Decided I had better write more about my exciting summer vacation. Actually it has been pretty boring. Just the same thing day after day. There will be a change now as the ball games are over so we won't have them to look forward to each night. The family got beat out pretty easy. Josh's Playboys lasted a little longer. 1st Ward ladies and 1st Ward Juniors are still in the running for church teams.
We wanted to go to Manti and watch the pageant up there. But we're not going. We don't have a car that would make it and none of the kids want to go, so we could go with them. We went down to Roger and Cathy's and ate cake and ice cream for Roger's birthday. Sure do love and appreciate him.
This next week I plan to buy some paint and start on my house so I can get it all painted before school starts and I have to go back to work.
Cathy has certainly put out the work this summer. Making a new lawn. Jogging every day and swimming every day and teaching swimming. I don't know how she keeps up. If I had that much ambition I think I would spend it in my yard and on my house. Pooey on wasting time jogging and swimming but then everyone to their own likes.
The summer rains have started (thank goodness) we really haven't had any hard rain yet, but we have had some nice sprinkles.
This is the time of year when it's nice to get up early and hear the haunting sounds of a mourning dove. When everything is quiet and about to wake up for the days work ahead. Or at noon to hear the lazy drone of a bee or in the evening to hear the cheerful chirp of a cricket or if it has rained the noisy croaking of the frogs. it is indeed a nice place to live. Although I think I would like to live out of town a ways. We have roads and neighbors all the way around us any more and we used to be the last house on this road and had things pretty much the way we wanted, but now it seems everyone can check and see what we are doing.
Chan and Lynda and Willie came back from Alaska early this year on the 19th. Said they ran out of work. Sure was a short summer for them. Hardly worth going for.
Josh has started working for Ronald and Keeven. Hope he is as happy as he thinks he will be. He plans to move to the valley this week. (Oh the agonies of a mother as each child leaves home.) I'm really not happy about it at all.
Loye has been working in Heber today with Mark, Roger, Jared, Jason and Willie. They should be coming home soon. Loye said he would take us out to dinner tonight. Sounds good to me.
Today started the 24th of July celebration in Snowflake. It sure isn't as important as it was when I was a kid. We had to have new clothes and be some of the first people at the rodeo ground in Snowflake. To listen to Happy Jack play music on his loud speakers, and watch the Indians who had come to town the week before from Whiteriver in covered Wagons. Course we watched them go through Taylor as we sat on Grandpa Shumway's picket fence.
The rodeo, barbecue and fights were all held at the rodeo ground and you paid one ticket and everything was paid for. "Oh the good ole days." Tomorrow me and the girls will go to Snowflake and watch the parade and maybe take in the barbecue then come home and wait for the ball games and fireworks. It really is a pretty nice celebration. More so than anything Taylor does. Another thing I would like to do tomorrow is to go to the program and listen to President John Taylor talk. He has just returned home from Canada where he served 3 years as a Mission President.
Leon Ballard, my cousin (Aunt Thora's oldest son) is now in Brisbane Australia serving a 3 year mission presidency. They just left recently.
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