In Florida

Mom & I are in Florida. We're hating it! (Tastes like medicine!)
We're happy to be here with Matthew and Nicole, but Rylin is the "main attraction."
Here are some pictures.



Love Dad and Mom

Early morning shots of CRT Temple

I took these pictures this morning at the temple. When I can I like to go to the temple early Saturday morning and do a session of initiatories. This morning I had the idea to take the camera and tripod along. I'm glad I did.
Dad

Comments

Jackie pointed out to me that one of my "setup" adjustments was keeping people from leaving comments on our Blog. Well I went and changed it because I've been wondering why I haven't gotten any comments [is that vain?]. So feel free to comment! (and, speaking of birthdays, enjoy the following cartoon.)

Naomi is a year older

In honor of Naomi's birthday (August 31) I scanned some pictures. I did this for Katie's birthday and figured I needed to do the same for our other children (so beware). I'm still learning. Some of the scanned photos are a little fuzzy. But if you look past the quality, when that's an issue, and look at what the picture is about then it's a fun journey through the past to view these pictures and think about how things were "way back when". So either enjoy the slide show or click on it and go to our picasa web album where you can check out the pics in larger format.
Happy Birthday Naomi
Love Dad

20 years and 2 seconds!

The other day Jackie decided she was going to "fix" my cup. So she put some superglue on the top rim of it. It's a little jagged and has a crack in it and I guess she thought she was doing me a favor. Or at least that is what she said. Well, she didn't tell me what she was doing and I used the cup to get a drink and got super glue on my lips. They didn't stick together or anything but I wore the glue for awhile and it was a litle annoying. I told her I'd had that cup for twenty years and she had ruined it in two seconds. Luckily I was able to scrape the glue residue off of the cup so I can still use it. Then I was looking at some old pictures and, sure enough, I did have the cup twenty years ago. Here's proof, a picture that was taken in 1986.
Dad

Flowers

I wish the flower garden could have looked like this for Joey & Kimberly's wedding.

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.