Week of June 9 - June 15, 2024

Spiritual

I substituted for our chorister in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday. Survived. Class went well and Sunday was quiet. 

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. 

I have indexed 33,423 records and reviewed 13,279 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

Happy Birthday Adam on Sunday! Wilkins are enjoying a busy summer! Josh and Grace went to the temple early Friday morning to perform baptismal ordinances. 

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan and Cameo had a datenight with friends from McDonough. 

 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper are doing well at work and are having a good summer.

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie are finally enjoying a cool summer and enjoying their work. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

The girls were finally well enough to come visit on Tuesday morning. I will admit I was a bit nervous. Not sure if they would have fun here. But my concerns were crazy. They had a great time. We played legos, games, built and played with the toy kitchen. Annie is so tall! and Ellie looks so much older. Emma enjoyed opening her birthday gift and was all full of hugs and snuggles for papa and I. And Eve warmed up after she got to know us a bit. 

We shared ice cream sundaes as they came over to visit with Doran, Amber and Kooper on Thursday evening. 

Nathan flew in town in the middle of the night Thursday and we got to visit with him for a bit on Friday. They flew home on Saturday. 

Dad's Garden

Final pickings of tomatoes are happening as the weather heats up. Basil is looking great. 

 

Other highlights

Grandchild visits are always the best and this week was no exception. So glad Jessica and the girls recovered from a nasty virus and could come and spend some time with us. 

Week of June 2 - June 8, 2024

Spiritual

We had a good  Fast and Testimony meeting at church today. Primary...well, I had a well planned and what I thought was inspired...but the best of plans can crash and burn when it comes to three and four year olds. Well, better luck next time. The rest of our day was quiet.  

Dee was able to attend the temple this week. 

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. 

I have indexed 31,611 records and reviewed 13,190 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

Allison shared:

It's one of my favorite Sundays of the year: memory box day!

All year I throw everything they bring home from school in a box. One Sunday after school ends, I pull out this box. Each kid has one file box (with a file for each grade). They can keep whatever goes in that file for that grade. The rest is trashed.

It is SO much fun to go through their boxes and reminisce. It's especially fun this year because Grace just finished her box and died going through her cute kindergarten stuff.

The last week of school was full of ups and downs!!

On of the uppiest ups: Joshua graduated 8th grade and is now a high school student!

Grace and Allison suffered with tonsillitis. Allison even needed antibiotics for the first time in many years. All are doing better now and Allison has completed another year of teaching. The upcoming week will be full of a teachers conference for Allison while Grace keeps the boys happy with swimming and games.

The Ethan Rice Family

This family has been trying some daily hikes.

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper are doing well and had a good week. 

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie are doing well. They are living at a vacation site with guest cabins. Cassie cleans and Morgan in the maintenance man and they have totally free rent etc for staying there. They are enjoying a cook summer!

Kayty

Kayty had taken her car in for transmission fluid change last weekend. She came out of work on Tuesday and found a puddle of fluid under her car. She worked from home, got the car to the dealer on Thursday after work, and had further repairs. Seem another plug had broken and transmission fluid leaked out. She wasn't charged but repeat repairs have happened before. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Happy Birthday Emma on Thursday!

Jessica and the girls drove across country and arrived at Jess's parents house late Monday night. Jessica got hit with a massive stomach bug on Tuesday. Other illesses and bugs plagued the girls through the week. Nathan misses all his lovely ladies but is keeping busy removing trees and building shelves on his property. He called Saturday as he was working repairing the a/c in their Expedition. 

Dad's Garden

Picking tomatoes but 112 degrees is a game changer for tomatoes. I am picking them early at times so they dont have to bake in the heat. Citrus is doing well and we should have loads in the winter. Chickens, older chicks, and baby chick are surviving the heat. 

 

Other highlights

Big mess on Tuesday. I have run an Affresh washing machine cleaner tablet every month since Nathan was working for Lowes delivering appliances and told me how important it was. Every month. No problem. Unless...you get on auto pilot and fill the soap dispenser with laundry soap as well. I checked after it has been running for a long time...and the machine was filled with suds and the cycle wouldn't advance. No suds were escaping a la Bobby Brady and Brady Bunch. And an internet searched proved no one else had done something quite as dumb as this. I just stopped the cycle and let it sit till all the bubbles went away, wiped it down as much as I could, added a cup of vinegar, and ran a rinse cycle. 

Went to Costco on Thursday. Shell Shock! I don't go very often and when I do it is for very particular things: coconut oil, olive oil, feta cheese, plus I got some canned chicken and balsamic vinegar. $128.00! 

Dad worked polishing rocks this week in his spare time after work. 

Happy Birthday Grandma on Saturday. Dad repaired some collectibles for her and gave her flowers. We had a good visit. 

Week of May 26 - June 1, 2024

Spiritual

We had a great Sacrament Meeting. One of our young men who was as crazy a primary kid and youth as you could imagine spoke as he readies to leave to serve a mission in Germany. Boy, he is either the best actor ever or BYU is a place of miracles. Anyway he gave a great talk, primary went well and we had a quiet Sunday. 

Temple continues on shut down this week. 

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. 

I have indexed 29,737 records and reviewed 12,951 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

Happy Birthday Mike on Friday!!! 

Wilkins family had a good first week of Summer vacation. Grace spent some time with some friends. 

The Ethan Rice Family

Fun Memorial Day Camping Trip with friends.

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper had a great holiday camping trip with some friends from church. They had a good first week of Summer too. 

Morgan

No news from Morgan and Cassie.

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week. Her car started leaking some fluid during the week so she spent Saturday at a car dealership getting repairs. 

Two major saves this week.

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan, Jessica, Grammy Lorrie and the girls headed to a fruit farm on Monday and picked many delicious blueberries and blackberries. Ellie just couldn't stop eating them! So good. They have been enjoying a great visit from Grammy Lorrie. Nathan and Jessica celebrated their anniversary with a little getaway trip. They had a good time. 

Nathan, with some help from Jessica, created this wonderful birthday cake for Miss Emma's fifth birthday celebration

Yes, those are truly edible squishmallows! 

Dad's Garden

Harvesting tomatoes continues. They are smaller but sure are tasty. We planted a new basil plant but another rodent came in the night and ate every single bit of it. So we purchased another plant and I made dad one caprese salad before he planted in a more secure cage. At least he has eaten some and he got one caprese salad!

 

Other highlights

First thing in the morning on Memorial Day, Dad and I set out to replace the emergency shut off on our air conditioner. It took over an hour and a half but we got it done. 

Dad cleaned up the back patio and got some more rocks put on the back of the fireplace each day.   It is still nice enough outdoors when the sun goes down to get work done. We ran out and needed to locate another riverbottom to pick out some more. Finished up on Friday and cleaned the rock with an acid wash on Saturday. 

I got the outside refrigerator unplugged and scrubbed out. All nice and clean with cups of baking soda in each compartment. Since we don't have big parties at Thanksgiving and Christmas any more, it won't have to come on unless I get a great deal on produce. 

We got the front yard all cleaned up and raked up from the big mesquite tree's first load of pollen and needles. Next come the beans. Yuck!

I also finished installing the final pieces of molding and the corner piece in the entryway. I am getting pretty good using the radial arm saw and still have all my fingers.