Day family news - June 2012

July 1, 2012 NEWS FROM THE DAYS – JUNE 2012 Earlier in the month we met the kids at The Spruces up Big Cottonwood canyon for a Friday night thru Sunday campout. Linda and I tented it, as did everyone else except Debbie who brought up her motor home. Stephanie had donated an extra tent she had for us, and we got good experience putting it up and trying out our new air mattress and low temp sleeping bags. This equipment is what Linda and I will use in the event of the “big one”, and if we survive, will use it for shelter in our backyard. The only thing we lack now is an emergency food supply. The “big one”, by the way, is not if Romney wins, but for an earthquake. We spent one evening babysitting little Jack and Sofie at Katie and Bill’s home while they celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary. We saw the movie Brave with Stephanie and her kids one weekend. Linda went to Kaylee’s dance program out in Herriman – I had to work that Friday. We got news from Cole and Jessica Rikli that they are going to have another baby (our 2nd great grandchild) in about 7 months! We attended Larene Ellis’s funeral in Kaysville a week ago. Several of our cousins were there, and it was a very nice service. Robert Ellis and Carl Swenson? (Virginia’s husband) sang a duet that was absolutely fabulous and moving. They were both in the Tabernacle Choir, and after the service, I booked them for my funeral to sing Over the Rainbow, on the blues side. That is, assuming I die before them, and they are still able to stand and sing. I’ve been golfing a few times, and I generally walk the course pushing my clubs in my golf cart. It’s good exercise. Herriman, where Debbie lives, had another fire this past week, and three or four homes were lost and hundreds evacuated. Luckily, Debbie’s home is not right up against the foothills, and was spared. The weather this year is totally dry in Utah; I think a punishment for all the support for Romney. On the brighter side, I awoke this past Thursday morning, turned on the news, and broke out into song – Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day…………the supreme court had upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional. And the previous week they reaffirmed that the States need to defer to the federal government on immigration enforcement. Too bad the Court didn’t overturn the super PAC problems with the rich and corporations being allowed to buy elections. But hey, we have to live by the law I guess. I had such a good experience a few months ago when my dentist started my tooth implant, that I wrote a poem about it and sent it to him with my payment. When I went in for a checkup last week, they said they liked my poem so well that they want to use it along with pictures of my before and after tooth implant in the web site they are designing. I have attached the poem to this newsletter. And that’s the news, the whole news, and nothing but the true news from the Days. Tom and Linda