Fall 2010 into Winter 2011
Time for an update !
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I started a part time job (20 hours a week) the end of September working for Santaquin City. I do the custodian work for three buildings: The City Center (Old school building built in 1938), The Library (built 1901 as a church and restored a couple of years ago) and the Public Safety building. (Fire Dept , Police and the Justice Court, (new building a couple of years ago) The 1.5 mile commute is great !
We had such a wonder garden and a great crop of tomatoes (picked over 60 pounds of green tomatoes and we ate them until Christmas, as the ripened up) There were too many to eat, so I thought it would be a great idea to make some ketchup. Wrong !!!!! It took 25 pounds of tomatoes and almost a day of cooking, seasoning, straining and more staining, more cooking to reduce and then canning for 1/2 hour ~ for a quart . . . yes, a quart of ketchup ! I figured that even with the free tomatoes, that quart probably cost me in time and labor $30.00 ! ! !
Fall weeds from the garden
I also entered a photography contest at the Utah County Photography & Digital Art show.
The one on the left (which I posted last blog) took 3rd place and won a cash award! Almost enough to pay for the prints and framing ! ! !
Fall pictures in Payson Canyon
Fall flowers Provo
We made our second annual excursion to the Black Island Farm in Syracuse, UT and had a great day with Shane and Lori and grand-kids.
Went through a couple of corn mazes and we all got to pick out our own pumpkins in the pumpkins patch.
Jessie, Scotty, Jaida and Jorja
Scotty and Jorja in the Maze !
Halloween Flag
We traveled to Disneyland the week before Halloween and had a great time !
Some fabulous Disney pumpkin carving !
Kate on the Carousel
Morgan and Charlie
Was fun to meet up with Morgan at Disneyland with her two youngest. (Henry, the oldest was in school . . )
The California Adventure Park is having major renovations and new attractions coming in 2011 and 2012.
We able the see the new World of Color show on the lake. Will not post here, but if interested check it out on youtube.com
November I received the Employee of the Month from Santaquin City, so I guess they like what I do !
We traveled to St Johns, AZ for Thanksgiving and we left a day earlier than planned and were able to miss the blizzard of 2010 and also another storm on the way home.
Temperatures at the end of November were in the single digits and we had 15 days in December that never made it about freezing !
Christmas 2010
Pam’s family Christmas Party in Provo, and several are missing ! ! !
Dec 22 we had 22″ of snow ! ! !
BBQ and table on the deck
Snow blower doing it’s best on the driveway !
We celebrated Christmas with Pam’s children and grand-kids a few days after Christmas. Leisha and grand-kids drove up from AZ and Shane and Lori and grand-kids drove down from Clearfield. Had a great dinner and all had fun time opening all the presents.
Grandkids making “Build-a-Bear” they got as presents.
Me and Pam with the grand-kids.
We gave everyone microfiber blankets with their name embroidered. Only one missing in the picture is BJ and we are hoping to photoshop him in somehow !
We tried to do some sledding (a couple of runs !) while the kids were here, but it was just to cold. The high for that day was 18 degrees!
Only sad note over the holidays was the 4 alarm fire of the Provo Tabernacle on Dec 17th. Completely destroyed the roof and interior. Tabernacle was built-in the 1880′s
2011
Happy New Year !
On 1-11-11 and we were 1 degree for the low !
