Monday Memory Moment

 

I don't recall ever being overly attached to any of my stuffed animals. When I say overly attached I am thinking Linus style. Yet, There are some I currently feel I cannot yet depart with.

 

 

Meet Mickey...I know really original.  What can I say? I was only a wee lass. In fact, it is my understanding that I have had this poor mouse since before I was one year of age.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't recall ever naming my sock monkey. I remember having him when we still lived in Emmett. So, at least since before I was 5. However, I don't recall who gave him to mee.

 

 

 

 

 

This is Sister Duck. I got her from my mom for my twelve birthday.  She has a pocket on her back. It is suppose to be for p-js. I might have used it for them. She also came in really handy for hiding small objects as part of a  primary lesson.

 

 

 

This is Calvin. I got him for my 16th birthday. He got the middle name of the boy I liked at the time. I know, very infatuated girl of mee. Now that I am writing this I am not positive which friend gave him to mee.

Monday Memory Moment

This week everyone is talking about going to back to school. Mountain Home students, as well as college students returned to campus today.

I, on the other hand have the week off. It is my official summer vacation. So far, I am in the process of doing nothing. I don't believe that will last very long. I tend to prefer keeping busy.

As a child I remember spending a lot of time out side. We would play in the irrigation ditches or find other means of keeping cool.

The summer I turned 16 was the beginning of working summers for mee. That summer I babysat. By the next summer I was working at McDonalds. The following summer I was working at Godfather's Pizza and giving away free food samples at Albertson's. Of all the random summer jobs I have had there is one I will take with mee always.

During my junior year of college I became friends with Jeremy and his twin Jesse. Somehow an interesting fact came up. Their dad had the contract for the finishing carpentry work on the Spokane Washington Temple.

I asked Jeremy if he thought his dad would let me work with them. Jeremy said I needed to call and ask him. That was all it took, I had to ask myself. $6.50 plus room and board, I had a jod for the summer.

I once had someone tell mee I did get paid enough. It wasn't about the money. It was about the job. I got to help build a temple to the Most High God.

Prior to the dedication of the Spokane Washington Temple the Pullman Washington Stake was in the Seattle Washington Temple District. It was a 6 hour trip. I remember some of those trips well.

After the Friday Night Activity we piled on a bus about midnight. I believe we would get to the temple around 6 or 6:30 am. We would them complete one or two sessions, eat, and head home. We would get to Moscow again about 6pm Saturday night.

With the dedication of the Spokane Washington Temple our trips only took 6 hours. One and a half hours there, session, food, one and a half hours back.

What a blessing the temple is to the Intermountain Northwest. And I helped build it.

what a geek...

Yeah, it's mee, I'm the geek. I like having things spirally bound. It is so nice to have books that you can lay flat, or open all the way.

A couple of months ago I bought a coil binding machine. I have been using to bind whatever I want to.

I have used it to make resources more useable.

And to keep my most read books from falling apart.

Monday Memory Moment

The desk was build in 1999. Sometime after my mission (2004-05) I decided I needed more. I had an idea in my head as to how I could build shelves to go above the desk. The idea was to have a space for my monitor and shelves around.

 

 

 

Again, with the added wisdom of my father I was able to accomplish a better product than by myself. We were actually able to use a shelving board that was already on hand.

 

 

 

Now that I have a laptop the monitor space works well for storing my sewing machine. And with the same brown paint I now have a new addition to my living room.