Almost Time For Dinner

But I wanted to take a minute and get a couple things down.  I'm again surprised at how long I've been doing this little journal/blog of mine.  Can't even really remember why I began it, but somehow it's become an important way to remember things.

All Broken.

Several years ago I was given a little bamboo wind chime.  It surprised me how much I've enjoyed it.  I never know, with the person who gifted it to me, what to think.  Sometimes the gifts are things being re-gifted, sometimes they don't seem very well thought out.  Rarely are they labeled with my name so I'm sometimes unsure I'm the intended recipient.  Anyway, when I opened this one I wasn't sure what to think.  But we hung it.  And over the years I've loved it.  Eventually the cords deteriorated so much it required re-stringing.  The Husband patiently did that for me.  And it's hung outside keeping me aware of the wind with the fun tones of the bamboo.  

Finally the re-stringing came unstrung as the cords no longer had any integrity.  Between the wind and the rain/snow and beating summer sun, some of the pieces had fallen right off and were hidden in the yard.  I asked The Husband to, pretty please, re-string it?  Not really possible. We don't have the right cord. And don't really want to spend money buying another million yards of cord/string that we'll never use and will at some future date just toss in the garbage.

Amazon to the rescue.  (I maintain my love-hate relationship with that company.)  The day after ordering it appeared on our doorstep.  The Husband hung it up before I had a chance to take a picture.  And of course, today there's not even a breeze.  But I'm so glad to have a bamboo chime back up.  I know it won't last a super long time, but for $18 that's ok. 

This morning was our semi-annual dental visit.  I despise going to the dentist.  But I've finally got a dental technician that I can stand (I request her to always work on me)  and an actual dentist assigned to me rather than the "take whichever dentist is working today" round robin this particular office likes to do their business.  I much prefer consistency. (We had our same dentist for years but when he retired and his son took over it became more business oriented and less of a family-friendly place.  We just stayed and sometimes wonder why but it always feels like too much of a hassle to find someone new.)

Anyway, my teeth were x-rayed, cleaned, polished and pronounced just fine.  Same with The Husband.  What a relief to have that behind us.

Yesterday afternoon we drove over to Taylorsville for a session at the new temple there.  It was peaceful and lovely.  It is a very elegant and beautiful temple and we enjoyed being there.  

Prior to our afternoon we received a call from a ward member.  Could he stop by and bring us an apple fritter?  He was on his way home from the bakery (our favorite doughnut place which we rarely go to because a.  it's expensive and b. we try to not have that kind of stuff very often) and said he'd lost control and bought this ginormous fritter that he knew he was never going to eat.  Would we like it?  The Husband has been doing very well in his goal of dramatically reducing his sugar intake, but couldn't say no to such a kind and thoughtful gesture from Robert.  The fritter nearly escaped the edges of the large paper plate it came on, never seen such a large apple fritter in my life.  What little we've eaten has been tasty, but I'm wondering if we'll bother to eat any more of it. It's really the thought behind the gift that makes it taste good.

I'm grateful today for something to look forward to tomorrow.  For kind people who drop off a fritter under the pretext that they didn't really want it when I suspect they really bought it just to give to us.  I'm grateful for beautiful music that enriches my life.