Princess Sorina Photos

Princess Sorina Photos from Kimberly

Tyler as a Top Reader!

If you go to this web site and hit ctrl + f, type in "Tyler Trauntvein" you will see his latest accomplishment.  He was the top reader for his school.  He was one of 1,616 in the state that made it to the list.

 

http://www.bluejackets.com/ice/news/arts/2932.0.html

Torkil Dressoe 107 on Monday!‏

Kenneth Anderson wrote: There will be an Open House for Brother Dressoe on Monday at the rest home where he lives.

If anyone would care to send a greeting, the address is

Hesseløgade 6,
2100 Copenhagen Ø

You can also send me an e-mail (evt. with an attachment) and we will see
that he gets it!

We will be taking my mother-in-law, Solveig Als, who recently turned 92, to
visit!

Hav det godt!
Ken Anderson

True Blue at BYU

Myrna wrote:
Are you still alive??????
Love, Grammy

On Friday, February 17, 2006, Siovhan Lorelle wrote:

Siovhan wrote:
Yes, I am alive. Extremely busy but very much so alive. Midterms and papers are flooding my door but they are also facilitating a little thing I like to call breathing...sometimes almost unfortunately. Please don't worry; my roommates push food under my door 3 times a day. :)
Love,
Siovhan.

Myrna wrote:
What a relief! We thought you had been kidnapped by Gypsies. All of us have tried to make contact (Julie, AnnMarie, Gramps and yours truly) to no avail.
Love, Grammy

Siovhan wrote:
The gypsies got close, but were repulsed by the amount of paper I had on my desk. My phone has been on the fritz for a while now--our apartment has started to hate Cingular, my roommates Diane and Heather have had problems, too.

Another problem is that if I listen to a voicemail and don't call the person back immediately, I forget easily. I'm sincerely not trying to ignore your calls. I'm just bad at remembering to call people back. And my cell phone service was turned off for two weeks and I just got my new phone so it's working again, and better than my other phone, by a lot. It hasn't dropped any calls yet, or had problems like my old phone did (aka, not even ringing and then informing me [sometimes days later] that I had missed
a call and have a voicemail).
Love,
Siovhan

Todd's Photos Are on a Website

Myrna wrote to Todd: Would you, please, send photos to this address. I cannot open them on the Hotmail one. Love, M


Todd Trauntvein wrote: I didn't send any photos. I sent a link to a website where you can retrieve the photos.

Myrna Trauntvein wrote: Oh, OK. I did go to the link and saw the photos. I could not download them, however. I ordered some. If you would like them in the CD this month, please send me some to use for that purpose via my email. I love you. Mom


Todd wrote: You should be able to open them and view them and download them. That is a website. If you can't see pix on the website, then there is something definitely wrong with your file associations.

Myrna wrote: I could see the photos. I just could not download them the way that I am used to doing. I will need to see how it needs to be done that is different from what I am used to doing.

Bell Bottom Trousers

A Memory:

This is the song that my family used to sing to me during the war (WWII). All of them sang it, including Dad when he came home from the war. He was in the Navy, a SeaBee (Construction Battlion). I finally stumbled across the lyrics the other day. I remembered the tune but I could only remember the words to the chorus.

Tony Pastor Lyrics - Bell Bottom Trousers

1. Once there was a little girl, who lived next to me

And she loved a sailor boy, he was only three

Now he's on a battleship, in his sailor suit

Just a great big sailor man, but he's just as cute

Chorus: Bell-bottom trousers, coat of navy blue

She loves a sailor man and he loves her too

2. When they walk along the street, anyone can see

They are so much in love, happy as can be

Hand in hand they stroll along, they don't give a hoot

He won't let go of her hand, even to salute

Chorus: Bell-bottom trousers, coat of navy blue

She loves a sailor man and he loves her too

3. Everywhere her sailor went, she was sure to go

Till one day he sailed away, where she doesn't know

Now she's going to join the Waves, maybe go to sea

Try to find her sailor boy, wherever he may be

Chorus: Bell-bottom trousers, coat of navy blue

She loves a sailor man and he loves her too

4. If her sailor she can't find on the bounding main

She is hopeful he will soon come home safe again

So they can get married and raise a family

Dress up all the kids in sailor's dungarees

Chorus: Bell-bottom trousers, coat of navy blue

She loves a sailor man and he loves her too.

Irish Strawberry Scones

Ingredients:

1-cup strawberries

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (unsifted)

3 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

6 tablespoons butter or margarine

2/3-cup milk

Directions:

Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add butter. With pastry blender or 2 knives cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in reserved strawberries toss well to coat. Add milk all at once. With fork lightly toss together until mixture holds together. With floured hands gently form into ball. On floured board with floured pouring pin roll out dough 1/2/ inch thick. Cut dough into 2 1/2 inch circles with floured biscuit cutter. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake until golden about 12 minutes, serve warm with whipped cream. Yield 12 scones.

Joke of the Month:

Barty was trapped in a bog and seemed a goner when Big Mick O'Reilly wandered by.

"Help!" Barty shouted, "Oi'm sinkin'!"

Don't worry," assured Mick. "Next to the Strong Muldoon, Oi'm the strongest man in Erin, and Oi'll pull ye right out o' there."

Mick leaned out and grabbed Barty's hand and pulled and pulled to no avail. After two more unsuccessful attempts, Mick said to Barty, "Shure, an' Oi can't do it. The Strong Muldoon could do it alone, mebbe, but Oi'll have to get some help."

As Mick was leaving, Barty called "Mick! Mick! D'ye think it will help if Oi pull me feet out of the stirrups?

It was Paddy and Seamus giving the motorcycle a ride on a brisk autumn day. After a wee bit, Paddy who was sitt'n behind Seamus on the bike began to holler..."Seamus ... Seamus ... the wind is cutt'n me chest out!"

"Well, Paddy my lad," said Seamus, "why don't you take your jacket off and turn it from front to back ... that'll block the wind for you."

So Paddy took Seamus' advice and turned his jacket from front to back and got back on the bike and the two of them were off down the road again. After a bit, Seamus turned to talk to Paddy and was horrified to see that Paddy was not there. Seamus immediately turned the bike around and retraced their route. When after a short time, he came to a turn and saw a bunch of farmers standing around Paddy who was sitting on the ground. 

"T'anks be to heaven, is he alright?" Seamus hailed to the farmers. 

"Well," said one of the farmers, "he was alright when we found him here--but since we turned his head back to front--he hasn't said a word since!"

The Photo of the Big Moon Is a Fake!

Shawn Trauntvein wrote:

It's a fraud, in my opinion. I blew up the picture and looked at it (I did not do this while at work today, and actually drafted, but did not send the email before today). As you begin to zoom in, the sky amazingly gets darker around the moon, even underneath the moon despite the sun being on the horizon. As you zoom in more, you notice there is some odd pixiling right on the edges of the moon, indicating that it was cut from somewhere else and pasted in (or at least that it and the section of sky it is in come from a different image)--part of why I say the pixeling on the boundary is odd is because it does not match quite with how the pixeling is working on the edges for other objects such as the mountains. It appears the moon image was taken with a different camera, or has a different zoom ratio than the rest of the picture.

What else is wrong? Well fortunately the image master did not leave any stars visible behind where the moon's full sphere would block out, but knowing that the moon is a full sphere, and with the zoom that is taking place, the crescent appears to end too abruptly on each side. If you zoom on it, the light drops off too abruptly at the points (like they were chopped off) and even if that were not the case, you should still be able to make out the dark image of at least some of the sphere continuing beyond the crescent. Also, for as large as the moon appears, I am not sure why the craters and mountains on the moon do not show more clearly.

I have not quite been able to decide if the reflection of the sun on the water was
repeated/spread, but speaking of water. Notice how the wave pattern changes between the foreground and a little further back beyond the "reflected sun". The water foreground seems to be different than the reflection/water background. There also appears to be interruption of the pixeling through the water/mountain reflection area, in a somewhat overly horizontal pattern that indicates some tampering with pixel coloring that is not present in the mountains or other portions of the image.

Mountains, now it is interesting that this is said to take place at the North Pole (not just near it) and there is not a mountainous land mass at the North Pole -- it is an expanse of Ice and these do not just look to be mounds of craggy ice, but appear more like land-forms.

So, I will believe this is altered. Snopes (the hoax website) simply says they have "no
information on the origins of this image". One other web-site pointed out that the sun-to moon size ratio would remain constant (not change simply based on one's location on the earth), so if this were real, the scene would be viewable other places. He also points out that the moon is disproportionately large. One other person argued that the moon crescent would have a bit of a tilt, and that the apparent tilt of the crescent increases the further North you go, and that the tilt exhibited would correspond to an
equatorial view. I did note in the night sky that the setting moon did have a tilt to it's crescent, being somewhat higher on the right side than on the left side (looking towards the setting moon in the West).

Love,
Shawn

The Old Folks at Home

I have had such fun with the computer this past two weeks that it is a miracle that the newsletter is getting printed at all. Thanks for all the help in re-sending your information! Some of it was just lost. I had read it and then it was gone forever. Thanks to Allen, the computer has now been swiped clean and newer versions of most programs have been installed. He thought the problem had to do with a lightening strike and the firewire program. I have re-installed some of the stuff I have that he does not use and, I guess (until next time), I am back in business. One thing I feel bad about is that I lost a lot of the historic photos I had been getting ready to share. Back to scanning them in and getting  them ready. I just get upset when I have to do the same job over again. I do appreciate all of you sending stuff to me on the myrna@nephitimesnews.com e-mail. I just cannot work with photos on the old msn hotmail site. It is such a process to open them that it takes forever and then I cannot download them, I can only open them. They are pretty well useless that way.

Dad has been busy helping at AnnMarie’s and trying to get the walls up in the laundry room/bathroom here. He has the electric wiring in and some of the walls are up. He is having problems with his wife. I do not want a really low ceiling and some of the furnace pipes, built to grade, would take a lot of inches out of the space on the ceiling. I have told Dad that I would rather live with pipes showing than have a “cave” there. He is working on ideas and so am I. His fireplace is a hit. The gas bill has already gone down quite a bit. I am almost too warm much of the time I am in the family room. That is a new complaint for the “Frozen Myrna” that I usually am. Next up is a decision on what to do about the solar panels and solar water heating system. The big storage tank sprung a leak. We turned the system off and, believe it or not, our power bill went down. Hum! Now what? We are trying to decide what to do and Dad is gathering information. Maybe, now that we have the quick recovery gas water heater, the solar system is not needed.

This has been a stay-at-home month. We have seen some of you, but we have not traveled very much. We did go to the Conference Center with Kimberly, Shawn, Helen and Helen’s friend. It was the conference for national choir directors and we really enjoyed ourselves. We are also taking Siovhan out to supper and a movie tonight so she will know she still has grandparents.

Dad and I also went to the Pink Panther movie. Even though I am not a fan of Steve Martin, the current actor, he did do justice to the part and the memory of Peter Sellers, Dad’s favorite. The critics don’t like it but Dad and I thought it was OK. There is one scene, as usual, that could have been left out. Nothing happens but it is the thought.

We love all of you. We are so proud of the people you are becoming. Thank you. Thanks also for the wonderful grandchildren that it is our pleasure to love.

Meanderings

Just so you all know, if you look at any of the photo CDs we sent to you, you will find photos of the family--all of those who have sent photos will find them on the CDs. In addition, there are photos of the new people in the family this first year of life. I hope you all have the CDs by now.

Next, I hope you all get your St. Patrick's Day packages. Remember, you all have the luck of the Irish (which can be either a good or bad thing in and of itself) by birthright. Both LHT and MT have Irish ancestors. So enjoy. This month, I sent all of the letters to each of the kids and each of you adults in one big package. That means you will all get them or none of you will depending on the mail delivery. I have, quite frankly, given up. We keep getting letters back.

The mailman delivers the mail according to the return address and not to the send address. Dad keeps complaining to the post office but it doesn't do any good. It is not only snail mail but computer mail that fails me. 

My e-mail servers both send out multiple e-mails when I just planned on sending one. I get multiple e-mails from the same sender. In addition, I keep getting the ones I send to Todd, Melanie and Kirsten back as undeliverable. Go figure.

Those with birthdays and the one anniversary couple this month, should all be getting or have gotten cards in the mail. I feel like the old cliche: "The check is in the mail." It really is but who ever believes that when it never shows up? 

By the way, one of the people will get $2. I got new bills and they kept sticking together. When I finished, I had one dollar left and I should have had two (out of $50). But it is not my fault, I inherited "bug eyes" as one of my friends (?) told me on Saturday. My eyes bulge outward, like bug eyes, she said. I'd worry about it but I have other things troubling me. I am getting ready to blow away. I have now been diagnosed with dry eye, dry skin and dry mouth. When I die, I will not need a casket. Dad can just put me out on the porch on a windy day and I will blow away. That "from dust to dust" statement must really apply.

I love you all. Have a great week. M