Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Heading for Home
We left Rodney and Erika's in a terrible rainstorm. Denver had received about 24 inches of snow and we didn't want to pull the trailer over mountains in that much snow, so we headed south towards Albuquerque. We made it to Tucumcari and stayed the night. The water hookup froze during the night so we had to run our hose to the office hose bib so we could shower the next morning.
Friday, October 30, 2009
We drove to the Albuquerque Temple and attended an afternoon session. The Temple is a pale pink to be compatible with the area! Then we drove to Cortez, Colorado for the night.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Kansas
We drove to my daughter, Erika's, house in Douglass, Kansas just outside of Wichita. We arrived late at night so we pretty much just went to bed. Friday we went grocery shopping so Sienna and Marriah (my granddaughters) and I could cook all day Saturday. We made smoothies for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and for dinner these cute little mice baked potatoes, a fish dip for fruit kabobs (it looked like a fish), sweet and sour chicken, and raspberry cheesecake. We were in the kitchen all day long--great fun.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
We went to Church with the "fam". They have a very nice ward and we enjoyed all the meetings. Erika took us with her to the New Family Search class which Utahns didn't have yet.
Monday & Tuesday, October 26 & 27, 2009
Erika wanted me to help her design and plant a perennial bed. First, however, we had to amend the soil. Here we are hauling bales of peat moss to the hill where the bed would be. Then the four of us (we enlisted the help of Randy and her husband Rodney) put five front-end loader loads of mulch through their chipper-shredder and spread it on the bed. Rodney then used the tiller on their tractor to till everything in.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Now we had to select what plants we wanted to use. Erika has her own nursery--sort of. Rodney bought all the plants at a closeout.
Now we had to haul all the plants to the hillside.
Next, we had to place the desired plants where we wanted them for our design.
Now the planting begins!
The Gulf Coast
We went swimming with the manatees at Crystal River, Florida.
The manatees have algae growing on them. They love to have you scratch their back and scratch all the algae off. I had a baby and a mama come to me. The baby's skin was nice and soft and smooth. The mother's was wrinkly and tough.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Florida
We left Randy's sister's in Atlanta in a terrible rainstorm. Randy got soaked hooking up the trailer. Then when we were traveling on the freeway, several cars pulled over (I guess their wipers couldn't handle it) the rest of us slowed to about 30 mph and turned our flashers on. This was the worst rainstorm either of us had ever driven in. When we finally drove out of the storm and reached the Florida/Georgia border, the temperature was in the 90's.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
We drove to my brother's in Longwood, just outside Orlando. REALLY hot and there was no way we could run our air conditioner so we had to move into his home to stay the night.
Wednesday, October 14,2009
We drove to Dixie Crossroads near the Kennedy Space Center for lunch. They have really good rock shrimp which are like little tiny lobster.
Randy's too full to do anything but nap.
This is a "G" force ride. Randy was queasy after. There was no way I was going on it!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
This is the lake my brother's house faces. We paddled around it for a while and saw some fish, turtles, and ugly Asian ducks.
Friday, October 16, 2009
We went to the Longwood ward. The bishop there has a son on a mission in Ogden! Sabrina came over again for leftovers and we critiqued her presentation for her Doctorate degree. (SHE IS NOW A DOCTOR!) She's such a cute girl.