Our first weekend of March definitely "came in like a lion" with lots of wind and several inches of snow here in the Intermountain West. Here are some of the highlights in my world.
Friday was a cloudy and blustery day. While I was at school, Charly worked out in the garage, moving things around to make room for the new car. We have a large garage, but we still have quite a few things in it from when we moved last summer. This come summer, we definitely need to get better organized and purge more things that just sitting in our garage and shed.
Friday evening after dinner, we were going to go walk at the rec center, but we were a little slow getting dinner over, and the rec center closes early (at 7 p.m.) on Friday nights. Instead, I went out for an early evening power walk around the neighborhood. It was a nice evening and I enjoyed the walk.
Saturday morning we went to pick up our new car and bring it home. It's a great car!
After driving home, the new CRV has 11 miles on it!
The new car is now home and safely tucked away in the garage, which is the best place for it to be with all of the snow we got this weekend.
After bringing the new car home, Charly and I went up to the rec center and we both walked over two miles around the track.
I also stopped in at the library adjacent to the rec center and checked out this book, Bad Therapy - Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier. I read this author's first book, Irreversible Damage, which was about the social contagion of transgenderism and it was excellent - troubling - but excellently researched and written. I am sure this book, Bad Therapy will be equally as excellent and probably troubling.
After a very windy Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon the snow started. The snow accumulated quickly, even on the roads, so we spent our Saturday afternoon and evening at home.
By Saturday night, we had several inches of wet, heavy snow. This is the view from our Ring Doorbell looking out onto our front yard and street.
I did some reading before bed and finished this book, The Seven Secrets of a Stress Free Life by Randal Johnson. I'll do a little review of the book at the end of March.
We got more snow overnight and ended up with about six inches of heavy wet snow.
Back in the house after shoveling, I did my scripture reading. Right now, I am reading the book of Job in the Old Testament, and also two verse-by-verse scripture commentary books - one about the Gospels and one about the Book of Revelation.
I also got our dinner, a crock pot recipe called Beefy Country Casserole, ready and in the slow cooker. I made it with plant based Impossible Beef, so it would be a bit healthier.
With dinner in the crock pot, I went for a little walk around the neighborhood. I called my mom on the phone and we had a nice chat while I walked. Later I had a nice phone chat with Josh as well. Charly and I also watched our weekly scripture master class on Youtube.
When I got home, it was almost time to eat dinner. Here's what the finished Beefy Country Casserole looked like. We had some Asian Salad with it.
Charly baked this frozen dessert pizza which had apple and carmel and was delicious! After dinner, we watched a documentary about archeological evidence for the scriptures. Pretty interesting and faith affirming!
Weekend Gratitude:
- Getting our new car.
- Having the health to help our neighbors by shoveling their walks.
- Reading good books.
- Having nice text conversations with our two oldest Utah grandchildren.
- Chatting with my mom while taking a walk.
- Selling our condo - I know it didn't happen this weekend, but seriously having it sold is such a huge relief!
It was an over good, albeit snowy, weekend. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week!
Until next time,
😊Deb💖
