Every year at this time of year the dilemma of how to prune the fruit trees comes upon my husband and I. It’s always been my husbands job, not exactly officially, but he’s always been the one to haul the ladder out, climb up to the top of the trees with the loppers and prune… Continue Reading
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Especially for You
And now presenting . . . Especially for you . . . A few moments of humor, enlightenment and inspiration. You have a few minutes, sit back and relax and let the kids run wild for a bit. Let’s do humor first – everyone needs a good laugh at least one a day. Feel free… Continue Reading
The VIEW from the GARDEN . . .
After one week of scattered sunshine and above average temperatures for this time of year in my community; my garden is free from snow! I can see the dirt, lying there, with almost an anxious look about it, awaiting the tiller and fertilizer which are always first on the list to get the spring gardening… Continue Reading
Rebuke the Devourer
I was reminded recently in a Relief Society Stake Enrichment of one of my favorite scriptures from Malachi 3:10-11. 10 Bring ye all the atithes into the storehouse, that there may be bmeat in mine house, and cprove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not dopen you the ewindows of… Continue Reading
What to do . . . When you’ve got the FLU!
(or even just a bad cold!) Because I am an RN professionally, people always think I know just what to do in every medical situation. Most the time, I’m pretty good. Usually my mothering instincts and RN education can assist me through most illness / accident situations. The exception always seems to be when it’s… Continue Reading
Getting Along in the Garden
Well, there’s still between 6 inches and two feet of snow still piled on my garden, depending on which way the snow drifts on any particular day. But I’m getting antsy to get the season going here. I mean the sun does come out and actually shine for hours every week where I live these… Continue Reading
Personal Study in a Digital Age
Just wanted to share one of my newest discoveries and current favorite digital resource. If you are similar to me in that you find yourself frequently at the computer, there are sometimes when it is so much easier for me to do my Book of Mormon personal study when I have a reminder and the… Continue Reading
One HEART in the Right Place . . .
February is certainly a perfect month to be sure we have “a heart in the right place“. Meaning a healthy heart, in all ways, both physically and spiritually. Just as we wouldn’t want a “heart attack” to creep up on us through undiagnosed hypertension, or high cholesterol. We wouldn’t want a spiritual “heart attack” either,… Continue Reading
New Temple Dedicated in Draper, Utah
Living just over the mountain from the new Draper Utah Temple, we have been watching the construction one step at a time from the groundbreaking in July 2006 to the hoisting of the majestic, gold leafed Angel Moroni in July of 2008. I stayed up until midnight the night before reservations were available online so… Continue Reading
A Mighty Change of HEART . . .
There are only a few more weeks until Valentines Day! The widely proclaimed holiday of love and all things pertaining to love. It’s really time to get those hearts in shape. Is your heart currently in need of a makeover? In a previously published article “Where Your Heart Is . . . “ we examined… Continue Reading