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Catching Up

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Ashlyn Stops By For A Couple Of days

Ashlyn finished her school break and flew back out west to begin her next term at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg. She stopped here for a couple of days to “chill out” (her words) before diving into the hectic life of a coed living with a bunch of girls. Today we drove her to Rexburg, had lunch with her (where this picture was taken), dropped her off, and came back home. She plans to now go straight through until she graduates in July, 2009.

BYU-Idaho has a kind of a tri-mester system where a third of the students are on their break each trimester and the other two-thirds are in classes. Ashlyn’s term starts in mid-April and goes through mid-December. We had a fun visit while she was here and she got plenty of sleep (I think that’s the definition of “chill”). Notice the new hair do … she’s trying out being blond for a while.

Butchered English Grammar?

While we were in Rexburg we had lunch at a sandwich kind of an eatery. While paying the bill I noticed this sign next to the cash register saying, “No bills higher than $20 thank you!” My first thought was, “How high is a twenty dollar bill? Would that height be measured in inches, feet, or miles?” That got me thinking about language skills and whether or not this wording was correct. I certainly would have said, “… bills larger than $20…” and put a period between “20” and “Thank”. I spent about an hour trying to find online a reference to substantiate the way I would have worded the sign. I found some oblique references, but nothing really substantial. I’ll probably give up the search and declare my wording as being the correct English grammar!

Rider Up!

Last Saturday was our first really nice Spring day. After doing some work outside in the yard, I pulled the motorcycle out of the garage, gave it a good washing, and then took a short hour-and-a-half ride. Very enjoyable, but when I got ready for bed, I had some muscles complaining. I definitely need to do some more riding to get back in shape…. (big grin). Today the weather went back to winter with huge winds and a high temperature of 43 degrees. Today was also the day to take the bike in for service … it’s annual spring cleaning. Naturally, the day would be cold and windy for the ride over and this afternoon for the ride back. I’m definitely a fair-weather rider!

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Winter Keeps Hanging In There

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more snowAs we went to bed last night Nina told me that she thought it was snowing. When I went out to get the newspaper this morning, this is the scene that greeted me. A light covering of snow on the grass, clear walks, driveway, and road, and bright, sunny, clear skies. By 10 a.m. the temperatures were closing in on 45° and the high today was 52°. The new snow was all gone by noon. There’s still a little bit of snow left in the back yard up against the south fence where the sun doesn’t quite shine at this time of the year. In another few weeks the sun will be far enough north that the whole yard will get sun during some part of the day.

The problem is, of course, no yard work is getting done. I think that’ll be my task tomorrow morning. The front yard needs to be completely raked and I’ve only got about a third of it finished. It’s supposed to get up to 60° — so a ride on the motorcycle may also be in the agenda. We’ll see. NIna’s niece Ashlyn will be here sometime tomorrow and will stay through the weekend. We’ll take her up to Rexburg next Tuesday for her to start her next term at college. It’ll be fun to have her here for a few days while she reacclimatizes to our cool, dry air after being in Ohio for the past four months. Spring must be close if the Spring Term is starting at BYU-Idaho!