monday

Mabel's funeral day.  Charles and family rode down with us to the funeral.  It was a nice service, Julie gave the history and Harv the spiritual talk.  Vicki and Heather's table with memorabilia and photos was so cool!

sunday

I didn't sleep well last night, I couldn't go to sleep so I got up about 11:30 and messed around on the computer for a while, then read in my chair until finally I got a bit of sleep.  Seems like it's been happening more often lately, maybe stress.   I've also been having chest pains, don't think it's heart related, maybe stress too.  John emailed Charles to let him know the schedule for today, we're going to SJ for lunch about 2 ish, then helping set up Pro Panels at the church for the display they are doing for Mabel's funeral.  Then a viewing this evening.

saturday

We walked for the first time in a while this morning.  I wish I could say it felt good to walk, but it didn't.  Things just weren't meshing right in my body.  We walked to the creek to see if it is still running and it is, not as high, but still a bit of water.  We saw and heard this bull that was on the ranpage I think LOL.  It was calling and churning up the dirt around its feet, there are bulls across the road and I guess he was challenging them.  They weren't paying much attention to them.  The bull belongs to the Martins, they've moved their cows from the pasture they were in to this one and are going to move them again in a week away from here, so we won't be seeing them this summer.  Stopped and talked to them, they knew about Mabel and offered condolences.  I thought hardly anyone up here knew, but guess some do.  John told our home teacher, but we haven't heard anything since, which isn't surprising, we never have. 

John cut some logs and we propped up the locust tree, its like a weeping willow the branches like to bend down to the ground, which is nice in the summer for deep shade, but it makes it hard to get under the tree.  Today is the first day I feel like I'm back in the work and normal.  This was the week of Ali Edward's week in the life and I just haven't been able to get into it.  Mostly because I spent Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday scanning in albums.  Hardly poked my head out to see what was going on and the one time I did, I wished I hadn't!  Still upset with Cassie, she showed herself to be one of the people she calls "bad souls".  I was suspecting from her facebook posts before this, but now I know.

Found out later that she unfriended me, LOL, she beat me to it!  She also unfriended John, who didn't do a thing to her and Jana and she removed herself from the Wilhelm group.  John asked Connie about casket flowers and she didn't say anything about Cassie making them, she ordered some, so that may have been made up.  Shir says she lies a lot.

I finally got up courage to do something about this computer having blackouts.  They were gettting more and more frequent.  I wrote to asus and they sent me a link to the drivers for the video.  I tried the one that was on here first and it didn't fix the problem.  I skipped the next one cause when I tried that one way back when the puter was new it messed it up.  I installed the newest one and so far, it seems to have fixed the problem.  Keeping my fingers crossed, gives me nightmares to think of having to send it in for repair, too much stuff on here I wouldn't want them to lose!

friday

where has this week gone?  I finished scanning the last photo last night.  Just need the one last photo Heather wants from Eric when he comes up today.  I don't think I'm going to start on that album until later, I'm just too tired and burned out.  Scan is all I've done this week, I need to get ready for the kids.  It's hard having to wait this long for the funeral, kind of leaves one in a state of suspended life, waiting to carry on until saying goodby.

John got the panels ready to put up on the little parking shelter.  It's had a tarp and the tarps keep wearing out and ripping in the wind.  We just lost another and he's tired of replacing them.
Eric came up after he woke up, he worked last night, and helped John put up the panels.  They got two up before they decided they'd better stop due to the wind. 

The locust tree says it's officially spring!  The leaves are starting to come out.

We went shopping this afternoon, it was nice to get out of the house for a bit.  I've felt kind of antsy today, not sure why, I just don't feel good.  I scanned in 3 photos of Mabel at the beach, cleaned them up and sent them to Heather.

WatchedTv this evening

thursday

Where has this week gone?  I haven't hardly stuck my head outside the house.  I've spent the week scanning in Mabel's albums.  Be glad to get done!  Vicki called me this morning , they thought of a couple more pictures they want scanned, one of them I don't have, I called Connie and she remembered it, it's in an album she has.  The other was at the mortuary, so we ran up and got it.  I tried to hook up the recorder to my puter to see if it works, but I can't get it to hook up, it says it won't work with my computer and win 7.  bummer!  I'll try it with the other puter and see if it will work.  John and I are still upset about Cassie and all she dumped on me yesterday.  I shouldn't have said anything to her, but her comment about no one caring about Alex made me mad.   Like she does on facebook, she dumped on me about how much she has done for the ungrateful, (my word not hers) Wilhelm family, even spending $10,000 for the reunion we all thought Alex had paid for.  I can't imagine that she spent that much on it, I know it was a lot, we were thinking a couple thousand, she probably upped it a lot!  Wish I had $$ and I'd send it to her and say, here, I'm paying you back!  Then what she says about how Connie could have made the other family having a funeral on Saturday move theirs to a different building or day, people up here don't do stuff like that!  I guess living in a city squished together like rats makes them rude!  I would never think of doing such a thing to someone!! 

wednesday

Spent another day scanning, that's pretty much all I did today.  Getting burned out!  I was looking at posts on facebook this morning and saw one from Cassie that made my blood boil about how no one cares about Alex.  They wanted the funeral on Saturday and caused a big rucus when it wasn't.  I made the mistake of pmimg her and asking her to stop making conflict and she blew up all over me.  Said she was going to make the wreath for the casket, but now she won't be sending anything up.  And a lot of other hateful stuff said to make me feel horrible.  I apologized to her for saying anything, she informed me that they had nothing to do with the yelling cusing phone calls to Vicki, all I knew was that Shirley said her kids, so I assumed it was all 3 of them!  I learned something, don't piss Cassie off!  I always felt sorry for her and stuck up for her when the family would put her down, but being on facebook has lowered my opinion of her, she is either complaining about the tons of stuff she has to do or patting herself on the back at all that she has done.  And how her stuff is the very best!  John once challenged her when she said her cookies were the very best ever, he said Grandma Davis' sour cream cookies were, she never responded to him, LOL, she didn't like that he wasn't patting her on the back.  Think when all this is over I'm going to go ahead and block her comments.  I was thinking about it anyway.  She quit facebook a while back, said there were too many bad souls on here, personnaly, I think she was the bad soul!

tuesday

Finished printing out photos for Mabel's funeral this morning, then John ran them down to St. Johns to Vicki.  I cleaned house while he was gone, getting ready for whoever is coming for the funeral.  Charles is coming, not sure who is coming with him.  I invited BB and J to stay with us if they come, no answer from them yet.  Susan said Cindy had called Andy and she is wanting to come to the funeral with the kids.  I'd rather she not come, but when John told the girls about it, they thought it was nice that she would want to. 

We returned books to the library this afternoon and I got some hair dye, I need to spruce up my hair before the funeral! 

Baked bread, yumm!

monday

I spent the whole day scanning in photos from Mabels albums.  I decided to just scan in the entire page in one of them, and got that one all done.  I got the pictures Vicki is wanting for a display at the funeral scanned in and got them printed out late tonight.  I'm so tired!

Sunday

We were going to go down and visit at Mabel's when Vicki and Wayne got here, but we got a call about 10:30 that Mabel had quietly slipped away in her sleep this morning about 10, without ever rousing.  Such a blessing to her, she's been in pain for so many years now and hasn't had any fun.  When I would see her lately, she always looked unhappy.  She was still at home when we got there and looked so peaceful and her face looked years younger without the pain that was always there to see.  Andy and Susan were already there when we got there.  We had a good visit with family, then Andy and John helped the mortician move her out to the car.  As they were passing through the fragrent lilacs at the gate Andy mentioned how she would love that her last trip from home was through the lilacs.  I think they have mostly gotten the funeral planned, it was hard because people started showing up and staying to visit while they were trying to get paperwork finished.  Uncle Harvey, Aunt Virginia, Marion, Doris and Betty came over, had a good visit with Betty!  We went to grade school together until her family moved away from town.  Mom made a meal and brought it down for everyone, such a big help not to have to worry about feeding everyone!  We all sat out on the lawn in the evening, it was a hot day today!  Ken and Karma Whiting came by, visited with him about his Mom, she is in the valley with Mel now, he was in Utah for a time, and she was in SJ.  We left for home about 8ish.

saturday

We went to the chrome in the dome this morning.  As we were walking around in the dome we came upon a car and John said it was like one that our first grade teacher Natalia Greer had.  About that time we overheard a conversation between 2 guys standing by the car and one was telling the other that the car had belonged to a Natalia Greer of St. Johns!!  What a coincidence!  He said a car dealer bought the car from her estate and had fixed it up.  It had been rebuilt from bottom to top, a different more powerful engine installed body work and repainting done.  It looked nice!  We told him that Natalia taught us and he thought that was cool.

This afternoon John got a call from Connie, Mabel wasn't doing well, they haven't been able to rouse her from sleep.  She only roused briefly yesterday when they poked her with the iv needle.  We went down to see her.  She was sitting in her chair, and John talked to her and tried to get her to repond, but she never did.  She was holding her head up, not supported on the chair, I don't know how she could do that and be asleep.  When John rubbed her foot, she did rouse a bit and mutter, but when Connie told us she had sores on her foot, he probably hurt her and she that brought her around a bit.  I'm not sure she's really sleeping, but she isn't awake either, not sure what's going on.  We left for a while and went up to Mom's to visit, then ate at El Camino and went back to Mabel's.  Doc Wilson had been by to see her, he said to wait and see how she does tonight.  Carl said when his Mom was dying, she did the same thing, couldn't be roused from sleep.  He said it was because her kidneys were shutting down.  Maybe that's what's happening with Mabel.  Called the boys when we got home to let them know.  Vicki and Wayne are coming up tomorrow to spend a few days. 

Today was Roy's birthday, not sure how old he would have been, in his 100's.  Shirley set up a mock chuckbox on the dining room table in his honor, it was cool.

"Benture" Day

We left about 8 this morning on a "benture" trip.  We went to Winslow to find the graves of Frank and Quini Higgenson.  We met then when we were digging at Brigham City in the early 90's.  There were such an exceptional couple, they were in their 70's and raising 2 grandchildren.  Quini said that she just wanted to live long enough to see those 2 kids grow up and then she would be happy for the lord to take her.  I can't remember exactly the reasons they had the kids, John remembered that the parents were drug addicts and he thought maybe one or both had been in jail.  Not sure, but they took the kids to raise.  Quini was from Spain, I think.  Frank was working there when he met her.  His first wife left him when he was away, I think in the military, but not sure.  He had at least one child with her, a boy that disappeared in Australia  He was out sailing and went missing.  So sad!   We always told Frank he should write his history, he had such an interesting life.  I think he was working in Spain for a contractor or something when he met Quini. 
We also drove down Winslow main and stopped at THE corner and I had John take my photo there, then we visited La Posada, one of our favorites from the days when we spent lots of time in Winslow.  They have opened up more rooms there, the part that was still railroad offices is now a part of the hotel.  It was kind of dark and I didn’t care for how they've decorated it.  There are lots of paintings done by the owners wife hanging and they are so weird!  But it's still a cool place.  We ate lunch at Sonic, I had a chicken wrap and sweet potato tots, pretty good!  John had a burger and fries.  We also stopped in at Brigham City, they have done a lot more work on restoration there, more walls up and they put log walls up for two rooms so people can see how they were.  They're keeping the yard cleared of Camel Thorns, that's good.  Unfortunately, the dining hall is in bad shape, the wall that John Hohmann worked on way back is coming apart again, guess he didn’t fix it very well.   Stopped in at WalMart to pick up a few items,  then headed for home.  We stopped at the Jackrabbit Trading post, and got photos of us with the rabbit, got snacks and a few souvenirs and then stopped at Obed, it's a weed patch!   From there, we went to Holbrook, where we stopped at the Wigwam Hotel so I could take pix.  They have old cars parked outside the wigwams and one said Doc Hudson on the license and it looked like the car from the movie cars!  Cool.  Then we headed for home by way of Snowflake.  They were working on the road by Petrified Forest on the way down, putting down oil, so we wanted to avoid that.  We got home about 4.  Whew, a long day!  Julie and Eric called John while we were at Jackrabbit.  Connie took Mabel to the ER, she thought she was dehydrated, and they wanted John to go help her out of the car.  Eric was at our house when he called, so John told him to go help as we were at least 2 hours from home.   Don't know why they can't get the ER people to help, but they won't ask.  Just after we got home, Eric showed up again, Mabel is still at the ER, he said they are giving her IV's to get her levels of something up before they let her go home.  We wonder if they won't keep her in the hospital.  Julie wanted to know if John would go down and help them get Mabel in the car, he said if they call before we go to bed at 9.  

thursday

John loaded up the dump trailer with green stuff from the yard and we took it to the dump this morning. Lots of stuff, the trailer was full!

It's been windy this afternoon, and I haven't ventured out much.  John rearranged the sculptures in the yard and we went shopping.

Benture Day

We took a day off and drove to Winslow today to look up the graves of Frank and Quini Higginson.  We just learned last year that they had both passed away.

We left about 8 this morning on a "benture" trip. We went to Winslow to find the graves of Frank and Quini Higginson. We met then when we were digging at Brigham City in the early 90's. There were such an exceptional couple, they were in their 70's and raising 2 grandchildren. Quini said that she just wanted to live long enough to see those 2 kids grow up and then she would be happy for the lord to take her. I can't remember exactly the reasons they had the kids, John remembered that the parents were drug addicts and he thought maybe one or both had been in jail. Not sure, but they took the kids to raise. Quini was from Spain, I think. Frank was working there when he met her. His first wife left him when he was away, I think in the military, but not sure. He had at least one child with her, a boy that disappeared in Australia He was out sailing and went missing. So sad! We always told Frank he should write his history, he had such an interesting life. I think he was working in Spain for a contractor or something when he met Quini.
We also drove down Winslow main and stopped at THE corner and I had John take my photo there, then we visited La Posada, one of our favorites from the days when we spent lots of time in Winslow. They have opened up more rooms there, the part that was still railroad offices is now a part of the hotel. It was kind of dark and I didn’t care for how they've decorated it. There are lots of paintings done by the owners wife hanging and they are so weird! But it's still a cool place. We ate lunch at Sonic, I had a chicken wrap and sweet potato tots, pretty good! John had a burger and fries. We also stopped in at Brigham City, they have done a lot more work on restoration there, more walls up and they put log walls up for two rooms so people can see how they were. They're keeping the yard cleared of Camel Thorns, that's good. Unfortunately, the dining hall is in bad shape, the wall that John Hohmann worked on way back is coming apart again, guess he didn’t fix it very well. Stopped in at WalMart to pick up a few items, then headed for home. We stopped at the Jackrabbit Trading post, and got photos of us with the rabbit, got snacks and a few souvenirs and then stopped at Obed, it's a weed patch! From there, we went to Holbrook, where we stopped at the Wigwam Hotel so I could take pix. They have old cars parked outside the wigwams and one said Doc Hudson on the license and it looked like the car from the movie cars! Cool. Then we headed for home by way to Snowflake. They were working on the road by Petrified Forest on the way down, putting down oil, so we wanted to avoid that. We got home about 4. Whew, a long day! Julie and Eric called John while we were at Jackrabbit. Connie took Mabel to the ER, she thought she was dehydrated, and they wanted John to go help her out of the car. Eric was at our house when he called, so John told him to go help as we were at least 2 hours from home. Don't know why they can't get the ER people to help, but they won't ask. Just after we got home, Eric showed up again, Mabel is still at the ER, he said they are giving her IV's to get her levels of something up before they let her go home. We wonder if they won't keep her in the hospital. Julie wanted to know if John would go down and help them get Mabel in the car when they leave, he said if they call before we go to bed at 9. Baked cinnamon rolls when we got home, yumm!

wednesday

We unloaded the trailer of gravel that John got yesterday and got another one and unloaded it, too!  I'm not sure if this was load 3 or 4?  The yard is looking good!  I just wish we'd done everything in the smaller size gravel, it looks and cleans up so much better!  The areas with the bigger size look pretty crappy!  After we got everything covered, I used John's blower to blow off leaves and stuff from the big gravel.  It helped, but it still has gunk in it.

John noticed that the spruce tree had a big crack in the ground below it, it looked like maybe roots were doing it?  We then noticed that the tree is leaning out towards the driveway! Yikes!  John got a cable and connected it between the ponderosa and the spruce, hopefully that will hold it if it tries to uproot and tip over!

I put the cushion on my hanging chair this afternoon and sat in it for a while and enjoyed the warmth.  It was a bit too breezy or it would have been perfect!

John made green chili beans with pork for supper tonight, it was much easier for me to chew the pork than it is when we use beef.  MM good supper!  Watched TV this evening.

The Day After

Woke up with a tender face.  My cheek is sore, I think from the injections, and the tooth area is throbbing. 

We walked this morning, it's been while since we have and I figured I would be way out of shape again, but I made it to the creek without too much pain!  Yea!  The water is still running, not as high, but I expected it to be dried up by now. 

I didn't feel much like eating this morning, so I cooked up some oatmeal and had it.  Easy on the sore tooth! 

Ali Edwards posted her Week in the Life plan yesterday and I spent some time this morning looking at what she has planned for her album. I think I'll get her templates for this year, last year I used a different set than she did.  Maybe this time I'll finish up the week!  Last year we were doing the barn and there was so much going on that I never got the album finished up that week and then kind of forgot about it.  I have my notes from the week and the photos and did do a page on the blog about the first day, so maybe I can go back and finish it now. 

John got a load of gravel and we unloaded and spread it out.  I thought one would do all we need, but it's going to take 2 or 3 more to finish up.  We got the smaller size rocks and it looks so much nicer than the big, I wish we'd used it everywhere!

Ouch!

As I was eating breakfast this morning, I suddenly had  a sharp pain in my mouth.  I thought I'd gotten a piece of something stuck in my gum, but after flossing, brushing and a water pick the pain was still there and I suspected maybe a part of the tooth had broken off  so I called Dr. Tenney's and they said to come up and they'd check it out.  Turned out a piece on the back of the tooth was broken away.  I've been having pain in a tooth since shortly before I had them cleaned last, but it was only minor and I coudn't tell for sure which tooth, so I didn't do anything about it.  Dr. Tenney glued the broken part to the stable part since it wasn't broken clear off and they put me on a list to call if they had a cancellation. They had a no show this morning, so I was able to get back in today.  He drilled out the huge filling, a "gift" from my childhood dentist, I'm sure, and was able to get the broken part off without it pulling off down into the bone, which he was afraid it would do.  He put a pin in the tooth that was left and built back up the missing part, then did a crown prep on it.  I'm sore and the tooth is hurting me this afternoon!

They are starting to cut down the trees at the old school, when I went by on the way home, they had topped off a couple of them.  Kind of sad to see the old trees go, they made such nice shade to sit under to watch parades!

After sleeping off the deadening, I checked out a couple stores for outdoor tables for the locust tree.  Found some at the Dollar Store, but they want $30 for tables that look like they're worth $10!  Didn't get one. 

Went with John up to Zebell's house to pick up a satellite dish and a cart he gave him.

Went to bed early, I was worn out and my face is sore.

sunday

Cold morning!  I was kind of expecting to find snow on the ground, but there wasn't any.   Cloudy and the weather says there is a 30% chance of snow.  I'm so ready for warm weather to come and STAY! 

Did laundry, burned DVD's so I can clean up my hard drive. 

John and I went for a drive this afternoon up south of Eagar.

Mom called me with info about Stewart.  Nelson has been going to the hospital every week when he's in the valley, but they've always had an excuse why he couldn't see him.  We were all beginning to wonder why.  Last week when Nelson stopped by, he was able to see Stewart.  He said he was burned worse than he remembered him being, but he was awake.  He couldn't communicate very well, they have tubes down his throat, so it was hard to understand him.  Mom didn't know how long he would have to be there.  They think they've pieced together what happened.  They think Stewart was laying on the floor wrapped in a blanket in front of a heater trying t stay warm, when the blanket caught on fire.  From the amount of burns, Stewart was probably asleep.  He was wet when they found him, so they think he poured water over himself to put out the fire, then he made it to his bed, where he collapsed.  He'll have to stay in the valley after he gets out of the hospital for treatment, not sure where he will stay, Mom said there is a place next to the hospital where he could stay if he will.

Cold, Wind, Snow

Burr, the wind sounded so cold this morning!  The air was hazy and there was a light snow in the air.  The mountains around us look like they are getting some.  Then it started hitting us, we got some big fat flakes and a bit on the ground. 

I made bread this morning, I'm liking it much better now that I just use the breadmaker for the dough and bake the loaf in the oven.  I like the size better.  I also made buns, yumm, burgers for lunch!

Ali Edwards is getting ready to do A Week in the Life again, I did it last year, but never got it all printed out, I have part of day one, is all.  Wish I'd completed it!  I think I'll do it with her again this year and try and keep up!  I am way behind on my project life too.  I thought it would be much easier to do it that way than doing layouts that I never print, but I'm just not keeping up. My prints at home just aren't that great, so I need to have them printed elsewhere and I forget to get them ready and take them to the drug to print.

Friday The 13th!

The 13th being on a Friday always makes me think of my Dad.  He always told me he was born on a Friday the 13 and that's why he had bad luck.  I looked it up once and he WASN'T born on a Friday, LOL, so much for that theory. 

John got out early and cut down a bush that came up by itself, I think the birds must have planted it, it's right under some wires.  We're making it easier for people to see the sculptures in that yard.  Kind of sad tho, making it more visible also makes our cozy little break place under the locust less private and cozy. Hope the tree will fill out more this year and hide our spot in leaves!  Last year a lot of the branches died, so the tree was more open and less of a tent feel.  He also burned piles of leaves and later I went out and raked up the yard where he removed the barrels and the yard by the x pond.  The yard is looking better.

John also made a turtle this morning.  Beva is wanting some yard art and when they were here she was asking about my turtles and wanting to buy one, so I figure she would like one. 

John decided to give Brad Goodsell a piece of art for giving us the old pot, and we took it up and delivered it this afternoon.  I think he liked it.  John said Brad gave him the idea for the piece,so it seemed fitting that he have it, it's the one he calls timepiece.

thursday

John remade my compost bin this morning.  He used one of the shelves he got yesterday, cut it in thirds and made three sides.  Then he got some hardware cloth and lined it so the stuff will stay in.  Now if I can just learn how to made compost, I've tried, but it never has worked for me.  By the time we finished up the temperature had dropped and the wind was picking up.  

John leaves a note on his shop door with his phone in case someone stops by, he got a call just after lunch, there was a lady that wanted to buy more prints.  She came by before with a group of ladies.

I spent some time working on catching up on my blog, I keep getting behind.  I'm still a month behind adding photos! 

John got the barrels and the rest of the stuff on the upper lot moved to the back  He unloadd the stuff we got back from ShowLow and got it scattered around.  He decided he wanted to give a sculpture to Brad Goodsell because he gave us the pottery, so he is going to give him the timepiece.

I picked peas today and put 4 bags in the freezer.  They were getting too big, don't know why I never thought of freezing them sooner!  I picked most all of tem on the side against the wall, there are still some on the south side.  I wonder if they will bloom again or if they're done?

Strong Winds today

Strong winds were predicted for after 11 this morning and it started picking up about then.    We went to St. Johns to get some shelving material so John can clean up the "pre-art" on the ground on the south edge of the lot and on the northwest edge.  He also got some extra to redo my compost container in metal instead of the wood pallets.   We stopped by Mom's to pick up the grating and she gave me Dad's old coats.  She said it was time, after almost 8 years she is ready to part with them.  I am going to see if any of them fit Andy's kids, if not, Mom wants me to donate them to a thrift shop.  The one that I liked best is the one I remember Dad wearing the most, an old grey worn one. 

Went to the library this afternoon and the thrift shop looking for parts for a chicken John is building.  Bear and Destiny stopped by again today, they bought one of John's scratch boards, Sweet Dreams.

Endings

We went to ShowLow and Pinetop today to pick up John's artwork at the ShowLow City Hall and the Casbah.  Saw the other John Wilhelm at City Hall and visited a bit with him, he says Curtis is doing well, (he has lukemia)  and so is the new baby.  Got our art there, then headed up to the Casbah to get what we had there.  We were both upset, they had removed the sign saying Wilhelm's Art from the front of the store, and we found our spot dark!  They had removed the light we paid for and paid to have installed and moved it "because Valerie wanted it". Had they asked we probably would have told them she could have it, AFTER we left,  but to move it before our month's rent was even up was so rude!  How could we expect to sell anything when it was too dark for customer's to see the art!  They had gradually been encroching on our space over the past year, putting other artists stuff closer and closer to where our stuff was, blocking it a bit and using space we paid for!  That upset me, but this seemed like such a slap in the face to us!  Being sarcastic, I told Don it was nice that they'd taken our light down for us, that's when he said Val wanted it so they'd moved it to her new space.  I should have told me we wanted it and were taking it down!  We might have considered going back to the Casbah in the future if the ecomony got better, but this cooked it for us, we'll never go back!  And I wouldn't recommend that anyone else rents space there!

Feeling Sick

I woke up this morning with an upset stomach and didn't feel well all day.  Don't know if I ate something bad or what.

Easter

We met Andy's family at Brady Spring for a picnic this morning.  It was a bit breezy, but not too bad.  I think everyone had a good time.  When we left the kids were making a bridge across the little pond.  The adults had all scoffed to ourselves about it and said it wouldn't work.  They had it about a third of the way across and Andy walked out on it and it held him!  Jessie said they got about halfway before they left  Josh did fall in and got one leg wet, I expected someone to fall in and get totally wet.  The guys played golf and frisbee and Andy and Susan hid eggs for the kids to hunt.  I thought Jessie was going to have a big crash, she and Michael ran for the same egg and crashed, but she managed to stay on her feet.  Her eggs weren't so lucky, they all fell to the ground. Wish I'd been faster thinking and got a shot of the eggs in the air!  Sure is quiet at home tonight!  My face is hurting, it's either wind or sun burned.

saturday

monday

Just read on facebook that the place where Vicki works burned yesterday! 

MESA, Ariz. -- Mesa firefighters say nine businesses went up in flames Sunday after a fire started in a strip mall.
No one was inside any of the units at the time. Officials said the fire started in the middle of the Granite Reef Plaza near Power Road and Main Street just after noon and quickly spread to both ends of the building.
The fire was fueled by wind gusts as much as 30 miles per hour.
Sixty firefighters from Mesa, Gilbert, Apache Junction and Rural Metro responded and managed to save one of the units

April Fools Day!

I think our April Fools Day joke is the wind!  It's blowing today just like it did on March 1st.  And the NOAA says we have a chance of snow tomorrow!  There go all the blooming tree blossoms.   Bummer, it looks so pretty in Eagar right now. 

I raked up around the wood pile and started stacking it.  Last summer when John was cleaning up just before we were evacuated, he hurridly moved a wood pile that was up closer to the house to get it farther away.  So he just dumped it and it's been there ever since.  We will have a lot more time to spend on the yard this summer, no barn to take up the bulk of our time! 

Did laundry too.