Riverwalk House gets Remodeled
In part of the basement of our newly bought house were two bedrooms; one painted red and the other blue. The red bedroom was selected to become the computer room. Utahns seem to like starkly colored rooms, but these proved to be way too dark for a basement. So out with the paint bucket and a few days later, a much milder-painted computer room and a similarly lighter other bedroom. We also decided to bring an electrician in - one of Marolynn's nephews who ran a electrician business - and he was really good at what he did. He installed sunken lights in both bedrooms, the basement, and in the family-kitchen room upstairs.






Most homes in Utah have basements and many of them have a concrete cold storage room as part of the basement. Since we are storage freaks with 40 years of stuff, we bought and assembled shelving in the cold storage room and moved our Albuquerque refrigerator in there also as the sellers left a refrigerator in the kitchen upstairs. All kinds of things - food and other household goods are in the storage room. But we're certainly ready for more gardening and more canning this summer.

Desert Star
In the midst of unpacking and moving into our latest home, we were given a delightful treat by Mike and Laura Rowbury - a night out at a dinner-play in the Desert Star cabaret theater in Salt Lake. This particular theater puts on comical plays, spoofing books and movies, with old time heroes and villians to be cheered and booed at. Tonights play was "Twi-light" or "I was a teenage vampire". When a particularly busty 'girl' played by one of the male actors was accosted by the vampire villain there was an apparel failure with a pop and a deflated right chest, whereupon the villain excalimed "ahh the closer you
are to get at".

There was little of this kind of entertainment to be had in Albuquerque, so it was a very pleasant diversion from the week of work of moving in. Just whole lots of fun with a half-hour "oleo" session after the play remindful of campfire sessions with songs, recognitions of birthdays, and comedy routines by the cast of eight. A nice night after a hard week of getting the house organized.