Here the summer is practically over and tomorrow school starts again, makes you wonder where in the world the time has gone.

I will start working at the school as a cook again, but we are thinking of moving to the valley where we will manage some apartments.  They will give us an apartment to live in and pay our utilities including our phone bill, so it sounds like a pretty good deal they will also give us $500 a month.  Loye will be able to work else-where to earn money so I think it would be good that way and Loye does seem to geel better down there.  But, I can hardley bear to break home ties here in Taylor.  Jared wants to buy our home so we will just be foot-loose and fancy-free with no place to call home.

Mom, Sheree, Cathy and I took Judy to the El Ranch in Snowflake to eat for her 45th birthday.

On the 23rd, Mom, Liza, and I took Loyeline to Pinetop El Rancho to eat for her 32nd birthday.  It is so pretty up in the mountains.  On the way home it had rained right along in front of us or I should say just poured cause there was water running down all the gullies and in one place it was just pouring from over the top of a cut just like a water fall.  I have never seen the water running like that and in a way it was beautiful but it was also pretty destructive.

Last night we went to Scott's reception and it was pretty nice.  Decorations were just right and the refreshments and program was all really nice.

Jason's 12th birthday was on the August 10.

Dahl's birthday August 13.

Lindsey's 3rd August 18.

Well there's one more week of Olympic's and I hope this next week is as good as the last week has been.  U.S.A. has won so many Gold Medals.  Peter Vidmar (a mormon) was on the men's gymnastics team who won gold medals, along with Bart Conners, Mitch Gaylord, Tim Daggett and Scott Johnson.  They were very good sports.  Even though the girls didn't win the Gold they did get the Silver.  They were led by Mary Lou Retton and Julie Anne McNamara.  Joan Benoit won the ladies 26 mile Marathon  The U.S.A. Women's volleyball team hasn't been beat yet.  Our boxers are doing very good in fact this morning on the news it was said we had 92 medals and the closest to that was German with 30 (some odd).

Yesterday was Loye's 56th birthday.  The kids too us up to Asia Garden's to eat.  Roger and Cathy, Loyelin, Mark and Liza, Jared and Dennise, and Jason.  It was real nice and we enjoyed being with the kids.

Today I rode up to Show Low with Katie she had to go to the dentist and I had to go to the bank and to the gas co.  I would like to take a class this winter on money management, if I thought I would pass, but I'm sure no good at figures.  i guess that's why we are always so poor.

Uncle John Ballard says we had better have our years supply of food because after the presidential election this year.  "All hell is going to break loose."  I hope he's wrong, but, the time is getting so close to the coming of the Savior, we must try to be prepared.  And I don't think my kids are prepared at all.

Last Sat. Elbert Lewis was re-baptized into the church.  He was president of the Show Low Stake but was excommunicated because of his mismanagement of church funds this happened about 7 or 8 years ago.  His wife died of cancer so he married his 1st wife's sister.  They are Gerry and Carol Ozment daughters of Lester and Ruth.  Anyway it was a real happy occasion for everyone who knew them.