BLITZBESUCH IN ST. CHARLES, ID

Dear Family,

Our 50th wedding anniversary is coming up in July and after the official celebration in Salt Lake, a group of the family will go to Bear Lake to stay and have a good time in our little farm house in St. Charles.

We thought we would make a quick visit up there to get the place going. Doug, Spence, Tom-Tom, Mom and I decided to make a 24 hour trip up there as every ones schedule is so full. We went up after Doug's office hours. Loaded up the diesel pickup and long flat trailer with tools, supplies and an ATV. We left at 8:30 PM and got there at midnight.

We checked the garage and the old Toyota Land Cruiser started up as did the ATV, and John Deere mower. We went to bed late but got up early and had a good old Bear Lake breakfast on the huge grill. Here is a picture of Opa, Doug, Spence and Tom-Tom getting the hash browns, bacon eggs and pancakes ready. It was cold up there, just above freezing.

After breakfast we got the Toyota ( The Induna) out to be picked up.


Everything gets pretty hard use in the summer with all the activity. This time the clutch was slipping on my favorite 4WD vehicle, there was a hole in the exhaust and it was being hauled off to Laketown for repairs.

Doug and the boys picked up a huge trailer load of fallen branches and I got on the John Deere to cut all the grass. If you do not start now, it will be a hay field by the 4th of July. Mom was hanging pictures. Doug then fixed plumbing in the bathroom as I did the shooting chore with the boys. they got out their BB guns and Spence blasted old cans with a 410 shotgun.


Mom was cleaning her way to the backdoor. It was interesting that there were no vermin in the house. those ultrasonic sound emitters keep out the mice and other creepy things. As Mom did this, Doug mounted my Idaho elk horn mount on the East side of the house. It extends from the door to theves of the roof and was too big to be inside of any house. Looks sharp Doug.

Sunday was Mother's Day. I gave my lesson on Prophets; Mom with her big heart wanted to make Mother's Day easier for the younger Mothers and invited families for dinner. Doug and his family and Cheryl and her family came over for dinner and a Family Night. The dinner was pretty good and the Family Night was good as we had everyone say something about their mothers and the Husbands about their wives; it then disintegrated into a pillow fight with everyone one seven years and younger piling in. We managed to get everyone quieted down and kneeling for Family Prayer and sent them outside to burn off Oma's ice cream cake.

We go to Florida this week to see John, Kaley and the the little guys. We will bless their new little boy and go to John's graduation from law school. He starts with a law firm in Tampa but first he goes with Doug to China for a week. When the Euro comes down a little more, I would love to gt over to Germany and Austria one more time.

Alles Gute, Oma and Opa