A VERY Busy Day

Looking at this beautiful yard, would you believe this is where we are going to go to get a haircut? For more years than I can remember, Sarah has been cutting my hair. It started when she used Daughter Mary Mae's thick head of blonde hair in a competition -- or was it a licensing...? Anyhow, she was working at a beauty shop downtown. Later, we followed her to her own shop which was a little house where she used the bottom floor for her shop and leased out the upstairs to another beautician for her shop. Daughter Dawn got her haircuts from Sarah when she was still in Ritzville and even Forry started having Sarah cut his hair. Now he refuses to let anyone else touch it!

Then several years back, Sarah and her husband purchased and remodeled this little house on Magnolia Street for her shop and sold the other house. Her husband Rick has his construction business next door. Sarah most definitely has a green thumb and always has a yard and porch full of flowers.

This was a pretty barren strip of land when Sarah first moved here -- it's certainly not that now!

I was delighted a couple of weeks ago when I called Sarah from Montana and found out she had a cancellation and would be able to fit us in. She has a closed practice, but as long-time customers she works to fit us in. Sarah cut four to five inches off of Forry's hair -- though it's still pretty long -- and trimmed the split ends off of mine. Much better!

From Sarah's we drove on out to the Idaho state line to Cabela's to get Forry a new pair of shoes. Now, shoe-shopping with Forrest is normally like those cartoons where the lady is trying on pair after pair of shoes while the boxes stack up higher and higher. A few years ago, we went through this routine at Cabela's and he found a pair he really liked. So, the next time he needed a pair of shoes, he went back to Cabela's with the model number and got another pair just like the first ones. Today he did it again. It's sort of boring, but a lot less hassle...

On our way back to Spokane, we stopped at the AT&T store at the Spokane Valley so that I could upgrade my iPhone. I've been eligible for an upgrade since last winter, but wanted to wait until we were back here to do it. Just because we really like the service and the friendliness of the the staff there. When we were in Iowa, our friend Leslie got Forry intrigued by her use of Siri which allows you to ask for information verbally. Since he doesn't like to type, he thought that was really neat. So now we each have an iPhone! Going to be quite a learning curve I think...