AUGUST 2009===== WHERE DID IT GO??

WHERE DID IT GO??

WELL SINCE AUGUST WILL BE COMPLETED WHEN WE GET HOME FROM OUR CRUISE THOUGHT I'D CATCH UP FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS. I HAVE A HARD TIME THINKING THIS IS REALLY ALMOST SEPT. SCHOOL DIST. 93 STARTED THIS WEEK ALREADY. BEWARE THE SCHOOL ZONES EVERY ONE IN IDAHO FALLS AND SOME OF THE OTHER AREA'S.

I MENTIONED PENNY COMING TO GO TO STACEY'S DAUGHTERS RECEPTION. SINCE THEY SOLD THEIR HOME AND BUSINESS IN TERRITON, MUD LAKE AREA JULIE WENT ON A HOUSE HUNTING VENTURE. I GUESS SHE FOUND WHAT SHE WANTED LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF WORK AND PLENTY OF HOUSE SINCE THREE OF THE FIVE HAVE LEFT HOME. ANY WAY IT IS LAND SCAPED BEAUTIFULLY AND HAS LAWNS THAT GO UP AND DOWN
THE HILL SIDE AROUND THE HOUSE. WE DIDN'T GO IN BUT SAW STACEY TALKING WITH SOME ONE AND WE WENT WHERE HE WAS AND HE SHOWED US WHERE TO PUT OUR GIFT. WE BOTH GOT BIG HUGS AND WELCOMED STACEY FASHION. THANKS FOR INCLUDING US. ANYWAY WE VISITED A FEW MIN. AND HE LOOKED OVER AND SAID HE NEEDED TO GET IN THE LINE SO WE FOLLOWED AND GOT THRU THE LINE RATHER QUICKLY. HE TOLD US WHERE WE COULD GO WHILE WAITING FOR THE CATERERS TO FINISH. ALL AT ONCE JULIE CAME OVER AND GAVE US BOTH A BEAR HUG AND WAS SO PLEASED WE CAME. AFTER A LITTLE CONVERSATION SHE GOT IN LINE AND PEOPLE CAME AND CAME. REBA AND GENE GOT THERE AND WE SAT WITH THEM AND SAW SOME OF THEIR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AS THEY CAME AND WENT. WHEN WE LEFT WE DROVE OUT TO STEWART AND SUSANS. THEY HAD JUST GOT HOME FROM THE SAUREY FAMILY REUNION AND WAS TRYING TO GET CLEANED UP. SUSAN HAD A RECEPTION TO ATTEND SO WE DIDN'T STAY LONG. WAS GOOD TO SEE SOME OF THEM [DIRT] AND ALL HA!! SHE HAD JOE, SARA, AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO WAS RESISTING THE SHOWER.

USUALLY PENNY DOESN'T BRING CLOTHS FOR CHURCH AND I DID'NT THINK ABOUT HER HAVING A DRESS SO I WENT TO SACRAMENT MEETING THEN CAME HOME. SHE WOULD HAVE GONE HAD I NOTIFIED HER IN TIME TO GO. WE HAD DINNER WITH CLAY AND KAREN WHICH IS ALWAYS GOOD FOOD AND GOOD COMPANY. THANKS FOR FEEDING ME ON MOST SUNDAY'S.

ON THURSDAY THE LAST ONE IN JULY I WAS CALLED ON THE PHONE THAT I'D BE GETTING A SUMMONS TO APPEAR AT AVERY LAW OFFICE. THE GUY CAME THAT AFTERNOON AND I GOT OFFICIAL NOTICE TO APPEAR ON TUESDAY 4TH AT 2 P.M. PENNY OF COURSE WAS A BIT ANXIOUS OVER IT TILL I TOLD HER IT WAS OVER SOME ONE I DID A PARAMED EXAM ON NUMEROUS YEARS AGO. NOW TELL ME AT MY AGE HOW DO I REMEMBER A LADY WHO APPLIED FOR INSURANCE ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO THAT I SEEN THEN AND NEVER AGAIN. THE INSURANCE CO. WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF PAYING SINCE SHE HAD PASSED AWAY FROM CANCER I SURMISED. THAT SEEMED TO BE THE BIG QUESTION. DID I REALLY ASK HER IF SHE HAD ARE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED. ALL I COULD SAY WAS I ANSWERED THOSE QUESTIONS AS THE PERSON ANSWERED THEM TO ME. OH YES IT TOOK A GOOD TWO HOURS. THEN I GOT THE PAPERS IN THE MAIL THAT TOLD ABOUT WHAT ALL WAS SAID AND I NEEDED TO READ AND IF I MADE CHANGES IN ANY OF MY ANSWERES GET THAT NOTERIZED. MAN I THOUGHT ALL THAT WAS WAY BEHIND ME WHEN I QUTE DOING THEM. THE ATTORNEY FOR THE INS. CO. DIDN'T ASK HARDLEY ANY THING AND HAD COME FROM BOISE TO SEE ME.

PENNY LOVES SCOTT'S OLD PLACE OF EMPLYMENT SO WE INVITED CLAY, KAREN AND LANIE TO COME AND GO TO OLIVE GARDEN FOR MONDAY NIGHT DINNER. THAT TURNED INTO SOME DAY. CAROL CALLED SUNDAY WHILE WE WERE AT CLAY AND KARENS SO WHEN I CALLED HER BACK SHE SAID THEY WANTED TO BRING DEWARD AND VELDA TO VISIT SINCE THEY BOTH WERE FEELING GOOD RIGHT THEN. IF THINGS CHANGED SHE WOULD LET US KNOW ON MONDAY BEFORE THEY CAME FROM ISLAND PARK. PENNY THOUGHT WE SHOULD FIX LUNCH FOR THEM SO I ASK IF THEY WOULD LIKE THAT AND IT WAS AGREED. PENNY WENT SHOPPING GOT A BIG LASANIA AND A FEW OTHER THINGS. I'D PICKED MY BEANS SO WE HAD FRESH BEANS TO GO WITH IT. THEY ALL ARRIVED AND CAROL AND STEVE WENT TO SHOP AT SAM'S THEN CAME BACK FOR LUNCH. THEY LEFT DEWARD AND VELDA WITH US WHILE THEY WENT. NEITHER SEE WELL ENOUGH TO GET AROUND SO THEY SAT ON THE COUCH. AUNT VELDA NOT ONLY CAN'T SEE BUT HAS DEMENTIA QUITE BAD. SHE ASK ME HOW LONG I'D LIVED HERE ABOUT A DOZEN TIMES. DEWARD HAS HIS FACULTY'S BUT IS OLD AT 91 AND A HALF. HE MOSTLY STIRRED IN HIS DINNER. WE HAD CAKE AND ICE CREAM WITH THE RASPBERRIES I'D PICKED THAT MORNING AND DEWARD REALLY ENJOYED THAT PART OF DINNER.

I'LL NOT TELL ABOUT THE LASANIA GETTING DUMPED ARE SHOULD I?? WELL PENNY HAD PUT IT ON THE COOKIE SHEET AS DIRECTED AND WHEN SHE WENT TO PUT IT ON THE TABLE SHE PICKED UP THE TINFOIL THING WITHOUT THE SHEET UNDER IT. JUST AS SHE REACHED THE TABLE IT THE PAN CRUNCHED AND LASANIA TURNED UPSIDE DOWN RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TABLE ON THE CARPET. THE CHEESE AND SAUCE ON THE CARPET BUT THE REST OF THE LASANIA WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF THAT. CAROL HELPED PENNY PICK IT UP AND I'M FRANTIC ABOUT WHAT TO FEED US. CAROL SAID THE LASANIA IS OK WE'LL BE ABLE TO EAT ALL BUT THE CHEESE AND SAUCE. AFTER PICKING UP WHAT COULD BE FROM THE CARPET I COVERED THE REST WITH A TOWEL AND WE HAD OUR DINNER. MAYBE THAT'S WHY DEWARD DIDN'T EAT WELL I WONDER.

WELL ALL I HAVE DONE SINCE WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT IS LAUGH. PENNY WAS SO UP SET. I LOOKED FOR A CARPET CLEANER PERSON IN THE PHONE BOOK AND FIRST THING I SAW WAS ASLETT CLEANING STORE SO I CALLED THERE AND HE SAID "TOMATO, WELL DILUTE VINEGAR [WHITE] AND CLEAN WITH THAT SEE IF IT REMOVES THE STAIN". [ I DON'T REMEMBER THE DILUTION SO NEED TO GET IT FROM PENNYSHE SHE REALLY SCRUBBED AND USED WHAT WHITE VINEGAR I HAD. IT LOOKED PRETTY GOOD BUT THE MAN HAD SAID THEY HAVE THIS OTHER STUFF WE COULD USE IF VINEGAR DIDN'T GET IT ALL. SO NOW MY CARPET WHERE IT WAS REDISH STAINED LOOKS OK. IT TOOK A WEEK ABOUT TO GET IT FULLY DRY. THEN WE WENT TO OLIVE GARDEN THAT EVENING.


PENNY LEFT ON TUESDAY FOR HOME AND I PAID A VISIT TO AVERY'S LAW OFFICE.


ON WEDSDAY AFTER TAKING A B/P MED FOR THREE DAYS I WAS SO DIZZY I COULDN'T HARDLY STAND UP. I USED THE CANE TO GET AROUND THE HOUSE AND SPENT MOST OF THE DAY HORTIZONTAL. MY B/P WAS 112/60 DOWN FROM A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE OVER 105. SINCE DR. M SAID I COULD CUT IT IN HALF IF NEED BE I CUT THE NEXT DAYS PILL IN HALF A ND TOOK IT AT NIGHT. STILL HAD THOSE LIGHT HEADED SPELLS. NOT AS BAD AND CHECKED MY B/P OFTEN.

LIZ CAME ON THURSDAY AGAIN TO CLEAN FOR ME. ON FRIDAY WE WENT TO BLACKFOOT TO TAKE JIM'S DAUGHTER HOME ATE A HAMBURGER AT RUPES. CLAY AND JIM MOWED THE LAWN WHEN WE GOT BACK. I HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH DR. MUELLER ON TUES. BUT HE HAD TAKEN TWO WEEKS OFF AND HAD A WOMAN WHO WAS HIS STAND IN. BEFORE I GOT OUT OF THERE I WAS SO ANGRY SINCE I'D GONE IN ON TIME SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF WAITING FOR HER TO SEE ME. I DID GO OUT IN THE HALL AND IN A LOUD VOICE ASK HOW MUCH LONGER I HAD TO WAIT. WAS TOLD SHE'LL BE WITH YOU IN A FEW MINUTES. I SAID I'LL WAIT FIVE MORE THEN I HAVE TO LEAVE FOR AN 11 OCLOCK APPOINTMENT. MY APPOINTMENT WAS AT 9:15 AND IT IS 10:30. THE WOMAN WENT IN TO SEE THE MAN WHO CAME IN TO THE OFFICE AFTER I GOT THERE. THEN SHE CHANGED MY B/P MEDS AND ASK IF I COULD GO HOME AND REST. SO I CALLED MY VISITING TEACHERS TO CANCEL THEM.

I FELT SO MUCH BETTER ON THURSDAY AND THAT WAS MEBA JEANETTE AND MY DAY FOR OUR MONTHLY LUNCH. MELBA HAD WANTED TO TAKE US UP TO ISLAND PARK TO SEE HER CABIN SO JEANETTE DROVE AND WE DETOURED THRU ST. ANTHONY SAW THE OSPREY NEST ON TOP OF THE OLD OLD RIVER BRIDGE AS WE HEADED OUT AND UP TOWARD ASHTON. THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO ME. AT ASHTON WE DETOURED THRU ASHTON AND TOOK THE OLD ROAD TO WARM RIVER WHICH IS NOTHING LIKE I REMEMBER IT. THEN UP TO THE LOWER MESA FALLS SKIPPED THE UPPER AS THEY NOW CHARGE TO SEE IT AND WE DIDN'T FEEL SO INCLINED SINCE WE HAD "OTHER FISH TO FRY" AS MY MOM WOULD SAY.

FROM THERE WE ENTERED THE ISLAND PARK AREA DROVE THRU SOME OF THE TOWN AND GOT OUR TICKETS FOR THE DINNER AND EVENING SHOW. THEN UP TO MELBA'S CABIN AND SALAD FOR LUNCH OH AND SOME CRACKERS SHE HAD TAKEN. WE PLAYED A COUPLE GAMES OF SCRABBLE MY FIRST TIME AND THEN IT WAS TIME TO HEAD IN TO MACKS INN FOR THE DINNER AND SHOW. BOTH WAS ENJOYED IMMENSLEY. WE CAME HOME THAT NIGHT. A DAY TO REMEMBER.

ON THE 15TH LEVI AND STEVEN CAME AND SET MY SPRINKLER'S THE LAWN HAS BEEN GREEN SINCE. LEVI TRIMMED THE UMBRELLA TREE BY THE KITCHEN WINDOW AND STEVEN CLEANED UP THE BRANCHES LEVI ALSO CUT SOME OF THE BRANCHES ON THE TREES ACROSS THE BACK SO THE MOWER DIDN'T HAVE TO DUCK. AS THEY WERE ABOUT TO HEAD OUT LEVI SAID DO YOU HAVE ANYONE TO MOW TODAY. SINCE I GOT MISSED ON FRIDAY. I SAID NO AND HE SAID IT WON'T TAKE LONG ON A RIDING MOWER SO HE TOOK OF ON THE MOWER AND STEVEN DID THE EDGING. THEN THEY RAKED UP WHAT WOULDN'T MULCH NOT MUCH AFTER LEVI RAN AROUND ALL OVER SEVERAL TIMES. THEY ALSO CLEANED OUT AROUND THE SPRINKLERS IN THE HEDGE AND DECIEDED THEY WOULD WORK. HE'LL BE BACK IN OCT. TO TRIM THE FRONT BUSHES AND WINTERIZE.

HAVE HAD A HARD TIME CATCHING UP WITH THE LADIES WE VISIT TEACH FINALLY HAD KRIS TELL ME SHE WAS GOING IN FOR HER BREAST IMPLANTS AND COULD WE JUST DO A PHONE THIS TIME. SHE HAD TREATMENTS FOR HER CANCER FOR MONTHS AND HAD HER BREASTS REMOVED THIS MONTH. THEN I DID FINALLY GET NORMA TO COMMIT THEN SHE CALLED ON THE 19TH TO CHANGE TILL THAT EVENING. ELAINE PICKED ME UP AND WE WENT AT 7 AND WHEN I SAID IT IS 20 AFTER NORMA SAID OH DON'T LEAVE YET. WE HAVEN'T SEEN HER ALL SUMMER AS SHE HAS BEEN GONE SO MANY PLACES AND HAD LOTS OF COMPANY. NOW SHE'S IN GERMANY TO VISIT HER SISTER. GLAD WE GOT TO SEE HER TILL 8 P.M. IT WAS AN ENJOYABLE VISIT. SHE HAS A HANDY CAPPED SON SO DOESN'T GET OUT TO CHURCH.

THURSDAY WAS OUR R.S. OVER SIXTY'S. THE LADY WHO COMMITTED TO DO THE CALLING AND SETTING UP IS A DECORATER SO EVERY THING WAS HAWAIIAN THEME. WE HAD DECIDED LONG AGO NOT TO DO A LOT OF THAT SO WE DIDN'T LOOSE ANYONE WHO COULDN'T DECORATE SO FANCY. LUNCH WAS GOOD AS USUAL WE DO POT LUCK AND EVERY MONTH IT TURNS OUT GREAT.

SAT. 22ND WAS A CLASS REUNION FOR GRADUATES OF THE ST. ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES FROM 1940 THRU 1945. I GOT BRAVE AND DROVE UP THERE AND I'M HAPPY I DID. THERE WAS ONLY THREE OF US WHO GRADUATED IN 1942. CHIZ'Z CATERED THE DINNER AND IT WAS DELICOUS. I ENJOYED VISITING WITH SO MANY FROM THE SCHOOL YEARS BEFORE AND AFTER I GRADUATED. THE ONES IN 1940 HAD MORE THAN WE DID. THEY TOOK CLASS PICTURES SO THAT'S HOW I KNOW. I LEFT EARLY ENOUGH TO GET HOME BEFORE DARK.

SUNDAY I ATTENDED MY MEETINGS THEN WENT BACK FOR LANIE'S R.S. MEETING TO LISTEN TO HER LESSON. AFTER PRES. SIMPSON THANKED ME FOR BEING THERE. I TOLD HIM I WAS LANIES GRAND MOTHER AND SHE'D INVITED ME. HE SAID "WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE HER SHE IS ADORABLE" I THINK THAT WAS THE WORD HE USED.
LANIE SAID I CAN COME EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY SO I NEED TO REMEMBER.

THIRSA HAD INVITED ME TO DINNER SUNDAY SINCE HER TWO GRAND CHILDREN WANTED GRANDMA JENSEN TO EAT WITH THEM. I DON'T KNOW IF IT MATTERED WHICH DAY ARE ANYTHING LIKE THAT BUT THEY DECIEDED ON SUNDAY. SO I HAD DINNER WITH THEM. HARLEY IS BRIELLES AGE HAS THE DARK HAIR AND EYES AND IV'E BECOME THEIR OTHER GRANDMA SINCE JOY AND THE CHILDREN ARE HERE WAITING FOR DAVID TO GET HIS TESTS PAST AND BECOME A TRUE DENTIST IN WYOMING. HE HAS ONE MORE THIS NEXT WEEK IN TAYLORSVILLE, UTAH. I HOPE ALL GOES WELL FOR THEM.

OH AND HARLEY IS STRONG WILLED BUT SO CUTE. I LEFT AND CAME HOME ABOUT 7 AND LATER THIRSA CALLED TO SEE IF I WAS IN MY JAMIES. I SAID YES WHAT DO YOU NEED SHE SAID HARLEY WAS UPSET THAT GRANDMA JENSEN LEFT AND SHE WANTED TO TELL ME SOME THING. I TOLD HER SHE COULD BRING HER OVER SO THEY CAME WITH HARLEY PUSHING A TINY LITTLE DOLL IN THE DOLL STROLLER AND HER DRESS UP PINK SHOES ON. SHE TOLD ME HER STORY THEN WENT TO THIRSA SAID WE CAN GO NOW. IT IS NICE TO BE APART OF THEIR LIVES.

MONDAY WAS A FUNERAL OF ONE OF CHUCK'S CLASS MATES SHE HAD BRAIN CANCER LIKE HER MOM'S. IT WAS A VERY SWEET FUNERAL AS FAR AS THOSE THINGS GO. SHE WAS A VERY SWEET GOOD MOM OF 9 PLUS TAKING IN ONE OF JOANNS BOYS FOR A YEAR. I'M SORRY FOR HER HUSBAND AND THOSE SHE LEFT BEHIND. NOT EASY TO LEFT.

ANDRA HAD BEEN IN SLC AND SHE CAME BY AND I INVITED HER TO STAY MONDAY NIGHT. AT FIRST SHE WASN'T GOING TO THEN SHE AND LANIE SPENT TIME TOGETHER AND AS IT GOT LATER SHE DECIDED TO STAY OVER. SHE CALLED AWHILE AGO AND IS COMING TO VISIT AFTER WHILE. I THINK SHE PROBABLY GOT HER THINGS UNPACKED FROM SLC.

MY VISITING TEACHERS CALLED AND VISITED TUESDAY. BETWEEN ME AND THEM IT GOT PUT OFF LATER IN THE MONTH THAN USUAL. WELL I THINK THAT IS IT UNTIL WE GET BACK FROM OUR CARRIBEAN CRUISE.