Saturday the 17th: I got my hair done that morning. Frank ended up doing quite a bit of work for Roy Rogers. I did the usual Saturday things--cleaning the kitchen floor, practicing the ukulele, music calling stuff, and reviewing my Primary lesson. Seth was supposed to get home from scout camp around 6:00 pm, but they actually got done early and his leader dropped him off at our house around 3:30 instead. He was in good spirits and said he had a good time. He admitted that he hadn't showered all week (except twice, after swimming), had only changed his clothes twice (I packed enough clothes that he could have changed every day), and didn't even brush his teeth!! Boys are so gross!!! So we had him dump all his clothes in a basket to be washed (I washed everything, even though he hadn't worn most of the clothes) and made him go take a shower immediately. Jared & Jessie came over for dinner that evening and we played a game and visited a bit too before saying our goodbyes. (They left for Utah the next morning).
Sunday the 18th: As usual, a nice day of rest. After church and lunch, Seth wanted to build this puzzle, so we did that together:
Then scripture reading, indexing, naps, and dinner. After dinner we went on a walk:
And then we had family night. It was a nice day! We had a pretty good lightning storm that night, too. Not a lot of rain, but a lot of lightning.
Monday the 19th: We were watching our neighbor's cats again, so Seth and I went over early to let them in the house. Then we all went that evening to let them back out. The weather changed into true August weather this week, and Monday was particularly hot and humid. (We had temperatures in the 90s and humidity levels in the 90% range all week, though.) Seth and I got back into our routine of exercising, chores, and brain balance. Besides regular chores, I had a lot of extra little things to do like calling the vet, setting up some people in the ward to go sing for a ward member who is on hospice care, and getting Seth to write a letter to one of his classmates (an assignment he got before the end of the school year--he just had to write a letter before the summer was over.) In the evening, when we went to let out the cats, we decided to walk over to the neighbor's house and have that count as our walk (they live on the other side of the main road from us, so it's a bit of a walk). It was seriously miserable, even though the sun was going down. It hadn't cooled down at all!! The sunset was nice, though.
Tuesday the 20th: This day was mostly busy with the normal chores, but I did spend quite a bit of time in the late afternoon and after dinner cutting out some doll clothes. I purchased fabric and patterns for a bunch of doll clothes literally years ago. I made a couple of them and I really had fun doing that, but decided I needed to take a break because there were other more important things that I needed to get done. (I was RS president at the time--yep, that's how long ago it was!) So anyway, I've never gotten back to them. On Tuesday, I cut out the pieces for 2 different outfits. Cutting out is my least favorite part of sewing, but it has to be done carefully and accurately or the pieces won't go together right later. Now I can do the fun part (sewing), but I haven't gotten back to that again this week. After working on cutting for hours, my back really hurt, but thankfully it felt better by morning.
Wednesday the 21st: We went over early to let the neighbor's cats back in. They came home later that day, so we are done with that job. I got the regular chores done and went to religion class. Seth had YM that evening and Frank was busy with some work for clients. Scott also called me that night so I got to talk with him for quite a while. I re-ordered his birthday presents on Monday and he got all of them by Wednesday.
Thursday the 22nd: Seth had an orthodontist appointment that morning. He still has loose teeth that need to come out, and they are going to give it another 4 months. We've been doing this for over a year now, but I'm not really in a rush to start paying for braces, so that's fine. His teeth are REALLY loose, apparently, so hopefully they will fall out before we go back in December. After the orthodontist, we stopped on the way home to fill my car with gas and put air in my tires because I had a warning light that one of my tires was low. And one of them WAS really low--only 26 PSI when I started to fill it up. This tire has this problem periodically, so I really need to replace it soon. After that, Frank invited us to meet him at Roy Rogers for lunch, so we did that. Then we went to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for Seth and to the store to get a few items. After we got home, we finished up the chores but I decided to skip brain balance. I spent a lot of time that afternoon / evening working on a project for Christmas that I started last week.
Friday the 23rd: So far today I have exercised and worked on this post and guess what I am going to do this afternoon? Yep, update the budget. I am also getting a group put together to go sing some hymns on Sunday to our ward member who is in hospice care. It rained last night and it is raining a bit this morning too. The good news is, the temperature has dropped and we are only going to get up into the high 70s today and we have highs in the 80s for the rest of the week. So much nicer!! I have not mowed the lawn the last few weeks because it's not good for the grass to be cut when it's so hot. Plus it's been dry enough lately that the lawn hasn't been growing that fast. It could definitely use a mow, but it's not super long like it normally would be if I had left it for a few weeks. I wanted to mow the lawn today but I don't think it's going to dry out enough before the day is over. (Originally, it wasn't supposed to start raining until tonight, but the forecast changed as the week went on.) Maybe I will be doing that tomorrow if things dry out enough. Meanwhile, that squash-like plant has been growing like crazy and is growing out onto the lawn. This week it has produced some light brown, soft, short oblong fruit of some sort. Not sure what it is!! I really need to take pictures.
Snickers has continued to do pretty well this week. We sometimes have to take him out in the night and sometimes he doesn't seem to feel too well, but mostly he has had a good appetite and good energy level. He often skids or stumbles when he gets to the bottom of the stairs (going from carpet onto laminate floor) so this week he has started avoiding that. He sits on the bottom step and whines until I come pick him up and put him down on the floor! I just love having an aging dog--NOT!
Jared texted me every day with updates of where they were, and they arrived safely in Utah yesterday. On Wednesday morning, I wasn't too happy when I turned on the weather channel and they were reporting a tornado warning in Iowa, because I knew they had spent the night in Des Moines. It looked like the worst of the storm went south of Des Moines, though. They did get some heavy rain that morning, but they were fine.
Next week is our last week of summer break. I am sorry to see the summer end! I think Seth is always more ready to go back to school than I am to have it start. This summer was busy and therefore it went by fast. I intend to fully enjoy my last week, though!
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