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Got my antenna up to 32 feet and have been CQing. Contacted North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Edmonton Canada, and California. Works much better hope the covenants in Carson River don't make me take it down.

I passed the element 4 test last Saturday (February 24th). Which means I am now an amateur extra ham operator and have all frequency privileges

Budding Artists

I 'subbed' last week for 4 days while the teacher was recuperating from pneumonia. The kids got to know me and me them. She didn't have any 'sub' notes, so I 'winged' it for the most part. She did come in the first couple of days and gave me some work sheets to copy off;but we got along pretty good and they learned something, I hope!!!

Fallon's coming up!

We have new colored comics on Sundays now!

This is a very sad comic! Mom cried......













Charlie Brown didn't get any valentines....boo hoo!

Toys! Toys! Toys!

Gary has been spending alot of time talking on the ham. It is very funny--just like a kid and his new toy!(Actually he is learning how to use it--he is so proud of himself.)

New Ham

KE7KPT
Well I passed the test and got the license. Sherri took a picture and we will upload it soon. But at the rate we update this it might take a few weeks. I talked the first time on the air last Saturday. It is interesting, I am really learning lots of new stuff. I also passed the General license but won't be able to update it until the 24th. Then I try to talk to my Dad. More Later.

Pee Phew 2

He is back (See Scott and Britta's Blog) They got a better picture of our 'special' visitor. I guess the cat is in or out because we are going to keep the doors shut. Hey Alisha want a cat? The skunk likes cat food so we could maybe catch him and send him too. TJ's freedom will be greatly diminished now because the doors will no longer be open. At least no one got sprayed!!

New Kitchen

We tried to post this before we left but it didn't publish. So here it is again. We have been working on our kitchen and we replaced our frige. Sherri is all smiles.

We have some more work to do. Like new countertops and Sherri may replace/remove the wallpaper but that is a huge job! Not sure we want to do that, just yet.

The Queen Creek Gathering

Here is a picture of all of us November 27th 2006. Sherri, Brett, Sarah, Olivia, Amy, Jeff, Jillian, Alisha, Gary. We had a great time down at Alisha and Jeff's home. The two babies are just great!!! All had a great time. Boy Alisha lives clear out in the boonies!! We wish all of the family could have made it but then the toilet probably would have overflowed three times!!

Thanksgiving Home Run and Jillian

Brett's home run at the softball game. They also played football but the Elder's quorum gave up and decided to play baseball.



Brett's home run on Vimeo

A short movie of Jillian



Jillian on Vimeo

Just testing Video

I wanted to see if I can get this video to post. It is from our last trip to visit James, Valerie and the children....



Park on Vimeo

Arizona to Washington D.C.

Proud Parents

My trip to Alisha's was great!!!Mommy and baby were doing so well that I stayed only 1 1/2 weeks

"Hot"Jillian
Cuddly Jillian


Grandma and Grandpa Pete with number 98!! That's 98 greatgrandchildren!!!

Great day at the park!!!



Sweet, sweet Caroline



Then back to "Home Sweet Home"

The many travels of Gary and Sherri and there were 98

It has been some time since we have updated our blog. I guess we aren't writters. We have been all over the place the last few months and have seen our new grandchildren. So here goes.
Texas: You have seen some of the pictures on Jeff and Nettie's blog but here are some more:

Who is that handsome couple:

Cows, cows and more cows

Ride em cowboy, uh cowgirl.

Nice hat

Pumpkins everywhere

Who is that grandma

Nice train ride


Good time for granmepa

Sod Quest

Today we cut our lawn in half. We got this bright idea to cut the sod. What A job! We only had 3 hours to do it in(the sod cutter was $80 for 3 hours)and Boy! were we beat! Afterwards, we went to donate blood and Dad's heartbeat was too high to donate!(just barely) I teased him and said that I worked him too hard! He just had to take an aspirin too! Guess I did! (my back aches and Dads toe is paining! he stubbed his toe 3 weeks ago and he thinks he broke it!It sure is causing lots of problems! He can hardly walk, sometimes--like now.) Boy! I'm afraid that the easy part is cutting the sod! What are we up against now??? We have to get some people to come and take the sod away for us- but we will if noone wants it. I hate to do it, though.

Peaches

For FHE, we decided to can some peaches that we got in Utah. First time in quite a while! ( We picked up some early peaches when we picked up the bike in Utah) We forgot how and so we looked it up on the internet--had to buy a new canner because I threw mine away because I just knew that I never wanted to go to ALL that work again! Now , you should see the nice peaches on our little scrawny tree! But I'm worn out!

OH NO!

Well I did it. I bid on ebay for a Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 and won! Great, now we have to go to Utah to get it. It is a new 2005 still at the dealer in SLC. I thought I would get outbid but I didn't. Gotta be careful on ebay. Talked to Brett and maybe they will bless Olivia this weekend, so it might be a good trip anyway.
OH NO!-Dad

pee-phew

We Have a SKUNK in our garage! Evidently he has been living there for awhile(behind the cabinets) and only comes out at night. We thought it was funny that the cat was so skinny and didn't like to be in the garage at all. We saw him the last 3 nights, but we thought he just came in at night so we started shutting all the doors-boy it is hot in the garage!--but tonite we saw him go behind the cabinets--and figured out that where he lives! and comes out at night to feed on cat food. This afternoon , I think he was in a box--I thought it was the cat--scratching and pulling the boxc lid in and out--so I hollered kitty-kitty and no answer so I figured he was out--come to find out it was the skunk! I called the sherif next door and asked him what to do????? because I couldn't find the number for the animal control--He said there is NO animal control in Fallon and he didn't think that anyone would do anything anyway.HE SURE WOULDN'T! He said that if he doesn't come out tonite with all the doors open, to call the sherif's office, hopefully something will be done!!!

Leheman Cave and other stuff

To the left is a picture of M51 or the wirlpool galaxy that I took Friday night. It was a great trip. Even caught some fish! Above is a picture inside the cave. It was cool (about 50 degrees). We took the kids repelling on friday at a remote resort in Utah called Hidden Canyon Guest Ranch. It is remote and seculded from everything but it has a lot of neat ammenities.

Went on a hike on saturday up to the bristlecone pine tree grove. There were only about 20 trees there but it was really interesting. Standing front of a tres that was 'born' 1150 years before Christ is humbling.

I had a througt regarding the picture of the galaxy above and the scripture came to my mind in D&C 84:45 talking about the light of Christ. That light has traveled many eons to get here to earth and it fills the space everywhere, but we have to know where to look in order to 'see' it The light of Christ is everywhere but we have to look for it in order to 'see' it. Hope all is well with everyone. Kristen sent us a picture of Sam that I really like.

Jupiter

The picture of Jupiter is one I took this last week. Saturn was taken this past spring. My telescope was damaged and is now fixed better than ever. The Saturn picture was edited to enhance the picture. Jupiter was how it was after merging the RGB pictures. (The blog site must downgrade the picture resolution, it looks better in the original)

August 1, 1950 (oops 2006)

Well I am now 56 years old! My birthday was typical of late. Had to go to work! Went to the Dr. in the afternoon and then off to the Sizziler for Dinner. Got to see Sam, Jon and Kristen. Sam is quite the boy as seen from the pictures. It was a good day! Somehow little children can make you happy and my grandchildren sure do make me happy. All of them and the ones to come this year. I am very excited to soon have three more! It was so good to hear from all of you on my birthday and sure do love all of you.

Thrifty Time

Gary and Sherri
Well, it's that time again! We have 'gobs' ofused clothes to sort out and get ready for the Big Giveaway on Sat.(For a service project, we give lots of clothes to the community as a Bi-Stake activity)(Last year, people left with many big black garbage bags of clothes. It's a good deal because the clothes are in better condition that you would get at a thrift store.