Did not seem like a busy week, but it passed me by quickly. Monday I had an appointment at the Toyota dealership in Harrison (50 miles west of us) to get two keys and fobs made. I found the fobs on line much cheaper than the dealership price. I found it interesting that a Toyota dealer would have a 1930 Model A Ford parked in their showroom, but they do. That night at 1030 pm Sandy woke me up from a sound sleep and said her bag was leaking. We didn't want to call the home health nurse knowing it would be over an hour before she would arrive, so I replaced her bag, solo, for the first time. Not the best time for me to do this for the first time; while the body may act like it is awake, the mind wasn't. But, the bag was replaced and all seemed good.
Tuesday we planned to go to the temple mid morning. Unfortunately, I did not do a great job installing her ostomy bag and it started leaking early in the morning. Sandy was able to connect with the on duty nurse and explained we wanted to go to St Louis and could she please come early. And she did. And we were able to get on the road about 11 am. It was a beautiful drive with so many fall colors creating a beautiful kaleidoscope of brilliant colors. Just short of the temple, Sandy indicated that her bag was springing a leak and we needed to detour to the hotel first and do a repair job. So we did. Some paste and tape and she was good to go. We were able to enjoy an evening session at the temple and then dined at the St Louis Bread Company.
We did another morning session and then headed home arriving in time for dinner. We had a great time in the temple and an enjoyable drive home. The new to us van performed well and the change of vehicles is growing on us.
Thursday Sandy attended a luncheon at Gaston's on the White River; one of our former ward members had invited a lot of the sisters she knew to join her for lunch and 18 came to enjoy a good meal and a have a fun time visiting. I was able to work more on the Midway house installing drywall (still) for part of the day.
Friday I returned to the drywall site and am almost finished...finally. Then I can start mudding.
Sandy got a ride to West Plains for the annual Relief Society retreat. She left at 830 am and got home about 230 pm. She had a good time. Meanwhile, one of the ward families stopped by on Monday to inform us they would be at our house on Saturday to rake the leaves. And they came and cleaned up most of the leaves. Some were mulched and others put on the burn pile. Took them less than two hours. And before the next crop of leaves falls, the yard looks rather nice.
We have certainly be blessed by friends and family. We had a very tasty meal of taco soup delivered on Friday, the yard was raked on Saturday, an elderly sister insists on doing our ironing (I call her 'Iron Woman') and Kristy, with Miriam and David arrived late Saturday evening to spend a few days hanging out with us.
Kristy made a delicious enchilada dinner tonight and we shared it with a young couple from our ward. And both David and Miriam showed their youthful cunning by beating me in games of blockus.
Here are 3 generations of beautiful Fox women!
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