We came to Mykonos by slow crowded ferry from the Piraeus Port by Athens on Sept 20th, Saturday. A cool weather front accompanied us and made the other-island stops along teh way less scenic enroute and couped us up inside most of the 5-hour journey. It will seem strange but I blame that crowded vessel and noisy Greek language all around for my slightly troublesome cold that devloped in Mykonos. The Greek language is hard to pick up and because they use a different 24-letter alphabet to write one must see the phoenetic spelling in English for all words. For example: [View Full Entry]

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That title line is probably old and sick but I use it anyway. Unfortunately, we are home without having been able to post any blog information because we simply could not arrange the download of pictures that I would have liked. So, I'm going to build that journey in 2 or 3 day stages, by locale, as we visitied Athens first, then hopped islands, then returned to the mainland for a 2nd 4-day tour. In broad terms, Greece is everything you dreamed of and more. Sometimes the more is not as enjoyable as the dreams but for thousands of years it [View Full Entry]

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Baseball has always been a featured sport in our community. Over the last four years, the old baseball stadium has been totally renewed through the motivational efforts of a few individuals linked with a great deal of work by volunteers and committees. A baseball acadamy has been inaugurated in our high school and is attracting great players. The Acadamy team, the Vauxhall Jets, has received great respect from baseball entusiasts. The long-standing other team of players aged 15-19, the Vauxhall Spurs, involved each season with the American Legion Montana State "A" League continue to succeed, b [View Full Entry]

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100 years as a community were celebrated this past weekend at Barnwell, Rose's old hometown. July 24th is the Mormon Pioneer Commemoration as well, so this event was celebrated by family reunions and much reminiscing. The sun was shining. The temperature was +30 F or about 90 F. We enjoyed seeing many old friends here. [View Full Entry]

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Just a few pictures that show this patch of 'badlands' in the middle of the prairie near Hays, Alberta. Included are Rose with daughter Julie, and Grandkids Cohen, Brenna, Grace, James, Jadie, and escorted by Grandpa Don. Our daughter-in-law, Janine, volunteered stay home and to look after Julie's one year-old, Jaryn while the rest of us made this evening journey. The road in to this spot was really just a trail that was in places a bit treacherous with a soaking from rain the previous night. Deer were plentiful. The destination very worthwhile! Unfortunately we saw no ratllesnakes but it is [View Full Entry]

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Last evening we were struck with a fierce rain, wind, and hail storm. Our damage is illustrated in the pictures as attached. While it is disappointing to lose our hobby garden, it is a huge loss to the farmers in our area. [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time cleaning up the weeds in the garden and admiring how well it all looked. The corn has been growing by leaps and bounds these last few days with lots of sun and heat. However, my self satisfaction turned to fear as a churning weather front approached. I scurried to find a couple old wash tubs and some other things to cover a few treasured tomato and cucumber plants and then watched as the wind and rain mixed with some hail struck. As it turned out, it wasn't really severe but will set back [View Full Entry]

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A few 'around home' pictures, just for fun. [View Full Entry]

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Here is a lovely spring visit to the Olympic Peninsula, west of Seattle, WA, USA. We enjoyed this special time with our daughter, two grand-daughters and many 'critters' but mainly dog Shadow and the cats. I show a few of the neat things we saw and enjoyed there. Tami is a young widow, for nearly 5 years now, and she has raised her three daughters through high school and out into the world. She is ready to return, herself, to univsersity to get her degree and become a teacher. All of these changes require much effort and we spent two weeks [View Full Entry]

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It is a world of contrasts. While we were away in Washington, they had some lovely weather here with one day at +80 F. But, now that we're back home, yesterday a spring blizzard blew in with quite a lot of snow and now temperatures around +10 F. The storm is bad enough that some events were cancelled including church services today. It is good time to publish a blog or two. [View Full Entry]

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