Bob's Birthday

It snowed for a few hours in the morning, but in the afternoon the snow vanished.
The power went off for a half hour.
The birthday cake was a flop.
On the other hand we went out to the keg for supper and enjoyed a great meal.

Bob on his Birthday

Baines Boys in Lethbridge

On the evening of the 21st March, Nathan and Tara dropped off the five boys and headed back to Calgary.  The boys were here until Saturday the 29th March when Nathan and Tara came and picked them up.  It turned out to be a very cold snowy week, so they didn't go outside too often.

Ready to go to the Park

Julie, Kennedy and Mickey dropped in on Friday.

Darryl and Carter also dropped in that day.

Before the boys left Saturday evening we went to The New Dynasty for supper.

Other things that went on in the last while were the Relief Society Anniversary party on March 19th and club on the 27th.  We had two institute classes.  Liam took my place at the second one.  Bob did some home teaching.

Last night we went to Taber for Taylor's band concert.  The band she is in played very well.  They had the Heebee Jeebees as guests at the concert and they were hilarious. 

One Week with No Snow on the Ground

After enjoying one week with no snow on the ground and dry pavement to drive on we woke up this morning to a covering of snow.  However much of the snow disappeared after a few hours..

 

The boil water order was rescinded Friday afternoon, so we no longer have to wash our dishes the way we did in China.  (Tap water heated with boiling water and bleach added).

On Saturday we drove to Hanna for dinner with my brothers and sister and my aunt Elsie.  We stayed overnight and went on to Calgary on Sunday and visited with Nathan, Jeremy and Edward and families.

Monday afternoon we arrived back in Lethbridge.  We went to Family Home Evening at Eric and Rita Peterson's home.

Back to normal at our house now.

March Winds

Freezing temperatures and snow lingered until last Saturday.  Then the temperature rose and the snow was totally melted by Monday.  The wind howled last night.  It was warm until this morning and although it is still above freezing, there are a few snowflakes in the air.

The bad news about the fast melt is that the city water system couldn't keep up with purifying the water.  Now we are under a boil water advisory and are asked to conserve water by not using car washes, washing machines and dishwashers as well as not taking long showers.  The bottled water in Lethbridge was sold out yesterday.

We have some emergency water storage - a few bottles of water and some containers full of water - a two week supply of water for two people.

Our Emergency Water Supply

 Not much has been going on here.  We drove to Cardston in freezing weather on March 1st for our ward temple day.  Not many ward members turned out.  (I really don't blame people. It was just about the coldest day of the year.   In fact the night before I told Bob we would be crazy to drive in that weather.)

On Thursday the 6th we watched Taylor play her last league game for the basketball season.

Sue-anne dropped in for a few minutes on Tuesday.

I found daylight saving time hard to adjust to this year.  I was too tired to do anything the first three days.  Yesterday was better.

Such is our life.  It is great to be able to drive on dry pavement.

Minus Thirty

Well we have had some thirty below weather, and although it has been some warmer yesterday and today it is supposed to go back down for the week-end.  It has also snowed a few times - nothing major.  Bob has done the shoveling this past week, so he is back to normal.   March will come in like a lion, so hopefully it will improve after that.

We had two welcome unexpected visits last week - Courtney and Devin came on Monday and Wendy and children came on Thursday.  We certainly enjoyed their visits.

My visiting teachers also came last week and home teachers came this week.

We went to Raymond a week ago Monday and had Family Home Evening at Evans.

I did visiting teaching this week and Bob did home teaching.  We also had our Thursday evening institute class - only two people showed up.  Maybe more will come this week?

Last night I went to Lorraine Boehme's for club and we had an enjoyable evening.

Wendy, Whitley & Brennan

Two More Weeks Gone By

The week of February 2nd to 8th was rather ordinary until Thursday February 6th when the olympics started.  I managed to watch some skating in between watching sessions of Roots Tech that week-end.

We were happy on Wednesday when the temperature rose to above freezing.  There had been a lot of cold weather up until then.  A lot  of our snow disappeared.

This week I watched skating until Thursday at noon when Tara and four of the boys arrived. (Nathan and Liam were at winter deacons camp.)  It was great to have them here.  Sue-anne came in to visit on Thursday afternoon. They had a very short stay and left after lunch on Friday.

Friday evening we went to Coaldale to watch Taylor play basketball.  The Taber team won easily.

Today is back to normal.  Seems very quiet.

Park on the Green Strip

Taylor

 

February and Snow

Last week-end we watched Langley play three basketball games at the Chinook High School.  In between we attended Fontella Boehme's funeral. 

On Monday I went to Moxie's for lunch with the club ladies.

Bob has been getting out more.  We went to the Temple on Wednesday.  The roads were dry until we turned off the highway into Cardston.  It was snowing and snowed more the closer we got to the Temple.  It snowed all the way home.  I had to shovel the walks again on Thursday.

Friday we went to the West Stake Centre for supper and to watch the J. Reuben Clark broadcast.  Bruce C. Hafen was the speaker and he did a great job.  He spoke about the balance between individual rights and society's needs and put the emphasis on marriage.

Today we went to Magrath to see Erica in the Vertigo Drum Corp.