Category: Journal
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Lake day
We spent almost all day at Deer Creek Reservoir today with the extended family. Few of the older cousins came but the younger cousins had a good time along with a couple of the great grandchildren of Andy and Marsha. All of the adults were there for at least part of the day and we…
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I need more sleep
I fell asleep today when I was supposed to be at a presidency meeting. When I woke up I looked at my sleep data for the last few days and saw that I’m averaging barely 5 hours a night. I think it’s clear that I’m not taking care of myself properly and I need to…
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A final victory
This afternoon I decided to pull out some weeds that I noticed in the side yard. As I started weeding the side and back yards I noticed many new branches growing in the stump of my red twig dogwood. For context, I hate those bushes because of how overgrown they got and because touching them…
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Amateur counselor
This morning I talked with Savannah about her concerns with how Aaron is trying to beat his own burdens mainly in isolation. We talked and I arranged to go visit both of them in a couple of weeks. At the end of my work day Bill called to talk. That was good because I’ve had…
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Starting tennis
Yesterday Ezra agreed to join the tennis team as his school activity. Today Noah decided he would do tennis as well. Better than that, Ezra and I bought him a racquet and went to a tennis court to practice hitting the ball. By the time the evening was done I had registered both of them…
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More fans of Old Pinery
We went to the baby blessing for Brooklyn and Peter’s new baby. It was fun to see other people and chat with people I knew and people I didn’t know. Apparently Andy and Marsha drive to Old Pinery this week to look it over. They liked what they saw and they decided they liked C11…
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Back to the temple
It’s been a month since I went to the temple thanks to camping trips and the Shakespeare Festival. It felt familiar in a new way today.
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On track
I’ve been wondering about my trajectory lately—feeling like I might be floundering a bit—until this morning as I saw in context the work with Laura to apply for a job. That has been a focus and was what we needed to be working on (striking while the iron was hot) and sunshine soon it will…
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Parent free
An interaction with Emma encapsulates our boundary-free and authority-free culture. She asked this evening if we could make a cobbler since we had the ingredients available. I told her it was too late in the evening and said we could do that tomorrow. Teen minutes later she came back and asked me “so, what about…
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One task completed
With a holiday off from work on this Pioneer Day I had one thing I wanted to accomplish (besides helping put up and take down flags while the young men were on their camp) and that was to move my website to my virtual private server on a new host. There are still cosmetic things…