Saturday September 13 2008

Boulder Creek with First Touch of Fall Color

Taken from the Bridge

Moose Hunters at Boulder

They had their camper trailer

and were changing a flat tire there.

A beautiful morning, warm and no wind. Spent a quiet time after getting up. I slept very good last night, and certainly feel better.

I stuck a weather sticker onto my blog this morning, and fooled around with that for a while. I wanted to get the wind and pressure and whole works, but the ones with more info take up bigger space and wouldn't fit. Maybe I can figure it out as time goes by. You can let me know if you like them or not. I put two on, one for the moon, and one for the weather. If you click on the little "gizmo" it will give you the whole weather page - then I don't have to give you the weather report every day.

Yesterday I got the dogs an appointment at the groomer for a bath and getting toenails cut before winter. It is worse getting an appointment for the dogs than it is for myself. She didn't have anything until the middle of October! Sorry I already forget her name but she seemed very nice.

Then, after lunch I got a phone call from Bonnie. She came over with her truck took me and "the boys" for a ride up to Muddy Canyon this afternoon. First I had to get out of my pjs though. It was sure a nice outing. I may have only been up there once this year, earlier in the spring. We checked out the berry bushes but they are done for this year. Still some chokecherries. She was able to get some information from church about the Willie Handcart Company and brought me a CD to play - "Presentation of Rock Creek Hollow Fireside". It has some history on some of the people who died there. So far my CD player won't play it on the computer, so tomorrow I'll try it on the Bose radio which has a CD player.

Tonight we had spagetti for dinner and for once it seemed very tasty. Hope that continues.

Beverly called me tonight and we had a long visit. They have been so busy. This is from a letter Bev sent I thought was interesting about what they've done the last several days. She says: Its Youth Conference this weekend, which is a first for Bev and Clay (not for Brent). This is Clay's first year and he is 14 now. Friday night they split the whole stake up into groups of about 20 kids each and gave them a topic. They went into rooms at the church and created little skits called Youth Tube (like You-Tube on the Internet) and performed them on the stage. They were pretty funny and all about standards. Then we had a catered dinner from Cafe Rio (Mexican fresh grill). After dinner they did a flag retirement burning ceremony which I'd never seen before either and was very moving. We had ice cream and went home.

This morning we were back at the church at 8am for breakfast and off to do a service project which happened to be at Tule Springs Park (right near their house). We had about 200 kids and leaders and we cleaned out the creek beds. What an overgrown mess they were. You should have seen how nice they looked after we were done. A couple of the men brought their front-end loaders to haul away the debris. It was hot. After the kids were done with the work the church provided Subway Sandwiches and Smoothie King. I'm glad I wasn't responsible for any of that planning.

Tonight they have a dance from 8-11pm. It is Clay's first dance. Brent has to be there as a chaperone. I got my same church calling back, over the Beehives 12-13 year olds, and they are too young to go to Youth Conference so I don't have to go.

Their stake just split two wards into three, so they have to go to a different church for a while until their new building is finished, and everyone is in upheaval with the changes. It's all growing very fast there.