Stumbling Blocks Wednesday

I arrived at water aerobics a little later than usual this morning, because (stumbling block number one) the van wouldn't start. Yesterday, Hubbie and his son were trying out a jack connection to a boom box and inadvertently left the car key turned on in the ignition. It was on overnight...result, dead battery this morning.

The reason they were trying the jack is because we have a lot of audio books on tape, but this van has only a CD player, so Hubbie and Son were checking to see if a jack to the boom box would work. It does, which is good, because now we can listen to books on tape when we travel in the van. But since the van's battery was dead this morning, Hubbie had to take me over to the college pool in the truck, then come back home and use booster cables to start the van.

We saw an interesting thing at the college this morning, when Hubbie came to pick me up. He seemed to be studying a large bush when I got to the van, and pointed to a bird in the limbs. It was a fledgling road runner. Poor thing was trying it's best to hide from us, but it's little fuzzy gray head, where a topknot was just beginning to grow, it's round eyes, long beak, and long slender gray body with long tail were just too obvious to be camouflaged by the green leaves.

Later this morning, Mother and I decided to make stepping stones, but found that (stumbling block number two) the Quikrete was not useable...the bag had gotten wet when the hot tub ran over last fall. Hubbie tried to save it, but it was in solid clumps today. So we made a run to buy some more, stopping by a grocery store first to pick up on-sale bananas and grapes, and at the farmer's market to pick up tomatoes and cucumbers.

Finally, we did get three stones made, which now need to dry for several days. Over the past several years, we've made lots of them, which I enjoy displaying in the arbor. Directions for making stepping stones, and pictures of ones we've made will follow in another blog post.

After lunch, Mother and I made Tarjeteria greeting cards. Examples of cards we've made will also be in another blog post.