Memorial Day 2009

I wanted to give a little update on our activities here in Monroe. It is Memorial Day and it has been a fairly quiet day for us. We began mid-morning taking flowers to the cemetery to decorate the family graves. It's always an occasion at the cemetery to visit many, many friends who are also there doing the same thing. The day began in beautiful fashion with clear blue skies and all the flowers and contrasting green lawns made it a beautiful morning activity (sorry I left my camera home).

Following that Pam and I went to Richfield and played a round of golf. It was a perfect morning and the recent rains had caused the rough to be about 2-3 inches high. Unusual for Richfield. But we had a good time and Pam scored a Birdie on the 7th hole with a beautiful drive and then a long iron right to the middle of the green. She had a 15 foot putt and ran it right in. It was great.

Back home Pam has been busy planting flowers in a couple of planters on the front porch. It looks really nice and brings some color to our front door. We have had Monsoon weather the past week with afternoon thunderstorms and frequently rain. Saturday we had about 8 hours of non-stop light rain and everything in our yard has just jumped out of the ground. Unfortunately that includes the lawn, so I have to mow again!! But our garden is doing very well and everything has come up and is doing well.

Sunday evening I presided over my first Seminary Graduation and it was really nice. I had been a high school advisor to a quarter of the students and taught all but 4 of the graduates, so I had a personal interest in how they were doing. We had a good program and it was fun passing out the certificates and congratulating my friends. They will next graduate from High School on Friday.

Well family, I hope all you "face book" fans will not forget your blogs. We so enjoy the updates and pictures. Hope to see all of you sometimes this summer.