Monday, December 3, 2012

Today is Jared & Tricia's 13th anniversary, and they don't even get to spend it together.  Jared is in El Paso, and Tricia is in Phoenix helping to plan her brother's memorial service..  I guess they will have to celebrate at a later date. 

James and I read from 3 Nephi and from our book The Time Keeper this morning.  Afterwards James went out to do some work on his tractor.  While he was working one of the tires came off.  The lug nuts were gone.  This means a trip into town to the tire shop.  While we are there we might as well go to lunch, pick up some prescriptions and do a little shopping.  LaCasita is closed on Monday's so we drove all the way to Pinetop to go to El Rancho.  I had the beef stuffed sopapilla.  It was good. 

This evening we watched a Christmas movie, "A Christmas Wish", The Mentalist, and Person of Interest.  

Monday, August 6, 2012

This morning I worked on updating my Sunday Church journal and I read the Young Women's lesson for next week on the importance of education and obtaining knowledge.  James and I sat on the porch and watched the clouds come in while we read from the Book of Mormon and our Victoria Holt book.  Also, I must confess I have anew addiction.  I love to play Scramble on my phone with Kim and Sheri.  I don't know why I play them because they beat me and they beat me badly.  The game is addicting though.
James and I went in to town this afternoon.  We had forgotten to take our trash to the dump on Saturday so we timed it just right today and got there right when it opened, at 1 pm.  We were going to go to LaCasita but it's closed on Monday's so we went to El Rancho instead.  There green chile burros aren't quite as good but I also had a shrimp taco which was delicious!  I did some shopping at Walmart while James waited in the car.  Afterwards we stopped at National Bank and opened an account.  James wants an account at a smaller bank.
Vickie and Dennis came out this evening.  Vickie brought James a walker and some pills and lots of advice.  It was very thoughtful of her.  We had a nice visit and watched a little of the Olympics.  Dennis, Denise and Denise's mom just got back from a trip to Chicago and now he's getting ready to go to Tennessee.
It rained again today and got down to 63.  The high was 72. 

Saturday, July 28, 2012

I wish I could do something to get rid of James's back pain.  He is in such pain it is difficult for him to enjoy anything.  In the morning we sat out on the porch off of our bedroom and read and took pictures of the humming birds and watched it rain.  It was one of my favorite ways to spend a morning here.

Two birds like our feeder.  One of them is a bully and chases the 

other one away.

This guy is the bully.

How many pictures of a hummingbird can we take?

They are more fascinating in real life.

Here is my picture of the rain.  Hopefully something

green will grow where all that dirt is.

 This afternoon we drove into town to get some lunch.  James wanted to stop at La Casita but it was raining so hard we drove on up to El Rancho in Pinetop.  It was still raining, but not nearly as hard.  We both had green chili burros.  I wish we could give them The Burger House's receipe so they could make them for us.

I watched Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh win their first set of beach volleyball in the Olympics.  I think these girls are unbeatable.  I would like to design them something a little more modest to wear.  

James and I watched a cute modern take on the Jane Austen move "Sense and Sensibility."  This one was called "Scents and Sensibility."  James thinks the producer must be LDS.  I am no so sure, but we both liked it.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The doctor told James to take it easy today so that's what he did.  We did take a trip into town.  We had lunch at El Rancho and then made our usual stop at Home Depot and Walmart.  James picked up our blinds at Home Depot and I got stuff at Walmart to make chocolate chip cookies for Mutual tomorrow night.  Trina had taken the kids into town to play at the Show Low Park and then she went shopping at Walmart.  When she came back to the cabin there was a white Toyota van following her, just like Sheri's on it wasn't Sheri, it was Lexy and Kreed.  Lexy is married to Trina's brother Bryce and she is Kylie and Kayla's Mom along with Kreed's. 
We were all outside this evening enjoying the good weather.  James had to show me the huge pile of branches he had prepared to burn.  The kids had found a piece of metal to use for a slide for their club house.  Rowan found a horned toad and named him "Horny". 



Tuesday, June 5, 2012

James and I made a trip into town today.  It proved to be very costly.  Our first stop was El Rancho.  We both got green chili burros only James got his with beans.  They were good but nothing like the Burger House.  I ate half and was going to take the other half home but I went off and left it.  Darn!  I hate wasting good food. 

Our next stop was Walmart.  I sent James to get birthday cards for Dallin, Brian, and Ian and a sympathy card for LaMont Ball.  His son Karl passed away on Saturday.  He had cancer and was the same age as Stacy.  They used to live next door to us. 

Our ward is having a Navajo taco fundraiser dinner for girls camp on Friday evening and they are also having a desert auction.  I volunteered to bring a dessert to auction off.  The other day while watching Paula Deen she made some yummy looking cinnamon rolls so I decided that is what I wanted to make.  I bought the ingredients for the cinnamon rolls and some non-food items.  When I went to check out I got restaurant gift cards for Brian, Ian and Tricia and some cash for Dallin.  I was appalled at what my total was.  James had gone to the McDonald's to get me a drink so he didn't see and I didn't tell him. 

This evening James and I went for a walk.  It was a short one because James was in so much pain.  We went on a Ranger ride and he felt much better!