On Sunday I made up for the excitement of Saturday by not doing a lot. Naturally, there were small projects (I started installing the baseboards in the master closet, for example) and some conversations with Becky about matters relating to her father's affairs, but mostly I just puttered around and relaxed. Delightful.
Monday was routine, except that on the way to Flagstaff the sky opened up. The monsoon season had finally arrived.
The temperature dropped from 80 to 60 in less than a minute. At one point, I realized I was hydroplaning---and immediately slowed down enough to regain complete control. After my radiation treatment the sky was clear and I stopped at Home Depot, Walmart, and Maverik (for diesel fuel), then headed home without incident. We had some Mandarin Beef stir fry for dinner from P. F. Chang (via Safeway) and it was delicious.
Becky joined me for the trip to Flagstaff on Tuesday, so we did a little shopping, of course, and picked up some parts for our spa. Late in the afternoon we started watching Focus, the day's redbox movie, starring Will Smith and a delightful Margot Robbie, of whom I'd never heard before.
It's an interesting caper movie, but for some reason we couldn't finish it Tuesday.
Wednesday was another day of radiation and shopping. Among other things, I stopped at Home Depot on the way home to pick up the necessary parts to install the shade cover over our spa. The cover is not really for shade, it is to keep stuff from the pine trees out of the spa and off the spa cover. We finished watching Focus late Wednesday afternoon. The spa cover arrived at 6:30. It's perfect. I installed it first thing Thursday morning. Becky's not sure she likes it. We'll see.
Thursday afternoon was my last scheduled radiation treatment for the week since the folks are taking Friday off. Becky had a 1:00 appointment for a facial in Flagstaff, giving me a lot of time to kill before my 2:30 appointment, so, after picking up some special bread at the local Whole Foods Market, I went to the hospital an hour early on a chance---and they were able to take me immediately. Yea! After returning home, I finished Street Lawyer, an old John Grisham novel I've been reading off and on for a week,
and immediately picked up Fury, a Robert K. Tanenbaum novel.
Thursday evening and Friday morning we took care of last-minute things to get ready for the Bernsteins. They arrived at 11:30. It was great to see them after such a long time.
We talked, and snacked, and talked some more, and snacked some more. And David went for a 15-mile bike ride. (It would have been longer, but it started raining off and on.) He's amazingly consistent in keeping up his riding. The gang started on a jigsaw puzzle. Finally, it was time for dinner at Red Raven, the #1 restaurant in Williams and a clear favorite of ours. It was delicious, as usual.
Saturday morning, we went to Bearizona and enjoyed the "wild" animals, many of which were sleeping. They're still fun to observe.
In the afternoon, while David went on another bike ride, the gang continued on the jigsaw puzzle. It was very complicated and nearly consumed us for the rest of the weekend.
Since Saturday was the 4th of July, we had to cook our dinner of hot dogs (actually brats) and hamburgers on our dazzling barbecue. Yum! (Cleaning the barbecue later was my job and it was no fun.)
Donna and Emily are preparing for a mini marathon so they went running through Williams on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.
The Bernsteins had originally planned to leave early on Sunday morning, to arrive home at a reasonable hour. That all changed and, except for Donna and Emily's running and David's bike riding, we had a leisurely morning. They finally left, heading for an interim stop at Four Corners, the intersection of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
They apparently had a good time on that adventure, but we learned they didn't get home until 1:00 AM. After they left us, we relaxed, realizing it was wonderful, but exhausting, having them here.
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