Warmer

 

The house was warmer this morning.

Ward Conference

 

Sunday morning: I made a new batch of old fashion oatmeal mush and then fed the cats.  Richard got up and he said that he didn't feel well. He didn't eat anything. He didn't go to church.  It was ward conference and there were a lot of visitors from the Stake. The speakers and teachers did a good job. We came home. Richard was feeling much better.  He cooked steaks and did a good job. He used a lot of condiments. The really tasted good. He parked his four-wheeler on the patio. He then left.

Cold Morning

 

Saturday: It pretty dark outside when I got up. Richard was still in bed. I showered and made some old fashion oatmeal mush. The water for the cats was frozen; I fed them and started breakfast. After breakfast we watched the woodworking shows. Carol made some grilled cheese sandwiches. I picked up the mail and went out to greenhouse fjve and watered the peas. They are beginning to germinate. The picture doesn't show any peas germinating.

It Works

 

This morning when I got up there was a little more snow.   I began to clean it off the front driveway. There was about a half inch, but under it there was bumpy frozen bumpy ice. I went to the post office. there was no mail. There was no snow on main street, but it was wet. I watered the plants in greenhouse five. I cleaned the snow of the front porch sidewalk. Carol fixed hot dog sandwiches for lunch.

I worked on the phone system for a long time and I think that I got it figured out, There is a phone on the table in the family room which in the picture above.  There is a phone identical to the above phone is in the master bedroom. the third phone has a place one the coffee table. 

This how the front sidewalk looked when I got up this morning. I cleaned off the snow. Richard showed up this evening.  He will spend the weekend with us. He was here and supper with us.

New Phones

 

This morning, we drove to the Fillmore Market for some groceries. It was supposed to snow but it wasn't.  It was snow pretty hard when we left the store.  We drove home on frontage road. We pricket up the mail and then drove home. Lisa ordered new phones and they were here this afternoon.  The box contained three phones; they were identical to the phones that we have.  I worked most of the afternoon getting them to work. There were three phones.  One for the family room and one for the bedroom.  We haven't determined where to put the third phone.  Some boys from the ranch cleaned the snow off our driveway.  

A picture of new picture of new phone.

Picture of the snow when we got home.  There is about six inches snow tonight.

Cold

Carol made some cheese grilled sandwiches for lunch.  I also had a bowel of soup. The phone range. Carol answered it. A neighbor called. I tested the phone by calling Carol answered it, I went into my bedroom and called. She answered it. Everything looked good until I went outside.  There was a cold wind blowing and it came from the southwest. After breakfast, I walked out to greenhouse five.  The temperature on the thermostat 64 degrees.  There were two peas that germinated.  I Didn't water anything; we are having trouble with Carol's phone.  Every time I call here there is a busy signal, this afternoon her phone rang. Carol answered it. It was the first time the phone rang for several weeks. It was a neighbor, I called her, she answered it. I went into my bedroom and called again. She answered it.  The doorbell rang.  It was CR Charlesworth. We bought some of his produce. 

President's Day

 

On Monday about once a month. we wash the sheets and pillowcases. We did this, this morning.  After they are dry. we make the beds.  

We drove to Fillmore to get some ink for my printer.  Before we went home, we bought two ice cream cones.  When we got to Holden, we drove up and down the streets.  When got home we had lunch.  I put the ink cartridges in the printer, It printed, but it was in black and white. I then drove back to Fillmore and got and another color cartridge. It worked.  I Then printed photo of one of our great grandsons, Carol stuck it the backdoor.  I watered most of the plants in greenhouse five,  

House Six

The Saturday shows are different from weekday shows.  We watched some of the news.  We also watched some of the woodworking shows.  After lunch I was getting sleepy.  I decided to plant some topaz melon seeds.  I got four plastic cups.  

This picture shows the four plastic cups.  I planted four topaz melon seeds in each hill.

This picture shows one hill with a plastic cup over the seeds.

Here is a pile of weeds that I dug up.

More weeds. I did a lot of weeding in greenhouse six,

New Vacuum

 

This morning, we were up at our regular time. The alarm on my phone had a funny sound on it.  I watched the morning news and some of the morning MeTV shows.  It was about 10:30 when we drove to Fillmore.  We got gas at the LOVE gas station. Our car was pretty dusty because of the driving the dusty roads yesterday. I washed all of the glass one the car.  We bought some groceries.  Carol bought some birthday cards.  We then stopped at Roper's hardware store, and I bought a cordless vacuum. We then went home.  For lunch I ate the rest of the pizza.  There were two pieces.  After lunch, I put the vacuum to gather and charged the battery.

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Rain

It was about seven this morning when we left Holden.  There was some rain in the valley some snow in the mountains.  We were soon in Linden where we picked up Nyleen and drove to the Mount Timpanogos temple. We were early enough to go the earlier session.  When the session was over, we took Nyleen home.  She made us a nice sack lunch. We stopped at Sams Club where we bought some groceries.  It began to rain quite hard. We then went to Walmart where I bought a connecting cable for my phone. It worked. I am now able to take picture and post them on my blog.

There was about one half inch of rainwater in this frying pan on the patio, it looks like a mirror showing the tree branches above. 

This another picture I took, showing the temperature in greenhouse five. We took the house garbage to the dump.  There has been some thunder this afternoon.

Power Was Off

 

After breakfast we watched one TV show when the power was turned off.  This was announced several weeks ago.  I backed the car out of the garage.  The power was turned off at nine right as scheduled.  We had planned to take three unopened glass coke bottles to Maryanne.  We soon drove to Sutherland and stopped her house.  After a short we drove around Sutherland.  We looked at the home where I grew up.  We went the cemetery where our baby and my parents were buried. We then drove on miles and miles of dirt roads.  We filled the care with gas in Fillmore.   W bought some hamburger and then drove home.  The power came back on. I went out to greenhouse five to hook up the drip tape to water a row of peas.  I tried several times. The water presure was too high and caused the connections to come apart.

Watering Peas

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 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.

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,

Robert Came

 

Lisa stated all night

Robert came

Pruned fig bushes

Planted green arrow peas

Carol and Lisa made cookies. Later Carol and I gave cookies to some of her friends.

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.

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,

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.

Blooming

A regular Monday morning.  I watered all of the indoor plants.  I fed the cats and prepared breakfast. 

When watering the plants I notice that the Christmas cactus was blooming. It also had a few buds on it.  After lunch I walked out greenhouse five and watered the plants out there.  We took the house garbage out to the dump and drove around town some.

Fast Sunday

No breakfast this morning for us. Richard spent then night with us. The cats were the only ones that got to eat.  Carol prepared some potatoes for dinner and put them in the oven to bake.  We attended our church meetings.  When we got home, we had a good dinner.  Richard then left. We had leftovers for super.