Week 2: Coming Together

After inlet Quinn do her own hair and sent her off to school yesterday, I packed up the little girls for a day in the "city." People here ask if you are moving from the city. I think this is how they gage how quickly you will acclimate and maybe if thy want to be your friend. I got confused the first few times people asked. "No, we're not from New York." And then I progressed to, "oh, no, we were in he mountains, but we ha a Wal-mart really close ... Costco joke and onward with the conversation. Now I realize that by city they mean anything bigger than them. Yes, Orem and -- Alpine for that matter -- is "livin' in the city." So, that said heading to Ridgway and then up to Montrose was spending the day in the city.

We started with a stop at story time at the Ridgway library. Actually we started with a cry Fest on the phone with Megan suing the drive to Ridgway about how our oldest daughters hate us. So sad. But I digress. We got to the library and ask about story time, which was published at 11 to noon on Mondays. The librarians got big smiles and said, "Yes, yes, you are right on time!" Then an old woman grabbed 4 books and my kids and sat in the kids corner reading to them. Well, ok, I thought. That is one was to do it. So I walked around and asked about ask the other librarian, Amy, about easy reader books until 15 minutes went by and story time was apparently over. But the library has pretty fun toys and so the kids were in heaven for another 45 minutes.

The girls and I had a picnic outside the library and then headed on a craigslist adventure adventure. I had an appointment to be two wall hutches for the kitchen from a woman, who has made my life almost unbearably difficult by painting one hutch gold and keeping the other cream. I see spray painting or lack or spray painting in my future, and I am not that happy about it. It could be fun. We'll see. I love the hutches, though. They are small and a little Roman, and I'll use them for glasses and spices. Some day we will out them up on either side of the kitchen sink. But for now they are acting as a small tables in the kitchen so they girls can stop eating of the floor, splashing food all about, and taking breaks to leg wrestle during meals. The hutches are already making meals more civilized.

Them I stopped at a complete strangers house who did not know I was coming to buy a little cabinet for under the kitchen cupboard. An old man in oxygen came to the door and was eager to help. His son runs a "garage sale" business out of the barn(s). He had out the cabinet on craigslist AND i had seen I and not bought it at a Saturday garage sale. I knew it was there. The old man and I found it, lifted it in my car, and $15 later I was in business. I got it home and -- without measurements -- it fit perfectly. I wanted to cry. I was so happy, and that $15 made me love my little house.

I also called a lot of doctor's offices yesterday to find out about getting Kenna's cast off. It is going to cost me $150 bucks. I checked google and YouTube to see if there was a home remedy, but maybe people confirmed it usually ends in a blood bath and ER visit. Then I wondered if a medical "cast saw" cost less than $150. I could get that cast off and start me a business. :) Needless to say, I will call and schedule her appointment tomorrow.