On Thursdays Nina holds a craft class at the women’s prison from 1 pm to 3 pm each week. She took our daughter-in-law LeeAnn (our oldest son Jim’s wife) with her, so I took Jim and his three kids over to Soda Springs.

The most important project was to get the flag up on mother’s flag pole so she could fly her flag. We had enough muscle to pull the flag pole out, lay it down, string the new rope, and put the pole back in it’s hole. The flag is now proudly flying. Mother clapped her hands in delight when we ran the flag up the pole.

It’s a pretty tall flag pole, actually. Getting the flag as well as the people all into the picture wasn’t easy. I took the picture from a neighbor’s yard!

We had a nice weather day … but the forecast for Saturday looks dismal. That’s the day the Pocatello 50 ultra marathon will be run in the mountains west and south of Pocatello.

I spent the evening visiting with a couple of Ward members in the Ward that I’m assigned as a High Councilor. Once a year members of the Stake leadership team up with members of the Ward leadership to go visit families in the Ward. I was partnered with the Bishop of the Ward and we visited an elderly gentleman and a younger single mother. The elderly gentleman had some skin cancer removed a few days earlier and was complaining that at 88 years of age, he wasn’t bouncing back as fast as he has before. Two days ago he was only able to play 9 holes of golf, the next day 12 holes, and this morning 9 holes before they got rained out.

TTFN!