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