Weigh-In Wednesday

Had a great time with three of my four close friends who graduated from SCHS and then went on to graduate from USU 50 (yipes) years ago. Our missing friend, Kaye, had Alzheimer's and died 8 years ago. Geri (left) just returned from beautiful HI serving her mission there with hubby Doug. We were very close, in band together, went on 600 calorie diets, picked beans to earn money. Sharie moved back to Providence 6 years ago and is glad to be out of Bakersfield, CA (too hot). She and I tap danced together on school assemblies to Elvis and others music. Jan (right) still lives near San Francisco, was an airline stewardess for 2 years, met a wealthy guy, quit working, married him and still enjoys her lifestyle. Geri, Sharie and I were also Alpha Chi Sorority sisters and all four of us were in USU Sponsor Corps (Lt. Cols and attached to ROTC at USU). No longer an organization there.

They all enjoyed a lovely lunch with other Golden 50's Alumnus and special guest speaker was Craig Jessop formally leader of the Air Force Singing Sargent's (dad and I saw them many times at various bases when they come in for special occasion when a General was in town). Then he took over the Mormon Tab for many years until he retired two years ago to join faculty of USU. My cousin, Mike Bankhead, who has just taken over as Dept head of music dept was there also and told the crowd about how my dad loved opera and classical music and related several neat things about their relationship with music that I'd never heard before. So I was very happy to learn about them.

After lunch and photos Geri, Jan and I toured the campus with others and could not believe that changes (well, it's even been over 10 years since Brady, Justin and Katie graduated which is the last time I've been there). The only original buildings that we recognized were Old Main, the Art Barn (soon to be history) and the good old field house. Tour ended at Aggie Ice Cream which used to cost 10 cents a cone (now 1.59). Great day and so glad I went.

I'm DONE with dill pickles - 35 quarts total!!! Still doing applesauce, and Ryan and Rachel helped me pick pears (they've been falling on ground and have made pear topping for the fat-free cake I can eat). Delicious! I've been giving them away to friends, trading with neighbors for tomatoes and have spent half of today freezing them for my cereal and yogurt this winter. Holly came over mid-day and carried heavy things for me, I printed off some cute photos she wanted and I sent home a sack full of fruits and veg. She was not happy with my weight of 89 though.

Yesterday I spent all morning with cousin, Gretta, (Summer's side of family) going through old photos that Zella collected and never identified who the people were. It was good to take time out of canning, etc and go through these boxes that we inherited when we cleaned out H/Z house. I'd already given Doyle half of the stuff, but this one box I found had to small albums of H/Z courtship and newly married and I found several of your dad as a baby, yippee! I didn't think they existed and this is good as someday I want to do a scrapbook for him rather than the tiny baby stats book Zella kept and one where she put some of his Army photos. So it turned out well worth the time.

It's my feeding time, so I'll bid adieu.