New Car

We have been shopping for a car for several months. Here is the end result of our search.

Sky as a Result of Fire at Mt. Adams

The sun through the smoke in the first photo and the edge of the smoke in the second picture. Mt. Adams is over a hundred miles away from us and the fire was on the back side of the mountain but we still saw some effects on the sky.

August Already

The summer is racing by and we have not yet started canning corn. Probably Wednesday or Thursday will see us getting into the harvest at least for starters. Hopefully this will not mean a real late finish.

I was going to post a few pictures of the sky from the results of a fire over by Mt. Adams a few weeks ago but cannot get them to post right now. Maybe I will try again later.

Summer Fun

I took a couple of days of vacation while the our grandsons and their parents were here. We spent one day in Tri-cities and another day we minature golfed and went to the park. During the week they were here we also went to a Fourth of July Parade and we got rained on and we fed ducks and geese and skipped rocks on the Columbia River. Mostly we just enjoyed having family around. Too bad that our married kids and our grandkids live so far away. Now that week is past and I have to go back to work and things will have to get back to normal

Another Sunday

We took Rose to a bassoon recital today. It was a young man that Rose performed with in YYSO doing his senior rrecital. He did three concertos. It is interesting to listen to but I am glad it did not last over one hour.

After the recital we went to a Single Adult Fireside. Like normal it was not real well attended but I guess it is good for those who come. President Neal of the stake presidency was the speaker and he gave a good talk on the topic of repentance.

I took Friday off work and over the weekend we did a little work around the yard. We never seem to come to the end of yard work.

Fathers Day

I got this new grill for Fathers Day. The boys and I put it together on Saturday. I took a long lunch break since the pea plant did not start up until 3 in the afternoon. We were able to get it together and cooked burgers on it Saturday night. Today we grilled New York Strip steaks.

Peas and Other Things

I started work at my present place of employment 34 years ago this July 4th. Now I know what you are thinking. "What kind of business hires people to come to work on a National Holiday?" Well I work in the food processing industry and summers are dedicated to that very thing--processing food.

Over the years I have missed out on many summer activities that I would have liked to have participated in. In fact just this week there was a family event that I would very much have liked to have been part of but wouldn't you know the only three days in June that I absolutely could not get off work happened to be those very three days. We canned peas on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week. Teri and Rose were able to get out of town. The boys and I were here. At one point it even looked like we may have to work on Sunday but we were able to get done overnight on Saturday.

There have been some summer events that I was able to attend over those 34 years but they all required that I not spend as much time at them as I would like or it may have meant operating on much less sleep than I normally would have gotten.

I must say however that despite the summer events that I have missed out on I have had a pretty good career so I will not begrudge that point.