Linda and Lynn
Joan and Lynn This MorningI've caught up both pictures and text entries back in the blog when I got behind when the laptop crashed. So if you go back you'll see the new photos now.
Today was such a special blessing and a pure pleasure; first to see Joan and Becky again this morning. They came and got me and took me to Mimi's for breakfast. We sat visited for a couple of hours. Then Linda arrived (we've known each other since high school) and everyone got acquainted with lots in common to talk about. Joan and Becky started back to L.A. about noon , and Linda and I stayed on through lunch. She had a salad and I thought I should try the decadent chocolate pecan pie a la mode as breakfast dessert. We got at least part way caught up talking non-stop on the past years we've missed. What fun. And thank you guys for making the extra effort to get together here and for treating me today. Thank you Joan for your thoughtful card and the gift. Hope we have many more such times!
Beverly's doing better, she slept in this morning, so I'm about ready to go home now. Debbie and I will leave Thursday morning and be on the road a couple of days doing some sightseeing. I slept good last night and woke up a little earlier, so got some of the "chores" done - dishes and laundry. It's going to be hot again today.
Clayton went off to scout camp about 5 a.m. this morning. He is a counselor with the group, and not looking forward to going with a bunch of dorky younger kids. Hopefully when he gets there he will get in to the swing of things. Its high in the mountains at Thunder Ridge near Cedar Breaks Utah I think. I would have absolutely loved to be able to go on those kinds of outings when I was a kid.
Tonight we went to Red Lobster for dinner, so ate out all day long it seemed. I had clam chowder and they had salmon. After we drove up in the parking lot I realized its the same Red Lobster I used to go to as a treat for clam chowder, salad and a roll, and then would take myself to the movie when I lived near there years ago. Brent took us out to where they are building a new chapel and said their ward would probably split and they probably would go to this church, quite a bit closer to home than the one they go to now. He pointed out where his mom lives pretty close by there.
Pinedaleonline had the first pictures of newborn antelope kids - a set of twins. So cute. Charm told me how she saw newborn mule deer fawns right on the trail and thought you'd enjoy her story: "We just came in from a very lovely ride....almost 2/3 of the distance to hunting camp. Bailey and I were quite a ways behind Jim and Cat going up. Came upon a doe and twin fawns right in the middle of the trail. The fawns couldn't have been more than a day old; maybe even only hours old. As soon as they saw BB and me, one little fawn went about a foot off the trail and flattened behind a log. The other flattened right in the trail and I could see no way around it. The doe approached it and crouched down. The fawn got up and teetered just a few feet from the trail and flattened down, out in the open. Then the doe crossed the trail and slowly walked ahead and to one side of our path. As I came to where the fawns were "hiding", I could have reached out and touched them. (I didn't, of course!) BB was a quiet boy throughout and gradually we passed the doe so she felt safe about returning to her babies. I talked to her the whole time. I wonder how many people would ever experience or witness such a beautiful thing. Those little guys knew what they were supposed to do. They were not much bigger than jackrabbits. I just marvel at it."
