MY LIFE FROM LAKE ALMANOR AND BEYOND

We all know Bandido  has poor eyesight.  Today he almost froze because of it. I let him out on the back deck where I had shoveled a nice s...

"Darn, we thought spring was here!"

As I was listening to the TV today I heard someone say "I have never seen so much fear in the faces of the people as I followed the c...

I just finished the book Maria sent to me 'A Train in Winter'.  It is the story of 230 women who were a part of the French Resistanc...

I'm finished working on my Seven Dwarf House for awhile.  I can't find the furniture I made in San Diego though.  But Matt is here...

If I get nothing else done in the day, at least if I did my hour of family research indexing I can feel I have accomplished something. Tod...

This is a picture of Carole a year before she married. At the cabin, of course. This is my brother Dick, his son Roddy with Mom, Car...

Here is Keira dressed in the Raggedy Ann dress I made for Meagan on her first birthday and holding the Raggedy Ann doll I also made.  I had ...

Today I watched all six episodes of "Island at War".  At times I wondered why I suffer through these WWII movies because the mean ...

One of my childhood friends, George, sent me some pictures of my hometown.  This was taken in 1924 and I did not move there until I was ...

Well, I finally started shingling the roof of my dollhouse and I am not enjoying it at all. It is going to be a tedious job, I can see. A...

Today I really enjoyed the Sunday School Lesson on the Atonement given by Jane.  And one point was made so well about receiving tender me...

I love this picture taken in the backyard of our Pacific Beach home in about 1964. Maria, Johnny and Linda already to go some place, C...

My sore throat and earache have returned--why?  I had antibiotics for five days which was supposed to be good for 10 days but I figured it w...

I just enjoyed watching another BBC Masterpiece Series "Downton Abbey" but there was no happy ending.  I don't like that.  It ...

My credit union has my tax refund already.  Mike won't have his for another week and he completed his about a week before I did mine.  I...

This recent show by Hallmark was so touching.  It is the story of a teacher of a Special Ed group who gets permission and money to take them...

It was a warm sunny day and Bruce wanted to lay down in the middle of the road because there was lots of sun there. I enticed him over t...

I used to make most of my clothes and this was the kind of dress I wore to teach kindergarten or to church or anywhere. I didn't w...

Now this is what I call good eating. Walmart sells these huge butternut squash for 91 cents most days. I cook them like mashed potatoes (...

HBO had free service this weekend and I watched the documentary "What is the matter with Aunt Jane?"  or something like that. A ...

So over a week has passed and I have not written in my blog.  What's up?  One thing bad I did is to reorganize my pictures and now sever...

I have already had such a wonderful birthday and it is not even my birthday yet.  Linda made a birthday viedeo of my children and grandchild...

I was just a sophmore but in a picture here with some pretty important senior girls. Not sure why they asked me except that I was av...

Having a birthday party for Louray from Arizona in Heritage Hall 1 #19. She was a first class ice skater. On the right front row is Co...

I was doing my Student Teaching in American Fork. I graduated in the spring and went to Montana to teach my first year.

Harvard Medical School psychologist Alice Domar, PhD says that the old guidelines for good health did not consider the whole picture. Old ...

It is finally coming down and Bruce wants to keep going outside, so it is out and in, out and in. It is quite lovely just to watch but I a...

LACC Bulletin this morning : Sunday and Monday nights (Jan. 15 and 16), the temperature dropped to 5 degrees or less in many areas. W...

I like Demi Moore's definition of freedom: "Letting go of the outcome. Truly being in the moment. Not reflecting on the past. Not p...

Marjorie drove down to Corning to help celebrate her mother's 104th birthday.  She had six at her party and was even interviewed and pho...

Well, I am licensed to drive for a few years more.  Miraculously I only missed one on the test though they do not show which one it was.  Th...

Last night Bruce had a barking frenzy at something across the street.  Since he doesn't bark at the deer, squirrels, rabbits, and raccoo...

    So Proud of you, Amy!

Here is a great pix from another Family Night I missed with Linda, Maria and Jimmy's family!!!  What a beautiful family, thanks for ...

Today I saw "War Horse" with Maryanne and really enjoyed it.  The love between man and his horse (or pet) can be so pure.  It is a...

I called Carole to tell her I had actually moved the furniture around.  It is something she seems compelled to do all the time.  I rar...

When I lived in Glendive, this was the only bridge to drive west. It was very narrow and I can still visually remember being so nervous a...

Glendive Brenner's Drug Store has very special memories. They had a wonderful soda fountain and I was able to work there for a few ...

When I was in grade school I attended the Methodist Church  in Glendive with my friend Myrna.   This was just a couple blocks from Ander...

When we moved to Glendive, Montana in 1934 my parents found a church they wanted us to attend.  This is as I remember it.  We would atte...

I like this picture taken in Glendive several years after I went to college.  This is Main Street and there is my Dad's store.  Lots...

I am just finishing Anita Shreve's newest book "Rescue".  It is very poignant to me as I just had a friend tell me about her d...

I actually had a bit of a social life this week.  One of the new members of the branch invited the ladies to a dinner and game playing at th...

This is the way I remember my Dad looking a lot when I was in high school. Casually dressed. He was always slim and did not ever seem to ...

I really liked that new mantra to live by from the movie "We Bought a Zoo".  We just need 20 Seconds of Courage to often change ou...

  Craig graduated from BYU in April 2011 but I didn't have his graduation pictures at that time so I will publish them in the 2012 b...

I have had some mantras I try to follow faithfully.  "Do What You Have To Do When It Has To Be Done" has been with me since Sist...

What a beautiful picture of Jacob, Camber, James, Kelsi, Lea, Jimmy and Camber's Dad Greg.

Wish I could name them all.  I know Susan Sutehall is in the purple on the left.  Nice looking family!

What a beautiful family amongst the beautiful colors.

Today I put all the Christmas things in their containers and Michael will help put them on the shelves when he returns.  He is in Sacramento...