The kids took to the skies today and as of my last text with Natty they had made it safely to Anchoage. I assume now they have arrived in Bethel and all is well. I won't know until we figure out a way to communicate. Natty will have no phone service or data so we will have to figure out other ways when she is on Wi-Fi. I am home tonight after a long drive. Ready for bed.
Tomorrow morning the kids will fly out to Alaskafor the next 6 weeks or so. It is that time of year. Actually it is about a month later than usual but there are a lot of things that contributed to that delay. Regardless, tomorrow is the day. We are in Las Vegas tonight staying with Jim and Clo. So we made a little road trip prior to departure and have had a good time. The drive was good even if Natalie squeezed out a surprise victory in the alphabet game. Well, good drive and good food for dinner and then some fun times bowling. It has been a good night. Glad we've been able to spend it with Jim and Clo.
After Sumner band Andy and I made a visit to the Brick House. Grandpa was there and so we talked to him for a bit. I slid in the back to make Andy a grilled cheese and then ended up working the line for a few. Got to make 5 or 6 philly's and a thunderbird. That was good times.I love that section on the line and sometimes I need that.
I am struggling at the moment with everything that is going on. My struggle is to balance the load so that I can progress with school, meet my work responsibilities, and take care of my family duties all at the same time. I need to manage my time a little better though that is challenging as something always seems to be popping up. I have some kitchen projects I've got to do now as well as a need to remove an awning from the front of the building. It never ends.
Had a great time at church today. Everything went well. We had our Teacher Council Meeting and had some excellent comments and participation. I really wanted to focus on engaged learning and helping class members to act. In both the second and third hour meetings there was excellent participation. I really enjoyed the meetings. I was concerned coming out of our last meeting with a comment that was made about engaging students in the lessons. Today we focused on love and loving those we teach and we participated in a variety of activities that got people involved.
The Brian Head fire continues to burn. Tonight our house smells of smoke. My nostrils and throat are burning. Hoping they can get more control.
I woke up this morning to the smell of smoke in the house. It was not anything in the house burning. It was smoke settling in the area from the Brian head fire. I am so tired. Ok, must go.
Today I sold the Accord. I ended up losing money on the vehicle by a few hundred. I kind of got hood-winked when I bought it. Well, it is gone. Now I'm going to have to find something else. Oh joy. First I am off to bed.
So tired. Need a bit of a break but that may be out a ways. I will just keep pressing forward.
I seem to remember a movie from my youth, I'm thinking it had to be during the 80's, called the swamp thing. I don't know if there was a sequel and I really don't recall the first one. This post has nothing to do with that. Today I had to go in and work unexpectedly. While there I realized that the swamp cooler I fixed Saturday could not keep up and I needed to go and check the other one. I got on the roof and found the pump was out. I ran and picked up a pump and then, after cleaning the unit and getting ready to install the pump, I saw it was the wrong voltage. Sweet. Ran back to the store and replaced. After some additional part cleaning I have that swamper cooling well. Nice. And now that my swamping is over I must needs get some rest.
I am completely wiped out. The good news is I am ready to crash. I am exhausted. Going to bed.
Just found Saturdays post. I guess I didn't miss it after all. Just misplaced it for a few days. I was pretty tired.
Today is Father's Day and for the first time since 2010 my kids were with me on father's day. So we will call today kids day. It was good to have them home. We went up and visited the folks tonight. They were good and seemed to have had an enjoyable day. My day started around 8 with me running into the shop and getting all the pies ready for the 8th ward. That went well. I had some music on and got the pies cut, topped, and ready to go. I sang along, I danced along, it was a good time.
The power is currently out for line maintenance so the house and neighborhood is dark. Hopefully I can catch some rest, I like it cool.
Dan and Amy came by this morning and whilst here they invited us to go up to Lol on Reservoir this evening. We ended up going and had a fine time. It was our first trip up and I thought it was a really nice place. We will definitely go back.
Had a thought pop into my head about making our muffalatta into a little pizza today. I used a pita and then topped it with grilled tomato, grilled and chopped up ham, salami, mayo, provolone and our olive medley. I was surprised how well it turned out. I may have a need to make this again
Oh my goodness. In am pretty dang tired tonight. It was a busy day and I may just be worn out from that. Seriously I keep knodding off and cant even think. I may just call it. Done.
I was heading for the basement at the brick house this afternoon and I pulled out my phone to check for message and didn't notice the first step. I thought I was going down and I was, fortunately I moved quickly. In the process I may have tweaked my back. Sweet!
I need to complete a lesson plan for my current class. I spent some time today looking over the requirements and thought about it. Wow, it is quite late and I am quite tired. I'm fixing to pass out.
At church I was asked by one of Natalie's young women leaders if I would send them a baby picture of the Nat that they would use as part of an activity. After church I pulled out a big grey storage bin that houses many a picture. I began going through them and there are some fun ones out there. It was definitely a good time on a Sunday afternoon. The kids then came down and started looking and it became an even dinner activity on a Sunday afternoon. There were so many things that I was reminded of. Fun times.
I just noticed that my post from last night didn't get published. As I read the post I realized that last night I was pretty tired and going to bed was weighing heavily on my mind. I did go to bed, just in case you were wondering.
Today I managed to keep plenty busy. Had Morgan over at the Depot Grill early to work on relocating the condensing unit for the walk in cooler. It was a bit of a job but it is done and it is actually cooling.
While Morgan was doing his thing I went through and put all the chairs up and then did a good sweep of the dining area followed by a mop.
Ok, I am starting to fall asleep. It was a great day. Happy to be heading to bed. Echo yesterdays entry.
I am going to make this quick. I am tired. I am ready for bed. I really need to be getting to bed.
Took a test for my instructional planning course today and passed with a score that was 14 points higher than My pre assessment. This is great.oh my word I am sleeping.
I can't keep my eyes open. .must sleep.
Andy started summer band this week and goes Monday through Thursday at 11. Rather than come home for an hour I have been walking from the school down to the temple and back. Jack has come with me over the last two days. It is a good walk and with Jack it makes for a good talk. He has had much to say about star wars and sonic. I've asked him some thoughts about conference talks and we've had some good chats. Temple walks are a good thing.
It is way late. I haven't been sitting here doing anything productive. Just watching random videos for no good reason. Dumb. Must get to sleep and must be more productive moving forward.
I had a memory pop up today on the facebook. It was a picture of my sun burned legs and my extremely white feet. Looked pretty funny. Today, one year later, we weren't at Long Beach but we did spend a few hours at the lake on the hill where we hung out on the beach and played in the water. My white feet were exposed to the rays of the sun and are no longer of the white variety. I went on a nice walk this evening and the burning of the feet was evident. Not so pleasant. They will feel better once they stop hurting.
For the last couple weeks I have kind of put my strict diet on hold. It is time to regroup and revisit. And now, I must go to bed.
I have gone over and played a little racquetball with Kaden Leno recently. We played tonight and had Will Mitchell join us. We played cut throat and it was a good time. I'm pretty inexperienced with the sport and bring the average level of play way down but it is fun and I do my best to be competitive. I think it was nice for Kaden to have Will there because it brought the level of competition up quite a ways. I wasn't all bad and did manage some nice shots on occasion. There will come a day when I get better and will better be able to compete. That doesn't matter much as I go for the exercise and association. It is good to go hang out with friends and to be actively doing something
GBR stands for Garth Brooks Radio. For the last month or so I have been dialed in to the Garth Brooks Radio station on Pandora. It is bed time music for Andy and tonight it appears to bed bet time music for me. I am way tired.
