The Logan, Utah Temple

Friday, September 7
Our grandson, Dax Gray is going to be married tomorrow morning to Brittany Van Leuven in the Logan Utah Temple.  The sealing will start at nine.  It is requested that guests arrive a half our early.  Carol and I left Holden this morning around ten.  We did some shopping on the way up.  We had lunch at the Golden Coral.  And was at Lisa's house around 4:30.  We stayed there the night.

Saturday, September 8
We were up at 5:30 and were soon on our way.  Lisa gave us small hot sausage and cheese inside a bun.  We ate it as we drove.  It was pretty good.  We missed the road to Logan.  We were looking for a sign that pointed towards Logan.  We drove up and down the streets in Brigham.  Finally we got the right road and were soon in Logan.  We parked in the temple parking lot and waited in the waiting room.

The Temple

The Landscape

A small tree, seven or eight inches in diameter, shows a large scare which was caused from the lose of bark which has completely healed over the years.

The Bride and Groom.

The Guests

Our Garden

The Beans are really doing well now.  There are enough for Sunday dinner tomorrow.  The above phot is of a small portion of the hoop where the bean are hanging.

 The grapes are now raisons.  I should have collected them a day or to ago.

 I have them in this large green bowl.  Most every raison has a small stem which will take a long time to pull each one out.

 I picked about thirty gladiator tomatoes. I cut the stem off of all of them.  With a spoon I removed the seeds and ribs. I then quartered each tomato.

 I scraped out the seeds and placed them on the dryer.

This fuzzy picture show the seeds, juice, and some of the ribs.   I ground them up some, salted the and boiled them.  They were pretty tasty.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Another Day at the Office

After breakfast and the news, I watered the pots.

The sweet corn has made a significant change since yesterday.  The silk is beginning to dry.  We may have some sweet corn for Sunday dinner a week from Sunday.

We checked some for squash bugs.  There is one vine that has had bugs every time we check it.  Most are the nymphs.  I tied both zucchini plants to the stake.  One plants produces good zucchini and the one produces zucchinis that are very tough and hard.

I transplanted another tray of Detroit Red beets.  I thought I got a picture after the transplanting was finished.

The Tri-Star ever bearing strawberry plants are producing a lot of strawberries now, but they are a little small and do not have a pointed tip as it should have.  However, they taste good and are pretty sweet.

 The Tomahooks that I make have folded up under the heavy weight of the tomatoes.  Fourteen gage wire is not heavy enough.  I have been making new ones out of twelve gage wire.

The one on the left and in the middle are made with fourteen gage wire.  The one on the left is made with twelve gage wire.  Twelve gage wire is a little harder to cut and bend.

This another picture of a new variety of tomatoes that we are growing.  It is getting quite ripe.  Smaller one have a unique taste.  Waiting for it to get ripe and save seeds.  I am naming it variety 17.

There are four variety 17 plants.  I am training one of the branches to climb a twine trellis by using the tomato clips.  You can see the pointed tomatoes above the clip and to the left of the trellis twine.

Another look at the grapes as they change to raisons.

I saw a skunk a little after dark north of the back porch steps.  I surprised it when I came out of the garage.

Comments and questions are welcome.

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