CHAPTER #35....AROUND THE WORLD CONT.......

Leslie and I and her friend Mary Ann took a wonderful trip to Copper Canyon Mexico.......We drove to Tucson, Arizona and got on the tour bus.  It was a fun group and we saw and did so many fun and  interesting things in the 10 days we were gone...We saw ruins, old churches and enjoyed the people at the many stops we made.  One village we were split into small groups and had a meal in the plain and sparse homes of the village people.  Learned about new vegetables and the way they cook them......most could not speak English but we got by. Then we boarded this very old train and had a beautiful ride to Copper Canyon and stayed at the fun lodge on the edge of the cliff you see here......All along the way were the interesting Indian people who are native to this area and make the most interesting baskets that they sell very cheap.....THE TAHUMARA INDIANS........They live down in the canyon and come up to do business everyday.  The children go to school all week on top of the canyon, then go home for the weekend.....so they can wash their one set of good clothes for the next week of school. Two guys (twins) had brought down several boxes of donated clothing for the children's school......so nice. We stayed in several fun villages and the rooms were always clean and the food good.   On the way back to Tucson we stopped at a Mormon settlement and saw their American school and the TEMPLE.......they have made a beautiful spot in the desert and fed us some wonderful apple pie from their apple orchards scattered around.  I would do that trip again and would recommend it to anyone who loves Mexico like I do.

WHY AM I ON FACE BOOK????

Why am I on face book?  Because thanks to my little sister Leslie and others I am seeing many relatives that I never really got to know.  For instance the top picture is of Dorothy Goff......she had two older brothers that were younger than I was but that I kinda remember.....Jim and Bob Goff, children of my mother's older brother Walter Goff and Aunt Josephine......I have lately become acquainted with one of the Goff boys daughters.....ROSE.......Jimmy's daughter......  I only remember Dolores as a baby in a high chair......Then on Dad's side I knew the Vermillion boys, who were older than I was and the Keller's who were his little sister's Betty's boys. who grew up every summer with us...... Tom and Jon.........Then I knew Aunt Jane who grew up next door to me, but only her son Bob who came to live with us......This is Aunt Jane with five kids........ three boys and two girls  Darling Bob was killed in a car wreck and I don't know where Jan is...... and I was gone from home when they were came to Mancos.

I knew I had a lot of cousins but knew very few of them.....Daddy was from a family of 8, mother a family of 7..Eidth had four boys, Richard, Robert, David and Teddy.  Helen had two boys and and a girl.....Guy, little Paul and Honey.  My DAD....Richard had Betty Ree, Joan, Dixie Lee and Leslie Ruth and Jimmy Dick....Art had three boys and a step daughter, Wallace had a son Eddie and a step daughter, Fred had the 7 kids, Aunt Betty had Tom and Jon and Aunt Francis had three girls .....I never met.....A lot of Yeoman's out there!...,and the boys so handsome......This is Aunt Jane with  Richard.......Donnie and Ronnie, Freda and Bonnie.......

Aunt Jane died this morning.....the last of the Aunts and Uncles on Dad's side.

 

MISSING YA RICH......

This is one of the greatest guys I have ever known .......and he is mine.  He is all dressed up in a new suit his grammie bought for his birthday and Christmas......a cute guy like this can't look shabby on his mission.......I just read one of the most sincere and inspiring letters he wrote home....He and I will always have a great love for Mexico. I miss him coming over and helping me with my yard.....my pond in the back yard is not working this summer and I know if he was here he would make it work for me. I am counting the days till he comes home to us....in about 6 months.....Love you Elder Richard Cook!
      Life is like gourmet cooking....The ingredients we are given are often the same as those that others receive.  It is how those ingredients are put together.....the detail, the time and the presentation......that make a difference.  Maybe some make pudding, while others may take more time and effort, present it in a fancy dish or plate, and call it something alluring, but create the same pudding with love and care. So take your life's ingredients and make fancy suflays not puddings!

GIVING THANKS......

This is easier said than done......"Never regret anything that has happened in your life".......Of course I regret some of the things that have happened in my life, and I am smart enough to know it cannot not be changed now......redone....or forgotten.  There are several people out there I would like to say :'I'm sorry To".....but have no idea where they are.......I have just tried to be grateful for their times in my life......

"It is impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you are grateful.....If you are in the middle of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.  When you find one thing, then look for another, and then another.  because every single thing you find to be grateful for changes the situation.  Gratitude is the bridge from negative feelings to harnessing the force of love!..

"IN ORDINARY LIFE WE HARDLY REALIZE THAT WE RECEIVE A GREAT DEAL  MORE THAN WE GIVE, AND THAT IT IS ONLY WITH GRATITUDE THAT LIFE BECOMES RICH."

Pam home from Idaho and Karrie on her way home from Lake Powell.......Off to do chores, tired and ready for bed early

Latest rumor.......miserable neighbors moving this week......goodbye Heather!.

YOU ARE A MAGNET......

It is pictures like this that bring out wonderful memories in your life and that you relive many times over and over......To you it is just picture....maybe you know it is Betty, Richard, Karrie and Scottie......or maybe you don't know us.  This was the 4th of July 2014.....After a fun brunch we were just bumming around hunting something fun to do and found this Mexican Flea Market......stooped to check it out.  It's a little piece of Mexico on Redwood Rd that the local Spanish people can find the things from their homeland fairly cheap.  We all bought a new sombrero for five dollars each and had a ball trying on hats......it gave us a chance to think of Richard....big brother to Scott who is on a LDS Mission in Mexico! Missing was Annie....who had to work.
     One of my favorite sayings is:....."What goes round, comes round.".....Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given."   My mother taught us that and we learned it by her example in life. The law of attraction is unfailingly giving you every single thing in your life based on what you're giving out.  You magnetize and receive the circumstances of wealth, health, relationships, your job and every single even and experience in your life, based on the thoughts and feeling you're giving out.  Give out positive thoughts and feelings about money, and you magnetize positive circumstances, people, and events that bring more money to you.  Give out negative thoughts and feelings about money and you magnetize negative circumstances, people, and events that cause you have a lack money. 
If you think and feel, "Life is really good to me,".....you will attract back to you all people, circumstances, and events, that will make life really good for you. Spending the weekend with Annie and the Dogs while the Cooks are in Lake Powell.

Happy Fourth of July........ a day late!

Happy Fourth of July a day late......Time is just passing too fast......I had a really great Fourth of July yesterday with the Cooks.....and we were missing our Missionary in the middle of the picture.....Elder Cook who is in Mexico .....so much that after brunch we found a Mexican Flea market to wonder around in.........We all bought a hat (sombrero).....and had our picture taken so Rich would know we love him and miss him.  Then off to a few rousing games of pickle ball at Grandma's and then in her pool to cool off.  The Cooks were off to the Stadium of Fire in Provo and I went out to eat with Shirley and her neighbor and then watched fire works awhile.  I was done in by then......Panniers in Idaho, Christensons at Lake Powell.

The 3rd of July was our Dominos Club Luncheon at Bonnie's and for some reason that seems to take up most the day....so no time to Journal.  Today  (the 5th) .....I slept in and am not moving to fast.   Off to Cooks at five so Annie and I can go to dinner and I will spend tonight and tomorrow night over there with Ann and the dogs......Karrie will be home from Lake Powell Monday.  Everywhere you turn this weekend families are coming together to celebrate the Independence of our great country......and the love of each other.  GOD BLESS AMERICA

JULY......SUMMER IS MOVING TO FAST.

This is so true and more and more people are quality of it in some form.......And there is one thing they forgot.......THE CLOUD....... where all our thoughts, conversations ideas go???? I am still searching for my Cloud.  What happened to reading books and talking on the telephone?  I have been reading "Secret if Power"......it has planted so many seeds to grow in my mind.

"There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe.  You are a part of this power."

The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do, or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is already inside you.  Life really is simple.  Your life is made up of only two kinds of things......positive things and negative things. You have lots of money or you don't......You are healthy or you are not......your relationships are happy or they are not......Your work is exciting and successful or it is not.....everyone has good years or bad years, good times or bad times, good days or bad days.

The Force of Love in your life....."Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water.......It is an acting, living, moving force.....it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean."  Love is the positive force of life!  The force of love is invisible to us, but it's power is in fact far greater than any of nature's powers.  This evidence of loves power can be seen everywhere in the world...... without love, there is no life...

Today is the second day of JULY and the temperature is 89 degrees......and I love it!  I must enjoy every single day I have left on this wonderful earth......Life is good.