A few pictures

Happy 7th Kanyon!

Existing Site: Bball hoop on sloped lawn.

After excavating 60 yards of modeling clay. The soil would bend as the skid steer drove over it. We then built a retaining wall.

Meet Micho and Fransisco, our day labor finishers.

This is about the best picture I have of the finished project.

Trek Prep

This weekend was our Ma and Pa trial run for the stake pioneer trek. This is a picture of me setting up our shelter. I caught a lot of teasing from the Stake President for not copying his tent model, but it kept the wind off of us through the night. It was Les's first time sleeping in a mummy bag, so I made sure to cinch it up good and tight around her face. A little cold and claustrophobia makes for a good night sleep.

Thanks for all the phone calls on my birthday. After running around with only three wheel covers on my Focus, Les got me a new set. I was getting attached to my black wheel, but the new covers look a lot better.

I mowed the lawn for the first time this year and dumped on a lot of fertilzer. I was hoping that with all the rain we have had this spring that my grass would be a little greener. I think it finally ran out of gas and needed a little boost. We are suppose to get a rain/snow mix mid-week so I'll keep my sprinklers off a little longer.

Brant

Happy Mother's Day

Hope you all had a happy Mother's Day and your husbands cooked you breakfast in bed like I did for Mom (Not).

Friday I had a meeting in Coeur d'Alene and Mom had a class up there Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. I drove up with our custodians and then stayed and came home with Mom yesterday. We stayed overnight with Matt and Kimbre. Mom enjoyed her class and my meeting went OK. The church is buying out all the custodians - yes, but the end of the year you will no longer have any custodians at your buildings. Some wards and stakes have already switched over to total member cleaning and others will have to by December. This means I will lose two and 1/2 of my people. I will just have my office lady and two mechanics. I was offered the buy-out also but it was just about two years too early. If I had been closer to retirement I would have taken it so fast it would make your head spin.

Today, Mom and I spoke in church. I thought we did pretty good. The Primary kids sang. There was about a kazillion of them. Not like in the married student ward where there are two kids.

The weather is great and I think spring is just around the corner. Usually it shows up with a big bang and the temperature soars into the 70's and 80's over night. We'll see with this week brings.

Have a good week.