A new "trick!"

I went to Utah on Wednesday and came back today (Saturday). This was going to be a "low budget" trip so I packed my food for the trip down so I wouldn't have to stop. On a "wild hare" I threw two frozen burritos in and some tin foil. For lunch (and again for dinner) I wrapped a burrito in tin foil and then put it on top of the metal (can't think of what it's called) cover that is over the exhaust manifold. There's a motor lifting hook right there close by so I wrapped the tail end of the foil around that to keep it from falling off of the motor while I was driving down the road. The first one I did for 15 minutes and it was warm. For dinner I left it on for 30 minutes and it was nice and hot but a little dry. I guess I'll have to experiment with this a little. On the way home today Joey and Kimberly and I drove up to Logan to see Dad and left there about 10:30 am. I stopped in Tremonton and got a fruit drink to hold me over and then stopped at Walmart in Mountain Home to get something for lunch. (Remember this is "low budget.") I got a couple of pieces of fruit and was looking over the frozen stuff for something I could heat up under the hood. I found a frozen TV dinner that was on sale for 98 cents! so I nabbed it up. I wrapped it in the tin foil and hooked the corner of the tin foil around the motor hook. The package said to bake it at 350 for 30-45 minutes. I figured the under side of the car would be more like 250 or less so I left it there for an hour and ate it at a road side rest just over the Oregon border. It was great! It was cooked all the way through. In fact a few of the kernels of corn were a little burnt. So that's my new "trick." (Here's a picture of my frozen dinner so you'll know I'm not making this up.)
Dad.

I missed Katie's birthday!

I went online last night and looked at Katie & Bill's blog and hit myself in the forehead when I realized that I had missed Katie's Birthday! So to make it up I spent a little time scanning some "old" pictures that I thought she might enjoy seeing. Katie had the unfortunate luck that Mom and I were almost always gone to the CES Symposium on her birthday so we'd have to celebrate it late. Please note the first picture of her and her cake on her 2nd birthday -- proof that she did get cake on her birthday. The other pictures are some fun random pictures that show her "growing up." We did the best we could on her and then we handed her off to Bill. What she's been able to become since then is their "fault." Enjoy the pics. Hope you had a great day Katie. Love Dad

p.s. If you click on the pictures, then click on the picasa emblem in the bottom RH cornter, then click on "Katie's birthday" you can go to our picasa website and see the pictures in a larger size (with captions) at your own speed.

Looking better

Years ago Dedie's Dad John made her a wishing well, brought it to our house from Pennsylvania, and set it up in our back yard. It was made completely out of wood, some of it wood scraps that he had, and eventually the base of it rotted out and I had to take off the roof and set it aside, hoping that some day I could use it again. Well it has sat by the back fence for a few years. This year, in anticipation of Joey and Kimberly's wedding reception I got the idea that maybe we could make a new wishing well out of rocks and put the roof John made on top of it.


So that is what we did earlier this spring. We were quite pleased with the results. At the same time we decided to make half the garden into a flower garden with a gravel path running through it. It turned out pretty and looked pretty good in time for the reception. Unfortunately we didn't get the Zinnias planted soon enough and so most of them weren't in bloom. But they're in bloom now and look pretty nice.



Time to have another reception (just kidding) :)

In case you're interested, here's a few more garden pictures
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