march is confussed

Hey it's the Fifty of march and we have broken cloud cover wow. We went to Las Cruces yesterday it was 85 and every hot to us had to turn on the air what a kick. and it's March.
We got to speak to the mission pres yesterday and would you believe it I went to school with him and his wife at SHS He is a year younger Wes Walker His brother is Brad and His wife is Kris Weight from Springville. Isn't that funny. As soon as I said we went to school together he about fell over.
It is funny how small the world real is. We had a four point buck in the drive way two days ago and six does and fawns yesterday this has been quite the wildlife preserve on our place.
Lots of Doves and Quial but no geese unless We go to Roswell where they are all from outerspace ha ha.
We went over Emery pass It has a narrow winding road mostly up then dooown. What a great place.
Love Dad

March is a lamb

Here it is the second of march with clear warm skies and a gentle breeze if we had water we would think we were in the Islands.
Last Sat. we looked for kites to fly cause we had some good stiff air currents but either they were too much money or just little kids kites.
Uncle Blaine and Aunt Judy said they would bring a couple of Dutch Ovens down to us as they are coming this way in the middle of March not many cook with ovens here and they cost so much here. We are looking forward to cooking for the Institute and the branch.
This morning we saw five deer on our walk two were less than 30 yards away. Yesterday we jumped two flocks of quail on the back part of the property it is alot of fun.
The locals say that we really need to have some storms and get some water but it is hard to feel bad with us being use to the northern cold winters.
For you suffering the cold come see us.

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