Tour of Utah

Richard and I both got to work the Tour of Utah bike race. It was a wonderful experience for both of us. Richard got to work with some of the best motorcycle officials, James Abbott, Splinter Wren, and Cindy Yorgason. I had a great time working with Kinnin Payson and Harry Lam. It was quite the adventure as we had to score a Sinclair Hot Spot , then work our way back through the race caravan, through the officials cars and through the racers. Sometimes, I just had to close my eyes.

The downtown Crit was exciting, the crowds lining the streets to watch the racing. Richard leading the cyclist through the finish line each lap. He said he could hear people cheering for him.
What a great night. Rachael on the stand listing to the race radio, getting pulled riders for us. Roberta, filling in the spreadsheet to do the math for the pulled riders. Kinnin and I trying to keep track of the front and back of the field each time around. Harry ringing the bell and moving the lap cards. WOW! What a night.




It was exciting to be at the top of Snowbird as the riders came in for the finish. I had pen in hand and stopwatch ready as the first rider came to the finish line, JEFF LOUDER! A local boy! It was all I could do not to cheer and clap for him.

The last day we were out at Larry H Miller Raceway in Tooele for the time trial. We were receiving updates about the speed of racers on the back stretch. We could watch them race all over the track. I was able to calculate the race times in my head to give to the announcers pretty quickly. It all came together for the local boy again as JEFF LOUDER was the overall winner, receiving a check for $13,500.oo America's toughest stage race was a great time for all

Final Practice before Band Camp

Rachael is still having fun with Colorguard. All summer long they have had practices at 7 in the morning 3 days a week and one evening practice. The parade season is all done and they are working on the field show. These pictures are from the last practice before band camp. They do four days in Delta for band camp. It will be long days, and short nights. Rachael will have a great time.

Here is a sneak peak at part of the show.

Chloe and the Garden

We love our Chloe puppy. Chloe likes to be where we are, so if we are on the far side of the fence near the garden, Chloe thinks that she needs to be closer to us. To achieve this she leaps our "Creative" fence that is supposed to keep the dogs out of the garden. I guess that the fence sortof works, it does keep out 3 of the dogs.

We have a GARDEN!

We have tried lots of years to have a garden, and nothing seems to grow. But silly us we try again the next year and nothing grows. Then the nest year we bring in some top soil, now things grow but we get no fruits/vegetables. But what do we do, we try again and still no luck. So then we try some container gardening and we get a few tomatoes. They were good, but nothing like having a REAL garden. Now we come to last fall. We ran into Kevin Leake (http://bookofleakes.blogspot.com/) at a bike race and we told him that we needed something to make our garden grow. Kevin has horses and with horses you get manure. Piles and piles of manure.


One morning we get a phone call from Kevin, he is on his way to our house with a load of manure. This was not just a little bit of manure, it was a whole dump truck full of manure. We hauled manure all over our yard, filling it in around the flower beds and lots and lots and lots on the garden space. We added the grass clippings to the manure for the next couple of months, and then borrowed a tiller from George and Shirley Price.

Move forward to spring, we buy little seedings and plant seeds. We create a fence of some sort to keep our two dogs out along with Steven's two dogs. We water the plants, and of my gosh they begin to grow and they grow and they grow. The next thing we find is little peppers on the pepper plants, little green tomatoes, little honeydew melons. Oh my goodness WE HAVE A GARDEN. There is nothing as good as a fresh grown tomoto, even if they are all cherry tomotoes.


We are loving our GARDEN!

Happy Birthday, SEAN!!

Sean had a birthday today. He is now 6 years old. We had a little party for him yesterday, a BBQ with Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Watermelon and Chips. The usual Cake and Ice Cream for dessert and of course PRESENTS.















Special thanks to Gary and Fran for letting us have the party in their backyard, using their BBQ grill, then we didn't have to compete with the dogs in our backyard.













I know that is it hard to see, but the "HULK" tennis shoes Sean is wearing, he picked out all on his own to buy with the birthday money the he received form Great- Grandma and Great- Grandpa Anderson. Thank you!