June, part 1

The first part of June was pretty quiet and uneventful. Bob finished up his volunteering at Cross Trainers Academy and enjoyed an appreciation luncheon for all the volunteers. He also had his usual elders and church council meetings. And we had our regular Friday Panera visits--morning coffee with the senior group from church, and supper with the Brassers.

 I did quite a bit of volunteer work in the BCS library.  The library was moved into the new library/media center that is part of the latest addition at BCS.  This space is probably 3-4 times larger than the old library.  They also decided to revamp the entire organizational system of the library--out with the Dewey Decimal system and in with a system organized according to topics and genres.  That involved lots of computer work to update the catalog and lots of hands-on work with the books---new labels on every single book. This was a huge job--much more work than Melissa (the BCS library person, who also teachers Spanish) could handle on her own.  So she relied a lot on volunteer help. I really enjoyed it--I may have missed my calling.  Maybe should have become a librarian.

On June 11 we had a fun outing.  We went to Ravinia for the live broadcast of "Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor.  Since he is retiring, this was his last appearance at Ravinia.  That made tickets rather hard to get, so we had to settle for lawn seating instead of seats in the pavilion.  Bill and Pat joined us for this, and they got there early and staked out good spots for us, and also rented chairs for us.  Lew and JoAnne went with us, and we were able to get a great parking spot, thanks to Lew's handicap sticker.  It was quite a warm day, but we were in the shade, so we were comfortable.

The live broadcast always begins at 5 pm, but the music begins at 4:45, and Garrison comes out of the Pavilion and mingles a bit with the people on the lawn and sings a few songs.  I walked over to where he was, and actually got a picture.

One hot day we decided to go down to the lake front, thinking that it would be cooler there.  Well, we were wrong, it really wasn't that much cooler. But we did enjoy a walk along the beautiful lake front.

And here's my attempt at a selfie. I think I need to work on that skill--I haven't figured out how to take a picture and look happy at the same time. (And that's the Northwestern Mutual building under construction that appears to be growing out of my head.)  Oh, well.

On Father's Day we were invited to the Brassers, who had some of their family with them for the week-end.  Justin, Hilary and Silas came from Seattle for a long week-end, so it was nice to see them and to meet Silas.  They also stopped over at our house the next evening after their visit to Kopps.

It sure was fun to meet this cute little guy!

My life was so quiet and uneventful that I even did a couple of jigsaw puzzles.  I decided that it was time to get rid of some of my puzzles, so I wanted to make sure all the pieces were there before I gave them away. (If there are pieces missing, the puzzle gets thrown away.)

This one, a picture of a glass of milk surrounded by chocolate chip cookies, was a bit of a challenge.  The glass of milk was easy, but those cookies all look pretty much the same, so it took me a while.

The last week of June got a little more interesting, with a trip to Michigan to help the Wissinks pack up for their move to Clinton.  I'm going to save that for the next post so that this one doesn't get too long.  So stay tuned!!