Monday, September 7, 2015

This week this family celebrated their family birthday!

The smallest one in the picture is Paul.

It was overcast this morning as we sat on the porch with Jared and Camie before they went on their Razr ride to Green's Peak.

A little windblown but they made it to the top!

 There were tons of people out in the woods today according to Jared and Camie.  When they returned to the cabin Camie put clean sheets on all of the beds upstairs.  She would have done the downstairs bed too but I wasn't through washing the sheets.  

After lunch of leftover ribs and corn-on-the cob we said our goodbyes to both Jared and Camie.  I felt a little sad because I wasn't sure we would see Camie again.  

 Front Porch Goodbyes

About 30 minutes after Jared and Camie left it started to rain so it's a good thing they went to Greens Peak early.  The rain matched my melancholy mood.

We read our scriptures from the New Testament and the Book of Mormon and then we read a chapter or two from "The Dancing Master".  I spent a couple of hours looking up tithing checks for 2011 and 2012 to help James prepare for income taxes while he worked upstairs.

This evening we watched two Hallmark movies, one starring Candace Cameron Bure as Aurora Teagarden novice sleuth, and one starring Erin Krakow.  

I love rainy days at the cabin with my sweetie!

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Happy 35th birthday Darrel!!

Darrel and his sweet family.

There is a fire in Yosemite right now called the Rim fire which was started by a hunter on August 17th which has burned nearly 371 square miles.  It is one of the largest wildfires in California history and has cost 81 million dollars to fight.

James and I had our weekly lunch date at LaCasita today.  Afterwards we went to Home Depot to get some shelf brackets for our bookshelves and some Krud Kutter to remove the wax from our wood floor.  While walking in we saw James's Uncle Delbert and so we stopped and spoke with him.   Uncle Delbert is in his mid 90's.  He said he just returned from visiting with Curtis in Iowa. 

After shopping at Home Depot we went to Walmart.  James waited for me on a bench in the front of the store while I did my shopping.  Just outside the store we had seen a woman holding a homeless sign.  James had me get $10 to give to her.

This evening we went on a Ranger ride.  We saw a wild turkey, an owl and a large six point elk near home.  On the way home from town we saw some antelope in the field across from the post office.  James counted 9 does and 6 bucks.  We also saw some archery antelope hunters scoping them out.  Here's hoping the guy is a lousy shot.

Some pictures I took today:

Mary Johnson, Paul's mother posted this picture on Facebook today:

Paul is the youngest, just to Mary's left.