The Mainstream lessons ended on the 30th of July. The club held a graduation ceremony on August 1st, including a potluck supper before the dance started. The club provided fried or grilled chicken, and the club members provided side dishes and desserts. There was so much food left over we could have eaten a full meal after the dance. There were five squares in attendance. Brian called most of the dance, with Blake calling one tip and Carl calling the Plus tip. These new dancers were able to attend the graduation ceremony.
There will be some workshop evenings coming up in August. The Plus lessons will continue Monday nights since not all the calls have been taught yet.
We went to the home of Blake and Jennifer on Sunday night to help celebrate her mother’s birthday. Blake and Jennifer cooked supper for several of us. Again, there was so much food, Jennifer sent some home with those attending the party. It was the fifth time her mother celebrated her birthday this week. She has one more event to go. Here’s a picture of the party guests.
On Saturday the 7th, as we were working on our laptops, I looked out the window, and a deer was passing through the back yard of the dance hall. I haven’t seen one during the day yet, so it was quite a sight. We tried to visit the local casino, Hon-Doh, for supper and a quick trip to the casino to try our luck. However, we could not find a parking space. Feeling disappointed, we found a different restaurant for supper. There was a small pizza restaurant that I had been seeing whenever we drove on White Mountain Road. It’s called R & R Pizza. The décor has several railroad themed decorations. The pizza came hot and it was very delicious. We’ll definitely go back sometime.
On Sunday, we went back to Blake & Jennifer’s house to celebrate Blake’s birthday. They cooked three different kinds of brats and had all the fixing to go along with the brats. We had stopped at a local farmer’s sweet corn stand and got 18 ears of sweet corn for the party. Unfortunately, so did some other people. Needless to say, there was lots of corn to be eaten. We had packed our corn skewers when we moved out of the house, so I brought those along. Everyone was impressed/jealous with the little corncob skewers that we had. It did make eating the ears of corn much less messy. After supper, there was birthday cake and ice cream for dessert. We all sang “Happy Birthday” to Blake, pretty much in tune.
The Monday night Plus lessons are almost done. Brian taught the last few calls to the group. There weren’t enough people for two squares, so we changed dancers after each teaching tip. There will be another couple of weeks set aside for some workship/review sessions.
I went into the Silver Creek Community Center on Tuesday morning and met Jennifer’s mother to do some crafting. I took my newest Diamond Art project to work on. One lady was working on a Rug Hooking project, one lady was crocheting and Jennifer’s mother worked on her crocheting project. It was nice to have a place to work on the project without having to bother Brian for space on the table. The Tuesday night Mainstream workshops have started. Blake Bjordahl was the caller that night. Blake has been reviewing the calls at the beginning of the list and taking it step by step. The dancers are enjoying the extra floor time.
Wednesday morning, we went into Taylor to do laundry and then back into Show Low to stop at Walgreen’s for Brian’s prescription and some more cough medicine. In the afternoon, it RAINED and RAINED. Lots of rain and wind. Even a little hail fell during the storm. The truck, motorhome and dance hall got a good bath. It’s still raining just a little bit as I write this update.