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Monday, July 13, 2026

Mid-July Catch=up

How is it possible that we are already in the middle of July?! It was another busy week for us, which is the way most of this summer has been. I had hoped to do an update on Sunday night, but here I am on Monday evening playing catch-up once again.

Last Monday, I met up at the IHOP restaurant shown above to have lunch with my cousin. We enjoy meeting up every few months.

Charly and I decided that we wanted to sell this area rug that we have had for a long time, and get something new. I had my doubts that anyone would want to buy it, but I listed it on Facebook Marketplace and it sold right away.

This is the new area rug we found at Lowe's to replace the old one. I love that it is much different than the old one and has lot of bright and cheerful colors that go with the decor of the home.

I've been looking for a bench for the covered front porch area of our new home. I found this fun yellow one on Facebook Marketplace, and knew that it was just the thing for this space.

As I was pursuing Facebook Market place, I also found this great bench with the Coca-Cola logo. Charly and I both fell in love with this Coke bench and just had to have it. We decided to put the it in our family room/dining room area.

This is what the room looks like now with the new rug and Coke bench.

While we were in the mood for buying benches, we got this one that has storage in the seat. It will go on our back patio. Like the other two, I found it on Facebook Marketplace.

I hung the Mixtiles we had in our living room and hallway at the old house, up and down the stairway in our new place. I really like how this arrangement turned out. I found the large canvas at a thrift store for only $15. It is a photograph of Lake Powell in Southern Utah, a place we have seen many times, as we drove between Arizona and Utah.

I've been going on a walk almost every morning. This park and walking track near our house is a great place for some morning exercise.

I've also been going on evening walks. I find that I sleep better and more soundly if I take an evening walk. I love these sunflowers I often pass on my evening walk route.

One day last week, Charly and I went to a huge antique mall which is about 15 minutes from our home. We had fun browsing two large buildings with all kinds of fun antiques.

We didn't buy a lot, but I did find these three Nancy Drew volumes that I need for my collection.

Another night, we went to the Farmer's Market in our town. It was super-hot that evening, but Charly and I browsed the different booths for a while and ultimately bought some really good, fresh-baked sour dough bread.

We have been unhappy with the realtor we listed our house with back in April, so we asked him to cancel our listing agreement which he did. Last Friday, we met with our new real estate agent and signed a new listing agreement. She gave us some suggestions to help sell the house, and will put our home back up on the market this week. There will be another open house this coming Saturday.

Friday night, on our way home from checking on our old house, we stopped in at our favorite Asian place. I always get the Mongolian Beef at this place because it is so delicious.

Saturday morning, I went out for a walk and passed a yard sale that had some fun things. I couldn't resist these little snowmen that will decorate our home at Christmas time.

Later Saturday, we went to the temple with our daughter and her family. After worshipping, we all went to lunch at a popular pizza place in the area.

It was great to spend the afternoon with our daughter, her husband and all of their five children.

Sunday morning we went to church. We had not been there for two weeks, so it was good to be back.

Sunday's dinner was crock-pot beef and rice casserole. Here is the recipe. Josh came over and had Sunday dinner with us.

Sunday was very hot - 109 degrees which broke the all time temperature record. Monday was in the upper 90s.

We had some work done at our old house on Monday. We had our exterior doors painted and all the windows and storm doors in the house washed. The place looks really good now, just in time for the open house with the new realtor.

That's all for now. I hope be back in blogland more often this week. Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,

😊Deb💖

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Highlights of the Week Before Memorial Day

Last week was another busy one, and I was not in blogland very much. I apologize again to all of my blog friends for not checking in much. I am hoping that will change in less than a week when I retire, and we move full-time into our new home. Here's a little of what we were up to during the week before Memorial Day.

We started the weekend celebrating our grandson's birthday with him. He turned 20 earlier in May. We celebrated with him by taking him to lunch and giving him a gift card for new shoes at Footlocker, and a special treat of Crumbl Cookies. We were so busy visiting and enjoying lunch that I forgot to take pictures.

The next day was Sunday, and Charly and I had been asked to introduce ourselves and give messages in our worship service, which we did. Speaking in church is not my favorite thing, but we did what we were ask, it went well, and I'm glad it's over with.

Later Sunday evening, we went to our granddaughter's graduation from Seminary. In our church, all students in grades 9-12 have the option of taking daily religious instruction in addition to their regular school classes. These classes are called Seminary. Hailey took the classes all four years they were offered and she received her Seminary diploma. Here she is with her dad and mom. Her mom is Tiffany, my second oldest daughter.

We are sure proud of this beautiful young lady. A couple of days after this picture was taken, she graduated from high school.

Sunday night and Monday, we got some rain, which is much needed in this area.

Our granddaughter's high school graduation took place at a large venue at nearby Utah Valley University. In this picture, the graduates are filing into the venue.

This is after the graduation and the graduates are changing their tassels to the right side, indicating the completion of their high school education.

After the ceremony, we took lots of pictures. Here's our granddaughter with her mom and dad and siblings.

Here's Charly and I with our sweet granddaughter.

Here's the whole family together at this happy occasion.

Here's our 15-year-old and 20-year-old grandsons after their sister's graduation. Later, we all met a fun burger place for a post-graduation family dinner. It was a great evening celebrating our granddaughter.

After the graduation, we went back to our Salt Lake City home because I needed to be at school for the rest of the week, but Friday afternoon, we came back to our new home for the weekend. We put out the flags for Memorial Day.

On Saturday, we went back to Salt Lake City with Josh to place flowers on our parent's graves. Josh asked if he could come along.

After going to the cemetery, we went to lunch at IHop to eat. I enjoyed breakfast - pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, and hashbrowns for lunch.

Sunday morning we got up early and went to church The picture is another of the beautiful paintings of Jesus in our meetinghouse.

Later, I fixed this taco casserole for our Sunday dinner. Josh came over to eat with us. I've shared this recipe on my blog before. It is one of our family's favorites.

After dinner, I went for a walk around our new neighborhood, then Charly and I watched a little TV.

We love our new home, and a week from now, I will be finished with the school year, retired from my teaching career, and living in this home 24/7. Our old home in Salt Lake City is still for sale but we have had several showings in the past week, so we think it will sell before long.

Gratitude for this week: