Jun. 28, 2008 Journal Three
| Yesterday, Scott and I decided to celebrate our meeting on a sidewalk 18 years ago. We decided to go out for a little while.
First we weeded a neighbor’s rose garden. She does not get around as well as she used to, since a plow truck ran over her several years ago.
Our youngest found a garden snail while we were there, so we made a habitat in a jar for it when we got home.
A friend who saw the tarp on our roof (dormers are being put in) stopped in to see if we needed anything (he is a roofer).
We made the kids a grilled-cheese & tomato soup dinner (to be followed by popcorn and their own movies while we are out.)
Then we fed the barn.
Then the dogs got skunked.
Then my boys were interrupting me in the back recesses of my closet while I was looking for something to wear, because they wanted the BB gun (to hunt the skunk with.)
Then my daughter decided we were NOT going out without her.
Guess what? We actually made it out. It was 9:45 pm when we left. We reached civilization at 10:pm. Nobody serves food after 10:pm. -- not even nachos. So…we bought a bag of white corn chips and went home to make our own snack. We watched a movie comfortably in our living room, while the kids watched theirs on a computer (and another, on a laptop.)
I had a wonderful night!
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Yuck! A warm, muggy day. Luckily, I had to spend a large portion of the day in my (air conditioned) van, in an (air conditioned) doctor's office, and in (air conditioned) box stores. We are expecting a cold front with accompanying possible hail and severe thunderstorms (I love thunderstorms. So did Dawn.  )
After cleaning at barn, feeding horses, and lessons: drive an 1/2 hour, pick up chicken grain, scope out new library, drive another 1/2 hour, find new orthodontist office, do appointment, drop off photos and pick up snacks, scarf down snacks, go look at doors, pick up photos and a few more things, think you're going home...
...run into husband in parking lot, go choose a new back kitchen door together, look at kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities: buy a pick-ax and two new toilet seats.
Drive home: 1 hour. 3 messages waiting about conference in court today. Call back immediately. Husband feeds horses and children. Speak of new evidence. Speak of new details. Sit in dark, quiet room. Check e-mails for any further reports. IM bereaved nephew. Conference with husband about prosecution info from today.
Get Maths ready for tomorrow. Give a math lesson. Send an e-mail to family.
Tomorrow I don't rush off anywhere, praise the Lord! I've always said the best thing about having to leave home is coming back again.
I think an angel visited my Mom today. She was at the cemetery after the court meeting. A man came by and was speaking to her. She didn't really hear him and when she said, "Excuse me?" He said, "God Bless You."
Indeed, God Bless us all.
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A warm, pretty day. Temperature 76'F, sunny; dropping to 68'F and raining. Colors are about 2/3 exposed. On old timer tells me we will reach peak in a week. That's good: my Mother and nephew will be here in 9 days!
After cleaning at barn, feeding horses, and lessons: read Mother's report of meeting with niece at NJ Crime Victims' Law Center, visited horses, answered e-mails, researched post traumatic stress syndrome (again), checked court info for status conference tomorrow in NJ, worked on photo albums, got 2 little ones into baths.
Still to come: make & disperse dinner, fold & disperse laundry, feed horses, pick up son at youth meeting, speak on phone, get kids in bed (husband away today).
The sunlight has changed. The angle is different. Obviously, I suppose, or it wouldn't be fall. The sunlight appears to be coming through a frosted lens now: lighter and softer. With the colors, it is a real lift.
God Bless everyone.
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