We had a lucky day. We went to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert in Salt Lake. We didn't get tickets so we planned on standing in line a good long time (in the cold!) but, no sooner had we arrived, but someone came from the ticket office and gave us (Dad, Auntie and me) tickets for the performance. (Of course, Auntie had been there a half hour before we got there so she did have a cold face.) That meant, since it was just 3:30 p.m., that we could go to the Lion House and have supper, see the Christmas lights and still be inside (the doors opened at 6:30 p.m.) in time to get good seats. We got to enjoy the concert (and it was wonderful!) and I didn't have to freeze to do it. Hanging out with Auntie Helen is good luck, don't you think? Singer Brian Stokes Mitchell and actor Edward Herrmann were the featured guest artists for Ring, Christmas Bells, this year’s Christmas concerts by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. Stokes sang a number about the animals at Christmas but, he sang it in animal voice. What fun! He was here in September for the pioneer concert but we didn't go to that. Herrmann told about the writing of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Odd that I had already chosen that for my Christmas letter. Love, M
Friday, December 12, 2008
Lucky Day
Thursday, December 11, 2008
How Do I?
Myrna wrote: Does anyone know where to find the clock on the e-mail account? My clock is crazy and thinks the time is somewhere in the Pacific. Love, M
It usually takes it's time from your operating system. If not, then check your profile settings and ensure you have mountain time zone with daylight savings picked.
Kirsten wrote: it should be the same as your computer clock...
Melanie wrote: I don't have a clock on the email account, just on the computer. Sorry. Can't help you.
Mel
Myrna wrote: Thanks, but my computer clock is right on. My msn e-mail account is way off. I have looked all over and can't find a way to fix it.
if you are using outlook maybe it could help you
Microsoft Outlook® 2000 and 2002
Time stamps on messages show when a message was sent and received. In the case of Internet messages, time stamps also show when the message passed through each e-mail server between the sender and the recipient.
This information can be useful in diagnosing delivery delays for Internet messages. By examining the time stamp in the Internet header, you can determine which server caused the delivery delay.
Time stamps in Internet headers are available only when a message is sent over the Internet. They are not available for messages between two users who share the same Microsoft Exchange network.
View the sent and received time stamps
Open a message.
On the File menu, click Properties.
Note The sent and received times are displayed in your local time.
View the time stamps on Internet messages
Open a message.
On the View menu, click Options.
In the Internet headers box, scroll to the bottom of the text and find the time stamp. This is the time when the message was received by the sender's e-mail server. As a message travels from e-mail server to e-mail server, information, including time stamps, is added to the top of the entry. The time stamp nearest the top of the Internet headers box shows when your e-mail server received the message.
Time stamps in Internet headers appear in the local time of the e-mail server. In addition, a time differential from Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time) immediately follows each time. For example, -0800 means that the server time is eight hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This means that a message with a time stamp of Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:12:32 -0800 was sent at 18:12:32 UTC.
By default, the received time is displayed in a column in the Inbox. In Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002, you can add a column for the sent time.
Add the sent time stamp to the Inbox view
Right-click a column heading, and then click Field Chooser on the shortcut menu.
Click Sent, and then drag it onto the column heading bar. To remove a column, drag the column heading off the column heading bar and then release the mouse button.
Time stamps displayed in Outlook views are converted to your local time zone. For example, a message sent from New York City at 10:12:32 is displayed as sent at 7:12:32 AM if your computer is set to use the local time zone for Los Angeles.
Note You might notice cases where the sent time is after the received time. This delay might be caused by a difference between the system clocks on the sender's computer and on your e-mail server
Todd wrote: Well, since you sent this back out to everyone else, perhaps they have an idea. I have a couple of other things to check, but don't think the rest of the gang wants to be bored with the details.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
LHT's Heart Attack
From Shawn:
I had gone home for the weekend to work on my final for a formal logic class. Dad was out camping with the scouts. I was at the house alone when David got there and told me what had happened. We talked for a minute, then I jumped in my car and headed to the Nephi hospital. My recollection matches with David’s, that he had scouts to drop off still and that he was going to find Mom and Julie. When I got to the hospital and started talking to Dad, he wanted a priesthood blessing. Dr. Besendorfer helped give the blessing. Things then got hectic for a time. I seem to remember that (I believe) Mom and Julie then arrived. I cannot remember the trip to Provo, or about the visits after that.
From Myrna:
That matches with Julie's thoughts. I really thought that I was at home in the kitchen when David arrived. I bow to the three of you who remember that Julie and I had gone shopping for food. Love, M
From Shawn:
Maybe you got back home before David found you. All that I remember was that you were not home when David stopped and told me, and that he said he still had scouts to drop off. I cannot remember if he said Dad wanted me at the Hospital, or if I felt that was where I should go, rather than help him drop off the scouts. I do seem to remember that he said he had already driven from the hospital, and would go and find you and Julie when he was done dropping off scouts. Oh, I do remember that Dad was concerned (after the blessing) about whether or not the troop had won, because they left before everything was done, and the district had changed the format to try to keep his troop from winning for the somethingth year in a row. I remember him also talking about running up the hill, the pain, laying by the van, about the pain getting worse, loading up the van and driving quickly back to Nephi (and deciding after that it probably wasn’t the best thing to have done)—all the same as David has explained. I also remember that they rushed in an older lady while he was talking (I do not remember who, but I seemed to remember that I knew her or knew of her and that she lived in the northeast corner of town), she had been in an automobile accident and the airbag had gone off, and she thought it had not worked because it collapsed, and they were trying to tell her that was how airbags were supposed to work, and she seemed to be somewhat in shock. I think she was brought in right before you and Julie arrived. I do not remember how you got to Provo, or if I made any calls, or if I took anyone to Provo. Did you drive up, or go in the ambulance. Did Julie or David go with me, or with you? I will have to do some thinking to see if I can trigger some more of my memories. The one about the accident victim just came back today.
Oh, can you tell that I am up early worrying about my job change?
From Myrna:
Julie and David drove up to Utah Valley in Julie's car. I went in the ambulance with Dad.
Are we all getting a clearer picture? I am. Thank you all. Love, M
I had gone home for the weekend to work on my final for a formal logic class. Dad was out camping with the scouts. I was at the house alone when David got there and told me what had happened. We talked for a minute, then I jumped in my car and headed to the Nephi hospital. My recollection matches with David’s, that he had scouts to drop off still and that he was going to find Mom and Julie. When I got to the hospital and started talking to Dad, he wanted a priesthood blessing. Dr. Besendorfer helped give the blessing. Things then got hectic for a time. I seem to remember that (I believe) Mom and Julie then arrived. I cannot remember the trip to Provo, or about the visits after that.
From Myrna:
That matches with Julie's thoughts. I really thought that I was at home in the kitchen when David arrived. I bow to the three of you who remember that Julie and I had gone shopping for food. Love, M
From Shawn:
Maybe you got back home before David found you. All that I remember was that you were not home when David stopped and told me, and that he said he still had scouts to drop off. I cannot remember if he said Dad wanted me at the Hospital, or if I felt that was where I should go, rather than help him drop off the scouts. I do seem to remember that he said he had already driven from the hospital, and would go and find you and Julie when he was done dropping off scouts. Oh, I do remember that Dad was concerned (after the blessing) about whether or not the troop had won, because they left before everything was done, and the district had changed the format to try to keep his troop from winning for the somethingth year in a row. I remember him also talking about running up the hill, the pain, laying by the van, about the pain getting worse, loading up the van and driving quickly back to Nephi (and deciding after that it probably wasn’t the best thing to have done)—all the same as David has explained. I also remember that they rushed in an older lady while he was talking (I do not remember who, but I seemed to remember that I knew her or knew of her and that she lived in the northeast corner of town), she had been in an automobile accident and the airbag had gone off, and she thought it had not worked because it collapsed, and they were trying to tell her that was how airbags were supposed to work, and she seemed to be somewhat in shock. I think she was brought in right before you and Julie arrived. I do not remember how you got to Provo, or if I made any calls, or if I took anyone to Provo. Did you drive up, or go in the ambulance. Did Julie or David go with me, or with you? I will have to do some thinking to see if I can trigger some more of my memories. The one about the accident victim just came back today.
Oh, can you tell that I am up early worrying about my job change?
From Myrna:
Julie and David drove up to Utah Valley in Julie's car. I went in the ambulance with Dad.
Are we all getting a clearer picture? I am. Thank you all. Love, M
Hey, I'm giving you all a month...
From Kirsten Waite
For Dad's b-day I want to make a scrapbook with memories.... so here's what I need (please, pretty please....)
Please describe a warm fuzzy memory (or conglomeration of ) that comes to mind when I say the word, dad. (those are the only rules... this can come in form of a story, a poem, a song (if you feel so inspired), etc.)
Please submit all entries to me by Dec 31 (please, please, pretty please if you have time during Christmas Break). I don't need pages, unless you have the time and want to submit the pages.
Also, if you have time, send me some pictures (drawn or taken) of yourselves, family and dad. Otherwise, I'll be forced to snag them from Mom's CDs. :)
I love you all and hope you have a great holiday. If this is too much, please let me know and I'll aim for Father's day instead!
love and hugs,
Kirsten
From Melanie:
Okay, if you snag from Mom's CDs, I swear I might have to hunt you down. She doesn't take good pictures of me. I am always in odd facial contortions or self-esteem reducing poses. I will try to find something--anything.
Melanie
From David:
Mel, How about this one?
From Eric:
Isn't that from the movie, "Superstar". E.
From Myrna:
I cannot open the attachment. I didn't see the photo, so I have no idea. Could someone send it in a different format?
From Melanie:
Yes. Kirsten used to do this to make my children laugh, so we were showing her that we remembered it. Someone caught us....
Childhood Neighbor Gifts Received from Neighbors in Price
Taralles
Taralles are traditional Italian Christmas cookies brightened with fresh orange juice and a creamy slather of vanilla icing.
BY LOUISE SPINELLINapa, California
Taralles are great fun to make with your family and especially your kids. The kids love to help twist the dough into knots and ice the cookies.
INGREDIENTS
Cookie dough:
1 pound butter, softened
2 cups sugar
12 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 fresh orange (juice and rind)
10 to 12 cups all-purpose flour
10 heaping teaspoons baking powder
Icing:
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 drops almond extract (optional)
5 tablespoons milk (add more as necessary)
2. In a large bowl cream together softened butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Add vanilla. Grate orange zest from orange; add to mixture. Extract juice from orange; add to mixture. Blend well.
3. In separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Gradually add flour/baking powder to the creamed egg mixture, beating continuously to form smooth dough. Knead dough by hand or with an electric mixer until smooth. Place dough under a glass bowl to keep moist in preparation for forming the cookies.
4. Form each cookie from a small piece of dough about the size of a golf ball. Roll each ball by hand into a 5 to 6-inch rope. Twist the rope into a knot. Place formed taralles on a greased cookie sheet.
5. Bake 8 minutes on second rack from the bottom, until bottom is slightly brown. Move tray to upper oven rack and bake for additional 2 to 3 minutes until top of cookie is lightly browned. Allow taralles to cool before icing.
6. To make the icing, combine sugar, butter, vanilla and almond extract in a mixing bowl. Gradually add milk to make a smooth icing. Mix with a whisk. If necessary add more milk to obtain spreading consistency. Ice each taralle by dipping the cookie into the icing and then smoothing the icing around the cookie with your finger. Yields 190 small cookies or 160 large cookies
PREPARATION
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.2. In a large bowl cream together softened butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Add vanilla. Grate orange zest from orange; add to mixture. Extract juice from orange; add to mixture. Blend well.
3. In separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Gradually add flour/baking powder to the creamed egg mixture, beating continuously to form smooth dough. Knead dough by hand or with an electric mixer until smooth. Place dough under a glass bowl to keep moist in preparation for forming the cookies.
4. Form each cookie from a small piece of dough about the size of a golf ball. Roll each ball by hand into a 5 to 6-inch rope. Twist the rope into a knot. Place formed taralles on a greased cookie sheet.
5. Bake 8 minutes on second rack from the bottom, until bottom is slightly brown. Move tray to upper oven rack and bake for additional 2 to 3 minutes until top of cookie is lightly browned. Allow taralles to cool before icing.
6. To make the icing, combine sugar, butter, vanilla and almond extract in a mixing bowl. Gradually add milk to make a smooth icing. Mix with a whisk. If necessary add more milk to obtain spreading consistency. Ice each taralle by dipping the cookie into the icing and then smoothing the icing around the cookie with your finger. Yields 190 small cookies or 160 large cookies
DAD
Kirsten wrote: Hey, I'm giving you all a month....
For Dad's b-day I want to make a scrapbook with memories.... so here's what I need (please, pretty please....)
Please describe a warm fuzzy memory (or conglomeration of ) that comes to mind when I say the word, dad. (those are the only rules... this can come in form of a story, a poem, a song (if you feel so inspired), etc.)
Please submit all entries to me by Dec 31 (please, please, pretty please if you have time during Christmas Break). I don't need pages, unless you have the time and want to submit the pages.
Also, if you have time, send me some pictures (drawn or taken) of yourselves, family and dad. Otherwise, I'll be forced to snag them from Mom's CDs. :)
I love you all and hope you have a great holiday. If this is too much, please let me know and I'll aim for Father's day instead!
love and hugs,
Kirsten
Melanie wrote: Okay, if you snag from Mom's CDs, I swear I might have to hunt you down. She doesn't take good pictures of me. I am always in odd facial contortions or self-esteem reducing poses. I will try to find something--anything.
Melanie
David wrote: Mel, How about this one.
Eric wrote: Isn't that from the movie, "Superstar".
E.
Melanie wrote: Yes. Kirsten used to do this to make my children laugh, so we were showing her that we remembered it. Someone caught us....
Question for Christmas
Myrna wrote: Who wants money and who wants gifts for Chistmas? Love, M
Melanie wrote: BOTH, if you are asking!!! ;-)
Eric wrote: Mom
Mom, you should know better than to ask that of me. Thanks fore the option.
E
Myrna wrote: Now, why should I know better? I keep forgetting the lessons I should have (but failed) to learn. Love, M
Eric wrote: cAre my teen years a blur, always money. Not a lot, just enough to get something really cool from the Dollar store, hint hint.
E.
Myrna wrote: OK, all you smarty-pants. Following is the real question: Which of you, children and adult members of our family by birth or marriage, would prefer cash or which of you would prefer a present from the wonderful, good, kind and loving people known as Leonard and Myrna Trauntvein, for a Christmas gift from us?
Each family member must decide on one or the other (cash or a present) as a gift from us.
Siovhan wrote: Either is fine with me. I'm always good for cash and, if easier, a present works just as well.
Kirsten wrote: Whichever is easiest. My kids, literally, like both--opening the gift and the excitement of taking moolah to the store and picking out whatever they want....
kirsten
Melanie wrote: BOTH, if you are asking!!! ;-)
Eric wrote: Mom
Mom, you should know better than to ask that of me. Thanks fore the option.
E
Myrna wrote: Now, why should I know better? I keep forgetting the lessons I should have (but failed) to learn. Love, M
Eric wrote: cAre my teen years a blur, always money. Not a lot, just enough to get something really cool from the Dollar store, hint hint.
E.
Myrna wrote: OK, all you smarty-pants. Following is the real question: Which of you, children and adult members of our family by birth or marriage, would prefer cash or which of you would prefer a present from the wonderful, good, kind and loving people known as Leonard and Myrna Trauntvein, for a Christmas gift from us?
Each family member must decide on one or the other (cash or a present) as a gift from us.
Siovhan wrote: Either is fine with me. I'm always good for cash and, if easier, a present works just as well.
Kirsten wrote: Whichever is easiest. My kids, literally, like both--opening the gift and the excitement of taking moolah to the store and picking out whatever they want....
kirsten
A Winter Wonderland
Helen wrote: Dearest folks: we have a beautiful winter wonderland- from late morning to evening--the trees are sparkling with heavy snow and everything is beautiful. Myrna, will you please e-mail me back with the addresses for Julie, David and Siohvan, am doing christmas cards. Thank you. I will be calling you folks on Wednesday evening to verify our outting to the Conference Center on Thursday evening. Am really hopeful we will get in. Be careful in all you do. Love to you- Just Me HT.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Hey, Eric, are you upset?
Myrna wrote: I heard about the early morning call from all but you.
Eric wrote: No one called me. I'm not sick, it is the time to sell dead animals to people who do not know how to cook. I'm tired of telling them how to cook. Egads man google it! Now they can argue amongst themselves as to why it did not look like the turkey hack they saw on you-tube, it's the one after opening a car door with a tennis ball with a hole drilled in it, and before the car battery hack with four thousand AAA batteries inside. They look at each other with so much anger over a ruined Holiday that the blood is going to shoot out of there eyes at any moment now. Veins bulging out of their foreheads why didn't we just ask the butcher? They wouldn't have followed my directions anyway, how come, because they don't write them down! Duh! So from me all they get is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Besides, I touched their raw meat with my Bare fingers! Na Na Na Na Na Na! I then wipe it on my smock, as I go to shake their hand, to tell them how to cook meat. but alas it is to no avail, they have learned nothing. History is doomed to repeat it's self every Holiday season. Just so everybody knows, a fresh uncooked ham is just a raw pig leg, so in other words it is not a ham at all, just a pig leg without the cure, not the band, but a salt or sugar and sometimes both brine then a good smoking, which is what I think they, the members, have all been doing any way. I have a great sign from my gunsmiths door, "Due to the lack of planning on your part does not necessitate an emergence on my part". One more thing, hen turkeys do not have bigger breast meat than toms, once they are all gutted out and plucked the only way they can tell the difference is the weight, hens are up to fifteen lbs., toms go up from there. Yes, hen turkeys have smaller bones than toms, just like Humming birds have smaller bones than a Condor, size proportionate.
love all of you.
E.Myrna wrote: Is there a You-Tube (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljY0mXuaRE) you are referring us to? Turkey Frier
Melanie wrote: Yes, I learned from my mother, so I don't ask our meat cutter. He seems so frustrated whenever I see him talking to the older people where I shop. I often chuckle to myself imagining it to be Eric. However, when I did ask them to cut a chicken up into a "fryer" because our store no longer sells "fryer" cut chickens, I was disappointed in the fact that all they did was flay the chicken. I could have done that without the extra dollar it cost for the cut. I now cut my own chickens.
Love you Eric!
Mel
AnnMarie wrote: Ok, so I am just now getting to my emails on the home computer. This is the funniest thing I have read all day. I now have a new phrase for people who ask me asinine questions. (And it happens to me all the time, for example, "Does this mean I'm going to jail?" as they are being handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.). I will simply reply, "Egads, man, Google it!"
Love,
Ams (A fellow bare-hands raw-meat toucher who never asks a butcher how to cook meat because of a fear of sharp sticks and poked eyeballs.)
Myrna wrote: By-the-way, Eric, yes, they did call you. You didn't answer. See messages. We then thought that AnnMarie would certainly have gotten your one call. Love, M
A Winter Wonderland
Helen wrote: Dearest folks: we have a beautiful winter wonderland- from late morning to evening--the trees are sparkling with heavy snow and everything is beautiful. Myrna, will you please e-mail me back with the addresses for Julie, David and Siohvan, am doing christmas cards. Thank you. I will be calling you folks on Wednesday evening to verify our outting to the Conference Center on Thursday evening. Am really hopeful we will get in. Be careful in all you do. Love to you- Just Me HT.
Myrna wrote: Here are the addresses.
Jim and Julie Jones
11705 East 21000 North
Mt. Pleasant, UT, 84647
David and Arbree Trauntvein
29 Wild Goose Lane
Gunnison, CO, 81230
Siovhan Bolton
4175 Wagner St., #406
Eugene, OR, 97402
Helen wrote: Myrna, thank you much for the addresses. Tim called this a.m. we had a good visit-I always love talking with him and am so grateful the brother he has always been to me and the son to Mom and Dad, and the eternal companion of you, dear Sister, and father and grandfather etc, etc, etc. from Anna and the King of Siam- See you Thursday evening. Pray we will be able to attend the performance. Love you dear Sister. Helen
Myrna wrote: Here are the addresses.
Jim and Julie Jones
11705 East 21000 North
Mt. Pleasant, UT, 84647
David and Arbree Trauntvein
29 Wild Goose Lane
Gunnison, CO, 81230
Siovhan Bolton
4175 Wagner St., #406
Eugene, OR, 97402
Helen wrote: Myrna, thank you much for the addresses. Tim called this a.m. we had a good visit-I always love talking with him and am so grateful the brother he has always been to me and the son to Mom and Dad, and the eternal companion of you, dear Sister, and father and grandfather etc, etc, etc. from Anna and the King of Siam- See you Thursday evening. Pray we will be able to attend the performance. Love you dear Sister. Helen
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