Dee goes out on her own

Saturday morning I slept in until almost 9am, which is extremely rare for me under any circumstances, though it was mostly because I had been up a couple of hours during the night. Recently I have not been sleeping well, so a few days ago we started closing the shutters at night in our bedroom, and the darkness seems to be helping me not to wake up so early most of the time.

For breakfast, my wife ate the leftover apple pie from the night before. I sat down in the kitchen and asked whether she had thought that I might want some. She looked down at the empty pie plate, then asked, "Do you want some?" We laughed hard. Dee writes: When did my husband start eating pie??

The Sorelle came by wanting to get a few sheets of paper to use for some things they wanted to put on their walls. We have several different thicknesses of printer paper, so we gave them a few of the thickest kind that is not card stock. We also gave them the leftover Crack Chicken from the night before, with a small package of rolls to eat it on, and they were delighted. When we asked if there was anything else they needed, they mentioned a printout of a general conference talk from a few years ago; the light bulb went on for them that we have a printer, so I took a few minutes to format the talk, print it out, and deliver it to them.

In the early afternoon, I walked down to Conad for a few things, mostly fresh produce. Later Dee decided she wanted to go out on her own for the first time since her injury. I'm a naturally sedentary type, but after two weeks of sitting, I was restless and oh-so-ready TO MOVE AROUND. It was a beautiful day and I truly enjoyed being outside and going somewhere mostly on my own! I had to help her in and out of the apartment building thanks to the seven stairs, but after that she was able to roll herself down to the Chinese store and buy something that fit in her backpack. The new memory foam pad on her scooter helps a lot! Nobody here has seen such a scooter before, so I got a lot of odd looks. They think I'm riding a scooter for fun until they see the boot. Even people who know me are usually puzzled as to what is going on and how it helps. With strangers, I call it "fracture finding" -- a good way to start a conversation with somebody on the street.

Out for a stroll

I prepared my Sunday School lesson on the book of Joshua, trying to find good ways to apply the lessons to our lives today. At 6pm our time, we watched Torrey Nielsen, who was here as a wonderful BYU study abroad student a few months ago, open her mission call at home. She is going to the California Sacramento mission (Ugo's mission), Spanish-speaking.

Dee received some Ace bandages, delivered from Amazon to the mission office on Friday. I'm supposed to wear a compression stocking, but I have to double it over at the top, which makes it too tight. It's killing me, so I decided to try an Ace bandage, which the doctor had said was okay.  One of the items said it would include two bandages, but only one arrived, so the vendor refunded her the purchase price and let her keep it, which was nice and very good customer service.

Our son Wes graduated from Cal State Fullerton in math on Saturday evening. Our two daughters and his girlfriend Alyssa were there to celebrate the occasion with him. He has been accepted to the doctorate program in math at UC Irvine for the fall, with funding. We are very proud of him, and it would have been wonderful to be there. What a great day! I'm so sorry I didn't get to be there in person. Wendy, Chiara and Alyssa were a great cheering section, and Wendy made special T shirts for the occasion.