When I went out to greenhouse five this morning, I discovered that I had left the water on, there was a big puddle of water under the fertilizer container. I shut the water off the water, Then I got a water braker and began to spray the row of peas that Robert planted. That didn't work very well. I then took the water braker of and the water directly from the hose. Awhile later I walked backwards dragging the hose on the row of peas. I expect that they will germinate in a week from now. I then watered Robert's fruit trees and Carol's pomegranate bush.
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.
Followers
Monday, February 9, 2026
Sunday, February 8, 2026
The Safe
Richard stayed overnight, I got up and started a roast in the crock pot. I showed and got dressed, Richard gets up. I turn thce radio on to listen to Sunday morning music. Carol gets up and I fix breakfast, after breakfast Carol takes me to choir practice. Our church meetings were good. We had a good dinner. I went into my bathroom to try again to unlock the safe. It wouldn't unlock.
I took this picture; it is a little fuzzy because there is not much light. In the safe there were important documents. There were a lot of old coins.Saturday, February 7, 2026
Combination
Last night I went to bed thinking about finding the combination for the safe. I had a dream about the location of the combination. It will be in a book. I saw the book. It showed the combination on the inside cover. I tried many times following the directions and wasn't able to unlock the safe. I think my hands are too shaky, Richard came this afternoon. I had him try to unlock the safe. He couldn't do it either.
I scattered the pomegranates in the garden; they were all rotten. Some may germinate in the spring. If they do, I will dig some up and put them in nursery pot and grow them in greenhouse five. Lisa ordered a cable to charge my iPad last Thursday, it came tonight,Friday, February 6, 2026
Robert Came
Lisa stated all night
Robert came
Pruned fig bushes
Planted green arrow peas
Thursday, February 5, 2026
The Temple
We were up a little earlier than usual because of our 9:30 appointment at the Timpanogos temple. After breakfast we got in Lisa's car, and she drove us to Linden. We had a good session. Larry and Lessly at the temple. They were on the same session that we were on. After the session we had lunch at a Chines restaurant.
Nyleen, Lisa, Larry, Leslie, Merrill, and Carol. On the way home we stopped at Walmart to see if someone there could fix my iPad. She couldn't. She said that it needed a new charge cable. I used my old cable, and it is starting to charge. Lisa ordered one before we left. We drove home. Lisa fixed a good supper.Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Drought
After we watched the morning TV shows, we drove to the Fillmore market for groceries. It is costing more for us to eat. The lady at the register mentioned that we are praying for rain and snow. We are fortunate that we have a well, The Holden town is making plans to drill a well. We had pizza for lunch. This afternoon I went out to greenhouse five and watered the plants. The temperature there was 90 degrees. I checked the hen house nests. There were two eggs. There three little hens and a rooster,
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Cookies
I fed the cats. The black kitten and the orange kitten came up to the back door and ate and ate and ate. We watched the morning TV shows. CR Charlesworth stopped by this afternoon, we bought oranges, mixed nuts, and chocolate we had warmups for lunch. I pealed an orange, The peal was easy to remove.
Elisia came over to make some cookies; she did it and Carol helped her every step of the way.I took this picture while they were making cook dough. The cookies were very good.









