Pears and Pirates

We have a pear tree in the backyard of our rental house. Weird pears.. not sure what kind they are and they didn't ripen the way the pears we have had in the past. The tree was loaded. They would drop from the tree and we tried to keep them picked up. But Chubby loved them. He would bring them to the back door just like a cat would a mouse. Then he would proceed to eat them. In pieces... this also created an ant problem. If we were gone for awhile we would come home to many pears laying around partly eaten. Here are pictures of the culprit!! I had to sneak around the house to get the pictures as soon as he would hear you he would leave the pears and come.

We had to cut back on the amount of dog food we feed him ... he was putting on weight eating all that sweet fruit!

Luke and Jessica got this Pirate antenna thing for Jay at Disneyland. He proudly has it on his car. He is a Pirate through and through.

Jay

Fall in Colorado.....even saw a moose!

Saturday, John wanted to go for a drive and see the fall colors. We were actually a week behind for the colors at the top of the mountains but the lower levels were beautiful!

What is a trip to the mountains without John fishing!

John and Jay with a fish.
Jay and I weren't into the fishing like John was so ...free time and a camera..... notice the sunglasses.....

Another fish

Jay taking pictures.... of course we never go anywhere without one or two cameras.

We spent a week in Yellowstone and never saw a moose. Here we were about 30 yards from a male, female and a young moose. It was cool you could hear the sounds and see them eating from trees.

Digital has changed the way we all take pictures!

It blurred but we still liked it.

Overall it was a fun day!

A Wildcat... Not a Pirate!! FMHS Homecoming

FMHS Homecoming Week

The parade was on Thursday they had the usual spirit week activities. But of course this was the only thing that John and I made it to.

It is funny that of all 4 of the high schools in the district none are Pirates. We have Wildcats, Bulldogs, Tigers and Warriors, but it seems like they all want to be Pirates. The Tigers even have a Pirate flag that goes to all the games.

The FFA float was titled Treasure Island. Thus the Pirate theme. Jay was on this float as it went down main street Fruita.


Jay has the gray scarf on his head and is holding the treasure chest.

The red football player in the back is the opponent they are walking the plank.

They shot canons of flour and confetti.
Pirate Jay.

On a side note, Fruita lost the homecoming game

Sale Pending!!

We have had our house in Phoenix on the market since February. We have dropped the price considerably and were in the process of getting renters in the house for the winter. The market has been slow. Then we received an offer this past week. Praise God!! We have signed papers for the sale and are praying all the paperwork, inspections, etc all go through and we can move forward. Thanks for all your prayers!

Our Friday Night "Date"

Friday night after John got home from work, we were looking for something to do. The hospital has this huge building project that I have posted pictures of before. Well now they are doing finish work inside and are suppose to be about 2 months out from finish...so he decided that we should go over and shut off all the lights that were left on by construction guys. John doesn't only turn off lights at home he turns them off at work. He sees the electric bill and can't handle it...guess he did it at the Rogue Valley Medical Center also. So we went into mechanical rooms and all the other spaces....he was "showing" me the project. There are alot of floors and and light switches!John in mechanical rooms


John turning off lights

Neola on the roof of the hospital. The Colorado Monument in the background. It has taken him 7 months to get me up there. Since it was getting dark the flash picked up the reflection on the vest...that is why I don't have it on.

When John was turning out the surgery lights...he turned on the green surgery lights. Guess it helps make the blood show up better.

After all the light turning out we got to go out for a late dinner. Another exciting Friday night!

Friends and flowers

Another family moved in down the street. He works for the hospital also and they are renting while looking for a house also. The wife, Sandy and I have started doing things together. We have gone for coffee (pictured below), shopping for clothes, walking around our block and even worked out for a couple of days. It is fun to have a friend to do something with :)) We went for coffee yesterday and hung out talking for a couple of hours.

Jay is taking an ag class independent study. He is working in the green house. He wants to propagate plants and sell them. We were at a local nursery and purchased the coleus plant. He since has cut and planted many with hopes to grow and sell.
I got to sit in the back and "protect" it from Jay's driving:)

Huge huh?

We got a good deal on it. Isn't it a cool plant!

Neola

On the way home from Idaho it was just John and I. We are driving through Southern Idaho and he asks if we want to go home through Neola, Utah. Yes, There is a small town in N. E. Utah that is Neola. So we stop at the Utah visitor center on I15 and get info for the best way to get there. It is always interesting exploring new territory. We have talked about going to Neola, Utah since we found it on the map. Yes, I know I have the same clothes on that I had on at Disneyland. I was dressing for comfort and had no idea I would be in so many pictures.

Is this sign too cool or what? It is all that iron stuff. We had traveled through alot of other little towns that had no signs and then we get to Neola and there are a bunch. John was so excited that he made sure we got pictures of them all. We did forget to look for a post office...that later we found out that there was one.... next time. Have to take my kids back there. It also isn't far from the Dinosaur National Park.

This was fun and worth the extra couple of hours that it took to get home. After all the years of having a "different" name and having to spell it .... this was really cool!