Dearest Family,
A beautiful Fall day here in Utah - I believe we
are supposed to be having Winter and it's cool but the sun is out and it is
SO pretty. There is snow in the mountains though and the ski slopes are
open so it won't be long before we will have snow in the valleys.
Bob - are you home from Guatemala? I hope so
and I hope everything went exactly as you wanted it to and I also hope you
will find time to write a report of your week. I have enjoyed those reports
SO much and have missed them this time. I have an idea that you didn't have
access to a computer or something. Claire - I have appreciated SO MUCH your
messages and your help with my "family history" book. I LOVED the little
visit with you and Katie last Sunday night.
Jesse - I LOVED YOUR NOTE - thank you for
writing to me. I'm glad you are informed about the Harry Potter stories and
movies - have you seen the latest one? My neighbor, Margaret, has read all
the books and she went to the latest movie last night but I have only seen
the one that we looked at while you were here. I have heard the Roy Mellors
talk about the "Heifer Project" often but I haven't really understood what
it was all about. I was reading the "News Journals" from Brigham City last
week and was interested in an obituary of a man who had passed away there.
He requested that donations in his honor be sent to "Heifer
International,1015 Louisiana Street, Little Rock, Ar." The article went on
to say "Heifer International provides farm animals to poor farmers all over
the world". That really enlightened me and I'm proud of your family for
being involved.
John - thank you for your message. I'll look
forward to having you come sometime this week to get your mail. I haven't
seen you for a LONG time!!!
Annie - Thank you for your message too and
Thanksgiving at your home will be WONDERFUL!!! It will be so much fun to
tie a quilt for Mary Ann that day - I always like things planned other than
just eating. We used to go on hikes but we haven't done that for several
years. I remember the time we walked to that little lake and picnic area
close by where the Weinerts used to live and Lynn made wood whistles out of
some tree limbs for the children who are now GROWN UP!!!
I hope Susanna, Steve and little Preston will
have fun in Florida - it will be a GREAT time to be there.
Jeannie - Thank you for your message too and
also our little short visit at your home as you were hurrying to awaken
Sarah so you could go to your Young Women's activity. I had gone over to
their home and Sadie barked and barked when I went into their kitchen and
Sarah was sound asleep on the floor in front of their fireplace - she looked
SO comfortable and didn't even wake up. This is such a busy, busy time for
your family - I appreciate so very much your coming over last Sunday night
too and making the favors for Mary Ann's bridal luncheon - Sarah and Rick
helped too. I'm looking forward to going to Mary Ann's shower tonight -
David's sisters and sisters-in-law are giving her a shower at their home in
Draper and it will be fun to meet his family.
I have had a busy and fun week. Margaret called
me one day and asked if I would like to ride to Brigham City with her. She
said, "I have to go to the Idle Isle for a candy run and then we'll come
right back home". They have made REALLY good candy at the Idle Isle
Restaurant in Brigham City for a hundred years and it has been a tradition
in her family to have their candies for all the holidays. She had ordered
candy to be mailed to Chicago and other places where her family lives - I
think that is SO neat - $300.00 worth and all dark chocolate!!! Patt
Guthrie went also and then we met another friend, Mary Ann Holman in Brigham
City and we all had lunch together. We walked up and down the main street
in Brigham City and that brought back so many happy memories except that it
was practically deserted - everyone goes to Ogden to shop so the stores that
were so busy when I lived there are all empty - kinda' sad!!! The Idle Isle
was packed - it was a favorite restaurant many years ago and still is.
I went to the Roger's Theatre on Thursday night
with the condo group and other friends and we saw "The LaMancha Man" - I am
so illiterate that I wasn't familiar with the story but it was surely well
done. It was all about Don Quixote and Poncho Villa and I thought they were
the same characters that Bob brought home from Colombia but I don't believe
so - I think the play was purely fictional. I'll have to try to access that
from the internet and "get informed"!!!
Friday night I went to the "Boy Scout Auction"
in Ogden. Margaret's "foundation" supports that so she had a table for her
friends and the food was just fabulous - it was at the Marriott Hotel. It
is a silent bid to benefit the Boy Scouts - I bid on several items but
someone over bid me so I didn't get them and that was good. I really wanted
to bid on a Hammond Organ but I decided I wouldn't have a place for it if I
won it - I believe it went for under $500.00. Our friend, Darrell Guthrie
bid on a "scooter" and he got that but he was the only one who got
anything. They auctioned off a live turkey - Marc Eaton threatened to chop
its head off if it didn't sell so someone bid $500. It was such a FUN
night.
Last night, Saturday, I went to a dinner at
Virginia's condo in Salt Lake for Marc and Cherri Hall and other Thai
missionaries and I had a WONDERFUL time!!! I picked up Janet Asper and we
went together - there were ten of us and I hadn't seen some of them for many
months so we had a good visit. Marc and Cherri have been in Logan visiting
their daughter and Cherri has been making a wedding dress for her
granddaughter and also the bridesmaids' dresses. They have put their papers
in for another mission and expect a call probably in January - I feel SO
guilty!!!
Margaret and other friends are going to Star
Valley on Tuesday for the rest of the week. I have D.U.P. on Wednesday and
I am co-hostess so I can't go. I am just too involved and will do things
differently next year - it's dumb at my age to have so many commitments that
I can't get out of.
Russell - I was VERY proud to tell all my Thai
missionary friends about my grandson who is serving in Madagasgar. I hope
SO much that you will have some kind of a Thanksgiving but I'm pretty sure
your dinner won't be turkey, dressing and mashed potatoes. HANG IN THERE!!!
I LOVE EACH ONE OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH.
PLEASE BE SO VERY, VERY CAREFUL IN EVERYTHING YOU DO. Grandma B
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Dearest Family,
I goofed and Barji said I could just write a
note and say "OOPS". I wrote that I hoped Susanna, Steve and little
Preston would have a good time in Florida for Thanksgiving. I should have
said, Little Jackson - I'M SORRY!!! I was standing outside waiting for
Jean, Barji and Sarah to come by to take me to Mary Ann's shower when it
hit me what I had done - I guess it's a plus when at least I remembered
what I had done. I'M GETTING SO OLD!!! I LOVE YOU - Grandma B