Beneath the Wraps

                 Yesterday marked the 20 th year of my marriage with Roland.   You think a couple might want to spend their 20 th anniversary with some kind of milestone celebration.   But both of us managed to forget – and yet I had just mentioned it to Jenna the day prior.   And thus our anniversary was celebrated in the same manner that many birthdays and anniversaries have gone during the pandemic.   We labored.                 We moved the freezer into the back room. We emptied the water barrel moved that as well.   Refilled with water. We unstocked and took apart shelves in the office and put a couple up in the backroom and one in the laundry hall and restocked them.   We finally did take a break between 10:30 and 11:00 to grab some food.   I had hoped for breakfast and NOT Mexican, but we ended up at a local Mexican that we had ...

             I loved my brother’s descriptions ( here ) of a couple who had lived in my mom’s ward for most of Corey’s life.   I had known the family who had lived in the house before them.   Lily Black and I were very close friends – until after she moved and we had lost touch.             I don’t know if I was still in high school when Howards moved into the house where Blacks had lived.   I don’t recall how many children they had as Blaine was the only one living at home.   He had an older brother who was serving a mission.   I met him for the first time when I was going to Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.   He had come to drop something off.   I don’t even remember what.   I recognized him as I thought he looked so much like his dad.           I’m guessing that Bob and Irma were in their sixties when t...

          It’s been just a few years since I wrote this post – referring to the stages of life and changes that we hope will never come.   Yet we are tried.   We can’t control what things might happen – good or bad.   For my oldest son’s in-laws, June is a hard month.                       For Roland’s family it seems to be April that seasons the time line.   His mom turned 92 yesterday.   Seven years ago we’d gone to Tucson to celebrate her birthday ( here ).   Nine days later, Roland’s eldest sister passed.   Today we learned that another sister died this morning.   Facebook reminders of two of my boys who married their wives in April.         Missionary papers and homecomings in April.  Jenna was also born in April.   This is my first recorded timeline.