Week of Sr. Conference

This past week has again been rather uneventful. We have been in town all week with no travel. Did not even go site seeing. Now the only exciting thing that really happened is that your mother got a color boost. I decided if I had made it half way I could get a remodeling job and since I haven't really changed the size of the body the hair will do. What do you think?

Now as for the picture of last week. Everywhere we go Dad finds it interesting that he never ever sees any bathroom facilities or gets told about any. So at this castle as we stood in this small area under these chutes we were told that this is the area that collected all the refuse from the toilets and if we looked up we could see the toilets. They had open bottoms in them and everything fell out to the yard below. Then she said that the one was a double decker and you had to watch out if you were on the bottom. Dad was impressed that he got an answer without asking the "dumb question."


This week is Sr. Conference Week and this time it is in Kiev. We will have the Williams stay with us for the next four nights which we are excited to have them. They are from Penigree and a really nice couple. We will be doing some site seeing and then have meetings and activities. There will be 10 couples, we have three new ones as of this month. Supposedly two more are coming but the Andersons will go home in Oct. and the Lees in Dec.. I have been trying to bake cookies for dessert one evening but that is always interesting to say the least. My oven has this idea that if it is getting to hot it just turns off the flame to control the temperature. And then it just cools off and does not relite itself - so sometimes I am not mindful of the fire and the cookies just don't get done at the designated time. Oh, well it's Ukraine!


These last pictures are the evolution of a flower bed during the growing season in Ukraine. They have replanted this same flower bed about four times . Spring tulips, early summer blue flower, hot summer just a few flowers as they wait for the heat to pass - early fall salvisa, etc. I thought this was pretty all year and they took a lot of care with the flowers.










We heard that most of you have already had the first snow of the season and it is not even Halloween yet. Actually I can remember getting snow one year about 29 Sept. but they did not report that being the earliest snow. Hope that is not an indication of how the winter will be in the city - mountains fine. We are trying to keep busy - at least we are still plugging along. Hope all is going well for all of you. The most important thing is for there to be love in each of your families, for your spouses and your children. Tell them that you love them. HF loves them. And their GP love them. Luv, M&D, GM&GP, J&J