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Monday, July 6, 2009
I have to answer to Becket about the potato salad. No, I didn't put it aside. But I did make less and I should have kept with the original program. It's Monday and there is NO POTATO SALAD left! Ten pounds of potatoes just doesn't make enough salad. Then there was the super lean hamburger I used to make patties this year. Too lean. So I added sour cream, eggs, beefy onion powdered soup mix, bread crumbs and off to the barbie! I had so many hamburgers to cook, but I thought that would be ok to have some in the freezer. I was all right with that. Well, it's Monday and there are NO HAMBURGERS left over! Now what will we eat?
I missed the parade again this year. Because I had to make the salad. Next year I am planning ahead of time and I WILL be to the parade. No one here really gets why I like the parade, but I do so that's all that matters.
We had part of family here in and out over the day. Everyone is getting in to their own celebration of this day. That's ok but it makes things a bit lonely here. I work as hard for a few as for a lot so I'm tired as usual. There was a time...
So happy Fourth of July to all of you and I hope your days celebrating our freedom and our wonderful country (but not leaders) were pleasant and popping good!!!
I missed the parade again this year. Because I had to make the salad. Next year I am planning ahead of time and I WILL be to the parade. No one here really gets why I like the parade, but I do so that's all that matters.
We had part of family here in and out over the day. Everyone is getting in to their own celebration of this day. That's ok but it makes things a bit lonely here. I work as hard for a few as for a lot so I'm tired as usual. There was a time...
So happy Fourth of July to all of you and I hope your days celebrating our freedom and our wonderful country (but not leaders) were pleasant and popping good!!!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Oh, my word!!! I am here after all.
I just had a really good trip to Nauvoo, Illinois. My son, my father, my sister, my niece and I went to attend the wedding and celebration of another niece who lives in Iowa. We left here on Wednesday evening at 6:05 and arrived in Fort Madison, Iowa, the following evening around 6:00. If I knew how to download pictures and insert them here I would show you a picture of the temple at night. What a lovely building! And of course inside is even better.
We hurried on over to Iowa (a two hour trip) to prepare for the reception. Our group was probably a little in the way but we tried to be of help and assistance. We spent the next day playing around. My brother teaches at a local college and showed us some chemistry tricks and then made ice cream with liquid nitrogen. That was interesting and we had lots of fun. Afterwards, the building became the venue for a game of freeze tag that covered four floors and stairwells. We have been in on that action a couple of times before and it really is a lot of fun. I guess it isn't exactly college learning, but probably fits with college hijinx.
The next day we attended church where my brother is well in to his eight year (and third time around) as branch president. We stayed for the first meeting and then hurriedly changed clothes and headed on down the freeway! We stopped in Florence, Nebraska, and went to the Winter Quarters visitor's center. The change to that neighborhood is quite drastic. I can remember visiting there when there was NO visitor's center and again later when the "center" was a trailer. The surrounding streets gave one cause to worry about safety. Today, with the temple in the midst of this quiet scene, the streets are clean, the stores are new, the feeling is truly peaceful.
Onward. To Laramie, Wyoming. But first we had to pay homage to the rest area where I was left in the middle of the night with no identification, no money, no one to call, no description of vehicle to tell the highway patrol so they could find my family and ask if they wanted me back. That was a long night.
We caught a few hours of sleep in Laramie and then headed home, arriving about 4pm. That adds up to, let's see, 5 and a half days, approximately 4,000 miles, a little TB, but fun times. We even laughed a little in the car at times.
So, now, do you have an inexpensive little apartment for a very newly wedded couple? They need a place to nest in. Both are students, naturally, with very little money.
There is a beautiful clear view from the front of the temple to the Mississippi River. The grass slopes down into the flat where the church has restored and also built many new homes and businesses. At the visitor's center there is an absolutely breathtaking exhibit of 13 sculptures depicting events in the life of Christ that lift us up and cause us great joy. You can see pictures of some of these at either ajsculptures.com, or iamthelightoftheworld.org. The artist also has a web page where you can find out more about her: mormonsoprano.com. You will enjoy the visit. I have favorites, but I saw them in person and the feeling is different than looking online.
I just had a really good trip to Nauvoo, Illinois. My son, my father, my sister, my niece and I went to attend the wedding and celebration of another niece who lives in Iowa. We left here on Wednesday evening at 6:05 and arrived in Fort Madison, Iowa, the following evening around 6:00. If I knew how to download pictures and insert them here I would show you a picture of the temple at night. What a lovely building! And of course inside is even better.
We hurried on over to Iowa (a two hour trip) to prepare for the reception. Our group was probably a little in the way but we tried to be of help and assistance. We spent the next day playing around. My brother teaches at a local college and showed us some chemistry tricks and then made ice cream with liquid nitrogen. That was interesting and we had lots of fun. Afterwards, the building became the venue for a game of freeze tag that covered four floors and stairwells. We have been in on that action a couple of times before and it really is a lot of fun. I guess it isn't exactly college learning, but probably fits with college hijinx.
The next day we attended church where my brother is well in to his eight year (and third time around) as branch president. We stayed for the first meeting and then hurriedly changed clothes and headed on down the freeway! We stopped in Florence, Nebraska, and went to the Winter Quarters visitor's center. The change to that neighborhood is quite drastic. I can remember visiting there when there was NO visitor's center and again later when the "center" was a trailer. The surrounding streets gave one cause to worry about safety. Today, with the temple in the midst of this quiet scene, the streets are clean, the stores are new, the feeling is truly peaceful.
Onward. To Laramie, Wyoming. But first we had to pay homage to the rest area where I was left in the middle of the night with no identification, no money, no one to call, no description of vehicle to tell the highway patrol so they could find my family and ask if they wanted me back. That was a long night.
We caught a few hours of sleep in Laramie and then headed home, arriving about 4pm. That adds up to, let's see, 5 and a half days, approximately 4,000 miles, a little TB, but fun times. We even laughed a little in the car at times.
So, now, do you have an inexpensive little apartment for a very newly wedded couple? They need a place to nest in. Both are students, naturally, with very little money.
There is a beautiful clear view from the front of the temple to the Mississippi River. The grass slopes down into the flat where the church has restored and also built many new homes and businesses. At the visitor's center there is an absolutely breathtaking exhibit of 13 sculptures depicting events in the life of Christ that lift us up and cause us great joy. You can see pictures of some of these at either ajsculptures.com, or iamthelightoftheworld.org. The artist also has a web page where you can find out more about her: mormonsoprano.com. You will enjoy the visit. I have favorites, but I saw them in person and the feeling is different than looking online.
Friday, May 22, 2009
I have not been here in so long that I wonder if I remember how to type, or think or process or relate or communicate. Oh wait! I don't think I know that last one.
Some things on my mind that I am trying to work around or through:
relatives who come to stay with my dad (and stay and stay)
daughters-in-law
summer projects
"puddles" around my house
flower gardens
weight gain
mental anguish
Well I certainly could extend the list. But instead I need to "clean" up two bedrooms to accommodate family coming tonight for the weekend and food assignments so I guess I am actually off to clean the grill. Postulating and commiserating on this blog will have to wait---yet again.
Oh, and forget about that last silly coded blog. Just head off to the wordle.net website and have fun creating your own word clouds.
Some things on my mind that I am trying to work around or through:
relatives who come to stay with my dad (and stay and stay)
daughters-in-law
summer projects
"puddles" around my house
flower gardens
weight gain
mental anguish
Well I certainly could extend the list. But instead I need to "clean" up two bedrooms to accommodate family coming tonight for the weekend and food assignments so I guess I am actually off to clean the grill. Postulating and commiserating on this blog will have to wait---yet again.
Oh, and forget about that last silly coded blog. Just head off to the wordle.net website and have fun creating your own word clouds.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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