T-269 : Croquet Custard

Tonight for home evening we played croquet and ate frozen custard.

It was National Frozen Custard Day, you know.

Do you know what kind of witches play croquet?  Wicket witches.  

T-270 : Sprinkle Time

We got sprinklers today!  We've been planning on it ever since we moved into this house almost 2 years ago.  We've even gone so far as to enlist multiple friends' help in planning.  In the end we just didn't feel comfortable doing it ourselves.  Given how long our shed project has taken and how many adjustments we've had to make to get it to fit together I feel good about having had this job professionally done.  Maybe someday I'll have the skills and time to do it on my own.  These guys came this morning after I left for work and were gone 10 minutes before I got home.  That's pretty cool.  Check one more thing off the list!  Next up, a riding lawnmower...

T-271 : Beard Shirt

I think the longest facial hair I've ever had is what I call a goatee.  If I ever grow a longer one I might get this T-shirt.

T-272 : Temple Dome?

There's a certain spot on campus near the Ag Building where you can get a shot of the temple steeple jutting up behind one of their large, domed sheds. Some of the farmers around here probably would have preferred that architectural style, no?

T-273 : Prophetic Hand

We took a trip to Utah the other day to shop at IKEA, visit family in Saratoga Springs, and to watch the Days of '47 Parade.  Growing up in Preston, having heard about the parade, and even having watched it on television on occasion; I'd never yet attended in person.  It's been on my bucket list of things to do.  We drove right down to Liberty Park and were able to park a couple of blocks away.  Apparently some people stake their tents out and stay overnight!  We did have to sit back from the curb a bit.  Tara actually preferred that to being in the crowds.  And, with no candy to be retrieved, our kids were fine with it, too.

Probably the highlight of the parade was when we saw a dignified car rolling along.  We were far enough back that we couldn't tell exactly who it was at first glance.  We soon squinted at the door placard enough that we could tell it was President Thomas S. Monson.  It was a solemn moment.  Tara shed tears.  Thanks to the power of the zoom lens I even have photographic proof; even if all you can see is his hand and the last few letters of his name on the sign.  Trust me.  It was moving.

How close have you ever been to someone you deem powerful?

T-274 : Shed Resistance

We're putting the finishing touches on a shed kit that we bought at Home Depot a few weeks ago.  I imagine someone with more skills and tools would have had it done in a day with raw lumber and parts from the local hardware store.  We've put in hundreds of man-hours and spent probably half again the cost of the shed in additional parts and tools to make it work.  Even at that, though, Tara remarked yesterday that it's still half the cost of a Buly Barn.  Plus, we got the experience!

While the shed has been resistant to our pleas to make it straight and true we had to laugh when we made one more trip to the hardware store the other day to pick up paint and rollers.  There were probably 10-20 different types of rollers we could have purchased.  In the end we got the cheapest but the humor was not lost on us when we read than many of them were "shed-resistant".  We certainly didn't want that!  We wanted a roller that would apply our paint and a shed that would not resist it's ability to stick to it.  We'll see how the ol' girl stands up to the test of the Rexburg wind, winter, and time.

T-275 : Do? Like?

“Doing what you like is freedom.
Liking what you do is happiness.”

~ Frank Tyger
(1929-2011)

Are you a do-liker, a like-doer, or both?