Thursday, August 23, 2007
Jimmy at the Zoo
Meagan's Shower at Crosby Club
Sweet Eighteen
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Keeping Ahead of the Deer
Anna Karenina
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
New Mourning Garden for Laurie
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Sad News...
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Happy 90th Birthday, Bishop Beeler
The family of Vernon Beeler is having a celebration for his 90th birthday and have asked for memory sheets for his book.
This is probably the way Bishop Beeler might have remembered our family. Since then the children have all grown up and have children of their own. Richard, my husband, passed away in 1996. John, the eldest boy, passed away in 2004, with the same heart problem that Richard had. Linda is married and has six children and one grandchild. Maria is married and has four children. James is married and has four children.
Both Linda and James still live in the San Diego area, while Maria and her family live in Northern California, Susanville, and I, Janet, also moved to Northern California to Lake Almanor in 1999.
The memories I have of Bishop Beeler is he was always prepared with a memorable message whether it was at a Sunday School Board meeting or from the pulpit. Even when he did some woodworking on our home in La Jolla, he was giving out good advice.
One talk he gave from the pulpit which I never forgot was about exercising his eyes. He evidently had eye problems and he was told by the Doctor to do certain kind of exercises "to work as hard as he could". His talk was on "how do we know when we have worked as hard as we can or when we have done our very best". What is our very best? It was very thought provoking to me--it must have been 35 or so years ago but I never forgot it.
Bishop Beeler was a great role model to me in my life. He was a counselor in the bishopric when we had a very young family and before we were transfered out of 7th Ward in 1969. He later did some work for us at our home in La Jolla. He taught me a great indexing system for my genealogical work. I admired his Grandfather clock so much that he had made that we bought a Grandmother clock for our new home in La Jolla.
I am pleased to have known Bishop Beeler and wish him a very Happy Birthday!
Monday, July 30, 2007
In My Garden!
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Cabin
My home teacher Ron requested a picture of the cabin and this is the best one that was taken this year. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the view we look at. It is called Amphitheater and is a huge snow-covered mountain. Oh well, another time. As you can see there was lots of green this year. The cabin is two story with three beds in the loft area and two bedrooms downstairs and a side porch besides a nice size great room with kitchen and full bath. It was warm this year, we didn't have to put the stove on once but had a few morning fires in the fireplace. Here I am with Carole from Montana (little sister) and Marilyn from Colorado (big sister). Dad finished the cabin in 1961 in time for a family reunion. My folks were seldom at the cabin alone and kept us all eating delicious rainbow trout all summer long. My dad taught everyone to fish and several of the grandchildren are really expert fisherman. John had a fishing pole put in his hand when he was two and was "hooked" you might say from then on.