Almost caught up with the blog. What a comfortable feeling. Kinda like when we were heating with a wood stove and I’d just finished splitting the fourth cord of wood for the winter.
While accompanying Cathy on a walk-thru of her pavilion venue on Monday for General Palmer’s Birthday Party and Tour on Thursday, we met with Stacy Fritz who showed us how to use the combination lock to get to a key which opens a padlock to a door which is wedged behind a column which blocks a hinged panel which exposes a power outlet, but not the lights. Unbelievable.
Even more interesting was this 100 gram weight which was sitting on the picnic table next to us. Hmmmmm. Wonder what they were measuring in 100 g. batches????
Monday was also my eye appointment which resulted in my 48th Avastin injection in addition to the 3 shots of Lucentis. My right (bad) eye is still at 20/70 and my good left eye (spare tire) is doing the heavy lifting at 20/20. The doc reminded me to stay away from nicotine in any form, eat more kale, take my iCaps and to get some wraparound good sunglasses. I have done all of the above including my OGFF (Old Guy From Florida) sunglasses.
We had a huge pounding rain (1.5″) later that day. We soooo needed it and were sooooo glad the Monday Concerts were over! There was one lightning strike so close that the thunder lifted plates off of the kitchen counter. Later, we discovered that Christine Agnew’s tree had been hit.
The rain was with us again on Thursday afternoon (rats!!), cause almost no one came to the General’s birthday party. Cathy and the Friends of Monument Valley Park which had joined with the HPA went to great lengths to make this a suitable event for maybe 200 people, and not even 20 showed up due to the rain. She had a HUGE sheet cake made with a detailed map of the whole park iced on the top. Jeremy Rowan set up his fabulous sound system.
Cath even arranged to have a barbershop quartet perform.
Note: I had to dig out the emergency coats from the car. They were freezing! Bummer.
To finish off the week, we had the next door neighbors over for dinner. We got to use our new deck furniture for the second time, and the weather cooperated into the late hours as we ate one of Cath’s experimental risotto and pork sausage dishes accompanied by a real good bottle of Firestone!!
Yum.