Melanie Wants Photos of the Myrna and LHT

Melanie wrote: I love all the pictures. I have some of you and your family on our CDs, but I was wondering if you had more of your younger years? I have a few of the pictures of you with your Dad at the Pitts Farm, and a few of you from your childhood. Do you have some of your dance pictures, your school photos (like the one with you sitting in your gingham dress, with your hair braided on the top of your head)? I think the rest of the children would like to have these as well. You can send like you have been doing, via emai, then we can save them or print them off.

Thanks.
Mel


Myrna wrote: Over the years, I have sent most of my young photos, including the dancing ones, with other photos on those CDs that I send out. I hope you know, all of you, where they are. If not, let me know and I will find them and resend.


Myrna wrote: I will relook at my CDs. I thought I had uploaded all the CDs to my hard drive and I don't see some of them on there. I will go through the photos. I am loving all the new ones that you sent. You were so cute. I see a lot of your characteristics in some of the neices and nephews.

Mel

Myrna wrote: You are the one who was cute. Look at the next batch and you will see what I mean. Love, M

Gladys and Henry at Henry's brother's funeral. Killed in a mine.‏

Gladys and Henry Trauntvein

How to Build an Apple Press

Myrna wrote: I ordered the plans to make our apple press. The plans come with a DVD and photos. We can build our own cider or juice press. Three cheers! Well, technically, Jim and Dad can build it. I am certain that you, Julie, will be able to do some of the work. I do not dare use power tools.

I will turn the plans over to you as soon as they arrive. I am quite excited.

Toren's Arrow of Light Cub Scout Award

When:	Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Where:	Our Stakehouse

When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:30 PM-7:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada).
Where: Our Stakehouse

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Tentative date and time for Toren's bridge from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. Will keep you up to date. This is the current date and time. Under an hour with treats!

He had a very nice ceremony tonight.  He has one more week of Cubscouts—the Space Derby next week.

Chinese or Mormon Apricots

SWEET PIT, Chinese or Mormon - An early-bearing, heavy producing variety. Fruit is of good quality and medium size with yellow to medium orange color. Good flavor and smooth texture. Trees do well in colder climates. Good pollinizer. Ripens mid-June through mid-July. Does well in late frost areas. Skin color is orange with red blush. (Mid-late season/self-fertile.)

Myrna wrote: This is the kind I had as a child. We just ate the inside of the pits, the seeds, which tasted like almonds. We also baked with them--two crops for the price of one.


Eric wrote: Steve's parents have been tree fruit farmers since Darwin came crawling out of the primordial soup. The apricots do have to be sweet pit only, the others have high traces of cyanide good if you are a spy. The sweet pits pit taste very similar to almonds. I like them good enough to eat plain.

E.


Myrna wrote: Are these the kind his folks have--Chinese or Mormon?

Your dad, LH, also remembers eating sweet pit nuts. Do you think that, maybe, they used to be more common when folks started trees from seeds?  I don't know if they breed true or not. Actually, I have never had luck with starting apricot seeds and getting anything to grow.

Our poor apple tree (maybe a Jonathan?) may not have apples next year. It had to be severely pruned. It was so loaded with apples this year that, when that big wind came through, it broke a lot of the big branches. They had to be cut back. Poor thing looks like an amputee. It looks like the shade trees the Greeks at home liked and I didn't. I used to call them "screaming trees" with their dying fingers clumped together and pleading with the sky for help.

I guess we need to have Eric and Steve come and look and offer wisdom. How about it?


Eric wrote: I'll ask I'm sure he will he is quite fond of my parents.

E.

Photos of Leonard and Helen

Myrna wrote: 
Dear Jim and Karma: Tim (LH) said that these photos were actually taken in Michigan. He was traveling home from his mission in Denmark and stopped by to see Helen. If their mission president allowed, they could do that back then. She was studying to earn a further degree in nursing and was at Ann Arbor. This is actually not the ocean but the lake.

Love, M

Gladys and Henry in Photos From Jim and Karma Dixon

Gladys is First on Right on Fourth Row in the Ladies Local 001.

Gladys in Kenilworth as Older Lady

Gladys Rostron Trauntvein by Car.

Gladys During Wedding Summer.

Gladys' Funeral. 

These Photos Have Id Under Them.

Searching the surname Trauntvein: this I did not know

Eric wrote: I did not know this, just searching the name,"Trauntvein," I did this years ago and not much came up, now it is crazy. scroll down to Trauntveins.
http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearchresults/1,15792,4017-1-84,00.html

Go there and type in the Trauntvein surname and it takes you to the three names listed below. It lists the pioneer company they traveled in and their ages at the time.

E.

MORMON PIONEER OVERLAND TRAVEL


PERSON
Trauntvein, Jens Herman
Birth Date: 4 June 1828
Death Date: 17 June 1876
Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864), Age 36

PERSON
Trauntvein, Julia Marie Jensen Nielsen
Birth Date: 23 July 1835
Death Date: 16 March 1907
Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864), Age 29

PERSON
Trauntvein, Junius Herman
Birth Date: 29 May 1862
Death Date: 15 July 1921
Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864), Age 2

Myrna wrote: You didn't know that they were pioneers or you did not know about the list?


Eric wrote: I didn't know they were pioneers and I didn't know about the list.

E.

Sorina's Talk

Sorina's Primary Program Sacrament Talk

We wanted to share Sorina's talk. (We recorded her at home.) We tried to email it, but our email "freaked" out and would not send it.Enjoy.