It's Tuesday and the weather is warm around 65 today it was 45 at 7 am we are grateful for the nice temperatures. We received a very nice gift yesterday evening we got a table Mom took a picture of me since all the others had been of her this is after our walk this morning. We have cleaned both sides of the road for twenty minutes each way whatever that works out to in miles with all the stopping to pickup the trash. It is good exercise for us.
We have still seen deer in the yard and more birds are starting to turn up. The branch Pres. said the fruit trees are starting to bud which is not good as a frost comes in late March or April.
We have enjoyed the Branch and the things we have gotten to do with them. At the campout the wind blew hard enough that it all but lifted the tent we were in off the ground most of the kids and some of the leaders thought it was cold but really it wasn't too bad low thirty's and warm fifty.

I guess the kids didn't find it funny that they made me strong I just love them all.
We have had fun walking almost every morning and started to clean up along the road side we carry a couple of bags one just for trash and one for recycle and we have filled up both bags everyday so far.
We also get to wave at alot of people everyday some we are getting to recognize and they seem to be happy to wave back. The people here seem to be very friendly and take pride in their area.
We have been going to the old part of town and walking through some of the Antique stores most of it looks geared to the tourist trade, We did find a gelato shop in historic down town pretty good treat. We tried a vanilla with chocolate and a Rasberry flavor. Next time it will be peach. We are going camping tonight with the branch and are so thankful that the temperature has warmed up to almost 60 and the night to 30 so we think we can survive it.

last night the wind blew and I fully expected to have a big storm today well it sure is nice and warm again high clouds but the sun is seeing the ground.
This week is the first week that the miners won't have any paid checks and many of the people here are getting very worried. We had a Adult Inst. class today and met some very wonderful people one young lady and served a mission in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s and one of the teachers here has a son that served in South Africa is it a small world or what.
We are still camping out in our house with camp chairs no table but its fun kind of like when we were first married. We often take for granted the things that make life easier like potato peelers bowls to mix in, spices, dutch ovens well you get the idea.
Well the things that don't kill you only make you stronger. I should be as strong as Sampson.









(picture in reference to last two sentences haha! :) )

around silver city

It's monday and we have bright skies warm 60 deg temp. we had a good day on Sunday it was good to have more of the young adults come to church and also to family home evening we hold it on sundays as so many are busy with school and work the rest of the week.
Sat Sis Lowery as she is known here and I went on a little walk about the area. we went to one of the mines that have shut down for the present time and isn't to reopen untill 2011 we also went up past a place called Pinos Altos means tall pine there was still snow on the ground kind of like it would be around late march early april up home. It is also the way to some Cliff dwelling the sign said it would take two hours to get there and it closed at four pm we went by the sign at 3:45 so we didn't go to the dwellings.
We are going to have another two Elder Missionaries asigned to SC on Wed we will be greatfull for their company we sure like the other two that are here.
Oh we also saw some javelen (wild Pigs) on our trip Sat.
Here is a picture of the mine and also of cliffs in the Gila forest
This is a copper mine once owned by Kennecott of Utah.
Love Dad

another sunny day blue skies and 60 deg really nice today.
We had a meeting with out boss today so we are finally on track to get something going.
we are going to have either a lunch and learn or an supper and learn once each week with the conference talks on tv being the learning part with a short discussion after wards.
I think I have the high speed net going again at the Inst. so I will try and post some pictures again as the other connection didn't work so well. so if this works I'll show you the first day and the first snow storm here. The second day was a bigger storm but I didn't get any pictures of it it covered the roads made it very slick till ten or eleven and shut down most of the city.
later love Dad

what in the world

Tuesday is a snowy day, school was canceled and the adult institute as called off. we had to wait till ten am to travel on the roads cause of ice. We didn't have trouble getting up the hills but some of the other cars and trucks were spinning tires.
The first class of adult institute was called off and we are here checking out what is in the kitchen and the books in the library. We are going to wait and see if any of the kids show up for lunch and we will feed them.
We also have a tv that has the byu channel and we did the work out with them ok not for long with me but Mom did well.
Drive safe love Dad.

who said it was warm here?

I have taken a couple of pictures of today and it has snow in them i will post them when i get them down loaded.
we found a place to live it is a two bedroom house on five acres of wilderness just in side of the city limits wow so we will have a place to put out the feeders in a month. we will be moving in there tomorrow.
Mom says hi Love Dad

sunday went to church at the singles branch. great people there we are looking forward to working with them they are all really nice.
It blew it rained it snowed it blew it blew and did I mention that the wind blew? It is now partly cloudy and yes the wind is still blowing.
the humming birds won't be here till it gets warmer I think that means the snow stops it did also hail a little bit.
looking forward to more comments Love Dad

we made it silver city today it is a great place we have met some of the people the stake pres and family they are great. we are looking forward to working here

travel

off we went today it seems like we have been waiting for ever to go and now we are gone pretty fun

we are off tomorrow to start life outside of the mtc it was hard to say good by to all our new friends today we will really miss them. each one has something that teaches us about the good nature of people.
It is strange how we look at things we received a call from Jer that he had been in a wreck with the van a dodge dooley truck hit him from the back pushing the floor of the van into mount Logan normally we would have thought that this was a bad thing which it was that it occured but normaly he would have been driving his little car who knows what would have happened to him. blessed are we.
may all of you be safe, well, and happy in doing good
Love Dad

here it is the second week and we are still learning lots
we have met a second Elder and Sister Lowry no I didn't misspell they just couldn't find an e for their name their son is still in the mtc and got to meet them as they arrived.
It was hard to say goodbye again this weekend we are glad to be going and doing what the Lord wants us to be doing at this time.