Kim didn’t image last night because clouds rolled in and it was still cloudy this morning. Warm still so it was nice to have some cloud cover keeping the heat down when I went for my walk. Sun did peek out between the clouds occasionally throughout the day. Saw a high of 84o in the afternoon. Good day to seek the shade.
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This afternoon
Dylan started singing this line over and
over: I'm fine, yeah I'm fine oh I'm fine, hey I'm
fine but I'm not. He then asked if I could play his mommy’s jam. Your
mommy’s jam? What’s the name of it? He
didn’t know but he knew the words I'm
fine, yeah I'm fine oh I'm fine, hey I'm fine but I'm not were in
it. Took some googling and input from
Marshal but we came up with it: Matthew
West singing Truth Be Told. We listened
to it...he sang along.
Then he
said his daddy’s jam was about burning the ships. So I googled ‘burning ships’ and found a song
called Burn The Ships by for KING & COUNTRY. Dylan didn’t recognize the opening strains and
said, “Okay, now I have to listen
to the words and I’ll tell you if this is the one”....as soon as the chorus
came he matter-of-factly said, “Oh, yeah, this is my Daddy’s jam.” So we listened to it.
Then Clayton wanted to know what my jam was and once we established exactly what ‘jam’ meant (any song that you just
have to turn up when it comes on) I played ‘Parachute’ by Chris Stapleton. Neither child seemed impressed. Dylan’s favorite song is “Home on the Range”
but I don’t know if he considers that his jam.
I’ll have to ask him tomorrow.
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We
went to Organ Stop Pizza this afternoon which was a major change for me. We’ve done plenty of take-out since COVID
became a thing but I’ve eaten in a restaurant only once in the past year. I checked the website to see that COVID
protocols remained in place despite Governor Ducey allowing restaurants to
operate at full capacity. Masks are
still required anytime not at the table.
Other safety measures include only 250 people allowed inside at a time
(occupancy is 750)...hostess seating...one party at a table at a time...check
in at the door...sanitizer available throughout the restaurant...tables
sanitized between usages. Seemed safe
enough. And the best part is that the
door opens at 3:30 with the music starting at 4 p.m. Plenty of time to experience the music, eat some
pizza and still be home during daylight hours.
in addition to listening to it.
We were on the second floor which meant the kids had a birds-eye view of the organist and most of the instrumentation. The kids had mixed reactions: Clayton got bored quickly then thought it was too loud....Shelby thought it was scary until the organist played “Let It Go” then we saw a smile...Charlie wanted to be anywhere but in a chair...Dylan was into it. In fact, Dylan was thinking it was magic because he didn’t know how the drums over in the corner could be playing by themselves...and the bubbles. “
When
all was said and done, the kids each found something in the experience to enjoy
even if it was just the ice cream and I enjoyed watching them. 😊
As we
were getting ready to leave they saw people putting money in a jar down by the
organ stage. They wanted to know what that was about. When I explained that it was a ‘tip’, a way
to express extra appreciation for the organist’s effort, they all wanted to do
it. Gave each of them a dollar and they
proudly deposited it in the jar before we left.
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Then it was back to the camp for movie
night. We knew in advance that the kids
wanted Grampa’s popcorn so we brought the Whirly Popper and all the necessary items
to make it. Kids brought their chairs, Marshal
brought his TV, hooked it up outside and we had a drive-in movie without
vehicles. Complete with Grampa’s
popcorn. Movie of choice was BFG based on the book by
Roald Dahl.
Callie
had read the book to the kids so they were looking forward to seeing it...it was a first viewing for all of us. Shelby and Charlie were a little scared so
they didn’t last long...Clayton and Dylan liked it. Giggled like crazy during the ‘whizz popping’
scene with the Queen of England. Dylan commented that the movie
was different than the book (Marshal agreed) and when I asked which he liked
better, there was no hesitation when he said, “Da movie.”
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I had
never been a Roald Dahl fan so I’d never read or seen BFG. Didn’t really know what to expect but it was
a bit weirder than I thought...very watchable, just weird.
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No
bike ride today because there was only a small window of time for it. Would have been a good day for it though.
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