Catchup April 23, 2006
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Wow, it seems like this week has just flown by and I haven’t done anything with this blog at all! So, here I sit this Sunday morning with a little time on my hands, and I will catch up some.
Ashley’s class (with one other first grade class) had a field trip to a fish hatchery on Thursday. I volunteered to go with them, but did not take the bus with the kids. Buses are bad for my back. This hatchery did not seem to be as sophisticated as the ones on Oregon we used to visit, but they still grow nearly 3 million fish each year. They had everything from eggs (400,000 at the time) to fish that are going to be taken to lakes this weekend. After the tour, there was a series of ponds with a bunch of trails around them that the kids got to explore. It was fun. Then I went home and worked in the yard for a couple of hours. Got almost everything trimmed and weeded.
I had another job interview on Friday afternoon. This was for an auto auction company. It sounds like it would be a fun job, but I think I would rather work for the Idaho Finance company. I left home with the intention of stopping at Costco along the way and getting gas, but the traffic in town was so bad, I didn’t have time. So, the needle is almost on E all the way there. There was a Chevron right there, so I stopped and put $5 in it. I figured that would get me back to town. $2.58 per gallon. I got back to Costco (they now have 16 pumps) and the line was about 25 cars deep. Yuck! Karen and I had a date evening in the area, so I went back later and there was no line. $2.36 per gallon. Saved $3 over filling at Chevron.
Saturday was the ward service project day. We had a list of people who had signed up to have some things done around their houses, like tilling garden areas, removing stumps, trimming hedges, and so on. We had about 18 people who had things to do and about 20 people who were helping out. It worked out pretty good. Took about 4 hours to get everything done. It was good to help out.
Today is Sunday, and we will be going to church in a while. We will have choir practice today here (it will be nice to get back into that routine). I don’t know if Sean and I will go home teaching or not. I saw him yesterday, but I did not think to ask him about it.
So, that should catch up on the usual stuff. I will be coming up with some other stuff as the day goes on, I’m sure.
39 and counting April 16, 2006
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I think it is amazing how time flies. Yesterday was my 39th birthday. (No, not again! For real. Next year it will be again.) Karen invited some friends over and we had a real good time.
Pecos brought his old firefighter jacket and an extinguisher. Karen made some spice cupcakes and got some sugar and fat free ice cream and fudge bars. The ice cream and fudge is surprisingly good.
We played a game called Apples to Apples. Some friends (who happened to be here last evening) introduced it to us a couple of months ago, so we had to get it. It doesn’t start to work real well until you have 6 or more players. There were 8 of us last evening, so it worked out real well, and we had a lot of fun.
Pecos got me a new hymn book with my name on it. Crystal got me a “Mormon” bathroom reader (patterned after the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader books). Karen got me a pair of white shoes I can wear in the temple (The slippers just don’t work well for me).
All in all, it was a great evening. I am so glad we have made some good friends here that we are able to enjoy.
