Surprise for Dad

Many thanks to Dee and Sharol for bringing dad a surprise birthday present last weekend.  Dad had admired Dee’s bike one time and mentioned that he would like one also.  Uncle Dee then made it a mission to find such a bike and over a period of time searched and searched until he found just the right one.  And then, he and Sharol make the trip to deliver it.  What a brother and what a sister!  It is very hard for Sharol to travel, but it was so wonderful to have them both here.  Thank you so much.  Thanks also to whichever of our kids contributed to the purchase as well.

While here Dee and dad joined our two sets of Elders on a service project. The Elder with the cowboy hat said,”he’s your brother?” with a tone of unbelief when he met Dee who is 6 ft. tall.  We’re used to that aren’t we Dee?

The Fair…and other things

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It was great to have Ron here for a visit, but boy were we surprised when he drove in pulling a trailer.  I was so excited for Cathy and the rest of the family.  What fun they will have!

The other pictures show how the road to the fair is almost as fun as the fair and people set up their tents and other means of camping all along the way.  It took us about 45 minutes to drive from our house to the fairgrounds a distance of about 3 miles.

  I had the great privilege of meeting the last surviving Navajo code talker who was in the group of 29 Navajo solders who created a code based on their language.  There code was never broken by the Japanese during the Pacific part of World War II.  I shook his hand and thanked him with tears in my eyes.  He is 91 years old.  

I am so glad I caught these pigeons on camera this particular morning.  They have been resting in our tree for a little while almost every morning all summer long.  This particular morning they just looked so beautiful I thought I’d see if I could get a good photo of them not knowing they wouldn’t be back again until next summer.

You might notice the two photos I took while we were at the rodeo.  We were an hour late so were up in the nose bleed section, but they do show the way the area looks beyond the arena.