Volunteers at the Walton Art Center

We are now serving as volunteers at the Walton Art Center where we take tickets, greet, usher etc. and are finding it interesting and even fun for we get to watch the shows for free when we are not working and are meeting nice people from all over this area. This week it was Riverdance - their final tour, and it was fabulous. There will be wonderful concerts, Broadway shows, dance and theater productions and we can choose the ones we want to do. We look forward to Peter and the Wolf, Nutcracker, The Rat Pack, Little House on the Prairie (the musical) South Pacific and Grease among others. We won't be able to do all of them but it is nice to have the option. There are many things available to us that we don't take advantage of and we are glad that we decided to do this. We wear tuxedo shirts with bow ties and black. Dick is wearing his 'Peter vest' from doing the show in Nauvoo and is handsome as ever.

My Thoughts on OCD

As I was cleaning and straightening and making sure the lines were right on the bedspread, and the towels were hanging exactly straight and the rugs were absolutely square and everything was in it's proper place and Dick was saying 'Does it matter?' the thought came that maybe I was OCD like the test on facebook indicated that I have strong tendencies towards, but I quickly dismissed this for what is wrong with being neat and orderly if you just do it and forget it. Then the thought came that according to these silly little quick question and answer and then diagnose quizzes many people would be labeled OCD - perhaps even God. His is a house of order and nothing can enter therein that is not clean every whit. How does that sound? Perhaps the difference is that we need to strive for order but not at the expense of all else so we get the job done and then go on to other things. There is peace and even freedom when there is order. Right???

It works!

I have started a new way of reading scriptures. Dick and I read together faithfully every night before going to bed and are studying the D & C by using the book by David J. Ridges to help make reading the scriptures easier. This is very good and we learn much but I felt that I needed to be reading the Book of Mormon again on my own and so now read it first thing in the day. That is the rule - read scriptures before anything else for if I have time to read emails, or newspaper I have time to read the scriptures. Sometimes it is later in the day but still it comes before any other reading. I like this and it works for me. There is something so satisfying to read and have the scriptures in my life everyday. I so need to be uplifted and sustained each day.

The 'finished project'. An afghan that took years to complete.

The little hat that was inspired by Heidi wanting a beanie for Syreia. Took hours. Fun!

My sweet girls.

I am really not very good at this and wish that I knew how to rearrange things, change the font color, add or subtract parts, be creative and clever. This might be fun if I knew how to do it....

The girls in my Beehive class - Veronica Harvey, Ashley McGarrah, Mary Ann (Sunshine) Palmer and Hannah Davis. Is this a good thing for an old lady to be with these sweet young things? Oh yes. At least for awhile. I really do enjoy teaching the lessons and they are eager to do most anything so it is a chance to feel like a girl again. I told them that I really am just a little girl in a wrinkled body and they seem to go along with this.

It is done!!! Finished!!!! After years of working on this afgahn and then putting it away till later I finally got it out with the intent to have it staring at me until I got it done. The finishing is never as fun as starting a new project and so I have made a committment to work on all my unfinished projects and then get them done or get rid of then. It feels so-o-o-o good to see this one actually completed. Now what do I do with it?