Blast from the distant past and the not-so-distant past

This is a picture of the original LV chapel. I don't ever remember it looking like this. Do you? And this picture is the preface to the two following pictures, below. Yesterday at my PPI, the bishop gave me the two following photographs.

This is a picture of the then-living bishops of LV and their wives, taken in 1989. My parents are seated on the far left. I won't identify the rest--either you know them and therefore recognize them or you don't know them and consequently don't recognize them. Of the 17 people pictured here, nine have passed on.

This is the photograph of the then-living bishops (1989). What a great photo. My dad is on the front row with the cane. Of the nine men pictured here, six have passed on. Of the bishops of the LV ward up to that point (1989), only three are missing from this photograph: M. Wilson, L. Iverson, and V. Church.

08.27.09

Well, I did get some things done the other day, so my premonition was wrong. Today, I have cut out five of the seven pajama pants and I've been a nurse to J who is ill. I don't know where August has gone.

8.24.09

I feel I've been ignoring this blog although not on purpose.

I made one batch of peach raspberry jam today and helped Bryan with some . . . peach topping. Tomorrow, I plan to make one batch of peach strawberry jam. Now that I type out that sentence, it feels doomed; it feels like "famous last words"--something that will not happen. Today was a nice, otherwise unencumbered day for projects. I spent time cutting out almost all the paper patterns for some pajama pants I'm going to make. After I finish that task, I need to cut the pajama pants--all seven of them--out of the fabric--and then start sewing like crazy. The pinning and cutting out always feel like they take longer than the sewing. I think it is because I enjoy the sewing and I am not as enthusiastic about the pinning and cutting but it is necessary and I'm glad to do it.

We made tie-dyed T-shirts for Family Home Evening tonight. I've had the "fixin's" for about six weeks, just waiting for a Monday when we were all at home. The kits were from Wal-mart and the instructions say to let the shirts sit for 6-8 hours. So sometime tomorrow, we'll unbundle the shirts, and wash them. It will be interesting to see how all the shirts turn out. I don't know if the boys will actually wear their shirts (maybe as pajama tops?) but L and I will enjoy ours. L even tie-dyed some white footies and J tie-dyed another white T-shirt that he happened to have. He said he might be a hippie for Halloween! Well, he'd definitely have the shirt for it. Maybe we could all be hippies for Halloween! Groovy, man!