- THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER -

MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 Yesterday, after I was feeling a little better, I decided to go for a ride. I headed west past the turnoff to Corey’s house. I hadn’t gotten far when Corey called and asked where I was. I told him. He said, “Oh, I need a few things from your house to make a Cassoulet recipe I found on the Food Network website.” He told me what he needed; an onion, two carrots, some thyme and some bacon. Instead of driving all the way back to my house, I went to Smith’s and got them and a few more things I knew they could use. As I was driving up near his house, I called and asked if I could get some help carrying stuff into the house. As I pulled into their driveway, Corey and Jayden and Bailey came piling out of the house. Corey and Bailey grabbed stuff and took it into the house. Bailey came back out for the last gallon of milk. Jayden had a sheet of paper in his hand. It turned out to be the music and words to Scripture Power, one of the Primary songs. Judy told me later that it is one of the kids’ favorites. It is a long one and took up both sides of the paper. There are two verses so you have to turn it over twice; twice on each side. Jayden proceeded to sing to me, reading the words as he sang. He sang it over and over and over again and every so often he would look up and make sure I was looking at him. He is a good singer. We went through the same thing before Christmas when he was learning a Christmas carol when he was in the school choir, though that time it was in his head. He wasn’t reading it. Today after I picked him and Bailey up from school he sang it for me again. After school today, the three of up went to the park and shoot hoops for a while before we went back to their house and Jayden went to Zak and Cameron’s to play. Earlier, at Niki’s request, I took our hose and attachment to her house. I stopped at two Wal-Marts and between the two of them I got four pink geraniums and some yellow cascade petunias. When I got to her house she squirted down her back deck for Alexa’s birthday party tomorrow; this one is for her friends, eleven of them; twelve including herself. Alexa and I planted the plants in the two planters on their front porch. After that we swept up the mess we had made and the rest of the porch and step then we squirted it down to finish the job off right. Niki came out to help and before long she and Alexa were squirting each other and giggling like crazy. What a couple of goofs. Of course I was my usual stoic self. As I was getting ready to leave for home, Alexa went in to take a shower. If I heard correctly she was going to shower with her cloths on. Niki went to see as I was leaving. I picked Judy up at the airport at a little after seven this evening. She has been in Minneapolis visiting her mother and attending a memorial for her old harp teacher, Frances Aspnes. We went from the airport to Z’ Tejas at the Gateway for dinner.