Wednesday Warblings

We did get the 30-degree temperature drop and w/it water from Heaven. What I want is some comfort liquid--a hot chocolate since I'm sitting at the desk still dressed for summer.

I ended up making four batches of zucchini bread Monday and threw out tons more grated zuchhini--enough already. R picked tomatoes yesterday and is taking them to a friend at work. I don't want any. It may freeze tonight.

V shot an 85 yesterday at Wasatch, not a good score, but still the best on his team. It was very windy and everyone's scores were up. State tournament starts Monday. He's one of six from his team who qualifies. His goal is to make the cut to the second day. I'd love for him to do that. No, I mean I would really love for him to make that cut. He has decided not to go w/the Priests on their campout this UEA weekend. He says that he has to stay home and practice, that the six players are going to the state tournament course Friday and he definitely has to go since he's team captain. I really wanted him to go to hike Jacob Hamblin's Arch w/his dad and the rest of the gang. Plus, I'm taking J to Bryce Canyon which will leave T and V home alone from Thursday morning until Saturday afternoon. I'm not terribly comfortable w/that, but have no choice.

Have way tons to do today. Am leaving here in a few minutes for presidency mtg. Need to go over early and check computer about records for a new sister. Have been typing and will type as much as I can today, since I'll be playing tomorrow w/very little typing.

Just noticed that I have a RC Willey voucher card w/$35 on it that will expire Friday. Since R and I will both be gone tomorrow morning, I suppose we had better mosey out tonight and see if we can buy something. An expired card would be like throwing away perfectly good money. Certainly don't want to do that.

Started The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's latest book that just came out. I'm a big fan of Dan Brown--think da Vinci Code. I wanted to like the book more at the beginning, but I've hit the half-way point and I'm having a hard time putting it down. It kept me up last night for a bit, and I really needed to sleep. I am having to put the book out of sight so as not be distracted by it today as there's just too much to do to sit and read. I finished The Undaunted last week. That's Gerald Lund's latest book. I was really looking forward to it. It's about the San Juan Mission (think Four Corners area and Hole in the Rock fame). I'm familiar w/this event, as my great-grandmother, Margaret Ann MacElprang (yes, my namesake) was 6 years old at the time, plus I had read about this expedition in years past and we had traveled as a family to the Hole in the Rock a couple years ago. I'm not a fan of Gerald Lund because he moves tooooo slowly. I read the first book of the Work and the Glory years ago, and stopped at book one. I was 300 pages into this book and the conference to announce the mission and call the missionaries still had not occurred. Am glad to have finished the book, have a deep appreciation for those pioneers, and am especially grateful that it was one book, albeit tons of pages, and not a series.