1. The construction between Pocatello and Soda Springs helps make the drive interesting. The work they are doing changes the landscape each trip. This is a huge project and won’t be done this year. That’s good as we’ll be making this trip often to go spend time with mother.
2. The pageant in Clarkston, UT “Martin Harris: The Man Who Knew” is held on odd-numbered years. The Ward I am assigned to ordered a bunch of tickets, so Nina and I went last Friday, Aug. 21st. The pageant itself was nice, but the lecture before was excellent. I learned a couple of things, such as that he was never divorced from his first wife and was never excommunicated.
3. The Church building in Clarkston was built in 1919 and has real character. There are too few Church buildings left that have a unique character to them. The chapel is in a semi-circle with an alcove to the right for the choir and a balcony. Off from the chapel is a “Prayer Room” where prayer circles were held until 1978. I had thought that practice has been discontinued much earlier than that.
4. Now that I have to get up at 3 a.m. each Friday morning to go to the Temple, I’ve been trying different sleep schedules for Thursday night. So far, nothing is working very well. One of the fellows working this same schedule remarked, “I can sleep anywhere, anytime, under any circumstances, except on a Thursday night.” I echo that sentiment.
5. I’ve been working on the motor home fixing some things. I’m sometimes surprised at the amount of maintenance needed. A motor home combines all the maintenance of a house with all the maintenance of a truck. Then, added to that, is the maintenance that comes because I drove too close to the barriers on road construction….
6. Dad and mother set up a trust and associated wills back in 2002. It turns out that everything was done correctly and the estate does not have to go through probate. I’m still frustrated that we had to spend time with a lawyer to make that determination. Mother hasn’t gotten the bill, yet, but I expect it will be several hundred dollars.
7. I’m excited that we’re going to Yellowstone next week for a few days. The summer seems to have come and gone very quickly. School started here today, both public schools and Idaho State University. That means the snow can’t be far behind.
8. There will be an election this November in Pocatello and many surrounding communities as seats on the City Council come up for election. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of interest this election brings out in people.
9. The local newspaper, the Idaho State Journal, has finally gotten onto Twitter, but they definitely Don’t Get It. They’ll send out the occasional news bit, but with no link back to the expanded information (which can be displayed with advertisements) on their website.
10. I went through my pictures and collected together a set of all the pictures I have of dad over the past couple of years. There’s still some more to add to the collection and then I’ll make a slide show out of them. The decline in his health is quite obvious in the pictures.
And that’s all for today.