BEAR LAKE IN SPRING

It was another busy week with birthdays everywhere, school events for the grandkids, families coming and going and our house was grand central station.

We went to Paul H. Jr. school play. It was written by the drama couch and was a combination of two fairy tales. Paul plays a hapless soldier and is second on the right. He did a good job.

Doug, Douglas, Spence, Tom Tom and I had a two day trip to our Bear Lake Homestead. Six miles into Idaho in St. Charles, ID it is a great retreat. We brought equipment up there, opened the place and found everything intact and everything functioned. We arrived late Friday night turned on the water pump, turned on the furnace, got the water heater started and watched Mr, Bean's Holiday movie. Slept in and got up to try out our new large propane griddle.

Here is a picture of Opa cooking a mammoth "Cracker Barrel Restaurant" style breakfast on the new griddle. Bacon, eggs, hash brown potatoes, pancakes, eggs and little pork chops. This will be a great thing when we have the family up for the Fourth of July celebration.

There are always fun things to do there. It was too cold for the beach. This valley is so beautiful and peaceful and it is if it is oblivious to the strife and contention in the rest of the country. Church is always great there.

One time the High Councilor got up and said, "I am going to talk about why members hate to come to church!". Reason # 1, "They hate the Bishop". He went on to say that "That makes as much sense saying you will not take irrigation water for your farm because you hate the Water Master". You have to farm in the west to appreciate that one but I love church up there.

Doug did a lot of repairs; he repaired the clutch on out FJ 40 rock climber rig. The kids cut the lawn, picked up dead branches, started up all the motors that lay idle over the winter and simply got the place wakened up and functioning.
It was a beautiful day and we had a great short time there.

In the meantime, our home in Salt Lake was busy with families, grandkids coming and going. Mary went to her C.E.R.T. training and driving grandkids all over the map. When we arrived at 11PM. Emily arrived and brought Al's kids, James, William, Peter, Maryanna and Clara for the night as they were in Michigan. Non stop action!

Mom's birthday this weekend.

Alles Gute, Opa