Please Help Me Out!

Myrna wrote: AGAIN!!!! This time I need Susan's address. I can't seem to find what I did with it. I swear that I have become completely mindless (without mind) because I can't find ANYTHING. I spend more time looking for things!

I hope you are all feeling better. I think I may never be the same. I still feel sort of sick (like unto morning sickness, if you had it). I am too old and since I have nothing left to have a baby with it really would be a miracle. But I still feel nauseated most of the time.

Love, Myrna


Kim Pitts wrote: Yes, this tummy flu is miserable!

Her address is:
Sue Marshall
1382 Scenic View
Price, UT 84501
her phone is 435-637-5511
and her work number at the BLM
is 435-636-3601.

I hope you get feeling better, it takes forever to go away........... I am still not myself and it has been almost 2 weeks. :(

Love, Kim

Howard's New Home

We are hopeful that we might be in our new house after December 16 which is supposed to be the day we close on the house.  After that we will be busy moving into it and fixing up the condo.  It will make for an interesting holiday.

 

Alyssa is in the Nutcracker on the 6th and 7th of December at Thanksgiving point.  Tickets may be bought on line at ticketmaster.com.  We are going Tuesday because that is when she is a party girl and a soldier. 

The Christmas dance recital is December 12th at UVSC.  And the school choir and band concert is December 14th at the school.

 

Brandon has still not been released and no calling has been extended.  So we will travel back to this ward for a while.  Brandon thinks it is not a good time to be released because he is in the middle of tithing settlement anyway.

 

Wally, hope you are feeling OK now.

We were thinking about you, Wally, and hoping that you are feeling better and, in fact, are now well again.

Leonard and Jim have been traveling back and forth between California and Nephi with loads of bees. Jim is not trusting any commercial drivers to help this year after what happened last year. He still hasn't recovered from the $150,000 business loss. So LHT (Tim, to you) and Jim are doing the driving themselves. It takes 10 trips back and forth.

Love, Myrna

Story from the Past

When Grandma Smith was a little girl, they used to look forward to an Orange, some peakedmchocolates and some hard tack in their Christmas sock each year. Great Great-Grandma Wilson (She was a Pritchett and was Great-Grandpa’s mother. Her first husband was murdered for his money, kept in a wall safe and she remarried.), ran a boarding house and was famed for her cooking. She would usually have the family at her home for Christmas dinner, which Great- Grandmother Mina would help fix. Mina worked for her mother-in-law in the boarding house. There were aunts, uncles and cousins at the dinners and there was always a lot of fun and teasing. 


Grandma Smith had an Aunt Afton, about her age, who was G-G-Grandma Wilson’s youngest child. G-G-Grandma Wilson would always ask Grandma Smith what she wanted for Christmas and then she would get the same thing for both girls. It was, quite often, a doll but could be something else like a dress or shoes. Whatever, there were always two. They would

be different colors, usually, but were always the same gift.

When Grandma Smith was teaching in Idaho those first couple of years, she would remember winters as fun times with fellow teachers. All were single. There were a couple of single guys who liked to come to enjoy desserts at the women’s dorm or apartment. One of the things they liked, when it snowed, was fresh snow which was scooped into a clean dishpan, then served covered with cream, vanilla and sugar.

Another favorite was Grandma’s divinity. I have included that recipe in a separate post. Think of how much I loved her when you make it! They also made panache and fudge. Those teaching girls could not have visits beyond a certain time of the night and they must always be all together. Remember, she graduated from Brigham Young Academy in 1910. Times were much different then.

She was a talented dancer as well as a basketball player and track team member. She lettered at BYA and received one of the first block Y’s given to a woman. When she was dancing ballet, she was selected to be one of two girls to dance with the famous Pavlova when she appeared in Provo. She and the other girl were both offered jobs as back-up dancers. The other girl accepted but G-Grandpa Pritchett would not let his daughter, Vivian, take the offer. The other girl danced for years and then taught ballet in New York City. Grandma Smith went on to graduate and became a teacher. She would wonder, from time to time, what would have happened had she been allowed to accept. She always ended up saying she wouldn’t change anything so it must have been for the best.