December 7, 2010

Pictures are coming!

Finished a nice day of cleaning, shopping, cooking, making store.lds.org work for buying some wheat.  10% tax now that we are in California.  An eye-popper when you see it, even if it is as high as 6+% in Utah.

We are spending more for food than we do at home.  I don’t know if prices are just rising or food costs more here.  Sister Daniel says we ate more out of food storage at home than we do here, cutting our costs till we re-up supplies during the year.  But, we have shrunk our cooking habits.  Here's the smallest crock pot in the world and we are using it:

Compare the size of the top in my hand with yours. 

Speaking of that, all of you, how’s your food storage coming?  

We stopped at 3 places to get a transfer cable to copy the cell phone pics  you send to us.  I would show you one of the pics of Livia and Tyler that Heather sent today, if I could download it.  Next time, maybe.  One of the stores we went to is ordering one for us.

Last week we spent 3 days from 8 am to 5 pm in class learning how to do Surname searches, finding birth, death, marriage records, probate, non-LDS Church records, the online Family Search’s Library Catalog and a  little on New Family Search.  After each lesson we had an hour to practice and use the training.  I believe I found David and Rachel Smith’s indexed Marriage record and will work at getting a photo of it.  If it is theirs, then I have Rachel’s maiden name, Ware.  Whoopee!  MANY THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN DOING FAMILY HISTORY FROM JUST 10 YEARS AGO.  One of our lesson books, below.  Enlarge the pic to read the headings.  We have another class in January.

Sister Daniel uses the steamer we bought to ‘iron’ our clothes.  It seems to work for items that need it.  A lot of our clothes do not, being cotton and polyester Wash N Wear.

See the Christmas setting on top of our couch?  Phyllis did that!

Brother Daniel

I have been reading the biography of President Monson and really enjoy learning of his life.  He has a whole chapter on there are “no coincidences”.  At prayer meetings there has been a lot of talk of being grateful for things.  In my own study I have been focusing on the fact that everything we do has a purpose and there is no reason to get upset if things don’t go your way.  Well, today as we were looking for the transfer cable and some yarn so I could knit, we were not having any luck and I was becoming frustrated.  Then I remembered that things don’t happen for nothing, just enjoy the driving and just let things happen.  Well, one of the things I wanted to get was something to hold my scriptures in that will hold the RS & Sunday School manual also.  I went to the distribution center downstairs and couldn’t find anything, I couldn’t even think of anyplace other than the distribution center that would carry such a thing.  Well, in our travels, we came across Marshalls (never seen it before).  We went inside and I thought – a bag – a women’s bag would hold everything.  Well, we found one.  I couldn’t believe how great it would work and also it was only $15.  Got home and everything fits great-even room for my hankie!!!  

Send us phone or emails with pictures.  We love to see what is happening.

Love, Sister Daniel