Sunday: Grandpa helped with the In-Service Lesson for the ward. Teachers from all auxillaries were invited to a 7:00 meeting. At first they said take about 10 minutes and then the day of he said the others had flaked out so could he take about 30. He was talking about the on-line resources from LDS.org. It all went well enough. He was prepared and tried to go with the flow. There were about a dozen people there.
Monday: We took off for Soda Springs, Idaho because Grandpa has always wanted to go there. We went up through Logan and ate a late lunch at our favorite place, Angies Restaurant. Then north to Preston. We stopped at the city cemetary where Grandpa Glen Jacobs (MJ's dad) is buried. It has been 25 years ago. Left a littlke something at his graveside. It is very peaceful and quiet there. Then we turned northeast. Soda Springs, Id. is where they were drilling for a warm springs and instead found a springs that had carbonated water in it. They just let it run for days on end and eventually the Dept. of the Interior said they needed to cap it because it was affecting the water supply of Old Faithful. So they capped it and set it on a timer and it goes off every hour on the hour 24/7. Our car in the parking lot got mineral spots on it from it blowing with the wind. It is close to the middle of the town and shoots up about 100 feet in the air:
Walk way to the observation point.
Observation point above the capped pipe.
There are springs out of town where you can taste the water.
It is kind of yucky but we tasted it anyway.
This area has historical significance because it is where the people on the Oregon Trail either went north west to Oregon or split off and turned southwest down to California. We stopped and read every historical marker and went to every site we could find!
Tuesday: We drove up to Afton, Wyoming where the Star Valley Temple is under construction. They are in the landscaping phase and will be ready for an Open House in September. It is a very small temple about the size of a stake center. The stake center is close but about a block away. It is in more of a business area, on the main street, south side of the town, but can be easily seen. There is a small Shopko about a mile to the north. I imagine houses will start to be built close to it.
Had we known, we would have waited a week because we read that they were putting the Angel Moroni on TODAY! We were remembering happening on to them putting the Angel Moroni on the Draper Temple. That was at least 10 years ago. That was very special! We were with Shelby. If we can find the pic from back then we will post it.
Wednesday: Returned home by way of Montpelier, ID, Bear Lake and Logan Canyon. Bear Lake is beautiful as always! Of course we had to stop and get a little ice cream at the Aggie Store and then spent some time resting at the 1st reservor:
We remembered about our year that we lived in Logan when Glen was just a toddler. We enjoyed it very much and think it is a great place to live. Glen, Julie and James have all attended USU and both David and I got our Master's Degrees from there.
It is always a good feeling when you come home into the SL Valley! Home is home!
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We want to take a few road trips while we can before the kids get out of school. Things are a lot less crowded that way, the weather is nice and the evenings are cool. By and large is easiest to take the van and stay in a motel where it is easy to get electricity for his oxygen and bi-pap machine. We can lock the machine in the bathtub and shut the door so that it is not so noisy!
It is getting harder and harder to be away from home for very long with all of David's diet restrictions. As bad as diabetes is (he's had it for 25 to 30 yrs.) The other diets for low sodium and kidney diet are a lot harder to control. The salt really gets to him when you eat out. Because his kidneys are not working well, the fluid builds up on his legs. Sometimes he can't hardly get his pant legs down. So we only eat out l meal a day and pick very carefully a klower sodium meal usually a salad with a meat that we can request it not be salted. Then we choose very carefully from the grocery store. He cannot have any luncheon meats not even the turkey because of the high sodium content. Fresh veggies and a few vegetables work well.
We never know when our last road trip will be out last! When he goes on kidney dialysis he will have to stay pretty much 24 hrs. from home. He will be on dialysis 3 days a week for 4 hours a day. I tell him to think of it as a part-time job, without a paycheck, where he can just sit and read!
We remembered about our year that we lived in Logan when Glen was just a toddler. We enjoyed it very much and think it is a great place to live. Glen, Julie and James have all attended USU and both David and I got our Master's Degrees from there.
It is always a good feeling when you come home into the SL Valley! Home is home!
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We want to take a few road trips while we can before the kids get out of school. Things are a lot less crowded that way, the weather is nice and the evenings are cool. By and large is easiest to take the van and stay in a motel where it is easy to get electricity for his oxygen and bi-pap machine. We can lock the machine in the bathtub and shut the door so that it is not so noisy!
It is getting harder and harder to be away from home for very long with all of David's diet restrictions. As bad as diabetes is (he's had it for 25 to 30 yrs.) The other diets for low sodium and kidney diet are a lot harder to control. The salt really gets to him when you eat out. Because his kidneys are not working well, the fluid builds up on his legs. Sometimes he can't hardly get his pant legs down. So we only eat out l meal a day and pick very carefully a klower sodium meal usually a salad with a meat that we can request it not be salted. Then we choose very carefully from the grocery store. He cannot have any luncheon meats not even the turkey because of the high sodium content. Fresh veggies and a few vegetables work well.
We never know when our last road trip will be out last! When he goes on kidney dialysis he will have to stay pretty much 24 hrs. from home. He will be on dialysis 3 days a week for 4 hours a day. I tell him to think of it as a part-time job, without a paycheck, where he can just sit and read!
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