Wednesday, June 1, 2011 6:17:45 AM
Windermere Park, Lyle, Memorial Day, David
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After we put the flag out, we drove to La Mirada for our family get together at Windermere Park. Here's everybody, except Troy's friend who took the picture:
David had plenty to eat, including Sol's Kalua Pig--and these brownies:
And there was the horseshoes tournament:
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To me, it always seems to end too quickly.
Friday, May 27, 2011 7:15:58 AM
Joplin, tornado
This CNN video link is to an interview of the Joplin Missouri Stake President Creed Jones. The Church is not mentioned, but the stake center there was destroyed as the pictures at the bottom of the article
here show.
Here are some more photographs of the devastation and also missing people.
Monday, May 23, 2011 5:34:38 AM
LDS temples, Cove Fort, Welfare Square, Temple Square
Tuesday, Carla and I left for Utah so Carla could escort Elizabeth through the Provo temple in receiving her endowments. We got a late start and drove to Beaver, where we stayed the night at the Butch Cassidy Inn. This heavy snow greeted us Wednesday morning.
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Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:11:09 AM
budget, 16 tons
Here's one of my favorite songs as a kid: from Iowahawk. Enjoy the humor in the video as well.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:58:11 AM
Judy, Laura, race
Well, they did. Congratulations to Laura and Judy for running more than 13 miles and finishing
The Great Race today.
Friday, March 18, 2011 5:41:02 PM
Richard Wirthlin
Richard Wirthlin was the bishop of my student ward in my last year at BYU; he was a good man, and I liked him a lot.
This Los Angeles Times obituary noted his extraordinary life and recent death.
Friday, March 4, 2011 7:47:18 PM
This excellent interview of Danny Ainge explains the BYU Honor Code--up to the break in the interview, when they start talking about the Celtics, ending that with a quip about the Honor Code.
Saturday, February 5, 2011 5:41:53 AM
religious freedom, Dallin Oaks, Nauvoo blue cheese
Carla and I drove to Chapman University in Orange County today to hear this talk by Dallin Oaks, one of my professors at the University of Chicago School of Law. Here he is interviewed for the Church's website. We were also able to catch Elder Oak's post-speech interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio talk show.
Elder Oaks was a counselor in the Chicago South Stake presidency while I was a law student. He and his wife June often invited the students in the University Ward over for a Sunday afternoon dinner. One year, "President Oaks" and Joe Bentley, who was a year ahead of me, and I camped overnight in a tent in the state park in Nauvoo so Joe and Dallin could do some research at the county courthouse in Carthage. We ate dinner at a cafe in Nauvoo where they served the salad with a tasty blue-cheese dressing made right there in Nauvoo. The next day, after we had nearly given up searching, I happened to find the court records that Joe needed for his project on bankruptcy proceedings involving Joseph Smith. They were in a dusty, thin, unlabeled volume laying on its side on an upper shelf. Joe got xeroxed copies at the courthouse and gave me footnote credit in an article he later wrote for the BYU Law Review.
President Oaks was personable as a law professor; the law students liked him. At the time, he taught classes in Trusts and in Federal Estate and Gift Tax. When Carla and I visited Nauvoo with Ginger and Elliott a couple of years ago, the blue-cheese dressing was nowhere to be found. This Wikipedia entry on Nauvoo says: "In 2003 the Nauvoo Cheese company went out of business when it was purchased by a large food company and relocated to other facilities."
Thursday, December 23, 2010 7:00:35 AM
BYU-Idaho, graduation, Charles
Click on this Church link to see where Charles's graduation ceremony took place. We were also there Friday morning for the dedication of the facilities; it was so cold that morning when Carla and I left our hotel -- one degree Fahrenheit. But it warmed up into the 20's most of the rest of our stay in Rexburg.
Following the Saturday proceedings, with help from some of Charles and Laura's friends, we loaded a van and all our vehicles with their belongings. Sunday, after sacrament meeting at the Rexburg 16th Ward, along with Cleo in our Explorer, we caravaned, with Hugh and Emily in her car and Charles in the van, and delivered Ella to Kaysville, UT. There, Laura's parents and grandmother put us up for the night. Cleo had the Harry Potter spot under the stairs, and Carla and I had Barbara's comfortable guest bedroom. Laura drove up the next day.
That Monday morning, a group of local priesthood holders helped Charles unload the van. In the meantime, Carla, Cleo, and I picked up Hugh and Emily at her grandmother's house in West Jordan; stopped at John and Jenny's in Orem to exchange some gifts; and then made our way to California almost continuously with snow or rain falling, making for sometimes slippery highways.
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