Wednesday, we realized, was the first anniversary of our having closed the escrow on our Williams home. Hurray! It continues to have been a very good decision on our part. We really enjoy this place.
Wednesday is also the occasion of the official weigh-in after two weeks of our diet. I have now lost 12 pounds. Double Hurray! I celebrated all day.
Thursday, after I got a pedicure, I started reading Shadow of Power by Steve Martini. (I'm taking a break from James Patterson for a while.) It consumed most of my "free time" during the day. I'm so busy, you know.
Friday, I dropped off Becky, Ramsey, and Kelsey at Buckskinner Park for their long hike of the day.
Buckskinner Park, in the Kaibab National Forest, is the location of one of the Williams reservoirs. I puttered around while they hiked, doing some minor maintenance items. Plus I read a little.
Friday afternoon, the mail included our Trusted Traveler cards from Homeland Security. That was fast. Now we're ready to travel like the big boys.
Saturday morning, after raking and bundling some of the gazillions of pine needles that have been falling this week,
we went to Flagstaff to run errands. That evening was the occasion of the annual "Taste of Williams." This year they moved it from the Elephant Rocks Golf Course to Bearizona, and changed the name to "Taste in Williams." The event was supposed to be a costume party, and the theme was supposed to be Come As Your Favorite Star. I dislike costume parties a lot, but we decided to go along with the crowd and at least wear our matching Hawaiian shirts (from Meghan's Bat Mitzvah). That way, I could claim that I was Tom Selleck. It turned out to be too cold, though, and we abandoned the idea of costumes altogether and bundled up.
The event was fine, by the way. We discovered one of the vendors was providing "Arizona Poppers" consisting of jalapeno peppers filled with cheese and wrapped in bacon, then deep-fried. Absolutely delicious. We ate too many of them. And the live music was very good.
Sunday afternoon, we went to the Flagstaff Brewing Company on Route 66 in Flagstaff, to listen to some local bands. We went specifically to hear The Prowlers, which featured Sue Kelly, the woman who does Becky's facials, as vocalist. They were pretty good. We were very good to ourselves, having only French Onion soup and Arnold Palmers. It was interesting to see that the venue was packed with what seemed to be only friends and relatives of the various performers. I guess local bands are like that.
Monday started out with rain, which returned a few times during the day. It was actually quite a relaxing day. And of course we can always use the rain to fill our reservoirs. The Monday night redbox movie was I'll See You in my Dreams, with Blythe Danner. Sam Elliott was also in it, almost as a cameo. It was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival this past January and released in May, so it went to video rather quickly. It was a nice, bittersweet film, though, well worth seeing.
I finished Shadow of Power early Tuesday afternoon. Pretty good, though very complicated. The Sutton Plumbing people showed up mid-afternoon and replaced the shower cartridge. We'll see if it stops the drip. They didn't need to snake the laundry tub drain, though. Becky inadvertently cleared the blockage on Monday by simply filling---and emptying---the tub while getting mud off her shoes.
The Tuesday night redbox movie was Cop Car, with Kevin Bacon. It was an unusual film, odd, but very entertaining. Like the earlier one, this was released just two months ago and is now available on video---not a good sign for a movie.
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