Beneath the Wraps

The Relief Society Pres has felt impressed to make little banana breads and plates of cookies to be delivered to some of the sisters in the ward.   I volunteered to help with deliveries and had Jenna with me as we drove around to deliver cookies.  Two of the sisters we had delivered to live off the same exit as our friend Caroline.   So after we had finished delivering the cookies, we stopped by Caroline’s house to visit.   I think we were a bit closer than six feet apart but did keep our distance.  We could hear the sirens and then followed by a noise between a “pop” and a “boom” – it didn’t sound like gunfire exactly, certainly not an explosion.   I still don’t know if it was related to the sirens or not, nor do I know what happened.    Caroline  said she could smell something resembling like burnt plastic.  If I had gotten back on the freeway and headed south, driven through Canyonville and back through Riddle I would have mi...

                On April 20 I received an email for a work assignment for the 13 – 28.   I was scheduled to work at Coffenberry for the rest of the year.   I posted this assignment on facebook and proposed two questions:   If they wanted me on the 13 th , why did they wait until the 20 to tell me?   The schools are closed, but do you think if I show up that I will get paid?               Roland had suggested that I qualify for unemployment, but he was still working and I didn't want to take away from somebody else who needed more than we.  As it turned out I didn't even qualify as I hadn't put in enough hours or made enough.  And that was okay.             I haven’t been to any of the schools since March 13.   The school district has payments available on the 10 th but today I re...

All of my life I have heard about the signs of the times and what will take place in the last days – the speculations and the truth.   I hadn’t questioned a lot of it as I planned on being on the other side long before the majority of the signs came to pass – which I still might.   Things will only get worse before they start to get better.   I don’t say that to be morbid or because I’m pessimistic.   It is fact. One of the things I was taught was that the people may choose one of two leaders.   In today’s case it would be either the words of a prophet or the leader of the country, state, whatever a person feels.   There are Trump supporters.   There are those who know that Pres. Nelson is a mouthpiece for God.   Not all people are in favor of Trump.   Not all people recognize Pres. Nelson as a prophet.   Not everybody has a testimony of God’s love.   I am choosing to follow the counsel of the prophet.   Regardless of...

Among the Silly Memes are more seriously themed messages.

More Memes from facebook: I am NOT one of these people.  I didn't even vote for him. I think the leader of our country has a touch of dementia. Canada and Mexico border on America.  America is full of stupid people unfortunately for all of us

A couple of months after we had moved into our house in Tri City, Jenna and I were walking around Millsite Park when we met a man named Chris.   It was the one and only time our paths had crossed.   I do not know his last name.   He made custom canes.   It was a unique thing personalizing such an ordinary thing.   After our encounter I had collected a bunch and words and pictures that I could have ready should our paths cross again.   They never did.   Thus I made my own walking stick  about a year and a half ago.  (see here )            This year the quarantine has given me an opportunity to make a walking stick for Roland.   I kept his artwork (greeting cards and assignments) in color.   It does not have the results of my own and it isn’t really finished.   I still have several layers of coating to finish it off.         ...