Summer Storms and Cooler Weather

This summer has been a long and hot one but the last couple of days I can feel Fall in the air, a little bit. I am sad to say that this summer I didn't go anywhere. Nada, nope, I gutted it out through all the summer months. Last year I spent three weeks in Montana and one week in California, but not this year. I spent lots of time in the pool trying to keep cool and exercising my hip and knee which still aren't that good. Getting old is hard but my Mom thinks I'm young and keeps saying, "just wait until you are eighty-six, then you are really old." Somehow I don't think I will live that long, especially with my negative attitude that I'm reminded about all the time. It's been eight years since Kamber left and almost two since Dad went home. I think about them all the time and am glad that I know we will be together again on the other side. It's been bitter sweet to send our oldest granddaughter to college. She has an opportunity to get an education and have the experience of traveling with a team playing volleyball around the country. I'm sure hoping she will take advantage of all the experiences she can because this time will go by really fast. I've been busy working on some quilts and need to start finishing up some I started months ago. They also asked me and a friend to be in charge of  a quilting project for our upcoming Super Saturday activity. We are tying twenty quilts to give to the children's hospital. Hopefully we will have some support on this one because it's a lot more work than most people realize. The last couple weeks we have had some beautiful cloud formations as the summer monsoon storms hit. This morning I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to lightning, thunder and pouring rain. It's made me really tired this afternoon but we can always use the rain and I know that soon our days will be cool enough to get outside and ride my bike. Yea!

Summer Is Almost Over?

This summer has gone by way to fast. All the grandkids are back in school and Tristyn has been in Provo for almost four days now. It seems like just a few short years ago that I was up there going to school too. I was twenty when I was there and she seems like a baby having just turned eighteen last week. I spent lots of hours making a memory quilt for her. I used a lot of her t-shirts and game jerseys to make it, and I'm pleased with how it went together. I didn't do very well being away from home when I was there. I'm trying to be positive with her because I don't want to project my feelings on to her, but it was really hard for me to be so far away from my family. I did have a favorite cousin and his wife who picked me up every Friday night and let me stay at their house, do laundry and go to church and have Sunday dinner before taking me back to school. No wonder my social life was so terrible there. I will always be thankful for his kindness towards me. Lately I've been in a funky mood. I'm worried about my Mom who is alone in her home. I feel like my Dad is disappointed in us kids for not taking better care of her. I have offered to put her in my home now that we have a spare room, but she doesn't want to leave her house. I'm wondering at what point she doesn't have a say in where she lives? Last Sunday night Mindi and I took her back to Scottsdale and got her settled in. On the way home we stopped and went Pokémon hunting so we were gone a little too long.  She was hunting me down wondering if something had happened to us. When I told her what we were doing she said, "What are Pokemons, and how do you catch them? What do they look like?" I tried to tell her a little bit but she didn't understand, heck I need help from the grandkids when I'm trying to play myself. Anyway, I've made it to August and in a couple more months it should start cooling off, but I love the monsoon clouds building up in the afternoon and even though it makes it humid as heck, I still love to hear the thunder and rain but I'll be glad when the hot weather is finally over.