Aug 11, 2010

Did you ever play in the sprinkler or hose?

Did I grow up as a typical buy you might ask and then you would get the answer of Yes and know instantly that of course I played in the sprinkler and the hose. We often had water fights break out during a down time after we had finished hauling the hay. The water fight helped to wash off the sweat and the hay leaves and it felt so good. Then there were always the water fights that just naturally broke out at reunions and other family gatherings. I have since learned though that to not get wet you have to not let your expensive camera get off of your body. At that time I didn’t know that and got soaked plenty of times. Mostly however I played in the irrigation water and really enjoyed that even though in today’s teachings it would have made deathly ill or sick from the bounty of germs in the water. I swallowed a lot of canal water and youth today would be served well by doing the same so their immune systems could get a chance to learn to defend themselves from diseases.

Aug 10, 2010

Tell about a time when you get lost?

There were the usual summer scout camps that I went on each year and really loved them but the second one was not so great to start out with. I was hiking in typical scout fashion with a couple of other scouts. We were not at the back of the group but rather at the front and by quite a distance until we took the wrong fork of the trail and then a second wrong fork and found ourselves on the far side of Betsy lake when we were suppose to be going to Palisade lake. It started to rain real heavy so we got under the shelter of a huge rock and then began backtracking to find the fork that we had missed. We ended up finding a second trail that led to Palisade lake and it was a lot shorter than if we had gone back to the first one but we didn’t know that until we had actually reached the lake and were there ahead of a lot of the troop even then. So even though we were basically lost we were also very blessed to have been able to find the way to the lake. I still to this day do not know which trail we ended up on that day and have never found it again but will always be thankful for a loving Father in Heaven that knew where it was and led us on it that day.

Aug 9, 2010

What was your best talent?

Now there’s a question that I am unsure of how to answer. I was good at playing the saxaphone, I was good at talking with people and I was good at photography but didn’t know it until I was in 9th grade when it was put to the test as yearbook photographer. I still do not know how the English teacher knew that I had a talent for that either. Mom may have had something to do with it but I really don’t know, she was the librarian and knew the English teacher. I played the sax and loved it but later played the trumpet and found I wasn’t so talented with that instrument. I suppose I was pretty talented at teasing also but we have already discussed that one in past questions.