Well we just got the computer back thanks to Gavin taking the time to making it work again. Thanks Sara and Cordell for taking it home and to our student Kim for bringing it back.
Last Sat. Mom and I got the chance to see our niece Kim we haven't seen her for ten years or so.
We got to go to the white sands national monument, those sands are very white. Mom and I made sand angles they looked ok but not quite like snow angles.
We have also been to Los Cruces, El Paso, White Sands, and a few places around here over the last month.
We have had a drop of snow, cold, it did get down to twenty one night, most of the days have been very nice, just seems like a late fall day, we love it.
The branch has grown alittle with a RM. but we will be losing some as they are getting ready to go on a mission and others, will be going to other colleges next Jan. We take it as it comes and enjoy the kids when they are here.
I hardly know what to write as one day seems to melt into another any more. Here some pictures, otherwise.
This is a somewhat large Yacca plant we found.
Love dad

Well it is Oct. now we have some of the leaves changing the weather is turning football is being played, clouds have been red, life is great.
We harvested our garden this last week. One plastic bag of potato's, some peppers, squash, tomato's, onion, and carrots. Won't grow underground stuff it doesn't grow and what does has lots of bugs.
We have lots of cactus on the place so I decided to just cut it down and skin it. it's pretty dangerous and easy to stalk except when the wind is blowing the limps start to jump around and I have to be quick to keep from getting stuck, lot's of fun though.
I got to talk to a man yesterday that had at the age of sixteen joined the army to fight in WW II he had a lot of good stories to tell of how they had to melt out the enemy as they were in the great white north. He was from Kansas I think I had been through his town when we used to visit my grandparents in KC MO. He also fought in the Korean conflict said it was colder there than Alaska I don't know.
As I got ready to leave he looked at me and said he was Mormon too joined in 58 hadn't been active for along time. I asked him if he would like some one to stop by and talk about that and he said yes he would.
Ya never know who, or where you might meet someone so it is best to be good and not have to say your sorry for not being good.
Love Dad

Two more days and it will be Oct. It is hard to believe that this is going by so quick. The weather is feeling like fall and the temp has dropped some but it is not cold it is barely cool in the mornings when we walk.
Sis Lowery is running most of two miles how and I can walk again I am doing two to two and a quarter in thirty to thirty five min. so I think that is pretty good for someone as old as we are.
We went to a state park Sat. It is a place that would be good in the winter but a very hot one any other time. the formations are made from old lava flows the same that made the copper deposits and places like the cat walk that I pictured here before.
we also went to a town celebration it was small but alot of people were there.
We have been low on people at church though we have had many come just at different day's.
we went to the college's football game they lost to a team from Colorado it was kind of fun to see a game live maybe we can get to the high school game. More people attend them than any others I can see why.
Also this old fort had a celebration it would have been a great place to have a Dutch Oven contest maybe we can get one going for next year.

See ya'll in a minute
Dad

September the 20th 36 years and one

Can anyone remember what was going on a year ago today? I guess maybe not. Thirty six years ago it was a wild and windy day for Sis Lowery and I. It is hard to believe that we have been married for thirty six years. I can still remember being thirty six and all those young kids we had.
I wish I had some of the pictures from that time I would post them and then you would all make rude comments about how graceful we had aged.
It is great that we get to share this date with Lesa and Gavin and wish them happy anniversary and next year we can celebrate together along with the rest of the family.
The weather here is really crazy with the rains turning everthing green it seems just like spring with the cooler temps. The deer are still in the velvet and we have four bucks on the property some time each day. We had a deer roast that we cooked for the Elders last Friday along with potato's and corn bread and home made gravy it was pretty good even Sis Lowery liked it.
We are happy and things are going well.
Love Mom and Dad

well it has almost been a month. We had a melt down with the computor last month and did a factory restore. I almost deceided not to even post another blog as that experenince was very tramatic for me. We can hardly believe that another month has gone by and today is the openning of dove season up home. Some of the archery hunts have openned up down here and look what I found in the back yard. this buck was with two others and they hardly cared if we were there or not.

Life has been fine our garden has been producing alot of tomato's and even more squrriels. I think next year we will do the upside down tomato's so the wild life doesn't get it.

Alot of the memebers have returned to the out of town schools, we are trying to help incourage some of the members here who haven't been out to stop by and visit so they might feel like they can attend church and activities with us.

We have done another peach cobbler evening with one of the wards here and one with the college so I can still even after one month layoff I remembered how.
See ya later
Elder Lowery

storms

Yesterday evening we had quite a outdoor show. There were different storm cells across the sky with alot of lighting. Some rain would fall and when it did it was very heavy but one could go a couple of blocks and it be bone dry. One of the members own a ranch to the south of town and as we watched the lighting we realized that there was some also we texted them they said that the fire was on their ranch and they were fighting it. The crew of fire fighters that were up the canyon mopping up a fire there came down and a couple of different volunteer deptments came to help fight the fire when another storm cell came by and put the fire out I am not sure how much burned but it is very dry here and rain is really needed.
We are grateful to be here and are glad that we have had this opportunity to serve. I know it's because so many of you have given your support and our children have taken on so much of the responsiblities that were ours.
Love you all
Dad

July is gone

We have had a great time this month. We have had three activities with the YSA this month one camping, one temple, oh we are going to the cat walk tomorrow which is August not July. I had fun
trapping the rodents of the area. Cutting down jumping cactus to carve into music batons finding I don't like the needles from them stuck in my paw, had more variety in the humming birds that came to the feeder, trapped more rodents, saw deer just outside the fence wondering how the corn would taste, fawns, trapped more rodents, picked squash, ate some cheery tomatoes , waiting for the large tomatoes, had a strawberry, watched lighting, dodged waterfalls from the sky,almost burn out new breaks coming down a steep canyon, saw an old building come down on campus and another one start up, had students graduate, new students come, friendships start between, gasp, young men and young women, finished a mission Prep class, an institute class, and have two of the members, leave on mission's. Well in August they will. Fixed some electrical problem's for a couple of members cooked dutch oven meals, fixed rusted dutch ovens, read books, listened to cd's teaching us how to teach, went to a twenty fourth of July celebration in Demming and that donesn't include all that Mom has done.
Love Dad

Squirrel's, roads, and fun

Tomorrow is the twenty fourth we should be in the monsoon season we get lots of clouds and thunder and little rain. We did get a couple of showers and things started to flood so I don't know just what would it would be like with a couple of hours of rain.
I have been having fun trapping critters in the garden. we have as of today six squirrel, mice, one kangaroo rat, bugs, and we could catch rabbits if we opened the gate. The deer have yet to jump the fence and eat the corn.
We went to Mongollon Wednesday cause the cleaners came around one made us leave. Mongollon Pronounced " Mogeeon" it is an old mining town in a narrow canyon a baseball could be thrown from one house to the other with no trouble at all. It is also at the bottom of a steep climb in and out being mostly a one lane road and when it rains it cause's rock slides on the road , we almost burned out our brakes coming out, but finally the lower gears were engaged the speed limit was fifteen mph. and that was fast.
We have been live trapping and yesterday we had hauled that squirrel out of town. when we let him go he took off running not just to the trees, or the next set of trees, not even just to the dry creek bed which was a block away, but to our knowledge he is still running, man did we laugh. Here he had been living off the lowery garden and next he was in the hot dessert wild's. Too fun.
Till later Love Dad
Cool old car.

Here are some pictures from the last while

Well Sara sent us our new ac adapter so we could use the computer again thank you Sara.
We have had some great times. On the fourth we cooked dutch oven for the Stake at their booth we cooked around 16-18 pots of peach cobbler I how can say I know how to cook peach cobbler.
Our garden is looking good and if the squirrels would leave the tomatoes alone along with the rest we would be eating ripe tomatoes. Last Friday and Sat. we were on a campout with the branch which was alot of fun. Sis Lowery and I forgot the peaches, the cheese and something else but I forget. Oh it was the runny stuff for pancakes. One of the kids locked their keys in the car it was only a three hour drive to get a spare set.
We have had hot day and some real stormy one I like the stormy ones best. There are a couple of forrest fires burning, I don't know how this whole place doesn't burn.
Fourth fire works were pretty good. The neighborhood ones were the best compaired to the citys. I would be worried about setting the world on fire but these people aren't.
Sat. we got home and after unloading the car the front tire went flat. We went to get a tire ended up with two, new brakes, and two new front axles. Glad we didn't run out of gas.
We also have a new humming bird called a ruffus it is a bright yellow, orange color and runs off the other birds. We are also walking two miles a day on the track. Sherry gets another half mile in cause she runs some. My knee is still not up to running but it is getting better.

we also have had a couple of good lighting storms

Love you all Dad

surpise

We had a good rain storm yesterday for twenty minutes or so but it came down hard and water started running everwhere can't wait till the rainy season.
We did have a bit of a surprise when we got to the institute today a tarantula was on the wall by the door and boy did mom jump when she saw it.
I have been waiting all week to spray weeds and held off cause the forcast was for rain. Well yesterday I did spray and three hours later it was pouring. I don't think anything died darn it.
As you can see we are also having the desert bloom pretty but don't get to close when trying to smell it. besides they mostly stink.
Love dad

Saturday

Saturday we went for a drive to Arizona to Thatcher where they are building the new Temple I guess the place is really Central we drove over the burrow mountains with very winding slow turns and came back on the road to Lordsburg which was alot faster. It was a nice drive but hot and we were glad to get back to Silver City.
Not much else to report on this week.
The wooden building I think is a Stake house the other I think is the temple but I am not sure . Jacobsen is the general and we have done a few jobs with them. the sign said visitors welcome but the gate said stay out I would have gone in if I knew the forman.
Talk to you all later

wedding

Well it is a short time we got to be home. It seems surreal to be back in Avon for a so short of time with the sky being gray and rain falling. Everthing was so green and very cool must of been in the forty's. We even started a fire in the wood stove and turned on the furnace one morning.
We had a great time seeing friends, relatives, and our kids. It was fun to see Sara and Cordell get married. I think you will agree.
We are glad to be back to Silver City for now it does seem like home and where we should be and we would like to have all you here with us then this would be perfect.

End of May.
Mom and I went for a ride last Sat. we traveled from Silver City up the Membres valley to the Junction with the road to the cliff dwellings. We stopped at Lake Roberts it is a small lake with bass and trout the water has lots of weeds and looks a lot like mud Lake. there were alot of people fishing. a funny thing happened while we were there a couple from El Paso came with a small boat and new trailer. They had been getting their boat to the lake in the back of the truck. Two weeks ago they bought a trailer. well after backing in the wife was holding on to the rope and the husband started to pull the trailer out so far so good except you have to get the boat all the way off the trailer if you want to keep the boat in the water. Luckly someone stopped the husband before it got too far down the road. I usally just sank the boat instead.
We stopped for lunch which turnout to be breakfast instead at a place that had humming birds all over the place. It looked just like home. we didn't take one picture at the restraunt.
We also have more tomatoes growning we also have a bunny that now knows where everything in the garden is.
See you in a minute
Love Dad

Blues Festival

Here it is the last of May and again Silver City is having another event. The Blues Festival has quite the following with bikers, hippies, (old ones), young and old a like taking part of the Friday through Sunday activities. A large gathering took place each day and the music was pretty good. Sis Lowery said she could listen to it better than Nate King Cole. Well it was pretty good.
WE also went for a ride Sat out to a place called the City of the Rocks which is alot smaller than the one in Idaho. We also went on around to a valley called the Minbres Valley and it had green trees, cotton woods, Pine, and Juniper the stream didn't have much water but the under ground had to be very shallow to have as much greenery as was there.
We took a couple of shots of the Harleys , Rocks, and the closed mine it is interesting what the mind looks like.
Our garden is still coming along with potatos growning and the tomatos having blooms I hope we get some fruit soon.
We also had some good T-stroms and the water gets runing quick down the streets. Cant wait till the Monsoon season.
Love Dad

Garden?

Thought I would show a little of our Garden. We have planted a couple of times cause the birds think we are providing a meal for them. It wouldn't be so bad but they only pull out the shoot nibble on it and not even eat the seed.
WE have learned that plants that are started don't get eaten at least by the birds I think maybe the bunnies and deer will take care of that latter.
It gives me something to do at six am and then at night to see how everthing is going.
Really I don't get up till 6:15.
We are having a great week. the College is done today. The High school is done Sunday. The new Kids are coming on Sunday and we will have a ball.
We had transfers Wed. and Lost Elder Christensen and got Elder Jones. What fun we have.
Love You All
Dad

Closed Mile

Yesterday being Sat. our P-day we went to the races all day plus shopping and baking getting ready for Sunday as we have invited all the graduating seniors from the three wards and two branches to attend today this being Sunday.
Yesterday we watched the different races from different places around the course and this by far is the best for spectators to see more than a small glimps of the race. We don't know who won Levi and Lance were up towards the front when on the second to last lap there was a wreck on the second turn one of the Mellow Yellow Johnny riders went down with a group of others and Armstrong about stopped on stop of the hill by us to see what had happened then on the last lap it happened again on the same spot with one rider really getting his knee hurt when we saw it it had already turned black and blue and had alot of blood still on the leg. He did get up and was able to walk. I don't remember which team he was riding for he was dressed in green.
Well I better get going.
Love Dad

I did take about Five hundred pictures. Mom Took some Video