Beneath the Wraps

           Many of us experience a devastation after an automobile accident.  We may lose sleep over replaying the situation in our mind.  We are more cautious when we return to driving.  After a while we return normal sleeping habits and may become a little more lax in our driving habits – or whatever it may be.  Automobile accidents is just one of many scenarios.  I picked that analogy as I think more people may be able to identify with it than to pitbulls or the learning impaired.          Last month Jaime and I had decided to take Bonnie to Millsite just for a change of scenery.  Unfortunately our day did not end well.  I lost a tremendous amount of sleep over the events that took place.  But it ’ s been a month and I have started sleeping better but not have completely relaxed nor do I expect I ever will.          Jaime and I were si...

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful . . . “ My sister recently posted this picture on her facebook page. retrieved from facebook My comment was that even though we live further up north than she does, the residents in Douglas County are more inclined to be like the first picture than the second. I DON’T miss snow.   I don’t miss driving in it.   I don’t miss waiting in the cold snowbanks and blizzards.   I don’t miss the horrible traffic.   I don’t miss this: retrieved from KSL NOVEMBER 27, 2019 AT 5:14 AM   Retrieved from Salt Lake Tribune  NOVEMBER 27, 2019  retrieved from NBC news December 8, 2019   The weather was quite beautiful on Christmas morning and continued into the next day.   Jenna put on her Elf costume and we went to Millsite park ao she could pass out candy canes. I had to take another picture after we returned home so that the socks could be seen (as t...

            Myrtle Creek has a summer festival at the end of July or the weekend closest to July 25th.   We learned that our first year here when Roland had asked one of the members about Pioneer Days - a holiday celebrating the movement of the pioneers to Salt Lake City, Utah.   Our ward here does a service project the Saturday prior to the Saturday of summer fest.   The first year we had moved in, we had gone to Riddle to clean up the cemetery here .   I took several pictures though I was not yet familiar with the majority of members who appeared in each photo.               The following year we had painted the shed and spruced up the track and bleacher area at the high school.   I must have forgotten my camera that day.   I don't recall having taken any photographs.   I was hoping that my sister's family would be in town that...

So many times Jenna and I have gone to Millsite, I feel like I am seeing it for the first time.  The elements change and often causes a new feel.  But there has been reconstruction.  A new fence was added.  Trees were removed and new ones planted.  This is Millsite last year, this year in October and on Veteran's Day Dec 22, 2016 Dec 22, 2016 Perhaps you will recognize some of these pictures from this site     October 10, 2017 When we returned to the park on Veteran's Day, I took even more pictures

           Each of us has the opportunity to make choices.   We choose to leave the house, transportation, destination, what we eat and so forth.   Often we are presented with obstacles as a result of our choices.   For example, we may have a variety of ways to get from point A to point B - do we want to take the scenic route or something faster.   If we had stayed in one lane could we have avoided the car crash that happens in the next?   What about those that we encounter.   How do our choices effect them?   And what about those things we can't control like the weather or health?  Often the result of our choices makes no difference.  Other times even the smallest decision may change our entire lives.           I think "The Mountain Between Us" gives us some great illustrations of what our choices may cost.   By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https:...