Another Monday morning

Yes I realize it's Thursday, but I just can't keep looking at a week ago Monday and remembering that awful feeling. By the way I am now currently registered and legal:)

5:45 am again...on my way to the vanpool pick up point....My phone rings and I answer, glancing at the name, Boschi cell

Me: Hello.... (pause) hello....silence ...Melinda, are you there....Little noises now being heard. I realize it' may be one of the children.... Evie is this you?

Evie: Hi Gramma, I love you. What a sweet sound! As we chat Evie tells me she had Easter at her house and at Gramma's house. Yes, Carson is in his bed asleep. Lizzie is asleep. Mommy and Daddy are asleep. She's a big girl. Unfortunately I had to have her take the phone to Mommy. But then I smiled all the way to work:)

You know it's a Monday when...

5:45 AM the blue and red lights are flashing behind you.

The nice officer asks to see your registration because he just ran your licence plate and your car is not registered. He asks how you happen to have a 2010 sticker.

I reply I registered it last September and reach in the glove box for the registration.

I glance at it as I pull it from it's pretty folder that keeps it from being mangled in the glove box.

I don't recognize the name on the registration...Patrick Civero...PANIC sets in! I glance at the make and model of the car, 2000 Plymouth Voyager...NO! I drive a 2000 Pontiac Montana...,

I hesitate as I hand it to the officer and mention this is the wrong documentation.

The officer lets the ladies out of my car to catch the vanpool ride that is about to leave...I am not as fortunate, they leave without me.

After calling in several times and talking to different people the officer returns to me and hands me the documentation. I think you look like an honest lady and I don't think you're trying to pull a fast one on me, so I will let you go with a warning...please take care of this TODAY.

I got to work and looked more closely at the registration. It had my inspection approval stapled to the back, I took a look at that and realized it had our name and address on it properly but the vehicle was a 1997 Ford Explorer....It turns out that the inspector had transposed the licence number. Ours is 205UGY. The inspetor had typed in 250UGY. I turned to the registration and saw that the DMV had typed in the wrong licence also...that one...206UGY. Talk about a mess!

When I went to the DMV after work they decided that I should get a new inspection ($17.00) and pay for a new year of registration ($106.00) I currently have a 2 week temporary registration so I won't have to explain to another officer....Whew! I don't want to relive that day. The lady at the DMV said the officer could have impounded my car and taken me to jail untill I could explain someone's stupid mistake.

Boy, am I glad it's Tuesday... Even though the 201, 202, and I 80 were closed and it took us 2 hours to get home...it's a good day:)

Mary's wedding!

The happy couple...Mary Janise Reid Larson Cryer and Walter Cryer. Walter is a retired BYU swim coach and still swims a mile a day! They were beautiful and so happy together. We are happy for both of them that they do not have to be lonely any more. Aunt Linda taking a picture of Uncle Dave and Aunt Demiris.........

Uncle Frank and Aunt Dody...........

The Larson Brothers singing a beautiful barber shop rendition of "Love At Home"

From left to right Reggie, Wes, Drew, Doug, and Matt....

The Larson family...I'm in trouble here with names of all the wives...

Front row L-R Crew (Wes's son), Jennifer (Reggie's wife), Janise, Ginnell (Drew's wife), Sharron, (oops..Doug's wife) and Sharon (Chad's wife)

Back row L-R Wes, Reggie, (oops...Matt's wife), Matt, Drew, Doug and Chad

Our Wes and Cousin Wes

Can you believe we didn't get a picture of Bill and Jeff ?!?!

Doug and Marilyn couldn't make the trip due to Doug's health. The rest of them had a great time together.

Way overdue!

Aaron and Dad at the church before G'pa's 80th B'day dinner on Saturday
Allen shared the glory because his B'day is the day after G'pa's.

Dad, Allen and the family having a B'day dinner at ElGallo Giro...our favorite mexican place!

Complete with Mariachi band and singers...they were wonderful!

Chimney Sweeps?

The hole in the room and the ceiling (sorry, it's sideways) where the chimney once stood....these guys did a "clean sweep" of all the brick, coal and wood dust, mortar and debris that has been here for over a hundred years!
I didn't think to take this picture till we were almost done clearing all the junk from the room.

My 3 volunteers...Left to right Haine (pronounced Hi-na both long vowels) Steven and Wes. In this shot they are trying to show that parts of their legs were clean...I don't think it worked.

Steven and Wes actually had bandanas tied around their mouth and nose to try to keep out some of the coal dust. But they were removed for the picture. This was Haine's mask after he had tried to beat off some of the coal dust.

When they were done they all ran for the back yard where they stipped down to shorts and did a cold wash with soap and water. They are so much better even though they REALLY need a hot shower!

Ahhh, the payoff? We'll these guys were great sports, all they wanted was Pizza and ice cream! I actually think they had fun doing the demolition. They were great. I didn't get pictures of the many bucket loads of brick and mortar they took from the attic and lowered to the hall, one bucket at a time, then empying each bucket in the dumpster out front. They worked for about 4 hours on this ugly project!!

103 year's old...deserves new roof!

Today three layers of roofing were removed from our house. We live in a house that is 103 years old.We knew the garage had been roofed this way, I guess we never considered the house was also done this way. After the rafters were in, the outside was covered with what they could find of old amunition crates from the Tooele Army Depot. With no additional support the roof was then filled in with shake shingles. Luckily for us the house had 2 more layers of asphalt shingles, so we didn't leak.

Here is one of the roofer's hammering in loose nails. Notice how wide the spaces are...gee whiz!

Our house is completely surrounded by piles of shake shingles. What a mess!

So here we are, cleared of old shingles and ready to start the new roof. With any luck we won't have rain till we finish:)

Latest Project

We purchased a big (8 ft long and sticking a third of the way into the family room) couch. It had ugly pillows and we had blinds on the windows as well as a quilt over the big window.













I made new curtains for the family room and decided to spruce up the pillows as well

The results were great! It really lightened up the family room. Wes hung the curtain rods for me and Bill helped me hang curtains. I have enough fabric to cover the footstool as well. It is not in the picture, it's a very ugly mustard yellow vinyl. It is perfect to store a couple of blankets to cozy up on the couch.