My alarm woke me up at 5:30 this morning. I got and turned the fronr porch light on. No snow
The Life of Merrill and Carol Johnson
I write all most every day of what goes on in our home in the garden and in the nursery. We are ordinance workers at the Manti Temple on the Tuesday morning shift and the Saturday evening shift. In addition there are several trips to Utah county a couple of times a month and a few short trips to other mountain west areas. Our family is most important to us. All of our children live in Utah except one who lives in Kentucky.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
April Fools
I got up several times during the night to use the bathroom. It looked out the south window. It looked like there was snow on the backyard lawn. When I got up this morning, I turned the front porch light on and there was snow. I had to brush the snow off the dish. We the got a clear TV signal. The three picture below illustrates the snow,
The driveway.Looking north-east from the front porch. It shows the front of our truck.
The front sidewalk. Most of the snow has melted. Tonight, I watered the bedding plants greenhouse five and then shut the east doors.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Busy Monday
After breakfast we watched the morning TV shows. Carol washed the sheets and pillowcases. After the shows were over we made up the beds. We then picked up Elisha Bills and took her to the Fillmore Market for groceries. Carol and I got our groceries and waited for Elisha. We waited in our car for over one-half hour. She had her shopping cart filled to the top. She had three cases of bottled water plus other things. We took her home and we went home. The weather has been much cooler. There is a forecast for 32-degree weather. Carol made supper good soup that we ate for supper.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Transplanting Geraniums
Transplanting geraniums is the major thing that I did day. I don't have the four-inch pots that I wanted to use. I found a box full of 1020 trays containing seventy-two cells. The tops trays were bent by the hot sun. Deeper in the stack were some good trays.
I sprayed water on the potting soil and mixed it up. I then filled a 1020 tray with soil. Then I transplanted the geraniums one plant in each cell. I worked on that for nearly an hour.I ended up with 160 plants. Some were really small but most a good size.Last week Robert transplanted lettuce plants in house five. They are doing well. Richard came this afternoon. It is raining.Friday, March 28, 2025
Time Goes By
Same old thing every morning. Shower, dress, watch news, breakfast and more TV. I walked out to greenhouse five. The bedding plants are really doing well. I watered most of the plants.
The peach trees in green house six were blooming. The tree on the west end is pictured above and really loaded with flowers. We watched the TV show called Doc Martin, As Time Goes By.Thursday, March 27, 2025
Thursday
After breakfast and the morning TV shows we drove to Fillmore. We stopped at the drugstore. Carol Bought a bunch of birthday cards for family members who are having birthdays in the next couple weeks. We stopped at Fillmore feed for lay pellets for our chickens.
We then got a few groceries at the Fillmore Market.We then went to the LOVE gas station for gas. This afterboon I watered most of the plants in greenhouse five.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
A Great Day at the Temple
We were up early this morning. We put on our Sunday clothes. After breakfast we drove to Lindon, Utah. We picked up Carol's sister, Nyleen and drove to the Mount Timpanogos Temple. After a nice session we took Nyleen back to her house. She prepared a sack lunch for us.
We stopped at the Payson Walmart. I went into the store. Last week I had my tablet which doesn't have any color. It shows only black and white. The worker there said it was too old and can't be fixed. There was a different worker. I found the receipt. The clerk worked on it for about twenty minutes and fixed it. We ate some of the lunch on the way home that Nyleen prepared for us. It was a little after one when we got home. We put our Sunday clothes. I then tried the tablet that was fixed. It worked well.
This is how the Linden temple looked about a year ago. I think Lisa took this picture.