Curt and Becky: August 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Sanpete County Fair

Can you believe I didn't even take any pictures of the Sanpete County Fair weekend? Duh! Chris, Amanda, and Cody came up (Chris was already here for work) on Thursday. We went to the Demolition Derby on Thursday. We all sat with Logan, Katie (his girlfriend), and Lyndsay. With a new fair board, things have changed a LOT. They took out a lot of the arena space (which I didn't like) and Kerry Duel wasn't announcing. I really missed him. He made the derby. We didn't enjoy it as much as usual. Nick Shaw won the Wipeout again.

On Friday, we went to the rodeo (Curt and I both had to work all day.). On Saturday we had a busy day. In the morning we walked around to see the tractor show and car show. We took Cody through "Fun on the Farm" (which I'll explain a little more later), went to the animal barn and watched the auction for a minute, went through the small animal barn, and watched the mud volleyball for a minute. We got home about noon. The "Fun on the Farm" exhibit was really cute. There were eight or so little buildings that the kids would go through and follow a picketed trail to the next one. In the first building, they had an apron to put on, pick up a bucket, and fill up a bag of seed. I can't remember the order but following are some of the things they had to do: milk a cow (they had a big wooden cow rigged up that they had to sit on a stool and milk it) and then they got a milk mustache sticker to wear; they had to get on a tractor (bike) and haul a miniature bale of hay; they got to pick apples off a tree and put it in their basket; they got to pick up a strip of bacon and steak and put them in the basket; had to rope a cow (steel one); feed the chickens with the feed they had; learn about brands; at the end they had to sort everything they had in their baskets and put it in the proper container. Then they were given a "dollar" bill and could buy something in the little store at the end. Cody chose a box of juice and said, "Can I buy it?" and gave the store owner his dollar. It was so cute! In each one there was some learning to take place. Cody was too small to do a lot of that but he looked so cute in his apron. Amanda and I both forgot our cameras.

In the afternoon we went to the parade and then to the rodeo again at night. At the parade a lot of the Kjars showed up: Amy/Jason and family; Allynne/Daniel and family; Tracy and family; Canda/Drew; Carol/Steve; Lila/John; Grandma Kjar; Shaun; (did I forget anyone?) and Chris, Amanda, Cody, Curt and I. We really had a great time.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Timber ! ! !

Before I explain the TIMBER--look at this huge sun dog we saw on Skyline Drive today. If you look closely you can see the colors although they appear to be a little faint.

Another picture of the sun dog between the two trees.

The other day Kelly called me over to Granny's house to "show me something." The wind was blowing, and the west half of her tree out in front of the house was swaying toward the house. We were afraid it would fall into her porch or bay window. Candy called a tree service in Redmond. They said they could come and look at it Monday or Tuesday. This happened to be Thursday, August 6. We were afraid it would fall before then, so Kelly called Floyd Bishop, a local guy who cuts trees who happens to have one hand. He said he'd come down and look at it. Within 30 minutes he had it cut down and Curt and Josh were hauling it away. Now that's what I call service.

We had to tease Granny, though. When the boys were young, they used to sneak out at night out of their bedroom windows upstairs and climb down the tree. Now Granny won't be able to escape through her bedroom window anymore either!

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Milestones . . . .

Lots of things have happened since my last post: Curt finished his last radiation treatment (hip, hip, horray!). That has been a feat in itself. It only took 45 trips to Provo--now that summer is about over I'd sure like to have it back. Oh well. We have had family gatherings, parades, etc., etc. We also enjoyed a surprise 30th anniversary party--which I don't have any pictures of. Our kids arranged a surprise party for Curt and I. The little kids even knew about it but no one let on. We were so shocked! Chris took us to Spring City to see his job while everyone gathered in our garage. We were both so surprised to see everyone there. Lacey made us a video (which was totally awesome), we had cake and ice cream, the garage was decorated with tables and pictures, and Shelly (Landon's mom) had put together a quilt with pictures of some of our most precious moments as a couple (I'm going to take a picture of it and put it on my blog later.). I still get teary-eyed when I think about it. Thank you all! This first picture is of Lyndsay (Lacey's sister-in-law), Lacey, and I waiting for the KENNY CHESNEY concert to begin. It was so HOT!!!! (meaning the concert was awesome, but the temperature was hot, too.) Sugarland was supposed to be there too, but the lead singer injured her vocal chords and had to cancel. Bummer. I kind of have that effect on concerts. When I took Lacey to see the Backstreet Boys, Shaggy was supposed to be there but the concert had to be postponed so I didn't get to see Shaggy either. Back to the concert: We watched Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, and then Kenny Chesney. We had terrific seats. The concert started at 5:30 at the Rio Tinto Stadium on July 23. It didn't get over until about 11:15.