Wow!  What a terrible windy day, and Cathy was running in the Hatch Endurance Race from Pinedale to Taylor.  We called Cassie about 9:00 a.m. to see about what time the race would finish, she said her Dad had gone over to see Cathy finish.  So Loye, Jason and I went out to get in the car to go watch the finish.  About that time Roger drove up out here and said Cathy had been back for quite a while and that she had been the first lady across the line.  She had run the race in one hour and 47 minutes and 37 sec.  She was sixteenth in the race over all.  She has really practiced hard and I'm real proud of her.

Jared came home from the valley tonight about 9:00 p.m.  He said it ws really snowing out on the rim.  I'm really glad to have him back home, I just hope he can find work so he can stay for awhile.

Mark, Liza and the kids came over for a while to watch TV because the wind was rattling their trailor so bad they couldn't enjoy the N.B.A. play off's.

Liza and I went down to Ed's and got some stuff for lunch, then we made sandwiches and ate.

It really was an enjoyable day visiting with my children.  I love them all.

Good ole Friday, the day we work all week for.  Also it's payday and I get a whopping 123.70 for 2 weeks work.  Of course I have $100 sent to the credit union each payday so I guess it isn't too bad.  Next year I think I will have my whole check sent to the credit union and that way it should add up faster.  Kate was gone so Barbara Neff worked for her and Aunt Ida was gone so Sherree Lewis worked for her.  This was the first time for Sherree to work, but she did all right.  And we all enjoyed having her there.

After work we went to Snowflake to watch the High School baseball team play and defeat Holbrook 7-3.  This was their last game and about the end of Josh's High School Sports.  They do have the state tournament to go to next Friday.  I hope we can afford to go watch it, Loye just hasn't had any work so we really can't afford very much.

In the evening we went down to the El Rancho and ate Spanish Food.  Rick and Loyelin and girls were there. Rick paid the bill.

Barbara Neff worked for Aunt Ida today and she is getting to know the work pretty good.  Today we had tostados.  Maybelle and I took Inventory so Kate and Barbara did most of the dinner.

After work we went bowling and rode up with Charlayne in Lee Brewer's pick-up so she could pick up some new chairs she was getting from Montgomery Ward.

I bowled pretty good for a change.  I had a 121, 142 and a 171.  For me that's good.  

We went over to Loyelin's for supper and she had fixed a roast with mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed vegetables, vegetable salad, garlic toast and olives.  Sure did taste good.  We enjoyed visiting with her and Rick and the girls. 

When we came home I called Louise Kay Hatch, who was celebrating her 54th birthday today.  She is one of my oldest and dearest friends.  We had so many happy memories of our youth.  I watched an old Bing Crosby movie and finally went to bed.

Dee Johnson brought our contracts by so we could sign them to work next year.  We get about a $.33 raise which is better than ast year when we only had a $.03 raise.  I'm up to $5.60 an hour now after 10 years working.

Loye worked out at "The Little General's" and came home pretty tired.  Mark and Alex worked with him.

Josh went over to Round Valley to play ball.  He pitched and Snowflake won 12-5.  Josh said he only walked 1 man.

Mark, Liza and the kids came over and spent the evening.  The kids are at such a cute stage.  Rikki sings "Jethuth wanths me for a Thumbeam to thine for him each day."  She really helps Candon (who can sing pretty good) sing.  And Mandy was trying to hop but could never land on just one foot no matter how hard she tried.  When they all went home, we went to bed.

Maybelle was back at work today and she had lots of things to tell us.  Janet Hall worked for Aunt Ida.  Josh's game was cancelled today with Lakeside.  I don't know why, because the weather wasn't that bad.

Nothing special happened today so everyone turned in pretty early.

Back to school in the wind it started before we got off to work this morning.

Maybelle wasn't at work so Barbara Neff worked for her.  Not nearly as lively at work but it wasn't bad.

Picked up Candon and Sara after work and brought them home with us.  Then Cathy wanted us to watch Heather for a while so we did until the girls got home from school.  We (Loye and I) took Candon and Sara up to Show Low where Loye had to rent a trencher to do some work for "The Little General" out East.  He is putting in a sprinkling system.

Mark, Liza and Loyelin came over and visited for a while in the evening.  Then all went to bed.

Sunday and windy. I love Sunday mornings, but Sunday afternoons are depressing, especially on High Council days. Loye doesn't want to go because President Shumway hasn't given him an assignment since we came from Alaska. And I don't know whether to encourage him to go anyway or encourage him to resign. We, our whole family (I feel) needs to have him actively engaged in the Lord's work. But, if he doesn't want to, the maybe he should resign. Josh was to sick to go to meetings this morning.  Katie called about 5:30 to say Craig would be ordained an Elder at 7:30. Loye had gone to High Council so he didn't know about it, but I went on up. Josh was too sick. They had a big crowd there besides their own family. David and Phyllis Reidhead and their children Todd, Diana and Suzanne, Bishop Palmer and Vera, Mitzi Hammond, Bill Hancock, Gaylene and Colette, Merlin and Sherry Hancock and Mike, Gary Soloman, Sam and Sharon Daniels, Lynn and Faye Stratton and three of Craig's friends that I didn't know. It was a nice occasion and pretty impressive they served refreshments afterwards but I came on home. Charlie ordained him. Came home and watched the Phoenix Suns get beat by the Denver Nuggets in the NBA playoffs and that put Phoenix out.

After breakfast on this really beautiful day, Loye took the Datsun down to Ballard Brothers where all it needed was to have the clutch adjusted and "Teeuse" charged Loye $1.00 which was really a relief.

We got ready to go to Payson to meet with Shanna's husband Jim Nalley who is here from Ohio where they live.  Josh had a wrestling tournament in Lakeside so he went up there and won, but didn't get to go to Payson.  We couldn't find Jason so we just left him here playing with the neighbors.  Loyelin, Mark and Liza went to the valley shopping so they didn't make it either.

We were about 20 minutes late getting there but when we got to the circle K there was Jim, Dahl, Shelley, Jacob, Lindsey and Jared.  We borrowed Grandma Willis' car so just Loye and I and Mandy went in it but, Roger and Cathy had Mark and Liza's pick-up and they had Cassie, Tami, Kris, Tara, Heather, Heidi, Sara, Cristina, Rikki, and Candon.  We had prepared  picnic and had everything but the chicken so Jim went to Kentucky Fried Chicken and bought 2-21 piece barrels of chicken, when we offered to help pay he said Shanna would beat him up, cause she had told him to take us out to eat.  We went to the park and ate and visited while the kids played on the slides, swings ect.  We sure had an enjoyable time.  It would of been better if all the kids had been there.  Makes you know how the Savior feels when all of his sheep aren't with the flock.

After gong to work we started off to Show Low to watch Josh play ball, and it has been a fairly decent day.  Mom wanted to go, so we picked her and Jason (at school) up and we started up the country in the little blue Datsun we got from Mark and Liza.  But when we got half way up the divide it refused to go any farther, we finally had to turn around and come back down to Mom's where we got her car and went on up and watched the game.

We sat by Violet and Earl and visited with them.  They had just come back from Roosevelt Lake where they had been camping and fishing for 2 weeks.  They said they had caught 1 fish.  They go down and camp with friends they have made over the years from other parts of Arizona and who come there to camp at this time each year.

Snowflake won the game 6-2.  Tony Tate pitched, Josh caught, Andy Savage 1st base, Eric Ramsey 2nd base, Duane Strohmeyer 3rd base, Donnie Brewer Shortstop, Joel Chapman or Tony Reidhead left field, Todd Reidhead center field, and Alan Loggains right field.  They have a pretty good team but a young one.  Josh, Tony, Todd and Alan are the only Seniors, so they should have a good team next year.

Came home, had a make-shift supper, Josh went to the dance and the rest of us went to bed.

Another cold day in northern Arizona.  We went down to Snowflake to watch Josh play baseball but after 2 1/2 innings they got rained out, so we came home and went to Jason's cub scout pack meeting where Jason was in some little skits with Ryan Hancock, Clint Montejo, and Brandon Hensley.  The skits were real cute.

Birthday of my Grand daughter Sara Rae Thompson 5 yrs. old.

Oh Boy! Today we had Navajo Tacos for lunch and it really is a hard day.  We served 343, the most we have served in one day this year, and I'm tired.

The weather has been cold, cloudy and windy.  Jason has gone swimming with Cleve Malone and Eddie Neff and as of yet hasn't got home.  

Josh is already home, but wants to go to some sort of party.  I'm a little leary of his parties.

Loye hasn't had much work to do so he has been home all afternoon.  

Loyelin left Sara here with us for while so she could go to Show Low and get her a birthday present.  She got tired and Grandpa wouldn't let her watch cartoons so she went down to Heather's for a while.  

Cathy has been practicing endurance running and now is pretty good.  She got an infection in a blister on her heel and she has really felt bad today, Roger said.

Jacob fell on a utility box and jammed his teeth so far up they couldn't even see one of them.  He jumped off from this box backwards and got his teeth.

Today was just opposite from yesterday.  Just a beautiful day, when you would like to get out and clean yards and plant gardens.  Loye does have some of our garden planted.  He wants to put most of our garden into tomatoes.  

I sure wish they could find work.  He have so many payments, I don't know how we are going to pay them, but I guess we aren't the only ones with this problem.

Kathy Rogers worked today for Gwen Garrels, so Gwen could go to Pine and see her mother who is in the hospital.  

Mom came by today, said her stomach was really bothering her, but she stayed about 1 1/2 hours.  Wish there was someway she could get to feeling better.

Mark and Liza came by with the kids and visited for a little while.  Mark, Roger and Loye moved a couch over here that had been Mark and Liza's.  Need to have it recovered.

Went up to Sandy Whiting's to get a 30# box of laundry detergent that I had order from Life-Line Foods which she handles.  Alice Blakesley was there and wanted me to split a case of tuna with her, so I told her I would.  It will cost me $21.05.

Jason went to little league practice and then to cub scouts where Wayne Boring is the leader, although I think his son does most of the leading.

Josh finally called and said he was eating at Mitzi Hammonds with some of the boys he plays ball with.  Tony Tate, Mike Flake, Todd Reidhead and others.

This is an odd time of year to begin a journal, but I guess it's better now than never.  Today is a typical northern Arizona spring day.  The wind s blowing and the clouds are gathering so that tomorrow we will likely have snow.  Even so, kids and grown-ups are out practicing baseball for the coming season.  

Loye, Roger, Kent, Keith, George and Charlie are over to the L.D.S. Ball-Park laying a block retaining wall.  This summer there will be a baseball tournament here in Taylor, Stake for the St. Johns region.

Loye and I were going to go to Payson and watch our "little pride and joy (Josh)" play baseball.  But I guess our "little pride and joy" didn't want us to go, cause he took the keys to the car with him.

I thought I would die laughing today, at work, while Maybelle Caskey tried to show us how their primary Chorister taught songs to the Senior primary in 4th ward.  In order to learn the tune she had them say cheep for each note as they went up and down the scale.  It was one of Maybelle's funnier stories, and she is certainly an entertainer  It's certainly a quiet day when she isn't working.

Loye finally came home so we ate supper about 8:00 p.m.

Josh got home about 9:00 p.m.  They beat Payson 6-5.  Said he put the key under the seat but we didn't find it.

This was the 1st day for Lydia Hatch to open Cafe since death of Trapper on April 9th.