My alarm didn't go off this morning. So, I was late getting up. I didn't have to fix breakfast. I picked some sweet corn for dinner. I walked by the road where I sprayed the penucher weed. All of the ones I sprayed a couple of weeks ago are dying, we watched the morning news and some of the morning TV shows. At 9;30 we went to church. This is the first Sunday where the classes are to last for thirty minutes. After the first thirty minutes I thought that I would the things away and go home. I was really wrong. I had set up the microphone up again. We went home and had warmups from yesterday. I watered the front yard plants. It was three when Karen Richardson came to our house with her son, Brent. He tried fix her tablet so she could receive messages from the bishop. He worked on it for quite a while. He couldn't do it. He said that her tablet was too old. He then got my tablet hooked up. I had warm-ups for supper.
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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Sunday, September 6, 2026
Saturday, September 5, 2026
What a Party
This morning after breakfast we drove to Fillmore, we filled the car with gas and then bought some groceries. I watered the plants on the porch. Lisa drove up. She was going take us somewhere for dinner. She then drove to the back door of the church. We got out of the car and most of our kids, grandkids, and great grand kids were there, we celebrated our wedding.
We have been married six-five years.The image is in the above photo.
A book with pictures.
Carol and me in front of the ballons.
A closer look.
Carol and some of the people at the party.
Skyler and his wife with me in the middle. I took them around them around the yard,
Another picture. This is a picture of the of the serving table.
Another picture.
Tables where some ate.
A large banner.
A hummingbird.
I watered the asparagus.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Didn't Go
We got up this morning to the Payson temple. Carol didn't feel well so we didn't go. I picked the sweet corn; I then shucked it.
I put the sweet corn in the freezer.Carol cut the corn of the cob and then put it on aa cookie sheet. She then put is in the freezer. The above photo was taken after it was frozen. Then I helped put it in a zip bag.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Sprayed Weeds
Carol went to her exercise class. While she was gone, I sprayed the puncture vines.
We to Fillmore
took my tablet.
Supper, we had sweet corn.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Surprise
The day started out as usual. Except there were lots of hummingbirds around the bird feeder. It also rained during the night.
I picked some corm yesterday. Carol blanched it yesterday and we put in zip bags and then put it in the freezer that is in the garage.This is the surprise; Todd Troseth and his boys installed the railing this morning. They did an excellent job.
A close-up of the railing and the baskets of flowers.
Here they are attaching the railing to the concrete steps.
Another photo.
I am standing on the front porch when I took this photo.
There is almost one half inch of rainwater in this frying pan on our patio. This afternoon I dug up puncture weed.
This basket is hanging on the lilac tree.
The hummingbirds' drank all of the previous sugar water.
This a big tub full of puncture weeds.
A side view of the new porch railing.
Monday, August 31, 2026
Humming Birds
When I got up this morning, I thought that it was the first day of September, but it wasn't. I water the house plants on the first Monday of the month. So that is what I did. I started up the lawn mower. I was going to mow the front lawn, but I ended up mowing the front lawn, the east lawn and the back lawn.
There is two redbud seedlings growing by the front porch. This is one of them.Another photo of the feeder.
The freshly mowed lawn.
A tree by the chicken coop. Grape vines growing to the top of it.
A good picture of the hummingbird.
This cactus is blooming.
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Sunday
Sometime after breakfast we went to church. The speakers were good. It was the fifth Sunday, so I didn't have make any preparations for the meeting. After the meetings, I watered the plants on the porch. I went out to the garden and watered the topaz melons
I found this large cucumber.I found a smaller cucumber. I found another topaz melon
Part of the garden turned into a weed patch as shown in the above photo.
This is a new topaz melon that I found the other day.
This is a bigger one.
And this is the biggest one.



















































