June is coming to an end!

Well, by the end of JUNE we are finally having some beautiful weather. I just love this time of year -- it's my fav.....the yard and flowers are at their peak in beauty - before it gets so hot they want to croak! We have birds and ducks that also enjoy our back yard so that is great fun watching them. That's how you can tell we are getting older - we have become bird watchers (at least in our back yard).

WOW - are we having a wet June, or what????

Denise hears organ playing

Here Denise hears that the organ REALLY does work and she is elated because it will now be part of her home and life.....hooray for both of us!!!!

Moving the organ

About 28 years ago, Ray built an organ. That, in itself, is a wondrous task. And he had plenty of space to build it....because he did it in the basement of our home. However, we have wondered ever since just how we would ever get it out of the basement when the time came. WELL.....last Friday (June 5, 2009) the time came! Ray has not played it for several years and even had unhooked the speakers and amplifier and we just had it covered and pushed against the wall, looking ominously somewhat like a coffin.

I have to say it is a beautiful organ with gorgeous dark (heavy) wood - I say "heavy" because it took 4 guys with a lot of brain power and muscle to figure out and get it up the stairs and into the U-Haul trailer Denise and Michael had rented. I did my part with the camera!

Denise plays piano and organ and not only did we want her to have it, but she also wanted it because her Dad had built it. Ray hooked everything back up before removing it from the basement to make sure it still worked (and it did....hooray!)

Now the infamous organ is at Denise's home in her front room. We are happy---she is happy!

June 4th was our anniversary (46 years, WOW, where has the time gone????)  Our treat to each other was going to see Il Divo in concert at the Energy Solutions Center on Friday, June 5th.  Let me just say this quietly.....   IT WAS FABULOUS!!!!  We went with our daughter, Denise, and her husband, Michael who were down from Idaho, and also Alan and Linda and their son, Gerald.  We ALL thoroughly enjoyed the show.  Those guys are such talented, and well....I have to say....terribly handsome, performers.  Love, love their music!