Week of April 19 - 25, 2020

Highlights:

Spiritual

Sunday went as usual. We awoke. I got ready with hair curled and dress on. We watched Music and the Spoken Word, a BYU devotional talk, and a General Conference Talk on BYU tv. We partook of the Sacrament. Sunday also included visits from Grandma as well as Nathan and family.

No temple trips again this week. This makes six weeks since we have had a temple open to attend.

I continue to listen to a General Conference Talk first thing every morning. I study my Come Follow Me lesson and read the Book of Mormon after my jog.

I have indexed 7445 records and reviewed 38678 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins family had a good and busy week. Mike is working hard and staying healthy. Allison continues computer work for her writing job and for the church. They spend their off time doing school work, playing the piano, playing games, doing puzzles, and enjoying media time. Sam loves Pokemon now and is quite hooked on it. Adam is letting his hair grow out a bit, which is a common situation now since no one can get their hair cut professionally. Grace is sad Trek is canceled for this Summer (though Adam is not sad) and is looking forward to participating next year when Josh can also be a part of it. The family is enjoying good meals, and works in the yard cleaning up weeds, etc. Allison spent time last week helping a friend clean up and ready her house for sale. We were excited to learn Sam lost tooth number two this week!

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan, Cameo, Kaylee, and Wade and a much better week. Last weekend, Ethan helped Cameo change her hair color.

They celebrated their 14th Wedding Anniversary on Tuesday. 

The Doran Rice Family

On Saturday last week, Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper spent lots of time retrieving previously purchased pavers, getting them in the car, to their yard, and properly placed. They did a great job.

On Sunday, they participated in a Social Distance Protest requesting that the quarantine be lifted in Arizona.

They had a good week. Kooper saw his doctor and moved from a cast to a splint. The bones are healing very nicely.

They left Friday with their camping trailer for a family getaway.

Morgan

Morgan is well and continues to work.

Kayty

Kayty had a good week, though she is now at the point that she says she is living at work and never gets to go home. She gets up at 7:30, starts her computer up and is working in a few minutes, works all day till 4:30, leaving the house for 15 minutes to get one of those nasty soy burgers at Burger King, and then eats dinner and back in her room to watch tv for the evening till she falls asleep around 1 am. I see what she means. She did get a new mattress delivered to replace the one we purchased new for Allison when she was a kid.

One major low this week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan, Jessica and family are doing well. They have bikes for the girls and love to take babies and bunnies on their bikes for a ride. They came by Tuesday night and we watched Anna and Ellie while they got a quick bite to eat.

Jessica got her hair cut this week and it looks so nice...and very cool.

Dad's Garden

We picked our first tomato this week! Two more have also been picked. It looks like we have a lot of Black Krim tomatoes, which are very good and low acid. We also have lots of volunteer cherry tomatoes.

Carrots are about done for the year and many are going to seed, as is the cilantro. Dad has a lot of oregano still doing well that we have already dried, and his new basil is growing. Citrus trees still seem to have lots of baby fruit on them. The heat came on with a vengeance this week so we will have to see how things go with the tomatoes. Not sure if I will have enough to can. 

Other highlights
Dad was back to work on Monday and worked with half his co-workers again since the other half are furloughed. Some suppliers have themselves let many employees go. Planes are not flying. My flight to Georgia next week was canceled on Thursday morning and I was put on another flight...not a nonstop.

Happy Birthday to Dad on Tuesday! I made him a pineapple pie (and he didn't die, even though I used Pillsbury refrigerated crust that I had purchased for Thanksgiving), made his favorite bread almost like Sherry does (she does a better job, but I managed) and green chili burros. He was contacted by Allison and the kids, Ethan and family, Doran and family, Nathan and family, and Kayty was here so she gave him a nice card. 

We celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary on Friday with Dad picking up his favorite Chinese food for both of us for lunch. I am so thankful for these forty years and all the learning and growth I have been blessed to experience. I would not choose anyone else to share my eternity with.

The heat is here. It hit 100 degrees for the first time on Saturday, and the night never cooled down so I had the air conditioning on for the first time on Friday and left it on 24 hours. Never before have I needed to do that.

Not much else happens. I organized the light bulbs and cleaned out three more cupboards. Yes. My life in quarantine has deteriorated to organizing light bulbs. I cleaned out the washing machine and scrubbed out the filter. We fixed the bathroom sink that was having a hard time draining and installed the new part to complete our earlier faucet installation. This quarantine continues here and driving is very sad, with lines to get into grocery stores and empty parking lots everywhere. We continue to pray for an end and for health.