Kimberly Pitts' Trailer Burned

Melanie wrote: Kimberly Pitts' trailer burned to the ground. It was in the Pilling Trailer lot. She posted the news article on her Facebook. Just thought you should know.
Mel

Myrna wrote: Oh, great! Thanks for letting me know. Is she going to live with Uncle Bob?

Melanie wrote: I am not sure. She didn't say what she was doing. I wasn't sure she actually lived in the trailer. I thought maybe she was renting it out.

Myrna wrote: She lived there and it was her home. I wonder what could have happened. I had better get in touch. Thanks. I love you, M

Cousin Kim Pitts' Home Burned to the Ground

Ravenous blaze leaves trailer unrecognizable

The bare bones are all that remains after a fire demolished this trailer in Pillings Trailer Court off carbonville road, early Thursday morning.

Price City Fire responded to a ravenous blaze just after 1:00a.m. Thursday morning. 73 was not salvageable, but no injuries and no other damaged property was reported. Residents on Carbonville Road reported the huge blaze as if it were in their own backyards. Luckily the owner was not in the home at the time the fire began.

Price Fire Chief, Paul Bedont, and investigators were present on the scene later that morning to discover the cause. After learning of certain electrical problems in the trailer, the team believes it was an electrical fire possibly caused by a problem in an electrical outlet. Bedont reported it was hard to pinpoint when barely any of the structure was left standing and only part of one appliance survived.

Fire Chief Bedont recommends if you are having electrical problems in or out of your home, waste no time in hiring a licensed electrician to investigate.

Tooth

I went to the dentist yesterday (here in town) because I thought I had an abscessed tooth. My whole jaw was sore and there was a really sore spot by a back tooth on the left side where the mouth and the gum connect. Dr. Peterson said that I had a cold sore (type) on the inside of my mouth along the tooth line. It is just a type of herpes, he said, and would go away. He took an x-ray and showed it to me and said the teeth look pretty good. I have another appointment in two weeks to see if it has cleared up. He gave me some PerioRx but said that was mostly for bacteria and not viruses but thought it might help anyway. He did say that the tooth they pulled and put back (Lohner) looked like it had a spot that Jared might want to look at. He said the tooth may be eating itself from the inside out but he was not really certain.

I think this is really funny! Dad (LHT)

Wedding reception shocks family, possibly Rick Santorum, too

By Steve Eaton , For the Deseret News

Published: Monday, April 23 2012 3:53 p.m. MDT

Up until now weddings have been the kind of thing that happened to other people, but not to me.

I was married many, many years ago but I never expected one of my kids to get married. Both of them have acted like children most of their lives and two of them spent years being outright teenagers. They were not the marrying kind. They played too many video games, drank too much milk and kept their rooms far too messy to ever be the type to go out in public and get married.

In retrospect, I think there were some clues that my daughter, Sara, was thinking of marriage that I overlooked. Right after she got engaged, for example, she got that ring and started going through wedding magazines, started talking about matching colors. Then she bought this ridiculously expensive wedding dress and my wife was happy for her.

(At first I thought this might be a sign that my wife was loosening up on the financial reigns and that I could finally buy French bread pizza whenever I wanted. Instead, she tells me we are poorer than we have ever been before and that it's so bad that we may have to go to other people's wedding receptions just to eat.)

I found this wedding bliss stuff all more stressful than joyous. If you've ever watched any television or movies, you know that weddings attract disasters. Nothing ever goes right. Even Julia Roberts has trouble getting married and she seems reasonably attractive to me. And while I know that some of the disastrous TV and movie weddings I've seen are pretend, they can't all be pretend.

I wasn't so much concerned with the actual wedding part because I'm LDS and temple weddings are all done very quietly in a temple. The part that concerned me was the wedding reception.

As it turns out, wedding receptions cost way more than you think. You might expect it's like springing for Little Caesars pizzas for a room full of people, but it's not like that at all. I know that normal people, the kind of people who go out to dinner all the time and get to vacation in Hawaii, are unfazed by the wedding costs. But because I actually make less money than anyone I know, throwing a giant reception party for everyone was no small thing.

And it wasn't just our lack of money that had me worried. We don't have people over for barbecues or dinner because we only know how to make chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and how to make change at Pizza Hut. Actually, my wife, Barbara, has learned to make all manner of things chocolate and that's what people got who came to my daughter's wedding reception.

Barbara, who is a good person who can work for days and days for other people, stayed up all night several times before the reception making chocolate food for it. The Klingon in me wanted to just show my manhood and throw a first-class wedding by using our credit cards. She would have none of that and our guests didn't seem to mind.

I did invite this nice but crazy guy from the gym who has several times made up rules for me to follow so that I could be skinny, young and strong.

He would have not understood this wedding.

I was worried he'd come in and see all the chocolate decadence and smash everything, but he didn't come. That left us all free to have fun playing in the chocolate fountains and eating truffles, cookies and cake bites. There was chocolate on everything and everyone. I liked that part.

One thing I had forgotten about wedding receptions is that everyone who comes brings gifts. What a nice thing. Lots of people came and they all brought gifts.

The other thing I forgot is that none of the gifts go to the poor father and mother of the bride, the people who need them the most.

(There may be some of our friends who read this who will think that they were slighted because they didn't get wedding reception invitations. We followed the process we have developed over years and years at the end of the year when it comes to Christmas cards. We either sent out the invitations at the very last minute or plan to send them out soon. If you didn't get an invitation, your invitation will probably be in the mail by July.)

We didn't mean to offend anyone but we keep discovering key people we overlooked. We forgot, for example, to invite any of the Republican presidential candidates, which is kind of mean when you consider some of them are going through very difficult times and could use all the friends they could get. I hope it wasn't my fault that Rick Santorum just up and quit the race after my daughter's celebration. He looked like his feelings had been hurt.

I would have liked to invite the president himself because I like him, but there are lots Utah people who are sore at him for making changes he believed in and, of course, you can't just have the Secret Service running around a family event like that.

People still came and it was kind of strange to see my various worlds colliding. I saw people from my church talking with people from work who were talking with my actual family members. There were people from olden times and people from modern times. I don't think I would have been surprised to discover the cast from the TV show "The Office" mingling about the reception and loading up on truffles. It was surreal.

And we were surprised to discover that my daughter's husband, Brad, who my daughter brought with her to the reception, had invited a bunch of his friends and family to come, too. It was sort of supposed to be just a family deal but they acted like family — and they were very likable people. Immediately after the wedding and before the reception that evening, they threw an entire lunch for a houseful of people that featured real, thick cheeseburgers, salads and ice cream for everyone. They either have more money than we do or more credit cards. I suspect they are normal people who probably vacation in Hawaii.

Overall, I found it to be quite the traumatic experience and it took us days to recover. The next morning we stumbled around through enough chocolate-covered, color-coordinated garbage to transform a Dumpster into a work of art.

It turns out, after you have a wedding reception everyone cheers and goes home and then you have to clean up for days and days and take everything home. The good news was that because Sara and Brad skipped the cleanup part we ended up with all the presents, which I think is very cool.

However, we did come across one unsettling and disturbing discovery in the reception aftermath that still has us confused, frightened and bewildered.

It appears my daughter has moved out of the house.

Steve Eaton lives and works in Logan. He can be reached at Eatonnews@gmail.com

Melanie wrote: Wow! I can't wait. I am sure there is a Principal/Father out there who is praying for pay-backs.  

Love you two!
Mel

Re: 1,000-year-old Pilling figurine reunited with collection (Thanks for sending, AnnMarie.)‏

AnnMarie wrote: Are these the figurines Dad talks about seeing at BYU years ago? 

Melanie wrote: Re: 1,000-year-old Pilling figurine reunited with collection (Thanks for sending, AnnMarie.)‏ Mom, is there a link to this?

Sorry...when I sent the reply, it showed up in the missing text. Weird. 

Mel 

Myrna wrote: Actually, these are the ones that Grandma Edna's family owned and donated. She had a photo of the originals. However, the vagabond referred to was a family member of hers. For some reason, I think they started out being donated to the museum in Price but ended up being so valuable that they were transferred to the U and then to their current site. I will check with the sisters and see what they remember.

The link for the Pilling figurines article:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=20117209&title=1000-year-old-pilling-figurine-reunited-with-collection&s_cid=queue-6

LOGAN — One of the nation’s national treasures is back where it belongs.

“I am gonna say it, that we have found the lost Pilling figurine," said Dr. Bonnie Pitblado, director of the Utah State University Museum of Anthropology.

Last year, Pitblado received the object wrapped in a leather cover and a note that read in part: “Sometime between 1978 and 1982 I came into possession of this piece by way of a vagabond acquaintance. He had told of ‘acquiring’ it near Vernal, Utah. I have great interest and respect for this continent's native culture and have always hoped to somehow return this to wherever it had come from. … I am very excited at the prospect of it being returned to its proper place.”

Researchers weren’t initially sure it was the missing figurine. “When we first saw it, everybody had the same response, ‘Oh, could it be? It sure looks like it,'” Pitblado said.

The figurine is believed to be one of 11 remaining figurines discovered in March 1950 by Clarence Pilling in a small side canyon of Range Creek. The figurines, known worldwide as the Pilling figurines, are between 4 and 6 inches in height. They are made of unbaked clay and are decorated with applied clay ornaments. Each figurine is distinctive and shows evidence of red, buff and black paint.

They were all placed together in this particular setting, underneath an example of Fremont rock art with a few other objects as well, and left that way for a thousand years.

–- Bonnie Pitblado, USU

“They’re paired male, female figurines,” Pitblado said. It isn’t known if they actually represent real couples. 

“They were all placed together in this particular setting, underneath an example of Fremont rock art with a few other objects as well, and left that way for a thousand years,” she said.

One of the figurines disappeared while on tour in the 1960s.

Because occasionally people will try to fake the archaeologist, they wanted to make sure it was the real thing so they ran several tests. The figurines have fingerprints on them, so “we collaborated with the crime lab in Salt Lake City to see if we could possibly get a match,” she explained

They also conducted some chemical tests to prove that the clay was the same and that it contained the same protective coating that was placed on the collection during the 1950s at the Harvard Peabody Museum. The back of the figurines also have a very distinctive basketry pattern.

“The energy in the room was tangible when we told our colleagues at the museum over in Price,” Pitblado said. “I know for a fact, I was told that tears came to eyes, folks who were around when it went missing.”

Not having this figurine is like going to see the Mona Lisa and maybe not having the smile or having something across her face, she said.

It’s believed the figurines were made about 1,000 years ago. The Fremont culture is a pre-Columbian culture that inhabited sites in what is now Utah, and parts of Nevada, Idaho, and Colorado between 700 and 1300 A.D.

“Rarely, rarely do you ever have that happy ending,” Pitblado said. “So I am grateful for the person out there who had this and saw that it made its way back to the rest of the collection.”

The figurines were entrusted to Harvard’s Peabody Museum when they were found in 1950. Ten years later, the Pilling figurines went on display at the Utah State University prehistoric museum. The figurines also went on tour across the state and that’s when one figurine disappeared.

The figurine will appear with the rest of the collection at the Price Prehistoric Museum in May.

Pitblado will hold a free lecture titled “Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found?!” on May 5 at 1 p.m. at the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center, 490 N. 300 East in Price.

“To have the collection back together the way that it was originally placed by Fremont folks a thousand or so years ago,” she said, “that’s the most important thing.”

Contributing: Mike Anderson 

Myrna wrote: Do any of you remember the story of how the Pillings acquired these figurines in the first place?

Hey, How's It Going? Brigitta

Kimberly wrote: I'm in Detroit with grandma nonie for her sisters funeral. Sophie died Friday. Kids very sad. 
Call when you can. I don't have your Google # or your Skype. Your Skype numbers comes across at the main number for Skype and not a number I can call back.
Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!

Brigitta wrote: Physical address: hwy. 128 mm 17, moab utah 84532

Regular mail through us postal service: Hc64 box 4015, moab utah 84532

Google voice: 801-896-4746

Work number: 435-259-5179 ext 378

Kimberly wrote: Thanks. Have a good week.

Re: Promenade Photos for Alyssa and Kyle

Myrna wrote: Congratulations to Kyle and Brandon. That is wonderful. Which will he do, choir or band or can he choose to do both.

Give your neighbor a gold star from us to her. I actually could send one, I bought a bunch so I could give one to our bishop for getting seats in the conference center for Jared and girls. Did Kyle just not hear you or did he not have a choice?

AnnMarie wrote: He gets to do both, which will be a lot of fun, because there were some venues which were only for band and others which were only for the choir.  He'll do them all.

 

He heard me, he just was too involved making his date happy that he went anyway.

Kyle and Alyssa in Promenade Photos

AnnMarie wrote: Mom,
Our wonderful neighbor took a picture of Kyle and Alyssa doing the promenade.  I think I told you at Alyssa's recognition night that one of Kyle's buddies asked her out last minute because of strange circumstances.  So we told Kyle to wait for us to get to the promenade.  He told us "ok."  And then when we got there and texted him that we were there, he told us "um . . . we already went."  Fortunately for us, our neighbor's daughter had taken their prom pictures in our yard and was able to get pictures of them doing the promenade.  So here they are.  In Alyssa's picture, you can see Kyle in the background.

Also, big news for us.  Kyle was nominated as a Utah Ambassador of Music for 2013 European tour.  We just got it in the mail.  It is for band, and Alyssa told us she just prepared the ones for choir (she is the choirs' president at THS) and sent it in to the UAM office and he will be receiving a nomination for that as well.  So looks like Brandon will get to go with Kyle in July 2013.  I am so excited for both of them.

From: Emily Maude Snow wrote:

These are the photos I snapped of Alyssa and Kyle at promenade—hopefully they somewhat make up for having missed them!

Emily

Permanent Photosharing

MyrnaRae_2008, is a photobucket site which is password protected. The password is the same for all of you. It is something that starts with a T. Yes, it is a capital T.

MyrnaRae_2008 wants to share an album‏

MyrnaRae_2008 wants to share an album on Photobucket with you!

Check out this album on Photobucket!

My guest password is: If you want it, you have it. The clue is a name we all know and use.

Melanie wrote: These are fabulous! Thanks Mom!

Myrna wrote: Do you think this will work for sharing?


Melanie wrote: Braden has been posting his stuff on photobucket for the past two years. It is how we send him pictures from us as well.

I like photobucket.

Melanie

Myrna wrote: MyrnaRae_2008, is a photobucket site which is password protected. The password is the same for all of you. Yes, there is a capital for the first letter.