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My turn to do the weekly update so here you go. 

 

It's been a busy week...lots of scouting.  I've been asked to be part of the Cub Scouts so we had Pack Mtg this week.  It went really well except that it involved some dry ice and well no one told me that liquid would be involved so when I broke the ice up, I also poked a hole in the plastic bowl.  While setting up I showed the Cub Master but he said it was fine.  During the ceremony he told the boys they would be pouring liquid on the dry ice.  I immediately went for some paper towels, it went straight through the bowl onto our electric fire.  Fortunately we were able to get the liquid under control before it got crazy. 

 

Then when I tried to paint the boys faces with some symbolic lines, the paint was dry.  So we had a few minutes of panic until we found some face pencils that worked.  

 

Mary Ann then taught a family merit badge and came home telling me she would never have boys.  If we have one, we're taking it back I guess.  "They never pay attention and are just rude."  Talking all the time, etc.  So pray for girls everyone.  I'm still secretly praying for boys, but don't tell MA. 

 

Sat was exciting as I woke up and trimmed the REALLY overgrown Bougainvillas out front.  The neighbors loned us a trimmer and blower so I whipped through them really quick.  We then went on our Sat ritual (Shopping).  MA usually has a list of stores that we need to hit, so we started at Home Goods a new store that is like Marshalls but specializes in home stuff.  We bought a new chandelier for the entry.  Then we were off to Jo Ann's to get paint for the chandelier.  They had a sale going on and it was incredibly packed so when I found out that the spray paint was locked up (spray paint is the number one shoplifted item) I went to customer service to get the key but the line was so long I convinced MA that it was best we left.  She says I threw a fit, and maybe I did, cause I really can't stand to stand in line to buy something.  We then went to Fry's and bought some food. 

 

MA then went to an all day Relief Society dinner and broadcast.  I painted the chandelier and and hooked it up.  Those things take quite a while.  

 

Today we had dinner with some different relatives.  Our great Grandfather Asa Brigham Scoville was her great Grandmothers's big brother. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here are the bogainvillas trimmed. You can't really see them. I'll get a better shot for you later. But you can also see the neighbors open garage across the street.  

Here it is lit up. 

This is the new chandelier that took me forever to hang yesterday. The longest part was the painting since we wanted an antique black rather than the gold/silver it came in.  

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Since our last update we've gone to Goldfield Ghost town while hosting a couple of friends for the weekend.  Those pictures you can find on Flickr. 

Other than that we have a cactus down.  It's a pretty big cactus and for some reason it toppled over.  I've attached a couple of pictures so you can see how small the root system was. 

These pictures come from a series that wouldn't stitch together for me. This is the top, middle and bottom portions.

We haven't decided what to do with it. Either chop it up and toss it, or try and reset it. Since it is such a large cactus we've thought it would be nice to save it. Then again it may be nice to have a tree here. Hmmm.

Any ideas?