Beneath the Wraps

           I know I make worse of situations inside of my head than how they really are – especially if I haven’t gotten a proper amount of sleep.  I know I shouldn’t be uptight and I know I shouldn’t dwell on what I can’t change – like missing dishes that have made their way out of the kitchen and haven’t been returned.  My imagination runs away with me and I get carried away – which reminds me this skit of Ernie returning a vacuum cleaner.            Often when I allow things to get out of hand the real life situation will have the opposite results and I find I have worked myself up for nothing.   Yesterday I had gone to the temple though Satan had done his best to keep me away.   After the session had ended Richard and I continued to Ashland to collect Jaime to bring her home for the next four days.   She presented me with a cup that has an owl on the side.   She said it was for my birthday (w...

             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...