Begins with Exercise and ends with two craft shows - all in one day too!

 This is my husband exhibiting his impressive physique on one of the machines at the YMCA.  The brown area on the floor behind him is where I walk.   21 1/2 times around this track is one mile.

 These are the rest of the machines he visits while at the YMCA

 The leaves in  the morning sunshine through the YMCA windows....they are almost gone.

 These next photo's are of woven masks at the Main Craftsmens Guild show at the Atrium of the Main Archives  building where we are doing digitizing during the week days.

 Some woven earrings at the same booth.

 There were about 3 potters at the show and one stained glass worker as well.

 These Lamp Shades look a lot better in person than in print.

 This was another Potter who did lamps.

 These are blown glass vases and Christmas tree balls.  She also had slumped bottle glass baubles on chains for necklaces.

 At the last show we went to, it was in a greenhouse - and you had to walk through the Green house show room to get to the craft show - smart marketing there.  These Orchids were spectacular.

We started out the day at the YMCA doing exercising.  Aren't you impressed by that?  Bill does the machines while I walk around and around the little track they have there, or I ditch the building altogether and walk in the neighborhood and hope that the wind is in the other direction so that I do not get the smell from the sewage plant.  Althought today turned out rather nice, it was pretty chilly this morning.  At the second craft show, there was a person exhibiting Alpaca yarns, hats, gloves, toys, shawls, neck scarves............and they were spectacular.  I bought a hat - my head gets really cold here when I wear hats from Prescott that are rather hot to wear there but no match for the cold here.

It is getting colder here and I am feeling the cold.  I guess my Arizona conditioned body is not up to the point where it will survive very well if I do not put on lots and lots of clothes to the point that I will not be able to bend my arms or legs……………Our kids used to look like this all rugged up in their snowsuits when they were little.  Invariably one of them would need to go potty as soon as I had struggled with the outfits to make them look like stuffed spuds.  No sooner would I get one taken care of, than the other wanted to go potty too – for a while there I thought it was “catching”.  Found out that other parents also encountered this phenomenon.

In the morning, when we are home to experience it, the sun comes into our front room and bedroom and it is wonderful.  The heating system in this apartment is not very diligent and so the added warmth of the sunshine is quite welcome.  The sun plays hide and seek with the apartment through the wonderful old trees that grow in the front of the apartment.  So that means that from time to time we are in shadow and then the world moves on its axis and the sun invades our rooms again.  I do  miss not seeing the sun each day.  We leave early in the morning before the sun comes up and we go home in the late afternoon when it is beginning to set.  This weekend is the time change so I wonder how things will change as well.  The clerk at the library informed us that we will have an extra hour to sleep on Sunday but I am smart enough to know that we still have 24 hours each day no matter what the clock says is time to get up.  I do hope that I will not suffer with seasonal affective disorder – that is a hard one to shake.

Life on a mission is quite different from what we had in Prescott.  Bill no longer has to go to work at Safeway, I do not have Andrea to walk with each morning, I do not have quilt guild to attend or to take care of any quilt guild related business, Bill does not have  loads of Ward Membership clerk work to do, I do not have the Family History Center shift on Friday’s which is something I have done every Friday since the beginning of September 1999, I am not the neighborhood watch person, I do  not have beading group each Wednesday and I don’t have to do the watering system in the back yard among other things.  What I do have is a shift at the Archives from 8am to 4pm doing digitizing of archive records, Monday through Friday.

Another thing that has happened  - rather gradually or more secretively than I suspected -  is that all the things that are going on in the world and in our family are not part of my thought patterns.  Oh, yes, I still pray for Jacob to be healed if possible, pray for Sara to get through her school work ok and achieve her goal of a Masters Degree in Library Science, and I hope that the children will be resilient enough to be supportive of their mother as she tries to accomplish this, and yes, David is still on the road to moving, but all these things do not bother me.  I thought they would be a constant worry and threat to keeping me away from giving my whole attention to the digitizing, and they aren't.  It is amazing to note this happening in my life.
I know all these things are happening, but I am not worried about them.
This is a whole new experience for me.