Friends, Past, Present and Future.

We were out at Mosida on Monday, where the guys put on the recycled corrugated sheet metal that someone donated u[ on the structure they'd been building.

Here's the support team.

This amazing set of elk antlers was donated by the Marvin's.

On Tuesday I worked on my book booth and unfortunately had someone take 3 books from the midst of it while I was still working on it, which led to some sorrow on my part, as they were lovely antique books.  Sometimes this business can be so frustrating.  But we have to remember part of the retail business is shrinkage. 

Dad spent Tuesday out at Mosida again, where they finished up the roof.

That night Dad picked me up at work to go to Lindon for a Hoedown.  This one had Amy Coleman Hintze as a ward member, who has two daughters going on the trek. 

Unfortunately, not a trek we are leading.  Amy grew up in our Salt Lake ward and is Ashley's age, she married, the much younger brother of Dad's friend John Boren's wife, Janet Boren.  Amy told us that Janet has cancer.  We just had dinner with them at Clark and Kimberly's place last spring.  Amy said that Janet has only known about her cancer for a couple of months. Clark's first wife, and Kimberely's first husband both died of cancer, sadly.

Here we are with Amy.

On Wednesday we went to my friend Jan's funeral in Alpine. 

These pictures of her as a young woman are fun.

Here are some art group friends who also attended.

I felt our great loss as we sang, "When such a friend from us departs, we hold forever in our hearts, a sweet and hallowed memory that brings us nearer Lord to thee." I am, however, comforted by the knowledge that Jann was prepared by an extraordinarily good life, to live with Jesus.  I hope and pray I can follow her example and enjoy the same sociality there as we have here. 

Back at work, after the funeral it was interesting to see this bird's nest that was evidently built in a crafter's yard.  Looks how colorful the strings are that the bird added.

On Thursday Titan graduated from 6 th grade. 

Congrats!

At work on Thursday I was on Instagram, and saw that one of our customers, who is a designer, had some of her work published in this book.

Here is one of the pictures on her post ... the blue and white tea set is one that I sold at Treasures ... evidently to her client.

Here it is at my house back in 2019.

This is the picture in the book.  That's kind of fun.

That night at book club our friend KD made tons of wonderful Greek food.  We had read a book called, the Island of the Missing Trees, some of which was narrated by a fig tree ... yep, only one of us really liked the book, but the food was amazing.

KD went all out with the fun food.

On Friday Dad went to Darby's and finished up all the tile work, though it still needs grouting.  He said as he put the tile saw away (Thanks Brady) he thought, "I won's use this again until I build the shower surround for our Sauna/Spa room." He's pretty zoomed.

We got news that Abigail's picture at this splash pad is being used for advertising this year.

On Saturday we headed down to Spring City for their annual historic home tour.  At the first house I ran into the owner of Brambles and Blossoms, Lisa Martineau, along with a favorite artist of hers, Susan Gallacher, whose house we toured.

Another house framed samples of the linoleum that was under thr carpet in the house when they bought it.  The top one was under the second pattern. 

In the same house was this small single bed in a room that was 6 by 6, so even smaller than the Conservatory at out house which is a whopping 8 by 8. 

This photo was featured in another house, as evidently the original owner was one of the men who was imprisoned for practicing polygamy.

The whole town smelled of lilacs, and since ours are now a week past having any scent, it was a bit of a treat.

Dad wore his Veteran's hat and had several people thank him for his service.

One house, the one shown behind us above, had been a bed and breakfast, and sports the wall paper border we used to have in the parlor when it was gold.

This gentleman had had this folk art painting done of his great grandmother's home in Denmark, by a great uncle, enlarged by an engineering firm.  It was fun to hear him talk about the significance of items and people in the painting. 

This log cabin  was moved by another man from Richfield, and he explained the Norwegian building methods.

Another home had the same light fixture we have over our stairs.

This was another cabin that was moved, but it was not put back together the way it had been originally, but more recycled into a larger cabin.  This loft reminded us a vacation home we visited in Finland, where we slept. 

We ran into many friends, including Joyce and Rick.  Joyce is my friend Jann's best friend from childhood.  We saw them at the funeral, and then I saw them again on Thursday at Treasures, so in the last four days I saw them three times.  They are very fun.

I loved this painting and think it would be a fun one to copy. 

We thought this door would fit in at our house.

Here are Nat and Jenn Reed the owners of the Grove Vintage where I work once a month.

We also ran into Meridean Lindsey who was in our training class at the MTC before our first mission.  We also ran into the Newmans who we serve with at Mosida, that was fun too.

After working with Nikki on Thursday, when she told me about this movie, we tried to find it on Tubi, on Friday.  We did finally find it Saturday night, and loved it.  The problem is that it has two names, the other is Becoming Ms Bennett ... 

Nikki  bought  a copy of this movie from me Thursday, and was thrilled (Of course at my cost) as its a favorite of hers, as well as mine.  Greer Garson was the main character in Random Havest, the movie from which my mother took my name.

I had bought this Emma and we watched it Friday instead of the P and P knock off ... so it was a pretty Jane weekend.  I love this Emma, I think that Mr Woodhouse (Bill Nighy) steals the show. I tried to get him as he jumps the last step of the stairs, but it didn't work too well.

This is a fun picture of Bekie wearing the dress I made for her mother to wear at Ashley's wedding.  It fits her perfectly. 

and here is her picture thanking her Papa for his service.

as well as Abigail's.

Eli, Adi and Nenna went with their folks to Colorado, here they are with a young moose.

How awkard is this pose?

This Moose was staying with Trevor and Nell's family over the weekend, she's even cuter..

Here is the fun toy that Hannah and Scott got to play with over the weekend. He was redoing some landscaping in his back yard.  Whoa.

Meanwhile Charlie got to meet up with Jason Segel, of How I Met Your Mother fame.

We had a lovely sabbath that including exciting things like Sunday naps and sushi for dinner. We hope you had a great weekend too, heck, we hope your whole week was amazing, and that you got to spend time with those you love, after all, when all is said and done, its really just all about the people you love, right?

 

The Birds (Robins) and the Bees and Church Activities.

As it so often does, we started our week at Mosida.

Weirdly over the winter someone had put a barbed wire fence across the trail.  Elder Marvin is ready for anything and cuts the wire so we can continue on our trail ride.

Here we have the Gurrs and the Lathrops.

We stop and put up some signs.  The man in the white hat is one of our young elders, Elder Marrott.

Supervising the task.

We found a bunch of balloons out on the range, so LaVern ran and got them, and everyone sang happy birthday to us, as we both had birthdays last week.

Elders Marvin and Newman put up a couple of buffalo hides in 'Fort Seminoe', which at one time housed some of the rescuers who had stayed behind to guard the handcart pioneer's luggage, when they were rescued.  These rescuers ran out of food over the winter and were known to have boiled a buffalo hide that had been used as a rug, for the nutrition. The Marvins donated the two hides.

When we got to the men's call out the 2 porta-potties were down.

But not for long.

When we got home our sauna had come ... two months early ... well on time actually but they had projected two months extra when we ordered, which would have been perfect.

On Tuesday, Dad headed out to Mosida again ... I had taken the day off to take a ministering friend to lunch, and junking.  After our time together, I knew for sure that I had been prompted to do so.  Dad and the guys worked some more on putting up roof supports.  

When I got back, we dressed up and headed out to a hoedown in West Jordan. 

Elder Newman is calling.

It just happens that this crew is the one we will work with for the majority of the summer, mainly because every couple has someone who works at the temple on Thursday.  So, we will mostly be the Monday to Wednesday crew.

Perkins, Newmans and Marvin.

Here are the roof structures on Wednesday as Dad worked out there again.  He said he spent the whole day up on the scaffolding. 

Of course, I was at work that day, and Hannah's mom Pat came in with a friend.  She is so nice and it was so fun to get to visit.  She's a salt and pepper collector and even bought one set from me.  Of course, I gave her a tiny celluloid set that I thought was super fun, from the fifties, and I was so glad she appreciated it.

I had heard earlier in the week that my craft group friend Jann had passed away.  She originally had breast cancer but moved to her brain within a year of her surgery.  She was told it was terminal at that time, but she was given a maintenance dose of chemo, which kept her alive these last five years, for which I am so grateful.  She really is probably the kindest and most generous person I have ever met. This is a collage I made for social media.

After work we headed around the bottom of the lake to attend the Saratoga Springs Temple Open house, here was our shuttle driver.  Yep, it was his ward's day to serve as volunteers, so we made our appointment accordingly.

Here he is with Dad.

We hooked up with Robin and Jeff and his Mom at the chapel, and were able to do the tour with them.  Check out our crazy hair it was very windy.

We saw lots of rainbows, and cool clouds.

Jeff and Robin

Randy, Barb was still inside doing her part of the tour.

I just loved these clouds.

and this Robin too.

The view over the lake showing more puffy bun clouds.

They were fun to see as shapes of things too, like this little lamb.

This is our 64th temple, so just 36 more before we die, that's the plan anyway.

At work the next day Julie was teasing me about these pants, so I put on a jacket she has for sale, and which she has been trying to get me to buy and claimed they matched.

Yep, she wore it better. 

I did manage to work on the movement of my books to a booth that closer to the front.  There's still more of that though.

After I worked, and Dad served at the temple, he headed to call a Hoedown in Taylorsville.

I went to Relief Society, since I am on the committee, which was a good thing, because there were only 10 of us altogether.  We played Bunko, which was a first for me.  We played 3 tables and switched some but I play with Kathy and  Allison for a lot of the evening.

Here are some other ladies.

I didn't win, but I did get the biggest prize for rolling 2 bunkos in a row. 

I just loved this picture that Emily sent me of Abigail reading to Benny, evidently for a long time.

Above are pictures of Dad's work at Darby's on Friday and Saturday. He finished the back splashes in the kitchen and he completed the tub surround in the bathroom.

On Friday I met my sister Joyce for junking and lunch to belatedly celebrate my birthday.

After lunch I had a couple of errands before picking up Dad.  I went to this dollar store out west, to pick up my latest set of dishes that I had ordered on-line.  I plan to use them for a luncheon for the Busy Bees Craft group I belong to. 

I was a little frustrated when I found out that the next day was World Bee Day ... and me with the perfect dishes, but no time to plan a dinner.  

This cute mom was buying 17 balloons for her son's 17th birthday.  How clever is she?!

Then I headed to the Good Will Bins store to check out the books.  I thought it was funny that this little guy was crawling around in the bins.  I did find some decent table clothes as well.

Here's a picture of us with Darby when I went back to get Dad.

On Saturday I dropped Dad at Darby's again, and did some junking 

Mainly at the nearby DI, but I also ran over to my friend Robin's store, Robin's Roost which is just a couple of miles down Redwood Road from Darby's and look at this, I found no Robin at all and the Monkey's running the zoo.  Well, Kimi anyway ... my friend Denise was just there shopping.  I think this happens every time I go shopping at Robin's Roost. 

As part of her job Kimi is supposed to wear one of the Magnolia Pearl outfits ... doesn't she look adorable in these floral overalls?

I loved this MP pioneer blouse ... I'm playing with making something similar for Mosida. 

I also loved this charming duster-wrap .... adorable.

really charming clothing.

I then picked up Dad for the main event of the day, a Saltaire's Barbershop Chorus show.  It was a lot of fun ... and we found out that in the district competition last fall, that all three medal winning quartets came from this chorus.  Quite an accomplishment.

Sound Check took third.

Shoot the Moon took second place 

And Mischief took first place, as well as first place novice quartet.  They were just amazing.

This Sweet Addeline's quartet also sang.

Afterwards I got a picture of the winners with the biggest winner of all.

Their number one Fan helped me gather them for the picture and when I introduced myself afterwards, she said her name is Robin ... I said, "Of course it is ..."

On the way south, after the show, we stopped to get a bin of bottles that my friend Robin Brown had saved for me...  She is so nice and such a loyal friend for all of the 37 years we have known each other. It was knowing I was going to her house, after going to the other Robin's store, and having hung out at the temple with my main Robin, that made me reply to my newest 'friend' Robin in such a way ... yes, Dad is biding his time to rejoin the chorus. 

The last errand of the day was dropping off some merchandise at The Grove ... Jenn had a couple of original portraits in this display, and since I had bought the boy the day before, I brought it in and added it to the display. His name was probably Robin.  He looks like a boy Robin, don't you think?  The painting was done in 1960.

and not to forget others we love with unisex names, here's our Charley.

And in other Internet news this week, one of our favorite Missionaries, Sister Debiasi got married, after he waited for her on her mission then a two year engagement ... 

Such a beautiful wedding, but then they live in Italy.

and in other missionary news, it was a nice surprise at church this morning to see Marysa Otteson back from her mission in Peru.

at home again I took one more shot of my wisteria before they fade away. 

and speaking of vines, do you remember that last year the garden house was full of vines?  I thought this one had even more than we had ... how fun.

Then this evening we went by the Carter's home as has Karas graduated from school.  Karas has a severe case of autism, and her parents celebrated with an open house at their home. There were so many who came to help her celebrate.

I think her mom, Kiera, is very talented.  I loved her idea to have everyone to sign a poster of Karas.

I also loved this wallpapered wall in their house.

So that was our week.  We hope you made lots of memories too.