I NEED PRAYER IN MY LIFE.....

I am so happy to have God in my life and know I have someone to go to when I need a little help now and then....and now it is to help our country find a vacination for the CDV-19 VIRIS......and no more Racist and tearing down our great statues of people who made America..... America.....Go ahead and scream and yell your heads off.... and march......but no more looting, burning cars and destroying our world.....and wanting to get rid of our police....What is wrong with our world.?

Ending another very quiet weekend.....Les called and had a nice time at Matt's wedding in Winslow....Sher was happy to stay home this weekend but are off to pick up a new boat in Phoenix tomorrow.  Pam called to see how I felt.   I do appreciate being checked on......Last night the door bell rang and I check to find  a sack of food from Cafe Rio on my door step.....Yea Sunday dinner from one of the kids.....I took it out of the sack and put it in the fridge....Sher called...No it wasn't from her....just then the door bell again.....there stood a young black boy and he said...."you know the food on your steps.....It was for next door....can I have it?" Sooooo...... I got it out of my fridge put it back in its sack and I guess he took it over to the lady next door with the viris?  I later was told once it was in my house.....you do not ask for it back......and I would not want food that had been in someone else's refridge! and we wonder how germs are spread?

ANOTHER DAY......

It is so hard to get up some days.....I hurt all over from arthritis and old age.....some nights are good and some are not. BUT....I never forget to thank God for one more day.....our little complex of 117  homes has been so lucky with not viris cases....UNTIL NOW!  The neighbor flew in a friend from Oklahoma to baby sit her dog while they went on vacation.....and the viris flew in with her...being the next door neighbor was ask to help her out if she needed anything....plus the neighbor on the other side of me.....We met one afternoon on my front porch.....8 ft apart....and not touching each other but no face mask....she complained of being very tired....a day or two later she another friend as she did not feel good and the news a couple of days later was..."positive"......at my age I am peranoid about being exposed.....we are now 9 days out from our meeting and I show no signs of viris...but cancelled two dr appointments and am in lock up for another week......Dr Phil says...."what you fear, you create".....so I know I have got to suck it up cupcake and get on with your life......So many things I want to do....but I hurt all the time and.......I might get the viris!!!!

FAMILY ALASKA CRUISE....

As I look back a few years I find this fun memory.....The Pannier family on an Alaska Cruise.....In this picture we were trying out the various kinds of Martinis.......My favorite was the Chocolate Martini....and I don't  drink Martinis!!!! They needed someone to be William's roommate so grammie  got called in.....and we had a ball....room service or going down to the bakery at midnight for a snack! How lucky are the people who have good and fun kids and we all had such a good time together.....the grandkids are a grammie's extended life if you raised your children to choose good mates and the generations go on!!!!  I don't drink much....but I even had a "duck fart" at the Red Garter.....you have to try everything once in life as you only go around once!  That has been my motto as I have traveled around the world and had a wonderful life...

FIRST FATHER'S DAY.....

You can tell by the happy smile that Bill is very happy on his first FATHER'S DAY outing......with Tucker.....and Nicci.  He has a darling son and he is a great father......He just got a"mullet" hair cut and I am not sure about it as he is so cute not to go so crazy......but he is cute anyway.....They are a great out-door family....and can't forget Ollie the dog.   Tucker is 10 months old and very busy..... Love you guys.

GOOD FATHER......

This Cook family went to Oregon to play golf for Richard's Father Day......Richie, Scotty and Andrea's husband Matt.....Dad even picked up the ticket....Richie is getting married the 10th of July and Scotty is off on his mission...not Brazil the 26th...........but who knows where now.....so it was a guys weekend....I love these handsome boys and hope Richie gets a hair cut before the wedding???? Richard has been a good father to these grandchildren.......

GOOD FATHERS......

Here we have two very good "FATHERS"......I am so happy to have ROBBIE and SCOTT as fathers of my 3 Pannier grandchildren and Scott as father of my first great-grandchild.......from them they have given me the best of the best.   Rob has lost so much weight I hardly know him but he is a great grandpa to Aaron.....and a great dad to Tiffany....Nicci....and Will.   They are celebrating Father's Day in Idaho fishing and doing fun family things....Love you guys......

YOU CAN CHANGE.....

I love this thought and am trying so hard to change the bad habits to eventually go through the temple.  I have so many questions......we were not raised with a lot of religion going on in our family as I grew up....I know both my parents were religion in their own way and they more or less let us children choose our own paths......I was baptised a Mormon when I was 10 by QUINN HAMMOND.....and I don't remember much else about it.  Mom was a Mormon convert when she was little and my Dad was raised in the Methodist Chruch....which I attended if I went to church at all.....then I went to BYU and had to take religion classes......the beginning of my religious training..We were taught to say our prayers and some times a blessing on the food growing up.  I think my best lesson is the eample the folks set for us and more or less I got sitting in church every Sunday does not make you a good Mormon.....you are your church ...not Sunday meetings.

MY LEADERS AND MY STRENGTH.....

When I am discouraged....which is a lot lately.....I close my eyes and ask for strength from these four folks.....I know they will see me through my problems and find a way to fix these sad days of the viris.....I have a great fear of it at my age and becoming a burden to my family....and yet staying home day after day has really been hard on me mentally....the mask and gloves and following the arrows up and down the stores are handleable......but 8 feet from anyone...not so much.  Thank you GOD for helping our Prophet keep us strong....I know I am blessed and have many things to be thankful for.

AUNT JAMIMA....

Can you believe all the crazy black people out there?  Growing up I ate many an Aunt Jamima pancake....for breakfast...lunch and even dinner sometimes....now she is being banished as a no body because of these crazy racists.......Watch out Jimmy Dean.....they will find something wrong with your sausage and your picture on the packages........The blacks should jump up and down for this famous lady and the good she brought to many peoples lives.....and I spent many an hour with my mother reading "Little Black Sambo' to me.....it's just a book and a story you crazy people!  Are you black folks eating....white bread?????

ALL READY FOR SOME FUN....

Heading for the river for some floating with the family.....Leave it to Alex to bring on the smiles...Sherrie had a house full of company this weekend and this was the intertainment for Saturday along with a picnic......

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.....

Such a good example of what many of us feel now and then.......This little pansie is definitely between a rock and a hard place.....but all it asks is a little water and sunshine.....and there it is to cheer us up.....I will think of this picture next time I feel I am stuck somewhere......just hang in there for others to enjoy.....ask god for the strength to carry on and do what god put us on earth to do!!!! YOU JUST GOTTA LOVE THIS PICTURE........

BIRTHDAYS AND BIRTHDAYS.....

This happy group......minus will and liz.....are celebrating TIFF'S and ROB'S birthdays in Idaho this weekend.....and Father's Day.  Fishing and visiting with friends they made before they sold their cabin in Island Park last year......My son-in-law ROB is 63 and my first grandchild Tiff....I am not sure??? Tiff was almost a birthday present for Rob....her birthday the 19th...Robbie's the 21st....THIS IS THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR!...Tomorrow the days start getting shorter till December 21st.....so enjoy.....It is a beautiful day in SLC today...neighbor and I sat on my patio for an hour....other wise a very quiet weekend......she was shook up as her brother-in-law in Heber just tested positive for the viris.....now two weeks in quarantine for them......I am very nervous and may just hole up in my secret garden till the vacine comes out......or till I die!  Suzanne said there were just a handfull of people at church this morning......I am worried about RICHIE'S wedding the 10th of July.....It is outside I think......

Anyway on to Happier things...Happy Birthday Tiff and Happy Birthday Rob and also Happy Father's Day....thanks for being a great father to my three grandchildren.......

HAPPY FATHERS DAY.....TO WHO?

Mixed emotions on this Father's Day......I miss my dad and the above is so true of him.  He was always there to lean on and encourage me on....then there are my girl"s dad .....who had very little to do with his three beautiful girls......and this Father's Day none of them even acknowledged they have a father as his wife has cut him off from them.....It hurts! and I hope he has a perfectly miserable day with the KMart Lady........Sherrie called this morning and wished me...Happy Fathers Day...beings I have been both mom and dad all these past years.

Dear Dad.....when you died a piece of me died too.....You were tall, dark and handsome and I loved my maiden name of Yeomans....and my DNA showed I am 99.9 % English which I love having my roots in England.....You always had fun with your girls and all my friends loved you and mom...the many times you bailed us out when a nerd ask us to dance and we said we had it....with you and you were a good dancer.  Thanks for making me me in so many ways...I love you and miss you.

FATHER'S....GRANDFATHERS....ETC.

Here is my nephew....Mike Ramsey....being a good grandfather and feeding Carlie's new baby.  He had four children and now has seven grandchildren......My husband never feed or changed our three much less any of our nine grandchildren.....good grandpa...bad grandpa????

Today Patty came over as she is feeling so bad about losing her goo friend Ruth,,,,sometimes you just have to be there for people and listen.  Then HONH AND MARK left this morning for a weeks vacation and have a friend tending Beau (the dog)....flew her in from somewhere.....so Suzanne brought her over for me to meet incase she needs one of us for something.....she knows no one and doesn't have a car.

The Pannier's and Hortons are in Idaho for Tiff and Rob's birthdays and Father's Day.....Sherrie has a house full of company for the week end a class mates family from out of town ...I think the Cooks were going to Oregan to play golf....so another very quiet weekend for me.....Oh yes, Leslie and some of her family are in Colorado at their cabin.....soooo get out your knitting and cheese and crackers and have a nice Father's Day weekend Betty!

SAD NEWS.....

FOCUS ON ME....NOT THE STORM.

In the middle of this grand-life storm........pandemics, earthquakes, racism, economic hardships and every day living....with no toilet paper.....turn your home into a refuge from these storms....a place of peace, love and comfort, safety and protection.  How lucky are we who have nice comfortable homes to hunker down in.  All we need to eat, good neighbors to support us, fairly decent health and God and family helping us through each day.

This is Father's Day weekend and I miss my sweet father so much...sometimes as I am quietly sitting and pondering ....I think I smell his cigarettes and feel he is always near by when I need him...I adored my father and have so many wonderful memories of him......I am so sad this Father's Day for my children because they basicly have no father figure in thier life.....he has chosen the KMart lady over them and they were told not to bother them by her.....No happy father's day there........They are both checked out of the hospital and at home.....I guess.

Then yesterday a dear friend......Ruth Anthony died of cancer....she has been ill for quite a while.  No one is ready to lose a dear friend.

UTAH has spiked again today with that darn viris....guess I better just stay home and be safe....I have asked God to put a white light of protection around all my family.....and help us keep the rules....and be safe.

KEEP LAUGHING.......

Laugh and the world laughs with you......cry and you cry alone......how true!

Yesterday was a busy day.....Doctor appointment in the morning....home to do chores and a quick nap before Sher,  Ashlyn and Ken came to spend the afternoon.  Then Brayden and Libby came after Brayden got off work and we all got ready and went to a wedding shower for Richie and Anna.....in a park.  They are getting married the 10th of July.  We all like Anna....she is not LDS so the wedding isn't in the temple.  Pam's family were in Idaho for Tiff's and Rob's birthday and Father's Day......so we missed them....but I think all the Cooks were there.....and a few of their friends.  Kar had it catered and the weather cooperated.  It was fun seeing everyone again after the five years hostil period.  Andrea's two little girls keep us all laughing......Scotty leaves the 26th of July on his mission...it was to be Brazil.....but I am sure that will be changed...hope so.  Then the Cooks will be empty nesters.

Sher and Dar just celebrated their 30th anniversary the 16th.

NEW TO ME.....

Everyone's complaint now days....after being in lockdown three months.....

You try to shop and the shelves are bare...everyone got $1,200.00 from the government and when the green light go came on to not "shelter in place" any longer they emptied the stores.  The last request I got was.....a reminder that my yearly physical is next  Thursday and ........would I like to do it via TV???

O.K.....I'll wear the masks and gloves and follow the arrows up down the store floors but if they think I am undressing on TV for a physical.....Think again!  How can she check that pimple on my But.........wha hoo porno? What kind of physical does not weight you....take your blood pressure and temperature.....look in your ears and nose and throat and take a gallon of blood to test for every thing? I called them back this morning and ask if they had lost their minds....and I would be in..... in person on Thursday at 11:30!!!!  I am not falling for any of that stuff.

EVER HAPPEN TO YOU?

Yes......Many mornings lately!

You hurt all night from arthritis.....turn on the news and they are still rioting all over the place.....they just dug up the two missing Idaho children in her husbands backyard.....the viris is on the up-turn in our state.....Pam's internet is not working and she had to rush down here to phone this morning and is now in the offie on a negotiation job.....poor Pam's day is about like mine.....BUT

there is always some good along with the bad....Libby and Brayden brought pizza for lunch and picked up their mail and Brayden fixed my back gate.....happy day after all......This week has flown by.  Patty and JoAnn came by the first of the week.....I shopped Wednesday,  Pam and I went to lunch yesterday and to Hobby Lobby.....today the bug man came and sprayed all around the outside which I have done every Spring andd Fall.....did my laundry and got it folded and put away and need to go to Smiths and pick up a perscription as soon as Pam finishes......so on to a quiet and nothing happening weekend!

MEMORIES OF GROWING UP......

Back in the thirties and fourties.....when I was growing up in Colorado.....a big treat......  when we went to Cortez to shop or visit relatives.....was to have lunch at woolworths!!  Seems the counters were always full and they made wonderful "hot roast beef sandwitches".....They were a childs delight.  We had no money.....but it didn't cost to look.  Then a couple of times when I stayed all night with a cousin.....we picked vegetables out of my aunts garden....put them in her wagon and took them up to the  main street to sell.  Maybe we would make a quarter a piece......then head for woolworths to spend our fortune.....beautiful ribbon a nickle a yard to tie back our hair.....a pair of anklets a dime.....were our favorite purchses.  Oh....for the good old days,  Now days you pick up your ever-lasting phone and punch in a few numbers and letters and amazon has your purchase on your door step in the morning......but i wouldn't miss out that work for......then the thrill of looking, dedcideing, and finally tucking your purchse away and knowing you earned it.......a feeling a child gets as they work themselves through life.....learning the lessons you need to mature.

PLEASE STOP THE RIOTING!

Of course you look forward to getting up every day.....but not to the same ole....same ole.  How long and much more damage are they going to do.....before someone gets smart enough to stop all this nonsense.  Yes, I say punish the cops that killed and those who just watched.....we had a funderal......they have torn up every town they can and now the democrates want to get rid of the police of the world.......THEY ARE TRULY SICK!  We pray and we pray and I guess we just have to have faith God is listening and The Viris and Riots are for a reason.

Libby and Brayden came home last night....they went to church for the first time since it was closed......Brayden goes back to work Monday and they are moving up to the Christenson's cabin in Park City for the summer.....what fun,...Lake Powell all spring now Park City for the summer....that is the life. Libby will go back to school this fall.

Had a down pour this morning.....we need the rain....and are we getting it!

DON 91.....

Don Peterson....91 years old today........

Saw  on face book where his oldest daughter warned everyone on the road between Park City and SLC to watch out for this man driving without a license he had a couple of wrecks.....we don't want anyone killed.......He won't listen and his wife is no help........she is testing positive and hope she doesn't give it to him.....anyway happy birthday.

TURNED SOCIAL.....

Gosh......dressed up three days in a row......On Sunday it was off to Hill's for Sacrament and ended up being served for lunch.....

Monday a surprise birthday party for Gay at the end of the street....fun meal and visit with some of my favorite people and today eight close nighbors and friends gave Gay a little luncheon......Wow I am worn out. Sherrie surprised me and dropped in for breakfast.....had to drive a truck back to Vernal for their car business.....then she came back by with flowers......The girls father and his wife toni and driving them crazy and now and then they just need to unload......They have all tried so hard and the bitchy wife will not cooperate ....nor her son can not be bothered.   Don is in a nice safe place that feeds him and does his washing and keeps track of his medicine.....None of the girls can tend him like that and it is being paid for by insurance.....don't know when toni will get out....still testing positive after two weeks and waiting for a back and neck operation!  They will not release him until he has a safe place to go to.  The girls are afraid he will try to drive again and kill somebody this time......I wonder if he ever regrets being such a lousy father and husband to us?

STEVE PETERSON DIES....JUNE 1

A sad day in the middle of the viris and the massive protests going on in all the big cities over the black guy who was killed by a police man......looting, throwing rocks and bottles at police and burning cars....it got bad Saturday night here and a curfew was put on the city till six Monday ......going on all over the U S.....and then word Steve died from cancer....I think melanoma...he had kept it a secret from everyone.  He had been helping the girls with don and tony.....she is still testing positive for CDV19 and waiting to be operated on.....Don  called Sherrie four times yesterday to come get him out.....Sherrie had it out with Toni I guess.
Steve was not very old when Don and I got married ........Steve and  Linda  got married when they were seniors.....I tended Alisha and Kristy when they were little and Linda tended Sherrie and Karrie. H e was 76.....with three grandkids.  He and Jim and Little Woody were Bev and Woods boys.....and my favorite of the Petersons....we love  you Steve and will miss you.