I was on the road all day yesterday -
most of it anyway. It seemed like I had
been driving the same piece of highway for more than four hours.
The class for water aerobics started
yesterday. I had taken Jenna with
me. It was just us with the instructor
in the pool - which was warm, though the air was not.
The library doesn't open until 12:00
on Mondays, and so we returned home for two hours and Jenna finished her
packing.
At 11:30 I received a reminder to
please have my girls' belongings to the leaders house sometime today
(yesterday) and had planned for that anyway.
I told Jenna we would drop her things off and then go to the library.
After I turned onto our former street,
Jenna spotted three of her friends playing together and asked if she could
leave the car. I told her to go ahead
and play with the friends she misses seeing more often than just once a week. She had fun.
I dropped off her bags and was told
that she might want a chair. I left
Jenna on the street where we used to live and returned for the chair and a
blanket and drove back to the leader's house.
I took Jenna with me the second time and we headed to the library and
she registered for the reading program.
She wanted to stay for story time -
though she is really too old for story time.
She checked out 8-10 books and I said we should go to the store as story
time would not be for another hour.
So I drove from the library to Dollar
General - which is not that far of a drive.
We browsed a long while purchased Band-Aids, baby wipes, a water gun and
some eye drops. Returned to the library
and saw some of our neighbors leaving. I
asked if they weren't going to stay for story time. I didn't get an answer. As it turned out we didn't stay for story
time either. There had been a huge mass
of kids and then the children's part of the library had emptied out. What a shame.
Next library activity scheduled was
the teen water fight event at 5:00. We
had to go to Roseburg at 3:00. I asked
Roland if we could please return in time for the library activity that Jenna
had been looking forward to now for almost a month.
So we had programmed the GPS to take
us to Charter (a cable company I often refer to as Comcast's little brother -
both trying to expand - Comcast with Xfinity and Charter with Spectrum) so we
could turn in our cable boxes (which we can no longer afford - not that really
could in the first place. We NEED the
internet, but we don't need cable)
This
is what the Comcast building looks like in Salt Lake:
and
this is the Charter building in Roseburg:
As long as we were in Roseburg, we
decided to pick up a few items that are a bit less costly than in Myrtle
Creek. While on the road, the cars were
jammed together much like they are in Salt Lake. A horrible accident within a main
intersection. Unbelievable. Just like Salt Lake. Second traffic jam we've run into since being
in Oregon. Horrible. Horrible.
We did not return to Myrtle Creek
until about 5:10. The air was so
overcast and seemed to promised rain.
The water fight event had been postponed until next week. That is good.
Though it doesn't bother Jenna, I was not excited to have her being wet in
the chilled air.
This morning I took her to the church
and dropped her off. She carried a small
bag with a few books (I told her she couldn't take any library books) the baby
wipes, sunscreen (although its highly doubtful that she'll need the sunscreen)
and a small flashlight.
It wasn't raining when I dropped her
off, but I'm certain they'd encountered much moisture on the way to the
campground. It rained for about an hour
this morning. The sun has made a few
appearances, but the air hasn't warmed up at all.
I did not choose to go to water
aerobics today. I think the temperature
ought to be above 60. It has been in the
low 50's. I can live with that. I'd rather have it be 50 than 80 or 90.
I'm told the girls will get rained on
when they are at camp. I hope that Jenna
has a good time and may open herself up.
There is a saying: "People who don't know me think I'm
quiet. Those that do know me wish I
was." -
That's Jenna.
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