Memorable Weekend

I have to be the world's dumbest blogger! I haven't a clue as to how to do all the fun things people do on their blogs. Since I have such a small readership, I guess that doesn't matter much. I can barely find the site to post my blog on, let alone put fun things on it.

We made a flying trip to Annalise's on Saturday night. I have a terrible cold, but went anyway, just hoping none of the Utah family gets the cold too. Of course, they had all been thoroughly exposed by Nikoli on Friday and Saturday. On our way down, I decided to floss some apple peel from between my front teeth and suddenly pulled out the filling in one of my teeth. So I went all weekend with a gaping, SHARP hole in my tooth. Needless to say I have a sore tongue today. When I went to have it repaired today, the dentist numbed my mouth and now I have chewed a small hole in my lower right lip. He said the deadening would wear off in about 45 minutes and it is now 4 hours later and it is just barely wearing off. You don't realize what a crucial role your lips and cheeks play in chewing your food!

Sunday was a little hectic. Went to church at 9 a.m. It was the annual Primary Program. Annalise was the accompanist and Liam accompanied one song, "Follow the Prophet". All Annalise's children had short speaking parts. Little Aidan did his very well, as did all the others. Liam was sustained to become a Deacon and we all went to his ordination at noon. There were so many of us present for the ordination that we met in the Relief Society room and made the next ward start their Gospel Doctrine class late. Annalise has a really nice Bishop though. We were impressed by his spirituality. We returned to Annalise's and had lasagne and garlic bread. Jo made a carrot cake for Jenni's birthday and we waited patiently for it to bake. What we thought would take 35 minutes took 55. So a cake that would take 35 minutes in a 9 inch round takes almost an hour if baked in a 9 x 11 inch pan. I think that's because of it being a carrot cake, they are much denser than a regular cake. Live and learn. We ate our cake and sent Jenni off in the rain to drive back to Payette around 3:30. Lynn and I left about 4:30 and drove through the rain as well. It is fun to have the XMRadio and listen to fun music all the way home wherever we are. When we hit the I-84, I-86 interchange the rain was just pouring down. We had to really slow down. The rain eased up a little the further west we went. The wind was still blowing when we got home and it was raining still, but nothing like it had been. Brian and Kattie were an hour or so behind us and they hit the downpour at the Utah, Idaho border.

I took a lot of Sudafed and made it through the weekend without too much problem. Today I don't have much of a voice, but don't feel too badly. Jenni, I really hope you don't get sick before your training next week. Keep taking that calcium and zinc, get lots of sleep and drink plenty of fluids.

I finally threw out the basket of plants from Grandma Carlquist's funeral. They had finally reached the absolute end of their lives. Now I have to figure out what to put in their place. If I leave the window bare, people put newspapers and pile magazines and stuff in the window and that really looks bad! As bad as the plants were looking, they still looked better than piles of stuff!

Too many things to do outside at this time of year. I hate pulling out the petunias, they have looked really pretty this year. I still have about 100 bulbs to plant and I have already planted a couple of hundred bulbs. Leaves are piling up and need raked, grass needs mowed one last time. All the fallen apples need picked up and the garden needs cleared up. Lynn has about 14 acres of beets left to dig. Maybe tomorrow if it doesn't rain tonight. Right now the sun is shining. Lots of fall work on the farm too. Already the Christmas rush begins. Tonight is the first meeting of the Valley Community Helpers and it's time to plan for our Christmas Open House. Yikes! I guess I had better get busy.

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October 4th, 2010

Spent the day cleaning bathrooms and doing laundry. Washed all Lynn's hunting gear, including some large canvas bags he has to put the meat in to bring it off the mountain. He hosed them off thoroughly outside before I had to take them in and wash them, but they were still a little gross. He made the mistake of leaving the antlers in the garage overnight-----eww!! The garage didn't smell too good this morning. They had a really good time hunting and being together. It really has been several years since Lynn, Mark and Neil were able to go on a hunt together.

It has been rainy and overcast for most of the day, but it is a welcome change from the hot, dusty air that we have had for the past couple of weeks. I am enjoying the coolness. The leaves on the green ash trees are starting to turn yellow and fall off, now if only they will all fall off before it snows! We have had heavy wet snows for the past two years early in October. I still have the apples to pick from the Golden Delicious tree. They are surprisingly good and worm free even though they were not sprayed at all this year. The Early Blaze tree is all done dropping its apples, I picked a few and made several apple desserts and a few quarts of applesauce, but I wasn't feeling well enough to pick them before most of them dropped on the ground.