We spent the weekend in Idaho. On Friday evening we headed up to the cabin. It was cold and had snow there sometime in the past, but it wasn’t particularly snowy or icy. The roads were clear and dry the whole way and we made it there by about 10:00 p.m. Paul set up the torpedo heater in the doorway to the garage and started a fire in the fireplace. I changed the sheets and started the heated bed pad and the space heater in the bedroom and by the time we went to bed it was quite toasty in the cabin. I never even bothered to unpack the cooler, we just kept it in the garage and went out there when we needed something.
In the morning, I heated up some seafood quiche that I had brought and some hot chocolate and herbal tea and made some Pillsbury caramel rolls, and we had a tasty breakfast. Paul did some errands over at the Kern Parents Cabin, some collecting and removing of some items Grandpa had requested, and went out to the pasture to collect some stuff there, and then came back to our cabin. In the meantime, I worked on folding napkin bandannas and tying them with raffia in preparation for the Back Country Horseman Christmas dinner while listening to Jude the Obscure.
Then we headed off to Rexburg to attend the 2:00 dress rehearsal of Erika’s Christmas Concert. It was the same program as was going to be performed in the evening and we watched the technical part of the performance get ironed out. We hadn’t really decided what to do in the evening, not having decided whether to stay and attend the real concert in the evening, but after watching the dress rehearsal we decided that we would stay for the evening concert as well. We took Erika to an early dinner at Arby’s and dropped her off at home. Then Paul and I went to C-A-L Ranch and then went to visit Ralph and Connie. At about 6:50 we picked up Erika and went back to the Hart building for the evening concert. It was much better than the rehearsal and we were glad that we got to see both versions. Erika’s Women’s Choir was just one of the performing groups, and it was a nice Christmas-y concert. Afterwards, we headed by to Island Park and then went to bed.
Sunday morning we attended meetings in the Island Park Ward at Mack’s Inn and then checked out of the cabin and drove to Idaho Falls where we stopped to visit Lee Jacobson. He is now living in an Assisted Living situation and is 98 years old. He doesn’t see very well and is hard of hearing, but still knew us and we had a nice visit. He probably had been told of Grandpa’s passing, but when Paul talked to him it was as if he was hearing it for the first time. He teared up when we told him that Grandpa had passed away in a very sweet and tender moment, and remembered him as a wonderful friend and one who he had been on many trail rides with. We were glad that we had a chance to visit with him for a few minutes. And then we were back on our way home.
All weekend I had been experiencing some discomfort with one of my wisdom teeth. And by the time that we got on the road home I was quite uncomfortable. Monday morning I called the dentist and got in to see him at 9:30 a.m. He took a look at it and said, “This tooth has got to go.” And so within fifteen minutes it was gone. It came out really easily and the bone had receded, so now it is just waiting for the hole to heal up.
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