Michele's birthday tea

Saturday

I got up at 7:30. I took supplements and greeted Cecily. Al was out walking. I went back to talk to Chris who was still in bed. Then he got up and I found myself back in bed. I got up again. I put some fresh potting soil in each pocket of the tower garden.

I read e-mail. I did the shoulder exercises, I ate two eggs- the ones I should have eaten yesterday. I worked on my blog. I took a shower and put on black pants and a nice top.

I filled a water bottle, four of us went in Chris' car and two in Michele's car to Salt Lake City. She wanted to go to a 'tea' for her birthday. First we had parking problems and had to go around several blocks. Then we waited for them to do the same. The hotel was beautiful. There was a harp playing and ladies in beautiful tea dresses walking around. But when we went to sign in, the lady said we didn't have a reservation for today. It was for June 8th. Michele was NOT happy. So we went to the restaurant in the hotel. And it was very good. We traded bites of food so we could taste everything.

Cecily complained on the way back that the terrain was so desolate that it was depressing and she wasn't coming back. I think I fell asleep for awhile. It took about 90 minutes. Jamie texted about meeting the chaplain's wife for a quote.

When we got back, I mended a dashiki I found at the swap shop. I read outside for 20 minutes. I jotted notes for my blog and read e-mail. I set up the sprinkler in the back yard, then went to house #2 to check the irrigation. The water was on but no water came out of the ends.

I went to 60C to put new burner bowls on the stove. But large one didn't fit. I went to the swap shop to clean the small bathroom. The floor had a lot of paint and mortar dripped on it that wouldn't come off. I cleaned the folding doors in the back of the room. There was a very greasy wall in back of it, which I cleaned somewhat.

I got home at 6:30. I wiped sweat off my face, then we went to Michele's house for dinner. I gave John cash for work he has done recently. Michele served ginger pork ribs, rice, lettuce leaves and kimchi. It was all very good. We conversed over the meal. Michele ate the two macaroons that the restaurant gave her for her birthday.

When we got back, Cecily went to bed. I turned off the sprinkler and watered the potatoes and a few gopher holes. Then I went to the garden to water those potatoes. However, again I ran into the great disappearing water trick. I had water at my faucet, but the water would not come out of the hose I attached to it. I attached a splitter and hose to Revonna's water faucet. But again, no water came out of the other end of the hose. Someone had attached a hose to plot 15 and ran it to mine. Now that one did send water all the way through the hose and enough came out that I could water my potatoes. I forked some of the hay off the top and into the side pathway to smother weeds.

It was almost dark when I got home. Al wanted to buy my water flosser since I have never used it. We settled on a price and he paid cash. I tried to update my privacy settings in Facebook since some people are saying Meta will soon use our info to train a LLM aka AI. Then I worked on my blog. I listened to a podcast on SIBO. It got late and I prepared for bed.