Day family newsletter - June 2011

July 1, 2011

DAY FAMILY NEWS – JUNE 2011

Twelve baby quail showed up one morning in our backyard. About a week later, there were only four left . I decided to officially sign our garden – had actually named it years ago, but decided to make a sign and hang it on the fence. GARDEN OF EAT’N is now displayed in yellow block letters on a beige background board. The garden, although planted rather late due to weather, is starting to grow. The carrots, onions and radishes did not survive due to the quail who love to eat them as they sprout through the ground.

Attended Dorothy Wardrup’s funeral and was reminded by a cousin that it is our turn to host the Janssen cousin reunion. The funeral was very nice – the news of hosting not. But Shelley and I met and planned out the event to be held Sept. 10th from 1 PM to 3 PM at the Olive Garden (not of Eden) by Fashion Place mall. Deon will put together a digital e-vite as well as a normal mailed one. Shelley will plan and conduct activities – and I’ll pick someone to say the prayer and emcee. Danny will attend – either Virginia will pick him up, or I will. We’re planning on taking Dad’s CDs to play in the background. We have a room reserved just for our party, so we can do things privately.

I’ve played some golf this past month, and Linda and I have kept busy reading. Linda and I have started going to the library to get most of our books, and Linda tried an audio book this month. I’m still reading the old fashioned way, page by page. We also got our order of True Blood, the 3rd season, and have watched several of the episodes. This is a vampire HBO series that we fell in love with, though the 3rd season isn’t up to the first two seasons in our opinion. A lady at my work calls it vampire porn. It’s not really porn, but it is pretty edgy.
Stephanie had to travel around southern Utah in her new job, and we took the kids for four nights. They especially enjoyed going over to the elementary school nearby and riding their bikes and playing on the playground equipment.

Katie and Bill just returned from a nice vacation with his parents in Vegas where they used their timeshare. Bill entered a “no limit” poker tournament with 2800 other entrants. He doubled his money halfway thru the first day, and then lost on a lucky last card draw to a straight of an opponent.

Everyone met at a local buffet for Father’s Day, as our planned barbeque got rained out. Linda got me a leaf blower, and I’ve already found several new uses for it – kind of like getting a self propelled lawnmower – I didn’t really know what I was missing!

Debbie let us know she has been given notice of being laid off at American Express. She will be looking to work for someone else in the future. Our legislators vetoed the governor on the state’s 4-day work week, and we’ll be going back to Monday thru Friday hours after Labor Day. I believe this is a precursor to finding out you’re going “down” instead of “up” when you die , as going back to a 5-day work week will be “he__” after enjoying the fruits of “heaven” the past 3 years.

And that’s the news from the Days for June 2011. Love, Tom and Linda