Summer Week 7

On Monday Matthew decided to give himself a haircut.

We poured cement into the pavilion footings on Tuesday afternoon, and while Matthew had online APYW that evening, the kids and I got started shoveling crushed concrete for the base. We did archery at the Brown's on Wednesday.

On Thursday afternoon the Baraja's invited us over for some water play in their backyard. Abraham, Mercy, Ace, and Malia were all so happy to see each other again! I think their mom was equally, if not more, excited to have another adult to talk to. She's a single mom and they've been taking the stay at home order quite seriously. We had a really good talk and I'm glad we were able to spend the afternoon together. Abraham accidentally broke one of their sprinkler heads, so later in the evening Matthew and I went back with a replacement and fixed it. In the evening we ate leftovers and watched Heavy Weights, a super cheesy movie from the mid 90's.

We worked pretty much all day yesterday and today on the pavilion. Yesterday we went and picked up the lumber from a really cool saw mill in Bernalillo and Matthew spent the afternoon cutting the rough sawn timbers down to size. I made a new batch of masks to put on Etsy. In the evening, Mabel and Mercy found tortuga. She had crawled into the rolled up plastic pool cover and likely got stuck and over heated. She was long dead. Hyrum felt vindicated that he wasn't the one who let her escape by leaving the gate open, though we all would have preferred her escape to the brain boiling end she met instead. Mercy cried and was sad, but it was Abraham who was most upset. He had a hard time wrapping his mind around the fact that the turtle is gone, and asked some really heartfelt questions about the spirit world and resurrection. Mercy's pain upon seeing her brother's pain was pure compassion and on the whole it was one of those heart wrenching life experiences that everyone eventually has to go through.

This morning we got up and started working on the pavilion at 6:30 am. The high for the day was forecast to be 103 and we wanted to get as much done as we could before it got too hot. We ended up working most of the day regardless of the heat and got quite a lot done.