Friday, July 17, 2020
10:55 pm
Last night Julie and I went on a date, and it was lovely. I picked up Bombay House on the way home and we went to Dad and Mom's to enjoy dinner with them. It was my birthday present from them. After a delicious dinner we sat in the living room for two hours and visited. Mark and the other big kids were in charge at the house and all the little kids except Camilla were sleeping when we got home. It was really nice. But it totally threw off my routine, and I didn't write in my journal or email Jessie.
This evening was nice. While we ate dinner (haystacks), the ice cream maker was busy churning Julie's amazing lemon raspberry ice cream. We cleaned up after dinner then enjoyed a tasty treat. Then I went with Mark, Spencer, Neil and Isaac up the canyon to look at the stars. We realized that it stays light so late in the summer that you have to stay up REALLY LATE to really see the stars. Late September might make more sense – it gets dark earlier but isn't freezing. Nevertheless, we had a very nice time. We identified Hercules, Bootes, Cygnus, both dippers (they're easy), and Draco. Spencer took a couple long-exposure photos, and then we drove back home. Very enjoyable evening.
A couple good things – I called Isaac and Emma in from the garden to help unload the dishwashers and they both came running the first time I called. It was great! Isaac was really good all day. He woke up early, got dressed, read scriptures, and practiced his piano all by himself. He got the red plate for dinner.
Major gross – Abbie's goat Anise has had an infection in her cheek. Yesterday the large bulge popped and started leaking infection. Abbie was teary yesterday morning and asked me to help her. I used a syringe to suck it out. Yuck yuck yuck. Mom and Mark followed up washing it out with iodine. Abbie has spent the last couple days being Anise's companion because she didn't want to expose her other goats to the infection. Fortunately she seems to be getting better.
Work the last couple days have been busy and productive. And now I'm really tired.
Thankful: I'm so thankful for the good things we did today. Ice cream, stargazing, gardening.
Ministering: I tried to minister to my boys this evening as we went up the canyon. We were also ministered to by Rachel Bates next door – she brought us some zucchini bread she had made, and it was yummy.
More later…
Eating ice cream while nursing a goat back to health.
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