Category: The Daily Grind

We take a “big” vacation every other year. Last year we went to Disneyland. Next year we’re going to Washington D.C. This year was a “small” vacation so we decided to stay closer to home. Nancy had never been to Yellowstone before and it’s only a 6 hour drive from Salt Lake City so we… Continue reading Yellowstone Trip – Day 1

We got back last Friday from a trip to Yellowstone. On Saturday I got the camera to upload the pictures from our trip and the camera was empty! Nothing, nada, zip. The memory card had been erased. I knew for sure there had been pictures on the camera so my first suspicion was that the… Continue reading Picture Disaster!

It has now been about a week since Anne got her braces and she is now pretty used to them. The day we went in to get them she was very nervous because Emily told her that they would hurt once she got them on. When she got in to see the orthodontic assistant who… Continue reading There’s another set of braces in the family

I’ve lived in Utah most of my life and had always wanted to check out the Kennecott Copper Mine but had never managed to make the trip. Last week I had some vendors in town from Boston so we took the opportunity to finally go and see the mine. The visitor’s center had a number… Continue reading Kennecott Copper Mine

The other night I noticed there was a pretty full moon outside so I wanted to get a good picture of it. The only problem is that my little camera is not quite good enough to get the picture of it. I took quite a few pictures and only one was even close to what… Continue reading Fiddling with my camera

The beets were the first of our plants to sprout and the first ones we got to eat. BYUFan picked them and I washed and cooked them. We tried some of the greens for dinner but we decided that the beets themselves tasted a lot better than the greens. The only problem with eating beets… Continue reading Our first crop of the season

I thought it would be cool to take some close up pictures of the flowers in our yard so maybe at a later date I could blow them up and make some cool artwork for my walls. I am not a very good photographer so I wasn’t too sure if they would look good, but… Continue reading Spring Flowers

The grass pollen count in Utah has been off the charts lately. Here is today’s count: You can get the daily count from the Intermountain Asthma and Allergy website. On Saturday I was at the kids soccer games (last games of the season – hooray!) but it was windy and I couldn’t stop sneezing. It… Continue reading Bad Allergies

This afternoon as I was headed outside to get the garbage can and put it away, my next door neighbor called me over to look inside her window well and see what was inside. I peeked in and I saw what looked like a big ball of fur. My neighbor didn’t really know what it… Continue reading A Surprise in the Window Well