A Nice Spring Week in TRF...

It's been so nice outside this week I haven't taken much time to update my blog lately. It was 85 degrees plus earlier this week, which was the first day the boys came inside for any length of time to cool off. I met another new neighbor this week, my parent's old insurance agent and his wife, who happen to live on the corner of the next street up and had commented that they would see me every day in the winter with the dog dropping off Aaron at the bus stop and picking him and Daniel up in the afternoon. Aaron took a walk downtown with me that day to pick up my tax return from my accountant. It was all of about 15 minutes for the complete round trip to town and back and with the flat Minnesota land, it was a bit easier to walk it than in Seattle.

We had choir practice last night where I fixed about half the problems with the youth's foosball table in the basement beforehand. I was just missing a few bolts to replace broken men on the table. Practice went pretty well, but we did have to practice a "level 4" song. I don't know if you know what a level 4 song means, Dad, but it was quite the challenge for us all. The director said it took her choir at the community college something like 2 straight weeks of 3-day a week practices to learn. We only have one more rehearsal before the combined choirs meet. It also has a rather incredibly high note for the tenors at the end, too. I suggested it was more in the range of a castrato than a tenor...

As a sidebar, Terry Soine and Steve from the auto dealership were talking about obligations for the upcoming Lincoln High prom and someone mentioned something about "anyone" getting into the prom and Terry's role as vice principal in limiting access to the prom when he was still working for the school. Terry joked, "After a while, I just said, the heck with it... Just let 'em in and charge 'em admission!"

Come tomorrow, we have to take Duchess to her vet appointment to get her heartworm preventative and other shots. Dawn Williamson told me the heartworm preventative is something like $85 versus over $1,500 to actually treat the heartworm should she contract it. I'm still considering bringing funny bunny in too to have her nails professionally clipped so we don't end up with gouges in our forearms from doing it ourselves... Hopefully we'll get a chance to run down to the 80 acres and get a look at the gopher mound situation so we can hopefully get started soon on the gopher trapping season. Unfortunately there's not much else going on that's fit to print, but in this case, no news is definitely good news... See ya all later!