Benton Sculpture Park for our 25th Anniversary.
I neglected to mention that we went to Bene Hana
for Gabby's 13th birthday. I can't say I care
much for the place, but it was perfect for a
13-year birthday girl.
The helicopters are back dropping mulch on
the steep, burned areas.
We had a thunderstorm several nights ago and it
brought back all the stress of the flood. We have now
removed the van from the barnyard and have it stored in
covered storage in Longmont. The jeep is on a ramp that
Robert and Vernon built to get it above flood level. It is
down the road from the house and where the "Horse barn" used
to be. It's out in the sun, but at least it won't get
washed away, unless the flood is a whole lot worse than the
last one. The Prius is in the front yard when there is any
sign of rain and the snow blower and electric lawn mower are
both on high ground in the yard. These moves have relieved
a lot of the stress of worry about flooding.
This was the week of the Conference on World Affairs.
We both looked over the schedule and were rather dismayed
at the lack of attention to the many very important
current affairs. That among other things decided us to
pass this year. Not the least of which is Robert's
immune system or lack thereof.
On Tuesday Robert drove the antique cars and made
arrangements for us to bring the VAN to Longmont to
Anderson's storage place.
Marti came over to have a glass of wine. She has
used the foundation of an earlier era house to
build herself a green house. We went over to see
that. She has down a tremendous amount of hard
labor, digging and rock moving to get it ready.
It'll soon have a reinforced structure, glass and
a door. She said she has been so depressed she
decided that made coming home from work and doing
physical hard labor might help. Perhaps it has,
a little.
On Wednesday we checked out the contents of the
Van in preparation for taking it to Longmont. A
few things were removed that we thought we might
need at home. Then we took it over to the
storage yard. We have a covered unit that is
open on the front. The sides have other RVs
parked. Troy Anderson has put a lot of thought
and money into the place. He said with 120
mile per hour winds being a possibility he
had to build it with that in mind. In any
case it is there and not here. One less thing
to worry about in flood season.
Thursday Connie and I met a Zolo's for lunch.
A poor choice on my part. It's hard to not
east dairy and eat Mexican. After lunch
we went to Pensky's Spice shop. I wanted to
pick up spices for some Indian recipes I
have found in a book Jeanne gave me quite
a while ago. We also window shopped in
the various art shops and a mineral shop.
Our bank has given us fits. They announced
last fall that the Boulder Branch had been
bought by a large Denver Bank. The Loveland
and Longmont branches were not sold. Have
you ever heard of such a thing? In any
case we were told, not to worry we would
be given plenty of time to prepare for the
change and would receive a letter of
explanation. The letter finally arrived
stating that we would soon receive another
letter around April 20th giving us more
information and that on April 21st the
routing number of the bank would change
and any credit/debit cards we had would
no longer be valid. Thank you very much!
We had earlier talked of moving to
another bank and this put us in action.
We checked out several of the non-chain
banks in the area and picked Flatiron's
Bank.
Friday we went to the bank and opened
new accounts and a safe deposit box.
At least we tried to open accounts.
Robert was able to open an account and
deposit money in it. I could not. It
turned out my drivers license had
expired and was unacceptable as a photo
id. We did all the paper work, but
I couldn't deposit money and I couldn't
activate the account until I took care
of the ID situation.
Off to the DMV we went. There was no
line, to speak of. I was able to get
the license in about 30 minutes.
Fortunate I was to discover my delinquency
because if I had not, in ten days I
would have been passed the grace period.
That would have required me to go through
the whole thing of taking the exam and
driving test. The waiting period for
the driving test is 2 or 3 weeks so I
should have been grounded for that time.
Yikes!
We did go back to the bank and finish
the business. We now have new accounts
his, hers and ours.
Friday evening Eva and Troy Anderson
came for dinner. They are the Andersons
of the RV storage company. They are
quite a pair; he a talker and she very
quiet. He had lots of tales to tell and
kept us entertained all evening.
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