Beneath the Wraps

         Richard and I picked Jaime up from school on the 6th.  A few days later Jaime and I put up the tree and finally started decorating but left oodles of space on the tree so that Ally could also decorate.  She's been running a fever, learned that she has a kidney infection among the many health problems that she has already been blessed with.  She did manage to put up a few ornaments before she returned to bed.          On Friday we did the yard.  Well, mostly Biff, Clair and Jaime.  Richard supervised - or at least said that is what he was doing.  Jaime wrapped lights around the pine tree.  She is a mountain goat and was able to step on the rocks and unbalanced ground without slipping.  She put up some ornaments and I put up some.  Still room on the outside tree for more ornaments but we've had rain and wind in addition to the near freezing temperatures.       ...

                 Are chickens even teachable?  We have put up so many barricades to keep the chickens out.  The neighbors to the west of us have called the police about our backyard neighbors’ menagerie at least four times.  The chickens didn’t bother me when they were at the top of the hill.  I wasn’t even bothered about them venturing into our yard.  Taking over the front yard seemed a bit much.  I drew the line at their overtaking the deck . . . which in itself would have been no problem but their bowl movements were/are.  I don’t like that!                 I recall 3 Nephi 10 in which Christ compares himself to a mother hen.   He gathereth his children as a hen would gather her chickens.   I have personally never seen that happen.   There are several hens that will invade our yard – no peeps though.   The you...

On our fifth day was two weeks ago today.  We were at the house Randy put us to work.   Who doesn’t love doing yard work during their vacation?   Better than being cramped up in a plane or a car I suppose. Also his corner lot yard is much easier to manage than the wilds of our backyard.  Devin doing dishes Roland mowing lawn Jenna looks overly thrilled in all of these pictures happy to have recruited family to do chores I was certainly not dressed for the part "This is NOT how I wanted to spend my vacation" holding the cord of the lawnmower Me with my youngest grandson This is how Roland and I would vacuum at the church.  He would push the vacuum and I would hold the cord.

Today I took a walk - not to Millsite.  Not up the street.  The only place I walked was around the house.  My walk in nature (LOL) .  It's a pretty pathetic post folks.  But then so is our yard. backyard near the shed the back side of our house the hill (not much of a yard) this snowball bush has definitely seen better days looks like the remains of a campground firepit where we had our greenhouse before the snow storm ruined it last year taken May 2017 I don't know why these remainders haven't made it to the garbage can.  I'm certain it's rotted now shelves could still be useful grass has gotten high and needs to be mowed trench - or part of it https://beneaththewraps.blogspot.com/2019/08/changing-yard.html reminder of the pepper plants?   find it interesting what fall lies beneath; for the most part it does feel like autumn decayed trees lying on the ground it does ge...

As mentioned in the last post, the skies darkened before we were through: Roland had purchased "candles" to place in our windows.   They will turn off after six hours Jenna fell twice.  I don't know why she finds that amusing Cell phone does not have the same sophistocation as does some of the cameras I have owned I thought the reflection of the tree in our window looks cool as it appears the tree is really inside of the house. We stopped decorating not only because it was dark but The three adjoining cities will put on a light parade each year on the second Saturday in December.    I've taken several pictures in the past; this is the best I could do this year. This last one was taken yesterday when we put the balls on. I will have to get a picture of our finished product later on Next we have our non-traditional advent wreath which I thought we would decorate with Christmas festivities.  Jen...