Spring Cleaning

It looks like we're heading into a leisurely spring weekend here in TRF. Aaron just reminded me on putting him to bed that he doesn't have to get on the bus until a whole two hours later at 9:50. Daddy gets to sleep in!! :o) It's been a long week here burning the candle at both ends with the working at home, but it'll all be worth it when I can finally put my feet up for a little bit tomorrow. We went out to K-mart tonight so I could finally get a bookcase to replace one of the ones we gave away in Washington in order to move. I'm looking forward to getting at least a couple of more boxes emptied and books on shelves where they can be accessed.

I had the boys pick out new shoes at the store as they're no longer having to wear snowboots everywhere they go. Daniel picked out a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pair, but Aaron's feet are so big, he can no longer get those cute little boy shoes anymore, but rather has to wear the men's shoes. Aaron has jumped from a 6 to a 7-1/2 in men's and Daniel has gone from an 11 -1/2 to a 13 in boys. The next mission will be to get them both into bigger pants. Daniel is beginning to wear more of Aaron's hand-me-downs, which means he must be really growing.

When I took Duchess out to pick up the boys at the bus stop this afternoon, I saw an older guy out on a lawn tractor across the street in Fern Williams' lawn going up and down the greenbelt by the sidewalk. He stopped the tractor and climbed off when he saw me and it was Dale Folger. He's back from his trip down south for the winter. He told me all about seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls on display down in Alabama. He also regaled me with his story of being in Seattle when he was in the Navy way back when and having to call his uncle, an admiral, to get him out of there and down to San Diego. Dale said he was mowing three lawns now as Ken Murphy on the corner has his left arm in a sling these days. I finally figured out which house is which on this street. Directly across the street is the young couple Laci and Jason who are selling their house and renting the house next door to us, just to the left of theirs (my left) is Fern Williams, and the one next to hers at the end of the block is Ken Murphy's. On my right of Laci and Jason's is Dale's house. I've now identified all but one of the homeowners on the block. Fern came out of hibernation too, so I'll be seeing more of her now.

Choir went well this week, but Mike was gone, so it was a good thing I decided to sing tenor. It was just my accountant, Randy, and I in the tenor section. Ormand unfortunately was unable to attend and I didn't learn until after practice that he was in a motor vehicle accident earlier in the week, which apparently made the paper on Tuesday. I guess he pulled out in front of someone here in town. There were no details on his condition, but in the meantime, I found out he had had a heart attack more more than two weeks ago and I had never known it. Some other members thought he looked a little under the weather this past Sunday, but I didn't make much of it. We all hope he's doing much better. Speaking of choir, our choir director, Linda, said her husband is pressuring in a nice way to scale back on some of her responsibilities at the college and church. She had spoken to Pastor Hermodson and he was suggesting she take over the reigns of the new job they were batting about, that of youth program director, and the new job would be responsible for ALL music at the church. She was like, "Ah... NO!" He said, well the pay would be bumped up, of course," to which she again said, "NO!" She can't think of how she's going to cut corners as it is without sacrificing us or something else. At that point, Jerry, Marilyn, Shirley, and Carol were talking about drafting you, Dad, to return to the fold.... :o) Then Shirley told us how you liked to visit the snow in the mountains when you wanted to, not have to live in it full time and shovel. Ah well, it was a nice thought for a moment. Maybe you could guest direct when you come in September??? We're now singing "Wind of the Spirit" next. Apparently we're supposed to be gearing up for a cooperative kind of service between Trinity, Zion, and Redeemer and our choir is only going to get one practice with the music by ourselves before we join the other two choirs because the publisher didn't have more than one copy when Linda ordered them. We should do fine, though, I think...

When we were at K-mart tonight, Terry and Rita Soine walked up to us and I talked them into coming out to the house soon to take a look around the grounds and suggest shrubs/flowers to beautify the front and sides of the house. I wanted to get something planted in the barrel planters out front so they're put to good use. I may be the first house on the block to do it too. I'm thinking maybe annuals this year and perennials starting next year. I'll let you know what we decide.

Last, but not least, Daniel came up to me last night and begged to go with his buddy, Tyler, at the end of the street to his AWANIS (Sp?) program at the Evangelical Free Church in town. I guess it's for adults and kids alike, so the pastor and his wife drove Daniel with them last night and dropped him off at Trinity afterwards. Daniel was full of enthusiasm about it when he got back and wants to go again next week... That's all for now... :o)