WHAT MADE ME.......ME.

 

MY BEGINNINGS.......

RICHARD HORACE YEOMANS......MY FATHER......WAS TALL DARK AND HANDSOME....AND I LOVED HIM DEARLY.

DADDY WAS BORN IN PRESCOTT, AZ........HE WAS THIRD IN A FAMILY OF 8......4 BOYS AND 4 GIRLS.  HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL....WHEN HE GRADUATED HE WENT TO DENVER.....WHERE HIS SISTERS LIVED......TO GET A JOB.  HE GOT A JOB WITH "BELL TELEPHONE CO." AS A LINE MAN BUT SOON WAS MADE FOREMAN OF HIS CREW.....THEY WERE PUTTING IN PHONE LINES DOWN TO THE FOUR CORNERS AREA.......THAT IS WHY HE WAS DOWN IN MOTHER'S AREA OF COLORADO.....SHE LIVED IN MANCOS CO.  DADDY'S FAMILY WERE METHODISTS.              

HAZEL MARIE GOFF........MY MOTHER.......WAS THE PERFECT MOTHER FOR ME.....PRETTY, KIND, TALENTED, LOVED UNCONDITIONAL EVERY ONE.

MOTHER WAS BORN IN CARTHAGE,MO......SHE WAS THE FOURTH IN A FAMILY OF 6.....4 BOYS 2 GIRLS.  SHE CAME FROM A MUSICAL FAMILY.....LOVED TO PLAY THE PIANO.  SHE AND HER FOUR BROTHERS HAD A BAND IN HIGHSCHOOL...   MY DAD LOVED TO DANCE AND WOULD GO TO DANCES IN THE AREA ON WEEKENDS......AND MET MOM.  SHE WAS A SENIOR THEN.......WHEN SHE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL.....SHE WENT BTO CALIFORNIA WHERE HER SISTER LIVED  WITH HER FAMILY.  IGUESS DADDY MISSED HER AND ASKED HER TO COME BACK AND MARRY HIM.....AND SHE DID!   BEFORE MY GRANDPARENTS LEFT CARTHAGE.....MY GRANDMA AND HER FOUR CHILDREN JOINED THE LDS RELIGION.......MY GRANDPA DID NOT JOIN THEN.......BUT DID JOIN EVENTUALLY AND EVEN BECAME A BISHOP.  MY GRANDPARENTS FIRST MOVED TO CORTEZ, COLO....BUT LATER MOVED TO MANCOS WHERE THE FAMILY GREW UP.

OCTOBER ALREADY........

LONG AGO.....THIS LADY AND I LOVED OCTOBER......ONE OF THE BEST TRAVELING MONTHS....NOW MY KIDS ARE DOING IT.....YESTERDAY WAS NICCI'S BIRTHDAY .....AND SCOTTIES IS NEXT.  KARRIE IS IN BOSTON WITH A FRIEND ON A DRIVING TRIP AND FRIDAY -PAM AND SHERRIE TAKE OFF ON A CRUISE.......I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER TO STRUGGLE THROUGH AND LEARN.....SO BE PATIENT.

 

ANOTHER CUTE DOG...

This is HUGO ........THE HAVANESE!

Hugo is Nicci's new puppy.....They had to put Ollie down and Tucker needed a dog......This brand of dog originated in Havana......too bad they don't stay little an cuddley....My family and their dogs!....All the kids have one or two and it has rubbed off on the grand kids....who all love their dogs.....Tiff had to put Captain down and they got Aaron a big lab that is five years old...a rescue dog named Marlin....my family just keeps growing.......And then Pam's new baby....Myzeka......which her other little Bree is not too happy about.

 

WHAT MADE ME .....ME.

ON THIS SATURDAY......5TH OF NOVEMBER 2022....I HAVE DECIDED I T IS TIME TO WRITE SOME OF MY LIFE EXPERIENCES.......THESE PEOPLE ARE WHERE I BEGAN.

MY FATHER WAS BORN IN PRESCOTT, AZ. WHEN HE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL HE WENT TO DENVER WHERE HIS TWO BIG SISTERS WERE.  DAD WAS FROM A FAMILY OF 8.....4 BOYS AND 4 GIRLS......HE WAS NUMBER 3 IN THE FAMILY.   HE WENT TO WORK FOR THE "BELL TELEPHONE CO".....AS A LINEMAN.  SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS MADE FOREMAN OF HIS CREW.   THEY WERE PUTTING IN TELEPHONE LINE DOWN TO THE FOUR CORNERS AREA......WHICH MEANT A LOT OF MOVING.....BUT THAT IS HOW HE ENDED UP IN MOM'S AREA.

MOM WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL.  SHE WAS A MUSITION......SHE AND HER 4 BROTHERS HAD A BAND.......MOM WAS FROM A FAMILY OF 6.....4 BOYS AND 2 GIRLS....SHE WAS NUMBER 4  SHE WAS BORN IN CARTHAGE, MO....THIS IS WHERE HER MOTHER AND THE FIRST FOUR KIDS WERE CONVERTED TO THE LDS CHURCH......MY GRANDPA JOINED LATER ANDF BECAME A BISHOP.....THEY MOVED TO COLORADO....GRANDPAS FATHER WAS THERE,.

DADDY LIKED TO DANCE AND SO THE TWO MET.  .....WHEN MOM GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL SHE WENT TO LA TO VISIT HER SISTERS FAMILY.....I GUESS THEY MISSED EACH OTHER AND HE ASK HER TO MARRY HIM AND THATS HOW IT ALL BEGAN.....

I remember that once upon a time......Labor Day meant school would start soon.....now days school starts a week or two before Labor Day in some areas!...It was new shoes.....and a Big Chief tablet.....a box of new crayons and a new pencil with an eraser.....no back packs?  I always liked school and had lots of friends.....I don't remember  Labor Day being a day we celebrated.....

 

THE LATEST....IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

Hilda seems very depressed.....worried about her.

Ivan recooperating from a colon operation.....and is at a care center......poor Gay getting worn out commuting,,,,Suzanne is struggling with her knee replacement....and  had to have it broken again and she hurts all the time.....and my next door neighbor Mark came down with Covid..... So they have been in quarentine all week.....My arthritis is the same.....I guess you can tell it is a bunch of old people here....And the bad news on TV just keeps getting worse day by day......wish somene would do something with Biden and Putin!!!!

I wish we had a "MR ROGERS"......to cheer up our neighborhood........

 

SEPTEMBER......

I guess my summer is gone......and Labor Day arrives tomorrow!  Spending a nice quiet holiday

at home....alone.  Yesterday I tended Panniers two dogs and they ran off to Wendover for the night.......the new puppy is cute but a handful.....just convinces me I am not up to dogs at 90......Been hanging out at home with our 102 degree temperature ever day....broke lots of records this summer for the heat.....

I did go over to Karrie's Friday and had lunch with her....and two great grandkids.....Lilly and Isla. They really are cute kids when you get to know them....and their parents are not around......

Sherrie finally got her pool in and said Olivia loves it......Brayden and Libby were setting up their tent in Sherrie's back yard to camp out for the night.....and enjoy the pool!......My idea of camping......close to a bathroom......

 

NEW BABY.....

This is my 7th great-grandchild ......in December?

Congratulations Richi and Anna......a girl.

It is really apretty picture......but in my day.....you would die before you showed your bare pg stomach! And my poor grandma Goff would not even say pregnant.....it was always....."they were that way"........boy have times changed......but I guess it is what it is!