Year: 2007

In sacrament meeting today we thought we lucked out when the speakers ended about ten minutes early and one of the bishopric members went straight to the closing song without having someone bear a testimony or something. What we didn’t know was that we had the slowest chorester and organist in the whole church in… Continue reading Sleeping in Sacrament Meeting

This morning I woke up relatively early and started off by weeding the garden. We have an infestation of morning glory, aka field bindweed, which is one of the most evil weeds in the world (or at least in my yard). It has a root system that won’t quit and is incredibly hard to get… Continue reading Grandpa Ray Toolboard v2.0

My company bought a bunch of Salt Lake Bees baseball tickets this year and each Thursday home game is company night at the ballpark. Why Thursday? Well, Thursdays are called “Thirsty Thursday” and beer is only $2.50 a glass so naturally that is the best night to hold a company event. I usually take a… Continue reading Night at the Ballpark

I can’t believe it is time for school to start again. It will be Emily’s last year in elementary school and Samuel’s first. Samuel actually starts a week after the rest of the kids because for the first week the kindergarteners have one on one meetings with the teacher. I took the girls last week… Continue reading The Beginning of another school year

No, we didn’t lose Internet connectivity. We don’t have any legitimate excuse like that. It’s just that, well, we got into a big lazy rut during the summer where we didn’t do anything and I was just too lazy to post. (Oh, and that little matter of Harry Potter coming out on Saturday and Nancy… Continue reading Where have we been?

After holding out since January without any TV service, the idea of being TV-less through the football season was too much to take. I finally broke down and reordered the satellite dish (Dish Network). I really wish the MTN television network (which carries many BYU away games) was on the satellites but I dislike Comcast… Continue reading TV on Tap

The Austrian pine in the front yard appears to be the first casualty of our unusually dry and hot spring/summer. It looked good during the spring but as soon as the temperature got over 100 degrees it turned brown. A few weeks later we had a wind storm and the next morning all the needles… Continue reading Casualty of Summer

Nancy never takes the kids to the pool during the week so by the time the weekend rolls around they are begging me to take them. I don’t mind going to the pool so after I finished the yardwork we went to the pool today. Amazingly enough Nancy actually got her swimming suit on and… Continue reading Summer Swimming

Nancy and I went to see the fifth Harry Potter movie today. Nancy ordered the tickets online several weeks ago – reserved seats for the IMAX 3D version. I was having a horrible morning at work (I had to terminate an employee which didn’t go well) and so I was glad to get away from… Continue reading Harry Potter Movie

My brother and his family is visiting this week from Oregon. He had to drop his two oldest daughters off to EFY down at BYU on Monday and then the rest of the week he had planned to do fun things and invite us along. The problem was that his wife Jaime got sick with… Continue reading Going to the zoo