Crooks Drama

I'm writing this from the Ameritel in Idaho Falls. Our flooded basement drama continues.....

Today we discovered that the problem is with a pipe on the outside of the house caused by water we use in the basement. We now have the following:

1. Carpet torn up in the computer room
2. Pad for carpet destroyed
3. A hole in the wall to access a pipe
4. A hole next to the foundation outside
5. A broken pipe
6. A destroyed bush in our landscaping
7. A muddy pile of dirt in our front yard
8. No water use in the house (thus the Ameritel)

We also found out that our insurance company will only pay for things that happen to our house. So they will pay for the All American Restoration bill for cleaning up the water mess. A new carpet and pad. and to repair the hole in our wall for access to the pipe. They will not pay for the back hoe, the plumber or and of the materials it will take to replace the broken pipe or any of the damage done to our landscaping.

It will take us a lot of labor to put things back together again. I hope it is all fixed by the time you all come for the family reunion.

I got a new look today also. I had some highlights put in my hair. They will take some getting use to.

Father's Day

Sherwin's daughter, Suzanne came from Alpine, Utah to spend Father's Day with Sherwin. We took a drive up to West Yellowstone and Stopped at Mesa Falls. When we went past Macks Inn I thought about the camping trip with Jacob, Joe and Jessica in the Coffee Pot Campground and floating in the rubber raft down the river. Remember the dead beaver? We also went on some great hikes and had a snowball fight on top of the mountain.

This N That

The past week was mundane in a good way. I had Thursday off and it just seemed good to stay home and get a little caught up on things.

I've been working on the Family cook book which is turning out to be quite time consuming but fun also. I'm quite pleased with it. I would like to have at least a couple entrys from every family member. So if you haven't sent one.......

I picked up my new glasses. They are trendy (for me) They have the decorated thicker ear pieces that were in style in the 60's, then out of style and are currently in style again. They are also colored burgandy with white mother of pearl. I would love to see the image you all have in your mind now (hee-hee) I also got some bargain basement wall paper boarder at Big Lots that I hung in our computer room downstairs. It is nice to have a change.

Saturday Jane came over and we worked on a project for the family reunion. We spotted this beautiful bird on our front lawn. It is called a Western Tanager. We had to look it up on the internet. I don't think I have ever seen one like it before. I've seen more different species of birds than ever before this year. It makes me wonder if it is because of the odd weather patterns we are experiencing in the US.

Gas hit the $4.00 a gallon mark here today. We are being encouraged by the church to try to put away a 3 month food, water and money storage. I was watching a report on CNN and they were suggesting the same thing (3 months food, money and water) On the flip side of the coin...at the Credit Union I have recently loaned for 3 camp trailers and diesel mega trucks. However. more people are trying to trade in their large vehicles for ones that get better gas mileage.

Wild Flowers and Wild things

The wild flowers were out in bloom. As a girl, I can remember Grandma Rock telling me the names of the wild flowers on our drives to Rockland. These are Mule's Ear.

The ones below are called Bluebells.

















We were really hoping to see some wildlife like Moose but hey....you take what you get! I thought James might get a little teary eyed as he remembered his days as a sheep wrestler on Brother Turners sheep ranch in Caldwell.

There was a sheep camp with a horse near by but no shephard. We guessed he was in the camp eating "pork n beans" straight from the can and drinking some strong coffee grounds. Playing the harmonica while his sheep dog was howling. (Louie Lamore was sitting on a rock writing all of this down.)







There she is, the critter we were waiting for. She looks pretty stragley in her winter fir.

We actually saw 5 deer on our drive today.

It was a fun day but this cowgma is ready to hit the sack. It been a long day on the range.

(by the way this post should have been AFTER the next post). Maybe I'll get this figured out sometime.

Week in Review

Last Thursday we staged a mock robbery at the CU. I was proud of my staff & the way they handled it. The Shelley Police recruited some officers from I.F. to help with the mock robbery. They use one police officer as a diversion while the other one did the actual robbery. We have a digital video recorder that Kim and I were able to review the robbery on. It was very helpful in identifying mistakes. It is odd how scared you feel even when you know it is a drill.



Sherwin finished out the school year. The last day, he invited one of his foreign exchange students from the Czech Republic golfing with him and one of his friends. I'm sure he will miss some of his students.



Today after church, dinner, and a nap, we took to the road again on a Sunday drive. These are one of my favorite activities with Sherwin. We drove through the Wolverine canyon. Sherwin told me lots of stories about his days as a cowboy when he was young. He used to go on cattle drives in the Wolverine Canyon. As a teenager he had lots of adventures hunting, horseback riding and camping with his friends in that canyon.

We continued on and through Caribou National Forest. This is a picture that shows the beautiful spring colors.