PJ Swinging

PJ doesn't much like the regular swings at the park, he'll ride on them, but not too high. However, the string swing in the backyard, is another thing altogether. The higher the better, he likes to make his belly button feel funny.

Snow in May

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the snow we had the first week in May. The weather then turned nice enough for PJ to wade in the irrigation water the next Sunday. Since then the weather has been off and on but today it snowed again. According to the weather report on KSL, today's storm was the latest date for measurable snow, beating May 18, 1977 as the previous late date. Today's storm was very wet and heavy, so much so that it tipped over a flowering crab apple tree we have in the back yard.

PJ's New Haircut

Dustin says it is not a Mohawk because it doesn't go down the back of his head. He says it is more of a military jarhead haircut.

Spring Weather

The first week in May, we woke up to snow on the ground. It didn't last too long, but still.




A week and a half later, we irrigated for the first time of the year. It was warm enough that PJ had fun playing in it.

Easter 2010

This year JoAnn decided she wanted some new ducks for Easter. Our other ducks, Pearl and Elmer are getting old and may not be around much longer. Parker named these ducks Easter Egg, Donald, and Daisy. He knows which is which and if you don't believe me, just ask him.




Sometime around Easter, I've lost track of time, Dustin took PJ to the park for the first time of the year. He loves to go to the park as you can see. I love this photo.

JoAnn's Honor

JoAnn received a very nice honor a couple of weeks ago. She was selected as an outstanding educator in the Jordan School District. The bad thing about it is that I have to accompany her to a banquet at the Little America Hotel next week. I really don't like banquets. But it is a big honor, I think there are about 10 teachers in the entire Jordan District being honored that night.

Mr. Lucky

I don't know why but I've always been lucky at "draw your name out of the hat" kind of things. I used to go to "Western States Land Commissioners" conventions for work. At these conventions, they always had a dinner on the final day and they had prizes which they awarded to those whose names were drawn out of the hat or box or whatever. I won at least one grand prize, one or two runner-up prizes, and lots of other prizes such as briefcases, totes, shirts, that kind of thing.

There was also a name drawing at work a couple of years ago. The Director at the time, who didn't like me and towards whom the feeling was reciprocated, had a couple of tickets for a sky box to watch the Jazz. Much to his dismay, my name was drawn.

Anyway, last week, JoAnn and I went down to BYU to listen to the last in a series of lectures about Hugh Nibley. Since it was the last lecture, and since it was given by Michael D. Rhodes, who co-wrote Nibley's last book, One Eternal Round, they had a drawing for an autographed copy of the book. As they were getting ready to draw the name, I leaned over and told JoAnn "I'm pretty lucky at these sorts of drawings". She just said that she never won anything. She's been to at least a million teacher educational gatherings where they drew names and she's never won anything. Well, you guessed it, they drew my name for the autographed book. Now I feel obligated to read it.