PROVIDENCE UPDATE CHAPTER TWO

                                                       

  Let's see, where was I?  Oh yes, I wanted to share this cute photo of how the family helps each other out.  Good going, HollySue!


  

Congrats to Katie who hardly broke a sweat when completing in the 26.2 mi Big Cottonwood marathon in SLC two weeks ago.  First time she's done a 26 miler and I'm glad it worked out that I could go down to support her.  I'm looking forward to when she does the Boston marathon so I can go support her there also.  Good going, Katie!

It's harvest time and Holly and I are reaping the fruits of our labors.  We have pears, peaches, apples, cucumbers, beets, tomatoes, kale, lettuce and spinach. .  Here's poor college student,Eric (Katie's brother) hanging out in the delicious spartan apple tree.  He helped pick the top, hard to reach apples  for me so I could share with family, friends, neighbors, can and store some for HS and I.

I've been doing lots of dill pickles, HollySue found a delicious dill pickle relish recipe and we worked together to bottle some for her use this year.  So much faster with two people on the job.  Good going Holly - you're a canner like younger sis Reb.





We've had more  AZ type monsoon rain storms this week and roads still aren't repaired from last month's heavy rain.  Yesterday we got 1.7 inches (i thought I was back on Guam)!  Had lots more flooding downstairs and mopped up two separate times - Holly helped me sop it up faster with very large heavy towels.  She was heading to work and I noticed that there was a river behind Japanese maple tree next to garage.  It hit me that the problem wasn't crack in cement below front porch, but the RAIN GUTTER since there was a water fall next to the rain spout.  Who to call?  Everyone I could think of was ill, out-of -town, too old or usually never home when I needed help.  But this tme my neighbors to south were home, came right over.  Bruce climbed up ladder and with two swipes of his hand in gutter, Gayle and I were relieved to hear the loud swoosh of plugged up water going down the drain under the front lawn.
The tree had gotten so tall and when trimmed last spring it left leaves, etc in to cause the problem.  I'm so grateful to them for helping me out.  We've had more rain today, but no more in the basement, yea!  I just removed their thank you dessert from the oven.