Per Perkins Perhe: The Week Eva Begins her Mission.

Brittany posted this update for Kai on Monday. He has 1325 miles hiked and 1325 miles to go. Way to go Kai. And coincidentally I am reading a book about a missing hiker on the Appalachian trail, which he hiked a couple of years ago. If it were last year, I'd have had to put the book down. But the Pacific Crest hike is much less wooded, which is the problem in this book.

Dad went to the Rodeo in Ogden and sang the National Anthem, then stayed with rest of the of the chorus to watch the rodeo.

Meanwhile on the homefront in Payson, I was sorting, pricing and loading up antiques to be put out while we are on our mission in England. Dad before leaving, had cut up a 4 by 8 foot pegboard into four pieces. I got them painted a light blue as my final project before heading upstairs to read. Can I just say how much we love the space the carriage house gives us for projects?

On Tuesday we headed to the mall, where Dad attached the peg boards to a framework above the walls in a couple of my booths.

Here's my redo on what was generally just a mixed and uninteresting booth. Now I am focused on primitive and French Country items which seems to be popular at the moment. I had had a lot of them just scattered throughout my 3 booths there.

I moved things from those other booths, like the large ginger jar, and some old baskets to create unity.

That night we met up with this gal ...

As she was ready to start her home MTC and needed to be set apart.

Her Grand Parents Grow, Her folks, us, and her sisters.

Here she is with her family, except Scott who is working on his masters in Washington state.

Her dress reminds me of the blue and white china I have been hustling for a few months.

Yep, that's our gal.

Here is Eva pointing to her own tag outside the Stake President's office. Boy there are a lot of missionaries in this stake.

On Wednesday Dad rearranged his side cupboard from this ...

To this. Much more efficient. He had taken a primitive cupboard I needed for my booth redo, so after I took it back, it was not very organized for him. Now he 'borrowed' another shelf that I use for display at fleaology. But it's perfect for the space, and he is very happy with it, and I am impressed.

This is the little cupboard he had been using, as you can see at the store on Thursday. You can also see that I added turquoise-colored transferware dishes into the stack I did on Tuesday, as I brought in my personal collection of turquoise transferware, which I have been collecting for five years. I still love it, but it was on the faux mantel piece in the conservatory guest room, which our house sitters will be using for their two little boys. It was either pack it up and find a place for a couple more boxes or sell it and start collecting something else later to take its place.

Look how good this looks with the tall blue peg board. You can see the antique baskets gathered together here. There were world globes on the white cupboard, which makes no sense for a French Country Collection.

As Dad headed in for his shift that day, he ran into the Hales. Andrew Hale was one of my favorite Assistants, while we served as Office Missionaries in Finland. He married the identical twin of one of our sister missionaries, who married, Elder Hales Companion (also AP). They were there for a family wedding. Andrew and Liesel Hale, her twin is now Gweneth Hall. Funny how similar their last names are Hale and Hall.

On Friday, Pioneer Day, I worked on more bins and framed the picture on the upper left of this display in the Carriage house.

Becca's family, plus one, went hiking in the Grand Canyon. Which is a perfect activity for Pioneer Day.

Dad and I had a nice dinner that Dad planned and then went to see Young Washington.

These pictures are a lay out of my finds while garaging and junking on Saturday.

Here's the whole she-bang, minus about 25 books.

After I finished my junking, I stopped by Ashley's in hopes of convincing her to come to Becca's pool party the next day. Andy was there and said she'd had an early shift at work, I hope he passes along my plea. I felt awful about the mix up last Saturday and missing her Disk golf tournament.

When I got home, I put a few things up on Market Place, including this set of Yellowstone collectibles.

Dad and I finished off the day with Indian Food from Davin's old neighbor, and another British Policeman Mystery. Then I lay out on the balcony, and watched fire works for a half an hour. I guess there is always a silver lining, since I would have seen next to nothing, before the huge tree was cut down, after it died. Dad is letting one of the suckers from its roots grow up in the yard. It's about 5 feet tall now. It will be interesting to see if it survives.

This morning Dad and I headed off early to go to Eva's Farewell. Then we headed to her house, along with a half a million of her friends.

Here her cousin found a garter snake.

And as you see her brother Scott came down from Washington for the weekend for her send off. Here are Trevor, Nell's Uncle Bobbie, J Scott and Spencer.