Meg, Ben and Siri at the celebration
Dr. Everett, the senior, introduces Dr. Everett, the younger.
Carrie Harrington leads an awesome wildflower walk.
Such a season for roses!
I got a tad behind again in my reporting, but plan to catch everyone up this morning as Mark finishes laying our new floor in the basement. There was great friction with Lumber Liquidators about when the wood for our floor would be available. They stalled, and lied and shifted blame all they could until a younger clerk solved the dilemma with a phone call. Our lumber was in Denver the whole month! I drove up Friday in an enormous traffic jam and delivered it myself! The stairs and floor are beautiful.
We got one very nice rain shower, too, which has prompted all the green children to sing out and look extremely beautiful.
Cathy persuaded me to go along on a Wildflower walk in Monument Valley Park, and it really was spectacular. It’s like a road trip to Wyoming when you’re sure there is nothing to see, and once your eyes become accustomed to the landscape, you see all kinds of new things!
Tuesday the ‘good old boys’ had coffee in the recently converted detail garage. It is now a very eclectic coffee emporium called STIR run by a very nice family. Cathy had two therapies and I did more work on the now gold and diamond encrusted sprinkler system.
Wednesday was a wild one involving a lot of logistical juggling to accomplish it all, and of course meant pulling friends and neighbors in on the various schemes.
We had a Denver delivery scheduled for 9:15 from Crate and Barrel for our new deck furniture, but I had a Mohs surgery scheduled for 10 a.m. for a squamous cell carcinoma, and Cath had another therapy at 10:30. We weren’t sure I would be able to drive depending how vigorous the surgeon cut, so Gerry was pressed into chauffeur service for me and two of the neighbors were on the lookout for Crate & Barrel in case they were late…and they were. The hand is healing fast and all’s well.
One of the big events was celebrating Ben Everett’s graduation from med school and his engagement to be married next year. Siri and Ralph invited lots of friends from the neighborhood who had influenced Ben’s success (we got to go because of our wonderful daughters who babysat the Everett kids for may years. Meredith continued her support of Ben all the way through med school at Columbia). Ben’s brother Nathaniel had just flown in from Beirut and Ben’s retired pediatrician administered the Hippocratic Oath, which I’d never heard in it’s long form. Yikes! I could only find pieces of the whole version on the Internet this doctor delivered making Ben repeat verbatim all words except the ones about abortion in front of family and friends. Very interesting.
Ben has really distinguished himself and will be dividing his residency in psychiatry between NYU and Bellevue Hospitals! In addition, he has converted to Judaism and is marrying a lovely young lady who will soon graduate from med school herself!