(Written on June 1st from notes taken previously)
It took me a little while to get rolling after I got up this morning. It was another early morning, and I spent a pretty good amount of time just hanging out in my van listening to more old phone calls.
When I finally headed out, my first stop was the Home Depot to find something to attach my fairy lights with. In New Zealand, my little van had a headliner, and I just used simple thumbtacks pushed into the headliner to wrap the fairy light wire around.
Rover doesn’t have a headliner. It’s just hard fiberglass, and I don’t want to stick thumbtacks into fiberglass. 🙃
I thought about putting little dollops of industrial adhesive in strategic places and then wet setting thumbtacks into the adhesive (the industrial adhesive that was used to hold pieces of wood to the roof was crazy strong, so it seemed like a workable solution), but I figured there had to be a much better way, so I headed over to where they sell sticky fasteners (velcro, command strips, etc). Looking at everything, I settled on the little plastic hooks that adhere to whatever you’re sticking them to with command strip tape that you then just stretch to remove.
I remember my van in New Zealand had some of those. I never used them, but I think I’ll give them a try here. Hopefully, they’re workable.
I thought about using little velcro dots that are sticky on each side, but I remember how much tension fairy lights were under, and I figured the velcro wouldn’t have the strength to withstand the tension.
Still, I bought a bunch of velcro dots anyway, thinking that I could use them for other things as well, such as holding the foam board position in my skylights.
I could have taken time to start setting everything up right there in the parking lot of Home Depot, but I didn’t want to, so I just drove over to the temple, got myself changed, and headed on in–one dress shoe sole still flopping as I walked.
Need to get that fixed or get some more dress shoes. 🙃
It was nice to be in the temple again. 🤍🙏🤍
Amazingly, I never got sleepy during the endowment session. It was nice to sit there in the stillness and contemplate both during the endowment and in the celestial room.
They didn’t need any help in the baptistry, probably because kids are still in school. Their needs might change in a couple of weeks when kids start coming to the baptistry during the week during what would be school hours during the school year.
I made a quick stop at the distribution center to take back a couple of garment packages that I had bought in New Zealand that weren’t the right size.
And I stopped to snap a few…
I also stopped off and got gas at the “cheaper” gas station that’s close to the temple. $4.29
I’m not quite ready to buy an electric vehicle yet, but only because I want to spend my money on other things, and buying a brand new car (or even a used one) isn’t where I want my money to be tied up.
Electric vehicles are a much better product and cheaper to own and maintain.
Did some grocery shopping at Walmart before hopping back on the highway and heading east. I passed the time listening to recordings of myself reading spiritual experiences that I’ve written down that are meaningful to me.
My memory is failing me pretty good here, but I think? I stopped off at J.H. Keith Park and played in the water for a good little bit.
My little soaking area that I was trying to build was completely overgrown with algae and plants, developing its own little ecosystem. 🙃
I kind of felt bad about letting it just sit there all torn apart the way I left it, rock strewn all over the place.
I probably never should have begun the project (wondering if it might be against the law to be doing what I was doing 😬), but now I suppose I ought to either finish it or try and make it beautiful in some way, so it’s not just left as I left it.
Back on the ranch, I think we talked about house stuff, chatted with Ingrid who came over, and I think we talked real estate for a while?
Hope my notes are accurate, as I just don’t remember more. 😅
Other than all that, I veged a little bit and crashed for the night.
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 