Beneath the Wraps

          It's been raining quite a bit this year - more than usual from what we understand.   More downpour and more frequent.   And yet the riverbed told a different story - as though it had been recently drained.   The last two times I checked, the water was fast and appeared to be near overflowing.           Springtime came early last year.   Mid-February it seemed.   This year Spring just barely started.   It snowed on December 12, 2015 and again in January 2017.   We heard that snow in these parts is rare.   December 12th snow was gone on December 13.   This year the snow didn't stick around, but did snow more often.             We've also experienced hail.   I have not used my winter boots since February, but have not returned them to the shed just in case.  ...

        Thus far I am enjoying my economic class.   It is the study of human behavior as far as decision making goes.   There are "luxuries" that we give up when we trade what we have for other things we want or need. Although we may not view them as luxuries at the time, we may miss certain situations while we are grateful not to have others.         Take our move from Salt Lake County, Utah to Douglas County, Oregon.   The major thing that drew us to Oregon was clean air quality vs. breathing deadly smog.   Myrtle Creek is certainly a lot smaller (population wise) than any city I had lived in within the Salt Lake City area.   There aren't as many roads or traffic or pollution.   The crime rate is definitely lower.   I'm not saying there isn't any crime here - it just doesn't seem as common.         Take the other night, for example.  ...

LaTiesha         My first Easter dress was yellow and had a fish on the collar.  I had put the dress in my hope chest several years later (I received the hope chest when I was twelve – it may have been at then?) and was able to use the same dress on Jenna at eight or nine months.  Before we moved to Oregon, I had given the dress to my pregnant daughter-in-law that had announced she’d be having a girl (as it turns out, all three of my sons have daughters only – at least thus far) and recently posted to my facebook cover a picture of Jenna, myself, and my granddaughter, Devin, wearing the same “fishy” dress.  Jenna         I do remember bits and pieces of different Easters from my childhood.  Patrick and me - 1970 perhaps         I don’t know when I got or felt too old for the non-Christian Easter traditions.  I do remember mom had ma...

I don’t know how old I was when I was introduced to the parallels between the ancient prophets and Jesus – and how there have been so many symbolisms throughout their life.   For example:   Pharaoh's orders to slay the male children (Moses) and Herod’s orders to slay male children (Jesus) Noah and his family in the ark for 40 days and nights as Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights   Joseph’s brothers (Judah in particular) selling him to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of silver as Judas Iscariot had betrayed “selling” Jesus for silver pieces. Or Jonah having been inside a whale’s belly for 3 days before he was spit out or Jesus having been inside a tomb before the stone rolled away As well as countless others.   As I searched for scriptural references, I found these three links ( Moses , Joseph , Joseph Smith ) that go into a lot more detail than what I have here.   As the last speaker in our sacrament meeting yesterday related the account of...

Breakfast of Champions LOL HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE!

I know that's not what it's called.   But that's what the "buds" look like - hanging from the tree   When the wind blows them to the ground, they look like dead worms left on the ground after a rain. Trees have their advantages.    But there are also disadvantages that come with having trees.

          Eight months after I started this blog, I created this post. Roland actually works for an online school and had taken advantage of furthering his education at a deal.   He would spend HOURS on the computer - and that was BEFORE he started working at home.   That was a LOT of time.           Sometimes he would be frustrated - perhaps for different reasons than I had imagined.   I like having someone hold my hand and walk me through a task - rather than just hand me the instructions. And don't explain things to me on a college level.   I want you to dummy it down like I'm five (I would have gone for a higher number, but Jenna seems to absorb things better than I and has always learned things at an earlier age than I)           Some people have asked why I have gone into accounting as I really don't have ...