I wrote this to the missionaries, but it outlines what was going on at Nicks place in Tooele! He has the sprinklers up and running so the project is complete. Now they will look for landscaping items to place about the yard. Way to go Nick & Michelle!
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| Missionary helpers! One Elder from Hawaii and the other from Washington State. |
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| David & Lindsay...so cute together! |
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| Hayden playing with the pipe pieces. |
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| Back yard looks great! |
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| Brothers helping each other out. |
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| Nice new front yard. Hurraaayyy! |
Hello Elders!
I thoroughly enjoyed both your letters this week! I've been
telling everyone that Monday and Friday are my favorite days of the week and
you can guess why! Yippeee! Letters Day!
Its the usual stuff at work, but I've kept things busy in the
evenings after ward. Wednesday I visit taught Monica Morton and then
Thursday night the RS midweek activity was at AF Canyon, Swinging Bridge picnic
area and the ward sisters made Woof-ums! They are made with Pillsbury
refrigerator biscuit dough that is wrapped around a wooden dowel the size of a
curtain rod. The dowel end is put into a metal rod to hold onto.
The dough is cooked over hot coals and bakes then you put pudding inside and
top with whip cream and voila, a Woof-um! They were really
good!
During the week Nick got 33 TONS of topsoil dirt added to his yard
that he had to rake out. (this being the next step after last weekends trenching.
He added about 7 more ton, just before the sod was laid. He wasn't sure
which route to go....sod or seed, so he called around and found that sod was
only $100 more than Hydro-seed and so he had it delivered on Friday afternoon!
Nick had a hiccup with his BMW though as he tried to start his car during lunch
on Friday, it wouldn't start! Even after charging the battery, it
wouldn't fire up. So as he knew I was coming after work to Tooele, I
picked him up a battery at the BMW dealership by my work. By the time I
got to him at 5:45pm he'd been off work for 1.5 hours waiting. Couldn't
be helped, but the new battery had him going quickly and we got to his house to
start placing sprinkler heads on the 'funny pipe' leads. He has awesome
neighbors who have come help him each step of the way and we got them placed
quickly. David and Lindsay arrived and the next morning Mike and Gavin
came!
I'm so proud and grateful for the service your brothers have
rendered to Nick and Michelle. I'm so glad that when we have an event, we
come to each others aide! Mike had to get new tires as his old ones were
so warn out, rock were imbedding themselves in the tire. The service guys
all looked at his tire saying it was the worst worn one they've ever seen!
GLAD he got them replaced! He stayed at my house Friday night and early
Saturday got his tires on and then came to Tooele. Thanks Mike!
Thanks David! Thanks Lindsay!
Saturday morning Nick decided to get more top soil and left to get
some and came back by 9am and we shoveled it onto the low spots up by the front
of the house. People were arriving and that included the local
missionaries! Wow! I took their picture and of course I told them
all about my two fine missionary sons! They were doing service hours and
helped so much hauling that sod! They were really cool. Elder B was
from northern Washington state and was as RED as a lobster from the sun in
short order. Elder S was from HAWAII! His home is on Oahu, in the
middle of the island in the mountains at a city that starts with a 'M', but I
don't recall the name. He asked all about Morgan and his areas of
assignment around the islands. Elder S has lost 25 pounds since coming to
the mainland! Haaa! One neighbor was a rockstar and got so much sod laid
so quickly and systematically. A different neighbor Greg has helped him
along the whole way with this project it's amazing. (they all joked that it is
helping their property value to get Nicks yard in! No doubt!)
After 2 hours the sod was down and the afternoon was spent resting
and getting things tidy. Dave and Lindsay left at 5pm for Logan and Mike
left shortly after. Lindsay is awesome, just saying! She helped
with the kids as we were all keeping up with tasks to keep things going with
the yard.
I do enjoy my grandkids and got to play with all three once
again! Hurrayy! I stayed through Sunday and found the time
delightful. Church was great at their ward and later had a terrific
dinner. Thanks Michelle for everything and getting to spend time with
you!
It was a great weekend and I'm glad that Nick has a yard!.....with
Grass!....and sprinklers!
Not much for gospel inspiration here, but as you can see the
family unit is central to us Durochers and we always support one
another! I look forward to hearing from you on how your week went.
LOVE LOVE LOVE you boys. And I mean all of you and my fine
jewel of a daughter! (includes Michelle!)
Mom <3 nbsp="" span="">
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