JANA AND ROB LEFT AND ARRIVED HOME SAFLEY ON FRIDAY THE FIFTH AFTER TEN DAYS OF HAPPINESS FOR ME. THEN SAT. 6TH PENNY CAME FOR CHRISTOPHER'S BLESSING ARRIVED AT ABOUT 4 P.M. WE WENT TO REXBURG ON SUNDAY FOR THE BLESSING THEN HAD POT LUCK ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN RYAN AND KARA'S YARD. IT WAS SO FUN BEING WITH THEM AND HER FAMILY MEMBERS. NATHANIEL AND I HAD A GREAT TIME PULLING HIM AND A COUSIN IN THE WAGON AND ANOTHER COUSIN PUSHING. THERE WAS A TIME ARE TWO I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE RUN OVER BUT MANAGED TO BRAKE THE WAGON. THOSE LITTLE CHILDREN ARE AWSOME.
WHEN WE GOT HOME PENNY CALLED TO TALK WITH ARNAE AND SHE SAID COME OVER AND VISIT BRING YOUR MOM. SO WE WENT OVER HAD A GREAT VISIT WITH SHE AND LYLE THEN LATER ANN CAME AND WE VISITED SOME WITH HER. GOT HOME AROUND 9. LANIE CALLED HAD DISNEY MOVIES SHE HADN'T VIEWED SO WE SAT UP WATCHING HEIDI. "OH" SO I'M NOT A LIAR I DID SLEEP THROUGH A LOT OF IT.
PENNY LEFT ABOUT TEN THE NEXT DAY FOR HOME ARRIVING SAFE. I ALWAYS WONDER TILL I GET WORD MY FAMILY ARE SAFELY HOME. THEN WITH NO ONE HERE AS ANDRA WENT TO SCHOOL IN REXBURG EARLY MON. I SORTA CRASHED ALL DAY.
YESTERDAY WEDS.10 TH JOSSINE CHECKED LYLE OUT OF THE CARE CENTER AND TOOK HIM TO ARLENE'S. I NEED TO CHECK AND SEE HOW THEY ARE DOING. LAST NIGHT WAS OUR WARD ANNUAL PICNIC. THE WIND BLEW AND WAS VERY CHILLY. FOLKS DIDN'T HANG AROUND LONG AFTER EATING. MY CHICKEN SALAD WAS CLEANED UP. THANKS JANA AND ANDRA FOR THE GOOD RECIPE.
I DIS COVERED ANDRA'S BLOG START ON MY COMPUTER SO AM HAPPY SHE HAS STARTED NOW SHE NEEDS TO WRITE SOME OF HER TRIPS TO REXBURG WORK WALKING WITH LANNIE AND THEIR EXCURSIONS FOR PHOTO SHOOTS TO NAME A FEW.
I WAS REMINDED TO WRITE ABOUT THE BAZZAR'S PUT ON AS FUND RAISERS. BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WARDS HAD TO RAISE THEIR OWN EXPENSE MONEY THE RELIEF SOCIETY SISTERS MADE QUILTS AND DID OTHER HAND MADE ARTICLES FOR THE FALL BAZZAR. THEY ALWAYS HAD A DINNER FIRST THEN SOLD THE ITEMS THAT HAD BEEN MADE AND DONATED. MANY A WEDS. AFTER R.S. THE SISTERS STAYED WHO HAND QUILTED AND WORKED ON QUILTS. SOME FOR THE BAZZAR OTHERS FOR THE FAMILY OF SOME OF THE SISTERS. THERE WAS ALWAYS A QUILT STANDING UP IN THE CORNER OF THE RELIEF SOCIETY ROOM WAITING FOR NEXT WEEK TO BE WORKED ON. SOME WEEKS TWO ONE FOR TENTH WARD AND ONE FOR FOURTH WARD. WHEN EVER I WASN'T WORKING I'D SIT AND QUILT WITH THEM CATCHING UP ON EACH OTHERS LIVES AS WELL AS STICKING OUR FINGERS WITH QUILTING NEEDLES. WHEN THE CHURCH SAID NO MORE WARD FUND RAISERS MANY FELT WE'D NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TO TAKE CARE OF THE R.S. NEEDS. THE WORST THAT CAME FROM THAT I THINK IS THE LOST ART OF HAND QUILTING!!!!!
PENNY WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MY GARDENING SKILLS. WHAT SKILLS?? I DON'T REMEMBER HAVING ANY. WHEN WE MOVED IN OUR NEW HOME ON MOTEREY I WORKED HARD TRYING TO LEVEL THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND GET RID OF SOME OF THE BIG ROCKS THAT SURFACED. THAT FALL VERELAN BOUGHT GRASS SEED AND HAND SPRINKLED IT ALL OVER THE YARD FRONT AND BACK AND SIDES. THAT UP SET ME AS I JUST NEW IT WAS A WASTE PLUS THE BACK YARD WASN'T LEVELED. HE SAID SOME ONE TOLD HIM TO SPRINKLE THE SEED ON THE FIRST SNOW AND IT WOULD COME UP IN THE SPRING. WELL GUESS WHAT MR. GROTCHEN TOOK CREDIT FOR OUR LAWN SAID HIS SEEDS HAD BLOWN OVER ONTO OUR YARD. I GUESS HE WAS JEALOUS THAT VERELAN'S LAWN DID BETTER THAT FIRST YEAR THAN HIS. HE JUST KNEW THAT VERELAN HAD WASTED THE SEEDS THAT FALL AND HAD ME CONVINCED TILL SPRING. I KNEW THAT MUCH GRASS SEED HADN'T BLOWN FROM HIS YARD TO OURS AND WAS SO WELL DISTRIBUTED AROUND OUR HOUSE. THE ROUGH SPOTS IN THE LAWN DIDN'T TRIP ANYONE UP EITHER.
WE KEPT A SPOT IN THE NORTH EAST CORNER FOR A GARDEN. SOME THINGS GREW AND DID FAIR OTHERS WAS SPOTTY. THAT WENT ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THEN ONE DAY I CAME HOME AND VERELAN HAD STARTED MAKING PLANTERS IN THE FRONT YARD FOR MY GARDEN. HE HAULED SOIL FROM SOME PLACE TO FILL BOTH SIDES THEN I WATCHED THE PAPER FOR FERTILIZER. I FOUND A FELLOW WHO HAD A BUSINESS OF HANDY MAN ETC. HE BROUGHT SOME VERY OLD MANURE IN AND COVERED THE PLANTERS WITH A GOOD SUPPLY. VERELAN GOT A SMALL ROTO TILLER AND PLOWED THAT INTO THE SOIL AND FROM THEN ON WE HAD A GARDEN THAT GREW MANY THINGS. I GOT ROSE BUSHES FOR THE FRONT OF IT AND EVERY FALL VERELAN WENT FOR MAPLE LEAVES AND PUT AROUND THE BUSHES SO THEY WOULDN'T FREEZE. HE GOT CHICKEN WIRE AND MADE CAGES TO HOLD THE LEAVES AND THEN COVERED THE BUSHES WITH LEAVES. IN THE SPRING HE PLOWED WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE LEAVES INTO THE SOIL FOR FERTILIZER. MY TOMATO'S DID QUITE WELL BEANS AND CARROT'S ONIONS AND WHAT EVER ELSE I PLANTED. SO SEE MY GARDENING SKILLS WAS A JOINT EFFORT. WE ALWAYS GOT LOTS OF COMPLEMENTS ON THAT GARDEN AND THE ROSES. PENNY TOLD ME I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE SOIL FROM THE PLANTERS TO OUR HOME OVER HERE. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I WISHED I HAD IT. THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THE HOUSE TORE THE PLANTERS OUT AND HE WAS HAULING THE DIRT AWAY AND THE FELLOW WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR STOPPED HIM AND ASK FOR IT TO RAISE LOW SPOTS IN HIS BACK YARD. ANYWAY THAT IS MY GARDENING STORY AT 175 MONTEREY DR. HAVEN'T HAD SO GOOD OF LUCK HERE. I STILL TRY. THIS YEAR I HAVE LOTS OF BIG TOMATO'S OH SO GREEN MOST OF THEM. A FEW ONIONS THAT HAVEN'T DONE MUCH. THAT WAS ALL THAAT GREW. I PLANTED CARROTS TWICE AND NOT EVEN ONE SEED GREW.
WILL TELL MORE ANOTHER DAY. MY FINGERS ARE'NT DOING WELL AND I HAVE TO KEEP TRY TO CORRECT MY ERRORS.
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