Inflation

Brazil's Real to the US Dollar. I have never seen it this low!



Evidence that inflation is hitting the US.

Circles

Friday I got to take a field trip to Heber to find some stone that would look like Jerusalem limestone. I found some, and the quarry is just east of Park City!

Big Rock cutting blade at Delta Stone.

Sun Dog in Rexburg with two jet trails crossing it and aligned so that they cast a criss cross shadow behind them, just as we were leaving Jimmy Johns for lunch.

Easter

RaeAnn and I went to Music and the Spoken Word this Morning. We got "great seats" behind the camera man. President Monson was there. After we walked around temple square and saw the spring flowers.

New Mexico

Scenes from my trip to New Mexico.

Big Week

Went up to Idaho last week for the Taylor Quad project. Mommy and I went windmill spotting above Idaho Falls.

I visited Autumn and Amy on my way home. We made a slide out of a camping blow up matress.

Friday after work I drove up to Park City and had a slumber party with RaeAnn and Megan. We woke up to avalanche cannons. It had snowed 6" in the night. The next day we went snowshoeing through the sage brush. I found horses in a corrall and fed them sagebrush shoots.

I next drove to Midvale and we planned out a BBQ with the Cummins.

This is Jackson eating his after BBQ snack.

Katrina and Colin feed a stray, injured cat. He enjoyed the grilled hotdogs.

Proverbs

I found an old document that I put together which describes the wonderful gems found in the book that is called Proverbs. Here is a collection of answers to social issues of the day, as tackled by King Solomon:

CITY SOUND ORDINANCES:

Proverbs 27:14 "He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse unto him.?

URBAN SPRAWL:

Proverbs 21:19 "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a conentious and angry woman."

HOUSING DENSITY:

Proverbs 20:9 "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house."

CHILD CARE:

Proverbs 22:15 "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."

Proverbs 30:17 "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it."

HEALTH CARE:

Proverbs 30:33 "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, as the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood."

The Bluelemon (Or as Katrina calls it: The Bluemelon)

Friday night I went with some of the interior designers at work to the Rocky Mountain chapter of the International Interior Design Association Best Awards evening. We submitted the bluelemon to the competition. It won the Merit Award in the PLAY category, and also the People's Choice award. Marbe worked the room to get everyone to vote for us.

A grainy photo of myself, Marbe and Andrae accepting our award.


Marbe designed the space and my job was to figure out how to build it, and create the drawings.


The space had some complexity, like three layers of ceiling, as shown above.


This is the window that overlooks the Salt Lake Temple.