Massey Family Goes to Yosemite

Two days with friends at Yosemite make some great pictures and memories.

Nico, Eden, Keira and Friend

Evidently rafting was the most fun!!!

Looks like Nico is having fun but I do not recognize the treat!!!

Now that is the life!

Nico points the way.

Eden always knows how to strike a pretty pose.  Something I notice I always tried to do when I was her age.

Now that is an interesting backdrop for Meagan and her friend!

Toasting to a great trip, I assume.

 

Getting Ready for Another Move

 I have two piles of books and pictures of about 10 years and many Christmas pix that I need to add to my blogs before I go to live in Carlsbad with Linda and Gary.  It will take a lot of time but I am not moving until the end of October.  I will not have room for all these books!

I am trying to get rid of all my big furniture now so I will have time to do that.  Jenny and her daughter came over last week and took a lot of my things and they are advertising some of them on Marketplace.  Molly is getting my desk this next week and Norma and Brian are getting my Ethan Allen bookcases and TV and table and probably TV.  Norma was especially excited to find my hummingbird feeder as hers just broke and I have it in the thrift store pile, they also took some others items so have less in that pile to go.

They came today for all the things I am sending up to the cabin with Carole's ok.  She is the last sister still using the cabin.  I sent 4 bear lamps, Brians picture of Dad fishing in a stream, Richard's picture he bought to remind me of Montana of the horse, and pix of James while hiking with John, John as surfer who also had a love for and spent a lot of time at the cabin, and pix book of the cabin pictures on Montana years book.  Also send my red winter jacket and pea coat for cold days up there.

Robb Louk and Notes of Appreciation

In my friends suggestions on Facebook this week was Robb Look who was one of my Seminary students the year I taught.  He was having some challenges in his life and John befriended him and he was at our home sometimes and we picked him up for Seminary.  This was his note of appreciation at the end of the year. it looks like he has done very well in life.  I remember how smart he was.

Linda did not choose to befriend him and one time when he called to see if he could get a ride to a Stake  Dance, Linda told him she could not pick him up.  When she got off the phone, Richard said, "Are you driving my car and you just refused to take someone who needs a ride?  I think he made her call him back.  Richard always was kind to everyone.

I like saving my memories and I have so many books.  I am going back to live with Linda and Gary at the end of October and need to digitize them all, Whew!!!

I will take my Book of Remembrance though.  Whenever I feel gloomy I can find a nice note like this to cheer me up.

 

J Pickle Pictures

Soon after Richard and I were married, we were invited to a Social by his boss Mansfield Mills where you could donate money by buying certain items.  These two pictures caught our eye and were not too expensive so we bought them.  The sailboat reminded me of my sailboat years.  The street picture was the item I used for colors for the one quilt I started to make when I moved to Lake Almanor.  I never finished it as the teacher got sick and I did not finish it on my own, but I had the inside all done and so Linda and I turned it into a smaller quilt and gave it to baby Kham when he was born.

I wondered if it was worth anything but Brian looked it up and said he doubted it but they do look good with my bed quilt so hopefully I can hang them in my bedroom I will use at Pulsiphers.

 

Baby Calvin Tate

Calvin Tate Travis, 8 lbs 12 oz came into the world early on the morn of August 8, 2022 to Joe and Amy Travis of Morgantown, West Virginia.  Amy is Linda's second oldest daughter.

It was also the first day of school for big sisters Charli and Harper.

What fun to see and hold the new baby brother after school.  Charli and Calvin.

Harper and Calvin

What a beautiful baby boy and I love that yellow sleeper.  

Quite a lot of baby boys in the Hardy descendants, Khamsin Valko last spring and Cohen, Rowan, and Calvin this year!!!!!

 

Meagan's Birthday

This picture was taken when Meagan moved me to Orem last May.  She has been such a wonderful granddaughter to me.  We had a nice talk.  She is so beautiful!!!

 

The Stewarts Visit

The Stewarts and friends are on their way to the Family Ranch in Wyoming and stopped to visit.

Such a beautiful family!

 

Mucus

A Good Chart to Save

It has bee very healthy.

 

Kelsi. The Athlete

James brought Kelsi up to BYU on Sunday for Sport Camp which starts Tuesday.  She took 2nd in Beginner Girls at 8.6.  While James was here

    

It was 95 degrees while they competed and just too hot to do too much.  Kelsi did not do any running this day even though that is one of her specialties, too.

Kelsi is right in the middle of this picture.  She said she really enjoyed this Sport Week at BYU.

While James and Kelsi were here we saw the new movie about Elvis and enjoyed it very much.  He died too soon.  it is so sad how stars are over worked and over drugged and die young.  Too many people making money on their talent.

 

Ron Martin Obituary

Ron Martin was the new Bishop in Clear Creek Ward when I moved to Lake Almanor, CA in March of 1999.  He soon called me to be Relief |Society President and we had a good working relationship.  He was truly a caring Bishop of this small ward.  It became so small it was later changed to a Branch.  This was due to the destruction of the logging industry by enviromentalists.  His wife Jean soon became a dear friend.  After I had been out in the field for several months in my new job as a Disaster Reservist Loan Officer in 2001 I was released.  He continued to see that I  always had wood in my wood bin for as long as I lived there.  It was so sad to hear about the dementia taken over his life.

Official Obituary as printed in the Plumas News.

Ron Martin passed away quickly and peacefully on Saturday, July 2, 2022, after enduring a few tough years of dementia. Services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints chapel in Clear Creek, 3384 CA-147 Westwood, CA 96137, Saturday, July 9, 2022, at 11:00 am. He is survived by his wife Jean; sons Scott (Nichole) and Greg (Lorie); grandchildren Portia, Kendrick, Morgan (Jordan), Paige, Trevor, Calista, Brooklyn and Amelia; great-grandchildren Shane, Kodiak and Callen; and his sisters Norma and Kathy. He is preceded in death by his sister Donna.

Ron’s childhood was spent in northern Idaho with some of his teen years in southern California and Washington. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1956 at the age of 17. He was honorably discharged in 1960. While in the Air Force he played on the Air Force tennis team and flew all over the States in the back of cargo planes to get to his tennis tournaments. He was also on the Air Force Pistol team. Most of his stay in the service was at the Condon, Oregon, radar base where he was a draftsman. He was proud to report that while serving on the radar base no Russian bombers made it through their radar defense and America was safe for the years that he was there. Post-Air Force, he worked in the alarm industry in southern California and in the Bay Area. In the spring of 1979, he moved his family to Prattville. In 1980, he got a job at the Collins Pine sawmill. Later in 1980, he started his own alarm company. He went full time with his alarm company from 1985 until his retirement in December 2016. He had a busy retirement working around the house and chasing the grandchildren in all their varied activities.

His favorite pastimes were cooking large breakfasts, hunting, fishing, dirt biking, geocaching and serving in his local church. Most of his fishing was done with his sons on Butt Creek. His other fishing spots were Yellow and Soda creeks with his close friend Tony. His hunting was mostly done locally from Ohio Valley to Mud Creek Rim overlooking Chester, with many favorite secret places in between. He also spent many years traveling to Wyoming on elk hunts with his family buddy, Evan. He never brought home much meat but he had a ball with Evan in Wyoming. One summer he ran a small fishing camp up in Alaska where one of his clients was the famous Miami Dolphin, Larry Csonka. If you had the chance to go outdoors with Ron you found out quick that you needed to suffer and sacrifice while fishing or hunting or you were not be doing it right. You never sat while fishing or came back dry. Prime fishing was while you stood in the snow. Hunting was the same. Hunting tree blinds that would put your legs to sleep and you went into the hunting area by flashlight and left by flashlight. No sitting while dirt biking or racing.

He married his wife, Jean on June 22nd, 1962, and they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just the other day.

Ron was 82 at his passing and stated to his family a few times he never thought he would live this long. He had a great run. When he did something, he was all in and would take anything to the bitter end. His memory faded pretty fast at the end and to get him talking and visiting at the last you had to go back in his memories 40 to 50 years to catch a spark from the past and fan it into a grand story where he would say repeatedly, “Those were the good ol’ days!”

He loved to shoot the bull and loved hearing others speak of their exploits. You did not need to know Ron long to know him well and he will be missed by all.

We say goodbye to Ron in the flesh but we race on, run on, work hard, love much and appreciate the day as we have his memories and stories still with us. To those examples, experiences, memories and stories we will never say goodbye to, but will be able say, “These are the good ol’ days.”

Thanks to all that knew him. You were all part of his long life.

Sincerely,

The Martin Family

Rowan Finn Torsak

Kelly is looking so tired but Rowan looks content.  First babies are a challenge to new Moms, how well I remember.   So sweet a boy.

 

Baby Cohen

 

Carole at Silver Gate

Jon caught a great picture of Carole with Index Mountain and Pilot in the background.

 

Cheri's House

Cheri is the granddaughter of Mom's sister Elenora.  She shared the beauty of the flag flying on the 4th of July.

 

Dementia Diary to the Rescue

 Marilyn's Calendar which I keep up for her.  Steven created it from a App called Dementia Diary.  A man had created it for his own Mom or Grandma.  Jeanne has one, too, and it really helps for them to stay in control of their life by knowing what is happening that day.  A tablet sits by their TV Screen and it shows just one day at a time and shows the events and moves down the tablet as things occur.

Cohen and Rowan

January baby Cohen and May baby Rowan.

 

Sisters with Carole W.

Jeanne's daughter Carole and her friend visited Jeanne today and her friend took our picture together.

 

Rowan

So sweet

 

Steven to the Rescue

Marilyn also has a memory problem and writes umpteen notes to help.  For years Steven has a tablet on Jeannes TV Stand that tells her what to do at what time and helps keep her up on what is happening at Treeo, Dr Appts, Visits, entertainment.  It is a program he found in which a programmer developed it for his own mother or grandmother, not sure which.

Anyway it is called "Dementia Diary" and so Debbie gave the go ahead on buying a Table and Steven bought the best for the least at Walmart and set it up for Marilyn as well.  I will keep up and changes or additions for the day, week, etc.  

And I do it on my big IMAC so it is easy to see and work with.  Yea, thanks to Steven for his knowledge and willingness to help and thanks to me for being wise enough to get the IMAC so it is easier for me to be of help.

Cohen

I put a post in social media..."What is more wonderful than grandchildren, it is the great grandchildren, they are absolutely adorable!"  And here is one of those adorable.  Cohen, who was born in January this year, son of Marissa and Tanner.

 

Vida's Silverware

While looking for one thing I found the box of Richard's mother's silver-plate silverware.  I have had them for years and there was a time that we used it.  I sold my silver at a time when I was desperate for money.

At any rate I just use the cheap stuff and this has been getting tarnished and it is a shame.  I sent a message to Julia and asked her if she would like it for her daughters or herself.

She said yes and came over at 4 today and retrieved it.  While there she met my sisters and we had a nice chat.  I just wish I had taken her picture!!!!

Julia is the second to youngest child of Scott and Miriam.  She was just a tot when her Dad died and her Mom was pregnant with Jennie.

The one on the right is Julia several years ago at a Earl reunion.  That is probably a daughter.  She and her husband live in Provo near the Provo Temple.  Her husband is a Doctor at BYU.
 

Lea Goes to Italy

 These pictures speak for themselves.  Granddaughter Lea, who has a great job and is also modeling, recently took a vacation with a friend and sent back these gorgeous pictures.  Travel while you are young, isn 't that what we were all told but no one did but this generation most definitely are!!!!