Beneath the Wraps

 Jenna won a prize!  She is so excited. if all goes according to plan, they will reopen April 1 and we will go later that week for Jenna's birthday. toothpick from cupcake and button from library sugar cookie wrapper and indication

  On March 12 I posted the following to my facebook page To which I received this comment: “I think most towns’ chicken ordinances say NO roosters within the city limits.   Just because of the noise.” My reply was that we just don’t seem to fit into that “most town” mold.   Two days later we received a knock on our door from a very angry homeowner that I didn’t even recognize.   She came here to complain about our chickens.   I told her the chickens are not ours.   She didn’t believe me.   I get it.   They do seem to spend far much more time in our yard than they do their own and will follow Roland around as though he is the Pied piper.   Roland is allergic to feathers.   Go figure. I don’t think I even knew they were there until the end of July – perhaps just before.   It doesn’t appear I made mention of them in my blog until August 2 – though I refer to the pigs more than the chickens.   Jenna and I had walked around ...

             I don’t know where Jenna came up with that number but that is how she had rated St. Patrick’s Day this year.   After being denied the opportunity of the annual Grunge Plunge (see here )  for the last two years not to mention the annual Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating downtown (thank you so much COVID) it was decided to involve several of the downtown businesses to participate in a St. Patrick’s Day celebration which Jenna has been looking forward since the beginning of this month it seems.           Jenna started out the day by eating a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast. She  decked out in green because Spirit dressing is a large part of personality.  We left the house later than we had hoped.   She said Scooby Doo would be at Good Dog’s Bakery.   Though he represented the bakery, he was really across the street.    We made our way around a few...

             I was not the only one signed up to tour Nauvoo yesterday.   I thought we would see more of the city, but it was raining and thus we did not see much of the outside.   The tour covered only three houses. There was a set of missionaries for each house we saw. Those residing at the homes had names I was not even familiar with – nor did I have the correct spelling on the first and so had to look it up – though I still did not find many references for those residing in the first house. This first house belonged to William and Ester Gheens ( here ) The final pic shows the outside view.    They did not take us outside but did show a picture inside - just behind the yellow door (from above) standing in the kitchen of the Gheens home Behind the tree is the Nauvoo Temple. The second house we saw was that of William and Caroline Weeks ( here ).   The ceilings are quite low and everything looked so small - like we wer...