Springville Home Storage Center

Since I'm the food storage gal in our ward (and thus Pop is the food storage guy), I decided we ought to get the sisters to the new dry pack storage center that opened in January. It's so new, that nobody goes! You don't even need to make an appointment, but I felt with so many that we should let them know we were coming. We had 17 sisters sign up, 5 forgot to come, but we went ahead and put their order together anyway.

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Pop starts by getting the proper can labels, and stamping the date on them.

Pop, of course, was the greatest guy to have around. He and Tammy Stokes and her sister, Kristy Chase, worked circles around everyone else. The crew on the 2nd line. They're working from both sides of the table, filling the cans with different stuff. I had a sign up sheet, compiled all the orders, and took it over on Monday. When we got there this morning, they'd figured out how many bags were needed of each product and had them on a cart, ready for us to work. By looking at the compiled order, we knew how many cans of each product we needed.


Tammy Clayson and Rolled Oats (she's the counselor I work with)Three sisters laid out all the empty boxes, put names on each box and what they'd ordered. Then they began to fill.

2 1/2 hours later, and many cases later (6 cans to a case) we were through, except for clean up and paying. We worked hard, and I felt really good about the turn out.

More Yard Photos

These little Japanese Iris only bloom for a couple of weeks, but they're really sweet. You all probably get tired of yard pictures, huh?Pop went on a huge tree trimming/cutting down binge. We lost a peach tree in the back yard, and he pruned the crabapples in the front yard. Jacob Felix (I think he's 12 and lives next door) told his mom that "Brother Johansen's yard always looks so nice." and indeed it does.
Loading the truck was no small task.

Pop is almost ready to go to the dump. We're glad to have a place that's closeby, and also sells great mulch and bark chips for the yard.

New Car

We're off to get the new Avalon.

We've got it! And, we love it. However, we didn't get the $$ we thought we should have for the old car, so we brought both cars home.

A Surprise Visit!

On Memorial Day we received a call from Mary Claire Moor. She and her husband, Aubrey, were in Utah (they live in Lakewood, CO) shopping at IKEA for baby furniture. They came by Tuesday morning for a wonderful visit. Mary's husband is so much fun, and they were both very easy to visit with. Mary Claire is expecting her first baby, Julia Marie, on July 11. Before they learned they were expecting they started adoption proceedings, and will be getting a little Korean baby (in picture) sometime soon. He's currently 9 months, and from what they've heard from the orphanage, he's a very mellow baby.

Mary Claire and Aubrey (Polish last name)

We decided from time to time there should be a picture of us in our blog.

Look, everybody! Grandma's wearing shoes!!

Happy Memorial Day

Art has been working day after day getting the yard ready for summer. I love to see our flag hanging in front of the house.

We were invited to the Pratt's for a Memorial Day Picnic

John with one of the couples who was in his BYU Ward


Barb

A picture of that wonderful salad - greens with fresh berries, avocado, pecans and red onions. (Serving the onions in big slices means you don't have to eat them if you don't want to.)

Couldn't resist more pictures of the yard.

Our Visit To Cove Fort

We took Clara and George to Cedar City so George could see our foot doctor. (the trip for Uncle George was VERY successful, in fact he went back a week later for more treatments.) For years and years every time we drove past Cove Fort, Art has wanted to stop. I've always said, "No." We're either in a hurry, it's too hot, it's too cold, it's too late or early." On Friday, May 15 I could offer no excuses. It was early afternoon, we weren't in a hurry and the weather was perfect.

I expected Cove Fort to be hot, dry and dusty, and a difficult place to nagivate. Thanks to Aunt Clara, we have some great pictures to show that was not the case! There are about 30 full time missionary couples there, some are called full time to landscape, some to give tours, and I'm sure some are called to other responsibilite as well. They live in RVs close to Cove Fort, but those that stay for the winter live in the few apartments on site.

With picnic tables provided the tourist can even have a picnic right on the grounds.

After a lovely tour, we were ready to travel home. And now we ask, "How many priesthood holders, and how long does it take to get the keys OUT of a locked car?"

The answer to both questions is, "Indefinite." We probably should have called the Cove Fort mechanic sooner. We were on our way in seconds after he arrived with the proper tools.

Happy Birthday, Pop!

We haven't cooked a roast with our new meat slicer, but we've had lots of fun slicing a block of cheese, and as shown here, slicing the sour dough bread that Pop made yesterday. It works like a charm. We'll store it on the counter (I think) in the laundry room, and Art will make a cover for it, similar to a sewing machine cover - to protect it from dust. If i didn't mind cluttered counters, we'd leave it in the kitchen. :-) However, I like empty countertops.

His best "do" of sourdough bread, ever!

We can slice to any desired thickness. I like thin slices, Art prefers them a little thicker.

The bread will fall onto the tray, but this slice is for display purposes only. Thank you all for such a clever gift - it works well and will save fingers. Now...do we give the old slicer to DI, or bid adieu and put it in the trash?