Monday, January 25, 2016

Cathi gets ready to leave for California and we get ready to leave for home.  We wash all the sheets and towels and rugs before we leave and make sure the room and bathroom are clean.  We really do appreciate Cathi and Terry allowing us to stay with them.  They make us feel very welcome and we love their dogs.

We pack the vacuum and file cabinet into our car.  We have shakes, walnuts and bananas for breakfast.  James makes a Sonic run for Cathi and I before we leave.  

We stop at Bass Pro Shop and James spends $200 of his gift cards on various items.  I buy some sugar-cinnamon coated almonds while I am waiting for him.  

Is there really $200 worth of stuff in that bag?

By the time we got to Payson we were hungry so we stopped at Chili's for lunch.  I had a 6 oz. steak with a salad, cooked tomatoes, garlic and avocados.  It was delicious!  James has fish tacos but forgets to ask for corn tortillas.  

There is still lots of snow on the rim.

 We stopped at the bank and Show Low.  When we got to Vernon, Chuck was on Owen Peeler's tractor grading our road.  We do appreciate our good neighbor.  He stops to tell us that our garage door is open.  Oh dear...how many days have we been gone?

We put stuff away and I put the new bedspread on our bed.  I love it!

 This picture doesn't show how really purple it is.

This shows it a little better.

 We watched three movies tonight:

"Unleashing Mr. Darcy"

"The Apple Mortgage Cake"

(We loved this one!)

"Comeback Dad"

 

 

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

James and I were on the schedule to clean the Church this morning. Dave, Laura, and Jackie Hall were our co-workers. There is alot to do but I think we were very thorough and did a nice job. It makes me appreciate more all the times that Paul took his boys down to clean.
Afterward James took Joseph and Alex over to his Mom's to help him cut down a tree in her backyard. Things did not go well. The new chain saw he bought with the money his Mom gave him for chopping down the tree did not work. The boys did haul some branches and Lois paid them. James will have to come back on Monday to finish the tree off.
This afternoon James took Joshua, Alex and Michael to The Bass Pro Shop. Joshua also went with him this morning to Lois's. James and Michael were looking for stuff to wear to their Mountain Man outing later in the month but they had no luck. Later James went to Savers and bought some pants.
I did some shopping today too, at Walmart, Sam's Club and Home Depot. I bought some lavender, white and purple petunias to plant by our mailbox. James helped me plant them in between all of his business. He also had a meeting this afternoon about building Saki's house.
We started our Fast around 3 pm. We are fasting for someone in our family.
I spent the evening working on my lesson. We went to bed early.