we still have Blender-itis

Missed a couple of days of blog posts.  Today I had my tooth extracted – it has been giving me problems for the past 6 months or so.  I did not dare go to any doctor in Maine – heard horror stories about them from Anne and from the rest of the staff.

Last night I went to Roots Magic Group meeting.  Roots Magic is the genealogy program I use to keep track of my ancestors etc.  Lee has been holding the meetings while I was away.  I gave a presentation on the work we did in the Mission in Maine.  They were very interested in the slides I had prepared for the talk.

Monday was truly a Blender day.  I went to Quilt Guild and it was really nice to see our group growing as much as it has.  Even splitting off from AQG we seem to have attracted many new members since I left a year ago.  I hurried home expecting to go to lunch with Bill but he was on the phone trying to get the internet again and at last we have it connected.  We no longer have to use the hotspot but the hotspot is included in our cell phone service. I suppose it will come in handy sometime but I do not know when that will be.

He got off the phone in enough time for us to have to skip lunch and be at the insurance broker’s office by 1pm.  That took a long time and we still had not eaten and he decided that we should go to Chino Valley to see the people in the Safeway store.  While there we got our flu shots for the season and I managed to get a little shopping done.  He assured me that there was a Burger King in the north end of town but I told him that there was only a McDonalds in Chino Valley – no other fast food stores except for those that were on the grounds of the Safeway store – Taco Bell and Subway with the McDonalds about a mile north.  So after driving out to McDonalds and seeing for himself that there is no Burger King, we went back to Subway so at 4pm we finally ate lunch and then went home.

Tuesday he had his general practitioner appointment and the doctor was running late (as usual) and we got out of there barely in enough time to eat quickly and then go down to the church for the Roots Magic Group meeting.

But at least we have unlimited internet service.  It has been a real struggle.  And I thought that life after the mission would be a little easier.  Not so, because I have a girlfriend that I walk with daily at 7.30am and we are beginning to walk faster each day – and not so winded on the hills and there are many hills here.