NEW JOB, NEW SON, NEW GRANDBABY, NEW CAMPING SPOT

In the last couple of months we have had a lot of new things come up if you cant tell by the title. Yes! Tom has a new job! I will be teaching at EVIT starting in August. It will be part time to start off. They have asked me to help them get the diesel/truck/heavy equipment program going. This is a first for the country. No one has taught this subject on the high school level before so we will see what happens? One of the first things they asked me to do was spend $100,000.00 on tooling and teaching equipment! I will keep you posted!

Yes Louise has given us another Son! Lance Rogers, We are so glad to have him and we are looking forward to getting to know him even better. He is so good to Louise and really treats her good. Someone needed to! We were sick of her! Just kidding! Love you guy's!

We have a new grand daughter Nixyn! Hanna gave us a wonderful little girl. Tom just wants to eat her up!!! Check out Hanna and Billy's blog for pictures.

The boys and i found the greatest camping spot but it takes over three hours of four wheeling to get to it and you can only get to it with four wheel drive or quads. if you want to go let us know!

Butter Milk

Just A quick note about Butter Milk. I discovered Butter Milk about six years ago. I remember my Dad saying it is the greatest on a hot summer day when it is nice and cold! Do you know what! It really is! When ever I go shopping I usually pick some up and Ginny will surprise me with it so we will have it in the house a lot of the time. I have to be in a mood to drink it so it can be in the fridge a while. Mom told me once that butter milk never gets old so don't go buy the date. She is right! Last Wednesday we had a Job in St Johns but it went into Thursday so we stayed over night in Vernon. I found some in the fridge and it was anywhere from, well Ginny says a year, I say nine months. Any way I tasted it and it was fine! So we used it to make french toast dip. It added a zip! Today we used it in creamed green beans instead of milk. we have used it in waffles and pan cakes too as well as all sorts of recipes! So next time you go to the store pick up a quart or two and use your imagination if not for just a tall cold glass full on a hot summer day!

WARNING!!! Contents Could Be Lethal!!!!

The other day Ginny and I were at Jesse and Amanda's and as I walked in Paisley was eating and when she heard my voice she wiggled into a position so she could see me. She gave me the biggest smile! Who could resist but pick her up and just love her! Well one thing led to another and before you know it I was rough housing her and she was laughing and screaming with joy and then it happened!!!!!!

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do Unto Others

As I get older I have noticed how "Great Teaching Moments" will just all of a sudden come to mind. Am I crazy or does this happen to you?
Saturday after work, I took Nick home and he was telling me about a under ground fort he and his friend was digging in his back yard. I told him about all the under ground forts my brothers and I dug growing up. I told Nick about the last big one Randy dreamed up and how he hired a Brother in the Ward to Dig it for him with his back hoe. Then one of those "Great Teaching Moments" came to mind.
This brother had a son that was "different" and I remember my Dad telling us we need to involve his son in our under ground fort activities. I can't explain why but that simple advise really made a big impact on me. I was about nine or ten years old. It impressed upon me for the rest of my life as to how I should treat people that might be "different".
Thanks Dad and Mom!!!!!!!!

I STILL HAVE IT!!!!!!

Last October the boy's and I with some of there freinds went to Oak Flats just above Superior to camp out and do some four wheeling. I had told the boys about a job that Dad and I had done in that aera for a rancher in this little valley covered with bermuda grass and a wind mill right in the middle. But to get there you had to go down some wicked switch backs and back up them to get out. We burned up a clutch trying to get of that place it was so bad.

We left camp and we found that valley. It was the same as what i remembered but the road that dropped down in was not the same one i used years before. some one built another way in and it was nothing as rough as the old way. When we got to the bottom i found the old road. Man was it grown over and washed out. As I showed it to the boys they could not belive that i took a two ton service truck up that road with an engine from the machine we were working on in the back.

Well we went on our way but the whole time i kept think of that road and how i wanted to try it! I kept telling myself "You're nuts if you try that"! Well guess What! Yes "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING"!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!!! From Santa!

Two years ago we bought a Santa suit for me because we found out with my size and greying beard at Christmas time when I wore a white tee shirt with my red suspenders I had Little kids watching me like a hawk!



Dad playing Santa at Empire Mach. 1973
Also I guess it is a family Tradition. I remember as child my dad playing Santa. One time Randy, Curt and I went with my Dad to the old Gilbert Ward Building for a ward Christmas party. I was a preschooler. As Dad sat on the stage playing Santa a little boy yelled out "There's Santa"!!!! Of course me being me, I said "No its not, that's my Dad"!! Randy and Curt quickly tried to shut me up.



Dad playing Santa at Stapley's 1955 to 1960.
Tom Stapley asked Dad to play Santa because he was big and Rayles Chapman was gettting tired of doing it. (he had only one legg!!) Dad would pull wrenches for Stapley's untill 2:00 pm, get cleaned up, put the Santa suit on and play Santa till 9:00 pm. Kids from all over the valley would come and see Santa. He did that every year he worked for Stapley's.



Me at the Ward party with Carsyn and Paisley 2008.
This year was the first year I had a grand child old enough to start wondering. I played Santa again at our ward party so Amanda brought Carsyn and Paisley to see Santa. As Carsyn sat on Santa's lap I think she recognized my voice so she just looked strait into my eyes the whole time in wonder. just before I let her down she went to pull Santa's beard off so she could make sure it was Pa Pa. It was hard trying to change and keep it from Carsyn.
We have to lay my suit out so it can dry because I sweat allot in it. it was laying out in the front room one day and Carsyn saw it! She pointed at it and said, "Pa Pa"? I Guess next year we will have to tell her that Pa Pa is Santa's helper.
Some of my gigs have been: Nicoll family party, Ward party, Baker Family party, Chick fil a and Higley High. If you ever want to know what the latest hot item is give me a call.

A FREEBIE FOR A FREEBIE!

#%@&^% Hell
666 E 666 S
Joefield, Utard
84666


December 11th 2008


Baker Machinery
18302 E. Nunnelley Rd.
Gilbert, Az 85296


Hello,

I am writing to inform you that the repairs on the mower didn't help it to start. Cannot start it and it took a long time to to get a couple opinions as to the problem. However neither one was able one to determine the problem and unable to start the mower.

Please refund the charges. There are 2 charges on 5/28/08 $75 and $24. I know $75 is mower but am not positive that the $24 is or not.

Sincerely, %&*#@ Hell

(The names and address have been changed to protect the stupid.)


Wondering what this is all about? Let me give you my side of the story. If you remember my answers to my tag I said I was always the S.O.B. Well this is the prof.

My Bishop called me last year and asked if we could look at a car for a divorced sister in the ward. A shop gave her a estamate on work for her car. She had asked for Money to get her car fixed but Bishop was concerned with the cost. After looking at the car we determined the needed work was bogus. The only item was a power steering leak and that was fixed by tightening a hose clamp.

Well that is how we started dealing with her. Over time we would do things for her with the bishops permissions and we only charged what it cost us. In the mean time we changed bishops. The new one wanted her to be more responsible and to pay for the repairs so we opened her an account, she would pay five to ten dollars a month with no service charges.


One day she brought her lawn mower in because she could not get it started. We don't repair mowers so i took it to my repairman and for $75.00 he fixed it. We used it to make sure it was working good. She picked it up on May 28th and we never heard from her again.


Since then she has moved to Utard. about a month ago we got a check from her new bishop (sucker) to pay for her remaining balance which included the lawn mower.

Then we got the letter dated December 11th. When I opened it I said "You have got to be kidding"!!!
You be the judge.