Day Family Newsletter - October 2014

DAY NEWSLETTER FOR OCTOBER 2014

Linda went to Jack’s grandparents day lunch at his school. He’s Katie/Bill’s 5 year old and attends kindergarten at Dilworth Elementary (about 5 blocks east of where we all grew up). I went golfing one weekend, and it might be the last round I get in before the cold weather sets in. We saw a good show called The Equalizer, another not that great called Gone Girl.
The highlight of the month was a weeklong trip to St. George in the middle of the month. We drove up to Cedar City the day after arriving to see two plays in the Shakespeare Festival. Both were great – Boeing, Boeing, and Sherlock Holmes, The Last Adventure.

Other activities included a movie, a trip to Mesquite, Nevada to donate some money, although we hardly donated any this trip. We did some swimming, golfing, shopping, and lots of relaxing. We also went to a lecture at the local college featuring an Under Secretary of State. She spoke of her role in the ongoing nuclear treaty efforts worldwide to bring everyone in the world into agreement on disarmament, testing, etc.

The day after arriving home, we attended Thriller, a performance done every year by Odyssey Dance. Jessica, Steph’s 11 year old, as well as Steph went with us to see it. It’s about the 3 or 4th time each of us has seen it. Kind of like going to The Nutcracker, except this one is Halloween themed. Zombies roam through the crowd prior to starting to get everyone in the right mood.

I’ve enjoyed seeing the social changes going on in our society, i.e. the non ruling by the Supreme Court to give gays equal rights, the LDS church liberalizing their view/stance on gays, women being allowed to attend male priesthood meetings, displaying diversity by having people give speeches in conference in their mother language, women praying in conference, and now the women’s meeting being made part of conference. Next thing you know they’ll bring ward basketball back to its rightful place!

I stopped by to say hello to Cole and Jessica & family one day after dropping Danny off at Derek’s home in Lehi. Cole took me out to his back yard where he has a dummy deer set up in one corner, and he showed me how he shoots arrows standing 50 yards away. He first shot hit the bulls eye on the deer’s side (about 5” by 7” target) dead center! I haven’t heard if he got a deer or not this year, but he goes bow hunting every year. He’s got my interest up in this sport of shooting arrows. I may try it sometime, although he had about 60 lbs. of pressure on his bow, and I couldn’t pull it back. So I may need to beef up to do the sport.

It’s been an interesting month in sports. Four weeks ago, BYU was on its way to a possible undefeated season and participation in a big bowl game with a Heisman quarterback candidate, and nationally ranked. Utah was 2 and 1, having lost their 1st PAC12 game to Washington and on their way to another mediocre season. NOW, FOUR WEEKS LATER, it’s Utah at 6 and 1, ranked nationally and bowl eligible already, and BYU…………..well……let’s just say they are hoping to have a mediocre season, and leave it at that. But, hey, the season’s not over……anything could happen. With Utah playing three teams the next four weeks all ranked higher than their 18th national ranking, we’ll be lucky to get one win out of that stretch. And the Y, with them playing some low level teams, including Bingham High I believe, could win the next four games!

The last day of our vacation, Linda started having pains in her lower right abdomen. Long story short, the next morning, rather going to work, I took Linda down to St. Marks ER to be looked at. At about 3 PM, she had her appendix out, and we were home at about 8 PM that night. She is recovering well, still not 100%, but getting there. We stayed home for the first time in maybe 20 years for Halloween to hand out candy. We had about 20 to 30 kids is all.

And that’s the news, and the only true news from here in Zion. Tom

PS: Go Utes, and OK……love thy neighbor, go Cougars too.