Day 7 – Sunday
It’s been a quiet
time and/or a busy time since I arrived in Moses Lake. I thought I
brought just a light load of work with me, but I’ve hardly made a
dent in it.
Arriving in Moses
Lake in the early evening on Sunday I picked up a car from my
daughter, Sara, saying hi to my son-in-law and grandson. My daughter
was watching over her nieces and nephews at my first daughter’s
home and when I got there I found the rest of the family. My sister,
Mari, and brother-in-law had picked me up from the airport and had
graciously taken my luggage to my parents home where I am going to
stay for the 16 days my sisters are out of town (18 days total travel
time).
Monday and Tuesday
the sun was shining and I enjoyed eating my breakfast outside. It’s
cold here in Moses Lake. Today it was 29°F.
Talking to David one day, it was 32°F
here while it was 72°F
at home. Today started out sunny then clouded over.
Back
to Monday. After
having devotions then eating my breakfast, because
I needed to fix the brake light on my daughter’s Prius and Dad had
a doctor’s appointment we agreed to go our separate ways and meet
at Safeway for groceries. I went to AutoZone and the gal there said
they couldn’t even order the brake light. I had to go to Toyota.
So I went there and showed the young man behind the counter the part
I needed (took him out to the car) and he sold me a two-dollar bulb
that possibly doesn’t even belong to a Prius (maybe an interior
light). He did tell me that he didn’t usually work the counter but
worked in the back, stocking shelves. Turns out the part he was
supposed to sell me costs $250.00 and they have to install it, an LED
array.
About
11:00 we went to the store to get the groceries. This took us longer
than we planned so I went straight to Mari and Tim’s home where we
were all gathering for lunch before both sisters left town. Dad took
the groceries home and put them away before coming over. Dad and
Mari-Tim live only one mile apart.
After
lunch I got some work done, I
am in need of reading all the handouts from the seminar I attended
just before leaving (I still haven’t made it half-way through).
Not many hours later, I
then sat down to eat dinner and watch TV with Dad for the evening.
On Tuesday after devotions and
breakfast I had payroll to do for one of my clients. I had just
finished the payroll when Eve invited me out for coffee. Later,
Dad had told me that the whirlpool bathtub didn’t work, but I
decided to find out for myself. After I spent about an hour fussing
around it found I needed to borrow two screwdrivers, which he finally
gave me today. I need to see if there is a leak or if the hot water
is turned off or if there may be another problem, because, so far,
the only problem I have found is no hot water. After that I tried to
study (work) but the words were just putting me to sleep so I decided
to start my painting instead. Have I mentioned that I’m going to
try my hand at two small paintings this year? I don’t know how far
it will go, just something to help with the imagination.
Wednesday.
Dad likes lunch about 1:00pm and asked me to join him for a TV movie.
He likes “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” (Hallmark channel) and
introduced me to it. I like it too. Shortly after lunch Sara came
by for an hour (or more). Then back to work.
Thursday
was more working in the morning. We (being Dad & I) had lunch
with Eve, Orrin, and Gus at the Rock
Top Burgers &
Brew followed by
attending assembly at the Stein children’s school to watch
granddaughter Amelia receive an award. Sara brought granddaughter
Madi by after school for
a visit.
Friday.
Eve, Orrin, Gus and I went on an adventure. Eve
wanted to teach Orrin (homeschooler) how to use a camera. He was
interested until it was time to take the photos. We ended up at the
park in Soap Lake. We started to head out to Sun Lakes but shortly
turned around and came back home for Gus’ sake. Still, we had fun.
We were back in time to go out to eat with Dad and JoAnna (niece).
It turned out the Christina and David (sister & brother-in-law)
would join us also. They don't live in Moses Lake. This lunch had been planned with Christina and
then David had an emergency, he had cut off the top portion of three
fingers on his left hand.
But he was released from the hospital and bandaged up with
instructions to keep his fingers pointed up, so they both came.
Lunch was at Michael’s Bistro.
In
the afternoon I headed for Cascade Valley (Moses Lake) to visit my
friends Ron and Becca Sawyer. Their family was the first one to
greet our family when we first moved to Moses Lake 28 years ago.
Their first daughter, Lisa, was also there. She is soon to have her
second baby. During my visit, I had left my purse and cell phone in
the car and missed the calls from my daughter, Sara. She came by in
the evening while waiting to pick Madi up from school.
Saturday
was a slow day … then a family dinner (tacos) at Eve’s house:
Dad, my daughters, my sons-in-law, and seven grandkids. I am
lovingly and richly blessed.
Today,
Sunday, church, then lunch with Ron and Becca. I needed to pick up a
few things at Walmart so I went there before returning to Dad’s.
Got back to Dad’s right about 3:00pm and spent a quiet afternoon
and evening with him.
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Day
8 – it’s snowing! With a strong, bitter-cold wind blowing.
Finished
addressing & taping up a
large box of Mom’s
purses, shipping them off
to Barbara. She and two
other ladies will go through them and decide to which project each
will go. We
are having a purse auction to raise money for our Glendale Corps of
The Salvation Army’s building remodeling (major repairs to the
Admin-Classroom building) and also another service project involving
purses.
Took
the purses to UPS, then a
quick stop to see if Sara was free to say hi, and what was supposed
to be a quick stop at Mari-Tim’s house to drop stuff off, but took
longer because the cats were hungry and then the door wouldn’t
lock.
Work:
Admin stuff, then lunch
and this blog. It is now 3:10 and we will leave in about a half hour
to go to Eve to see the movie I want to watch with Dad, “I Can Only
Imagine”. He hasn’t seen it yet. Even if his church had shown
it he wouldn’t have been able to leave Mom to go watch.
I
thought about changing the title of this blog since I added one more
day and then decided to leave it alone.
