Spring has finally Sprung!

With Spring comes the hope of a good garden. We haven't grown one for a couple of years but this year we felt the need to have one and it is growing beautifully and hopefully we will have a good crop of corn and beans. Because of the cool spring we missed the pea season and now it is too hot.
This is a shot down the raspberry patch and iris. Our orchard is also taking shape and the four fruit trees are doing very well. Maybe in five years or so we'll reap the benefit of these trees.
The Columbine's are beautiful right now.
As is our Catalpa tree. It is in full bloom and is always a treat. We also planted another Catalpa tree this year on the other side of the yard. Hopefully it will grow as beautifully as this one.
Another wonderful opportunity we are enjoying is having Kate with us. And I mean with us! Erin and Weston are celebrating their 4th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas and we hope they are having a good time, because we are. This is at 7:00 am Friday morning after a complete night's sleep. What a girl!
Here are some more shots of our beautiful center island. In the early morning light everything is so idillic. The flowers, greenery, and trees.





But finally here's cute little Kate enjoying her grandmother and I think Pam is enjoying Kate also. We close with a shot of the latest full moon rising over Signal Peak to the east. Everything is going well for us in Monroe. I do get a little tired of all the questions about retirement. I believe there will be a life after the "R" word. Aunt Win is doing well and she bought a car last Tuesday. We have discussed this with her for some time and finally we went looking and found a wonderful Taurus at Jorgensen's that would take care of her. It gives her the freedom to go and come as she likes and not feel so dependent on us. We are encouraging her to stay local, but I wouldn't be surprised with a trip north some time. She likes Cafe Rio also!! Pam got the "all clear" on her foot last Monday from Doctor Smith. He said everything looked good and it does. We are amazed at how well it has healed and looks and slowly Pam is getting back to normal. Now if we can get back on the golf course!!

Update!

Well schools out, summer's here and it's time to play! The first thing we did that was unexpected was driving to Provo to have lunch with Alex and Cynthia and realizing we had no phone! So in the dark recesses of my mind I thought "what would it cost us to get two phones?" With Erin's help we ended up finding Alex and Cynthia in the Mall and so I stopped at the Verizon chalet and asked about 2 phone plans and lo and behold we were eligible for new phones (already) and we qualifed for the 65 plan so it didn't take much encouragement to sign up. The best part, however, was that we walked away with two phones right then, so now we are "packin."

Pamela: 435-201-0098
Joe: 435-201-3965

Call us anytime!

While Aunt Win was up north Pam and I decided to play a little bit and on Monday, the 2nd of June we drove north to Palisades State Park and played golf on this neat mountain course. The weather was great and we enjoyed the round and actually played quite well. From there we had lunch at the Malt Shop in Ephraim and then proceeded to Nephi and played golf at the golf course there by the canyon road. It was also a fun course with beautiful greens and nice and flat!!

Yesterday, the 3rd of June we continued our saga by driving over to Fillmore and playing their beautiful river course. It is built in and around a small stream with wonderful trees and foilage - we really enjoyed it. So maybe this will be a trend with the price of gas. I looked up golf courses in Utah and we could spend a whole summer just playing locally...