Swimm ing with Sharon

This coming weekend, July 31, There will be a Ray Rasmussen Family reunion.  Lorna and her family have organized this get-together.  Fortunately, and unfortunately, the water pump on Lorna’s car went out on the freeway near Honeyville, Utah.  What that meant, was lat night I got to spend the evening with Lorna, Sharon and her daughter, Pauline, her husband (sorry, I am not good with names), and lots and lots of grandkids.  They camped at Crystal Hot Springs in Honeyville.

 

First we needed food.  Here is Lorna and Sharon pushing the grocery cart together.  See, I even brought my recycle bags.

 

We went to the local thrift store hoping to find swim suits, but no such luck.  All they had were 2-piece suits, and I am not going there, let alone Sharon.  I could not resist a couple of pop-up books for Sharon.  One is Noah’s Ark, with all of the animals.  The second book was a giant book with Warner Brother cartoon characters as babies.  She loved both.

Polly’s husband grilled chicken for us.  It was the best ever.  Next time they come, I am going to get them to bring a couple of bottles of that sauce.  Dinner could not have been better.

Then we went swimming.

Polly and her husband are so great with Sharon.  They helped her “swim” around the pool most of the evening.  Jessica, Morris’ daughter, also took took Sharon a lot.  They went into the cooler pool and swam and bounced for quite some time.  I think Sharon enjoyed it more that me, which is great.

 

 

Here is Polly, Jessica, Lorna, Sharon (in front) and Polly’s husband (sorry).

This is Jessica, her husband (sorry), their son and another of Lorna’s grandsons (sorry)

 

At the end of the evening Jessica’s husband helped Sharon out of the pool.  They were standing there enjoying a moment when I rushed over for this picture.  He is such a great kid.

Sorry about the names, I should have written them down.  But I didn’t.  But I could not wait to do this post.

Take Him Back

I Took Him Back To Wal-Mart

My husband and I fought constantly,
Why I married him, I’ll never know.
For all those miserable years I said
My hubby has got to go!

Tried poisoning cakes, stripping brakes,
Salting his pork chops with lime.
Wiring his chair, igniting his hair
Even though playing with fire is a crime.

But I failed at each plot ‘til I suddenly thought
Of a way that would set me free!
I got rid of him for good and, know what?
They couldn’t do a thing to me!

I took him back to Wal-Mart!
They’ll take anything back you know!
They said they couldn’t recall selling him.
But they must have if I said so.

They just credited him to my Visa and said,
"Ya’ll come back now, ‘ya hear?"
They were so nice, polite, pleasant and insistent,
I took back his mother the next year!

They’ll take anything back at Wal-Mart,
Though it’s broken or rotten or sweet.
And know what else? This time of year
You don’t even need a receipt!

She did it anyway

This morning Trish helped me get the branches out of Dell’s truck.  I should have taken a picture so you could see where we started.  After we emptied the truck, I drove on over and got a scoop of topsoil for the garden.  Trish and I are going to work on it for a little while every morning and every night.  Does that count as aerobic exercise??  Here is what we brought home.

   

Aren’t you proud of us?!!!  One little step every day.

Brave Girls

Christine and I are going to Brave Girls Camp on Tuesday.  Christine purchased an apron that we could decorate together, and we purchased matching fabric.  Here is mine  I can’t wait to see Christine’s apron.

Shoes

The problem with living alone – who do you blame for loosing your shoes?

New Day

I just went onto a new antidepressant.  It seems to be working better than the old one, but I don’t know if it is anticipation or actually working.

Now if I can just learn to stay focused on what I am doing.  I turned off the TV and put on a book on tape to minimize the distractions.

Distracted again.  Anyone have a recipe for baked beans>??>?

Butter

Butter is one of the miracles of life.  A smooth, delightful tasting spread that makes anything taste wonderful.  How can something so good be so bad for you.

When you add it to vegetables, they taste wonderful.

When you add it to gravy, it only gets better.

And let’s not go into how it wonderful it is on toast.

Isn’t life wonderful.

Bear

Bear is sad tonight.  Since Dell died Bear has periodically climbed onto the bed, laid down close to me and cried.  He is doing it again tonight.  First he jumped on the bed and nearly crowded me out.  (You know, he is so tiny.)  After about a half an hour I finally got him to jump down.  Bear is a lot like the proverbial gorilla.  He sits where he wants. 

After He finally jumped down, he looked so sad standing beside the bed that I asked him if he wanted to come up onto the bed. 

Big mistake!!  Now I have a big dog on the bed with me with his head laying in my lap.  He has been crying and moaning all evening.  Hope he gets happy soon.

Let’s all say one for Bear.

FAT

How do you know when you have gained too much weight?  When your fat clothes are too tight.  Guess that means this is the right time to start taking charge of what I eat. 

Today

I am sitting here in my living room, having done nothing much all day.  The list on the door is still there.  The camera cord is still lots.  My feet still hurt.  And it is nearly time to go to work. 

Not what I had originally thought I would be doing with this life.  But oh well.  Life goes on.  The sun is shining and the dog is not barking. 

On with life…..