Our Life Lately

Mom and I have been going to the temple every other Tuesday morning

Got to visit with my friend Stacy at her new job. 

We are in the process of eliminating those DANG VOLES in our lawn. 

Old Man and Wrinkly old Woman 

Honey do,,,,,,,ssssss

Re-did some chairs (Paint and new fabric) 

Watching a storm roll in, and roll on by.......very little rain.
We haven't gotten much rain this summer - it's a bummer. 

Plenty of wind though, puts down branches that get caught in the Welch Ditch Dam, which Roger cleans out multiple times a week. 

Even blew so hard one night we were without power for about 4 hours (6 to 10 pm) 
Can you guess which kid gave us this candle? haha

Early morning watering of garden has been so nice and cool. 

Peas are gone.  I'm so proud that we have been able to keep the weeds down, especially in the bottom of the garden where we didn't plant anything. 

Got the electric fence up to keep the raccoons out of the corn. 

Cleaned out Mom's light fixture which were riddled with wasp nests.

Removed her cement edging and sold it, and when the flowers die, we are going to put down bark, and get the three barrels from the Property, and redo her flower bed.

Also, took out the flowers and bushes under the bedroom window, so the sprinklers would get the dry spot on the lawn hopefully. 

Our one lone sunflower that came up from seed (volunteer) - it's ahead of the others I planted for sure.  I think it's about 10-12 feet tall. 

 

Another project at Zac and CJ's.  I can't tell you how many revisions this room has had over the course of the years.  I could do an entire blog post just on this one room !  

Cupboards taken down, wall removed, dog wash station removed. 

Going to remove the wall behind the washer and dryer, so that they can be pushed back against the outside wall.  Also, another wall will be built against the side of the desk (see in bottom right photo) and another dog wash installed on the outside wall. 

Football practice in full swing for both Tagg and Thatcher. Hope for a great year with lots of playing time.  Fingers crossed.  

Miscellaneous happenings in August

The squash bugs killed our pumpkin and squash crop.
We lost 99% of our crop.  So disappointing.

Rog is working so hard - he is really tired at the end of the day.
It's hard with the boys back at school and football, and the bulk of the mowing falls to him. 

I'm so happy we live in such a beautiful valley as Morgan.  We are BLESSED.

I got Paris and Azula all shaved up............and then we lost baby CHA CHA (not Chi Chi).  Paris had Cha Cha, and she was poorly from the start.  Lived about a month, then died :(  We gave Cha Cha to Annette Prescott, and then decided we were going out of the goat business.  Paris and Azula headed on down the road to a good home courtesy of Steve Bell. 

We planted Giant sunflowers from last year's Giant Sunflower seeds.  They have grown so tall, and we love them !! 

The garden crop is on.  Corn, Cucumbers, Tomatoes - YUM 

I made a beautiful Apple pie.  It was delicious.  Made from apples from Mom's tree.

I'm cutting back on office work at the Assessor's office, in preparation for my retirement in October.  I've been out helping Roger (The Yard Master) - I guess you could call me  The Yard Mistress (haha).

Canning is always fun.
Roger is such a good help to me.
We did salsa, tomato juice, and sauer kraut

Aaron Venz showed us how to dry out onions ! 

Landon and Kacey went with Yvonne and Steve (their neighbors) to an island resort in the Caribbean.  They had a great time. 

Landon and Kacey's family had Lagoon season passes again

Fun times on Rattle Snake Rapids

Not sure which MLB park, or who that player was..........
But Landon was there for work I think.

Splitting some rotten wood - NO FUN

Glad the boys could help. 

Starting another project.  I think it's called, "Clean out the shed and kill the wasps and mice!"

Tagg and Thatcher still go to The Weight Room
This is Tagg's group

Zac and CJ got a Jeep Rubicon.  They plan to go on some "Jeeping" adventures.

Kelly Wilson and Haslam are going to be the new wrestling coaches this year.  Roger is talking with them after a football game. 

Treyson is a Senior, and is playing on the Defensive line

Tagg is a Sophomore, and plays the same position

Thatcher has many friends who also have older brothers who play for MHS.
They have a great time at the games watching. 

Thatcher is playing too in WFFL

 

Happenings at our House

We have the tomato GROW BOX out, and ready to go for this year.

My front flower bed looks pretty good since I cleaned it up last fall.  The tulips have POPPED more than they are in this picture, and they are just beautiful.  Those pesky little purple hyacinths though........I wish I had never planted them, and that other plant that completely takes over....

Tagg's Scout Potato project such worked good.  He took this bad boy over and planted it in Grandpa D's garden.   I'll have to keep you updated on how it turns out.

Manda sent Camryn's latest school project.  Which was AMAZING !!
This is the picture we took to text back to Cam.  We are sure proud of the good work she is doing.

Another scout project, hanging on our fridge.  A good reminder for us all !

I went down and watched Payson and Brightyn last Friday? morning.  Oh what fun that was.  They are both quite the characters.  Here Payson is making his SCARY face !

Brightyn's SCARY face - haha

And Smiles.............

More Smiles............

Such crazy kids.

A few days later we got Tagg's SCOUT tomatoes in the grow box (not seen here). It was SO WINDY, and we didn't think they were going to make it.  A day later though, and they looked fine.

All bundled up (the tomato plants), with our MINI MASTER Gardener.  I think he's going to take after Grandpa D.

Random Random pic - but it show how great of PICKER UPPERS Payson and Brightyn are.  This was Sunday night.  We had the whole family there visiting for a hour, and it was THE BEST.  I love it when this happens, and it doesn't happen often enough.  I love our family so much.

Crazy weather !!  A hail storm rolled through one day this past week during my lunch hour.  Only on one side of the tramp, because the wind was blowing so much.  This was the lunch hour that I about got hit HEAD ON at the "Y".  I was stopped, and a car coming from Milton turned, and didn't see me.  Was coming straight for me, going really fast (a young male was driving).  I screamed, threw up my hands, and braced for impact, and he did a mighty jerk on the steering wheel at the last minute, and swerved around me.  He couldn't have missed the front end of my car by less than a foot.  I just sat there after it was over, I was shaking so bad.  I didn't have my seat belt on......stupid me.  I would have been hurt for sure, unless my air bag could have saved me.    I need to be better at that.

Manda's home with a newly trimmed tree in her front yard.  Beautiful !!

I screen shot Cam's Instagram posts. 
Here are a few. 
Miss her !!