Tuesday, June 25, 2024: Kathy Crane calls, Walk, "Home to Bellingham", I leave for the temple @ 2pm, 3:30 session w/ Ruth Gale, Eva's, a little rain, "Follow Him"

 

Barranquilla, Colombia

161st operating temple

Dedicated: 9 Dec 2018

By: Dallin H. Oaks

Book of Mormon

Alma 14:1-13

Come Follow Me

Alma 13:1-19

April General Conference

"The Testimony of Jesus" Elder D. Todd Christofferson

D&C 109:37

And let thy house be filled, as with a rushing mighty wind, with thy glory.

I got a call from Kathy Crane this morning. She was going to town and wondered if I needed anything. I thanked her for her thoughtfulness but told her I was going to town this afternoon to the temple. I told her about my quest to find out what was causing my face to swell and told her I was giving up diet drinks. She gave her opinion, that she didn't think that diet drinks was the problem. That's fine, she is entitled to her opinion.

I spent the morning at home while James was working at the Hipps's.

I knew I was going to the temple this afternoon and wouldn't be getting any steps so I did some walking this morning while listening to "Home to Bellingham." I also worked on my blog. I fed Tom and rubbed him down and then he went upstairs to sleep on James's office chair.

James came home around noon. He heated up some meatloaf and potatoes for lunch then he came in for a nap. By this time Tom was asleep on our bed and James joined him.

These two are buds

At 1:15 I began getting ready for the temple. I left at 2:00.  The session starts at 3:30 so I had plenty of time. I listened to "Follow Him" on the way down and finished it on the way home. 

The sky is overcast and there were a few raindrops as I went in to the temple. I sat down in the second row of the endowment room and saved the place next to me for my friend Ruth Gale. Ruth lives close by in Snowflake and she leaves for the temple at 3. She was babysitting three of her great grandchildren until 3.

After our session we went to Eva's to talk and have dinner. Ruth had two cheese enchiladas with red sauce. I had a beef taco, cheese enchilada with red sauce and some rice and beans. I saved rice and beans for tomorrow's breakfast.

Ruth and I had a lot of catching up to do. She told me about a trip to Utah that she and her friend Jewels Turley made on Frontier Airlines for $60. The only luggage you could take was a small carry on. She said Jewels fell on her face while in Utah and then when they returned to Snowflake she fell on her back while she and Ruth were getting ready to go for a walk. I told her about my friends Millie Scott and Patsy Tedder falling. Is this what old people do? Talk about their friends falling?

We shared some family stories. I told her about Tom and how much we love him. She told me about her daughter Janice's cat Barbara. They got another cat and now Barbara refuses to come in the house as long as the other cat is there. 

We talked about the Snowflake High School 100 year reunion and how all graduates are invited to the 24th of July activities and the parade. She said James and I could park at her house if we decided to come. I told her James was the student body president and we should probably come. She agreed. I told her I knew she had made a quilt for the reunion. She said LaDon Warner bought the fabric and asked her to make the quilt, which she did. The fabric has Lobos on it.

We said our goodbyes and said we would meet again next month.

When I got home James had been upstairs doing some office work. He is concerned about getting paid for the Chacon job  and finishing the Bama Barbershop for Daryl Johnson. Daryl demanded new doors and James finally relented and is buying four new doors for him. I think we may lose money on this job.

James walked this evening and finally finished listening to "Flat Deception." 

I watched another Aurora Teagarden mystery.

2nd morning snooze