Friday, May 24, 2013

James chased the cows for me this morning.  I let him take over that pleasure when he is here.

We took a trip to town today.  James stopped at Horne's for less than ten minutes.  As we were going back towards town we saw a four seater Polaris Razor for sale.  The guy wanted $13,500 but James got him down to $13,000.  It's a 2010 but only has seven hundred miles on it.  It's exactly what we want.  Before going home for the checkbook we stopped at C-A-L where James bought some more primers and a "chimney" for our dutch oven.  We had lunch at LaCasita.

 James finishing off his green chili chicken enchilada

I bought lots of groceries at Walmart in anticipation of Jared and his kids coming tonight.  James did some shopping at Home Depot and then picked me up as is our usual habit.

After putting groceries away, which took a long time, I went in to figure our finances to see if we could afford that Razor.  Well it didn't take me long to figure it would not be a wise decision to buy it, so we didn't pursue it anymore.  I have to just put it out of my mind.  

I spent a couple of hours cleaning the bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs for Jared and his family.  They arrived around 10:30 and went straight to bed.  Molly wanted me to polish her nails but Jared said she would have to wait until tomorrow.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

D&C 6:7

Seek not for riches but for wisdom, and behold, the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto you, and then shall you be made rich. 

Behold, he that hath eternal life is rich.

D&C 6:20

...Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, 

and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love.

I wanted James to watch "The Magic of Ordinary Days" with me this morning and he did.  He loved it almost as much as I did.  I am saving it for when Kim and Sheri come up so they can watch it too.  

We had to make a trip to town this morning to make a deposit for Francesco.  He is working in California and is out of money.  James owes him some money so we stopped at Bank of America and made a deposit in his account.  Of course if we are in town we have to go to lunch.  The waitress at La Casita knows us now.  After lunch James went to C-A-L to get more primers for reloading.  This time they were out.  While he was in there I walked across the street to CVS to get some chocolate.  While there I also found a bag of cinnamon fire stix which they don't have at Walmart.  

James reloaded 50 bullets and says he saved $40.  Considering how much the reloader cost he really hasn't saved anything yet.  The reloading table he built:

Last week James planted two aspen trees and three apple trees.  Elk came in and ate the aspen trees but the apple trees are still ok.  I guess that's why people build electric fences (the Cranes) around their place.

James is really complaining about his back hurting.  I feel so bad for him.  Hopefully he can get something done that will give him some relief.  He also came in frustrated because he wanted to do some work around the place and he can't get the tractor started.

I want James to build some benches like this to go around our fire pit.

 

We started our fast this afternoon.  We are fasting for Dallin.