Dear Kids,
It’s supposed to rain this morning, but up till now we’ve had the most marvelous fall weather! So we’ve been trying to finish our summer projects. At the cabin, I finished the stone wall around the moose, and Dad and I finished the skirting around the front deck. Now we’ve started on the bunkhouse. Dad has been painting over that decroded waferboard, to discourage the woodpeckers from ripping it up any more, and I’ve been working on the skirting around the bottom. Next spring we hope to finally put the siding on it. Here at our house, I’ve been working on the edgings between the gravel parking strip and our property, and spreading more lava rock. People who walk by every day tell me how nice it’s looking, and I eat it up.
Then, probably the most fun project of all, was yesterday afternoon at Donna’s. She had taken apart her front porch so we could pour a cement slab underneath, which would keep the bricks from shifting. So we did the cement. Dad and Donna mixed and I tamped it down and smoothed it. Of course I couldn’t resist writing my name in it, and Donna texted me a picture later showing how Dallin had added his name underneath. The whole project was very satisfying. I love doing cement, because you know it’s absolutely going to stay there.
Jana McGettigan was here from Friday morning to yesterday noon, and we had a wonderful time. Friday afternoon we drove to the Heber airport to watch John take off in his glider (with Dad holding the wing), and then we drove around looking for “fall color.” Jana’s taking a photography class and she needed to take pictures of the autumn leaves. We drove through Charleston and Midway, and then back up toward Kamas. We stopped by the Provo River where it goes under Highway 32, and then we drove to the cabin. There were gorgeous yellow trees wherever we went, and just a few red ones that hadn’t completely faded yet. At sunset, back at our house, we sat out in the pergola while Jana took more pictures. Oh, yes, and we watched a couple of movies, too. We always love it when Jana comes, and the kitties expect a lot of attention from her, too.
Sharon is moving ahead with her nursing skills. Now she’s learned how to give shots. (They use a dummy that feels like it has real skin. It used to be that nursing students practiced on an orange. Thank goodness they don’t practice on real people yet.) Anyway, when Sharon went to get a flu shot, she noticed that the nurse did everything wrong. We know Sharon won’t ever be so careless!
Life is great. I love you all. Mom
