Day Family Newsletter - January 2013

Feb. 1, 2013 DAY FAMILY NEWSLETTER – JANUARY 2013 February 1, 2013 NEWS FROM THE DAYS: Snow, cold, more snow, more cold. I’m home today with either the flu or a bad cold. Winter was definitely here this past month. Lands sake! Heavens to Betsy! Did I say that right? Where did these old expressions come from? Does this indicate my age? Stephanie had to go to St. George for 3 days for work. I took the kids to day care and picked them up again after work. Reminds me of the old days when our kids needed to be dropped off every morning and picked up again after work. It seems like more work this time around. Steph got caught in a blinding snow storm on the way to St. George and had to lay over in Fillmore for a short time before braving the drive again. Linda continues her rehab - mostly doing physical therapy at home with a pulley/rope contraption she had to buy. It's a long process, with the actual strengthening exercises coming later. She has now accomplished the tasks of getting dressed and doing her hair with basically one arm, and a little help from her rehabbing arm. Jackie and Wiggins continue to deal with Wiggin's sick Mom who has been traveling back and forth between Blanding and Salt Lake for cancer treatments. Katie and Bill are in the middle of remodeling their Sugarhouse home, getting new hardwood flooring at present, with a new bathroom, new roof to follow later. Stephanie has started looking at homes, mostly short sales. Nothing bought yet. Debbie and Stuart have got Kaylee taking ski lessons at Brighton just like Jack. Jackie had a nice birthday dinner at her favorite Mexican Restaurant this past month, and it was nice to all get together (although it was a blinding snow storm that night and tough to get around). An added treat was Cole and Jessica showing up with Emry, and their latest addition, Jax! He's just precious! In the past few months, I finished reading Jane Eyre, one of the best books I've ever read. Then I read another Asher Lev book that Stephanie got me (about a Jewish artist prodigy), then The Scarlet Letter, a pretty short read, and now I've started Emma by Jane Austin. In between, I reread a book I had bought at the National Cathedral while we were back at Deon's for the family reunion a few years ago, Jesus for the Non Religious. One thing about snow and cold - it leaves you more time to do other things like read (if you don't ski). We enjoyed the first of the month (New Years) at the condo in St. George, but I think I covered that last month. I having another letter to the editor published - this time about guns, commenting about a guy in Davis County who walked into a J.C. Penny store with an assault rifle strapped to his back (the picture went viral on you tube). An old friend of mine, Tom Smith (on Hollywood) had open heart surgery this past month, and is doing well. I picked up some more back yard art with a X-Mas gift card Linda got me from Home Depot. Now an owl adorns the garden area, a hanging bird feeder from the plum tree, and a colorful butterfly also mounted in the garden area. I want a backyard Buddha 6" statue I saw at Back Yard Birds, a little shop on Highland Drive, but Linda won't buy it for me. I guess I'll have to treat myself in the future. We continue to keep the quail, doves, and assorted birds in the area (that don't migrate down south) alive with our bird seed, and the Blue Jays of course love our unsalted peanuts in the shell on the windowsill to keep them fed during the winter. It’s that time of the year again – when the Utah Legislators get together and wreck havoc on the lives, laws and general reputation of the state of Utah. It’s a never ending 45 day session that never bores, never makes much sense, and brings to stardom individuals who later become senators, congressmen (sorry – not women in this state) or Attorney General. Four or five hundred million is always budgeted to cover the cost of litigation trying (almost always unsuccessful) to defend laws passed by the 90% Republican legislators. As this money is always flushed down the toilet, per say, the legislators plan on raising the tax on food so the poor and elderly can make up the loss in a proportion that hurts them. I think their logic may be to force the elderly to pass up on their medications so they can buy food to survive, therefore, dying earlier than needed to save on Medicare, a FEDERAL program much despised in Utah. Then, this gives the poor a job digging graves to get them off WELFARE. Plus, it helps get the DRUGS out of their system when they have to work 24/7 digging endless rows of graves. And this takes the jobs away from ILLEGALS who used to dig the graves, and probably stole jewelry from the dead bodies besides. And then they have to go back to where they belong…..in Arizona!!! And if they don’t, they get SHOT with the millions of guns circulating in and around Zion. This creates more grave digging work for the poor, thus less MEDICAID, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, WIC and ILLEGALS. Utah comes out a winner all around. And that's the news from the Day family for the month. Love, Tom (Linda wouldn’t sign it)