. Then it was time to get going.
We came home and I had a choice between taking a nap or practicing. I chose the nap.
Then I made pizza for dinner and then it was time to get ready for the concert.
We'd started the day with a email from the director saying we could have a small audience of family members at the concert. So Brandon had planned to bring the kids. But later another email was sent out saying maybe not. And finally there was an email saying that an audience was a no go. So in the end I was the only one that had to get ready. Brandon and the kids would watch the concert via a livestream on Youtube.
Before I left I had Brandon take this picture of me carrying the bass. In all the year's I've played the bass I've never taken a picture of me carrying it. Every time I carry it I think, "What was I thinking at 10 years old?"
I went to the concert hall and took this picture with the bass. Then I turned off my phone so I wouldn't have to worry about any unplanned sounds coming from it.
Since we didn't have an audience we didn't have to worry about the formalities of walking on stage when the concert began. So we just started out on the stage. I got all tuned up and was sitting on stage with plenty of time. My phone was off so I wasn't sure what time it was, but I knew it must be getting time for the concert to start.
Then I saw the guy in charge of all the technology run across the back of the auditorium. That did not look good.
A little while later Amy Toft appeared on the stage and told us, "The live stream isn't working."
Uh Oh.
The concert was supposed to start at 7:30. At 7:40 we were all told to get out our phones and text everyone that the concert would be recorded and uploaded to Youtube later. I was very disappointed that the concert wouldn't be going live. But I was happy we were still going to do it.
Here is the link to the concert that was eventually posted to Youtube. My slideshow ended up not on this, but that's okay. I'm actually really impressed by the improvement in quality for this concert. There were different camera angles and we had microphones all over the stage to pick up our sound better.
We started with the Finale from Beethoven's 5th. This was one was tricky for me to learn, but I eventually figured it out and had a lot of fun with it.
We also played In the Hall of the Mountain King. I've loved this song ever since I was a kid and I think it's been a secret wish to play this song. It was really fun to play. The kids loved hearing me practice it.
All the Vizzutti songs were great. But my favorite was Margaret's Song. Allan wrote this about his Mother in Law Margaret Vincent who is apparently a pillar of the community. He wrote prominent parts for her daughters to play on the Piano, Flute, and Oboe. I loved the magical feel of the music.
I also really liked Allen's arrangement of the Gershwin medley that we finished the program with. At first I was very intimidated by doing another Gershwin piece. But this one was much simpler. This performance was actually the first time we played it all the way through without stopping. It turned out really well.
Ending a concert when there is no audience feels really weird. There is no applause. It just kind of ends. And this one felt really weird because there wasn't even a virtual audience.
This was our last concert of the season so I turned in my folder and all of my music. I also put the bass in the instrument room. I'm fairly certain I'm coming back for the next season, but I'm also fairly certain I won't practice at all this summer. (I know myself.) So it made sense to put the bass back for now.
The kids were in bed by the time I was home. Brandon said they'd just watching Youtube videos when they realized that they couldn't get the live feed.
I was completely worn out from everything so we didn't do much that night. I think I just sat on the couch and sighed repeatedly.
I had my energy back by Saturday. I'd been looking forward to this day for months. It was the adult clothing swap. I'd donated clothes early enough to have an Early Bird ticket which meant I could be at the swap right at 9:00. So at about 8:45 I grabbed a laundry basket and headed over to the YMCA which is a few blocks from my house. This is the view from my spot in line. There are rows and rows of tables in the background.
I'd found ties for Brandon and scarfs for me. I'd looked in the smallest adult sizes and found a jacket and some shirts for the kids. I'd found a lot of athletic clothes and pajamas. I found at least 5 pairs of dress pants and 2 jeans. Shirts had been a little scarce but I still found a few cute ones. I found a jacket for me, and two for Brandon. I'd also found sandals for me and new tennis shoes for Derrick. Oh and a new purse. What a good day.
The swap is all free but you have to put in some work going through clothes to find what you need. It feels like a treasure hunt. I was there two hours and filled my basket to overflowing.
Here's my haul after I got it home.
Our main goal for that Saturday was the fence. Brandon had already bought cement and new posts. He'd also started digging post holes. He got all the posts in by the end of the day.
A little before 3:00 I headed back to the swap and was able to fill the laundry basket again. Then at 3:00 I helped bag up all the remaining clothes and take down tables. Here I am with some of the other volunteers. I'm so glad I just have to do grunt work at these events and that I don't have to do all the organizing.
Back at home the kids took baths and we had dinner. Then we put on nice clothes and went to a the high school for the concert done by the show choir, JIVE. I've heard amazing things about this choir so I really wanted the kids to see the concert. Tickets were $10 a person so at first I was planning to just take the girls because I didn't want to spend $10 for Derrick to freak out and end up in the lobby. But then I found out that family tickets were $25. That was totally worth the risk of Derrick freaking out. So we all went.
I'd started following JIVE on Facebook and I could tell from the still pictures that we were going to be in for a treat. I've borrowed some of the pictures from Facebook. You can see more here: https://www.facebook.com/TFHSJive
But first let's talk about the oddity of different COVID restrictions. My Symphony concert was held at the College of Southern Idaho where we were absolutely not supposed to have an audience. We were limited to the 50 people on stage and in the technical staff. But this concert done by Twin Falls High School had no such restrictions. They didn't even have every other row marked off. We were all in the room like it was 2019 or something.
Okay, now let's talk about the show. The kids had about a million questions before it started. What kind of songs would there be? Would it be fun? Was it really going to be live? Did we have to sing too?
I think they were all wondering if I'd brought them to something boring. But as soon as the first song started their eyes were GLUED to the stage. The first piece was a medley of Elton John Songs. The singing, the dancing, and the costuming were excellent.
The concert was absolutely fabulous. They sang songs like Royals, and Valerie. The boys sang You'll Be Back from Hamilton. The last song before intermission was a medley of songs from the Disney Channel Movie Decedents. Again the costuming was amazing!
All the girls said they wanted to be the pirate girl with the green hair.
At intermission all the kids told me how much they loved the concert and how much fun they were having. This was great news, but I realized that the recording of my concert would be pretty lame compared to this.
The second half of the program started with a medley of Phantom of the Opera songs. Veronica got a little bit scared of this part and she ended up needing to hide under the blanket I'd brought for Derrick.
They sang the song Home by Phillip Phillips and I cried a little bit at that. I fell in love with that song at at 4th of July concert in Alabama, but I'd known that Alabama couldn't be my permanent home. It felt good to hear it sung in the city we've chosen to settle down in.
Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you're not alone
'Cause I'm going to make this place your home
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you're not alone
'Cause I'm going to make this place your home
Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you're not alone
'Cause I'm going to make this place your home
'Cause I'm going to make this place your home
The audience clapped along during this song and Derrick was clapping in perfect rhythm.
The program ended with a Guys and Dolls Medley. This was also excellent. When it was over we gave them a standing ovation. Derrick yelled "Bravo" over and over again. Then he yelled, "That was Incredible." Oh I'm so glad I was able to bring him.
We went out to the car and everyone was telling me how they wanted to be in JIVE when they are in High School. I remember going to Nutcracker performances at my high school when I was still in elementary school and looking forward to dancing on that stage. I was never in the Nutcracker, but I did dance and play on that stage.
Yes, it's good to know that this is our home.
Sunday was such a good day after that busy week. I woke up and realized I wasn't in charge of anything the whole day. At church Amy Toft sat in front of us and she and I reflected on how nice it was to have nothing that day.
I went around and took garden pictures Sunday evening. Here's the part with all the cool season plants.
And the tiniest little leaf buds on the catalpa stick.
And that was the end of my super busy two weeks. Whew. I don't even know how to sum it up. So I'll just say,
Thanks for reading.
