TASTY

Some of my son Micah's TASTY homecooked beans made a great lunch today with some avocado and tortillas. When my kids were young, I cooked a big pot of beans nearly every week. I found this picture of Micah as a baby with beans all over his face. Now he can flavor and cook them to perfection!

 

SOUND

A few years ago I was afraid to use a cell phone, still hanging on to "old school" land lines. But a friend talked me into sharing a contract with her. She helped me pick out a flip phone, and it wasn't long till I was using my cell phone almost exclusively. But texting? No, I couldn't see the point in little conversations that it would take forever for me to type. You might as well just call, and say what you have to say. Even tho everyone else seemed to be so into their apps and texts and 'smart' phones, I was happy with my "old school'', stupid, flip phone! Recently my contract friend wanted to change phone companies, so I looked into a deal which included unlimited texting as well as the mintues. I got a new phone - a slider with a keyboard, and I was introduced to texting! Now I love the little beepbeepbeep SOUND that tells me I have a new message! And even if I can't get to the message for a while (I'm driving or working or otherwise busy) it's so much easier to retrieve a text than going thru the voice mail prompts. I wonder what my next move into technology will be!

IN THE DISTANCE

IN THE DISTANCE I can see the end of the first of three halls I got to vacuum in our Tuesday morning cleaning at the church. The door at the end leads to the Relief Society Room which I also vacuumed in preparation for our meeting that night.

IMPORTANT

My good friend Jenny gets to move out of her two bedroom, one bath apartment (same size as mine with just me) into a real house. She and her husband have lived there since they married ten years ago. They have accumulated 4 and a half children and are ready to burst. As much as I hate to lose her as a neighbor and in our ward, I felt it was IMPORTANT to help her a few times over the past two weeks to pack and clean and move.

FACELESS SELF PORTRAIT

A small collection of  choker necklaces has become a signature statement for me.

I wear one or another every day, for work or play.

LUCKY

This lucky Buddha was helping Dragon Diner customers have good luck by collecting their coins. Although I didn't leave a coin, I was lucky anyway when my soon to be son-in-law Brad shined up my car windows and gave me a gift card to get my headlights buffed shiny again!

CHAIR

This is the chair I sit on for hours once a month at the clerk's office at the church to do Visiting Teaching reports. Organizing Visiting Teaching is probably the biggest challenge of being a Relief Society President. Especially in a ward that is constantly changing. It's a good opportunity though to get familiar with the women's names because you go over the list so many times. (Nice pattern on the fabric too.)