We are ready for the popcorn popping trees!
But, first some spring skiing. I think this will be the last trip because the valley is heating up and the snow is melting fast. Paul and Eli had the mountain to themselves. Skiing in jackets is also nice.
Yup. That’s our boy 🙂
The sign of spring. Tulips! We brought these tulips home from Holland 16 years ago and they are still blooming. We have lost the Daffy Duck tulips and a few other special kinds, due to not separating them, but they are still doing well.
In our next yard we will order fresh tulips from Holland and make sure we take care of those. But we really enjoy our tulips because they look different and bloom a month earlier than the rest of the neighborhood.
The other day Paul stopped in the Bountiful store to see how it looks. Same machine but different front. Same everything. In the back, the same mop bucket in the same place along the side wall. Waiting to mop up the same water that leak from under the wall from next door.
Oh, my heart hurts thinking about all the work it took to keep these stores running. I don’t miss cleaning this ice machine!
Oh, the memories. This was a fun store to own and I enjoyed it. I learned a lot and will always value that. What is funny is the fan by the back table is still off. For 10 years I turned off that fan because a regular came in everyday for lunch. The fan created a draft so if the fan wasn’t turned off, he would turn it off. For 10 years every month when we saw our field consultant pull into the parking lot, one of my employees would dash across the restaurant and turn the fan back on so we wouldn’t be marked out of compliance. When our field consultant left, we would turn it off again. 🙂 Oh, I’m SO glad we sold. I don’t miss the games we had to play.
I am grateful to sell the stores and have the opportunity to be at school with Eli. He wrote this on my board in my room. I love that boy. He has a kind personality and is always thinking of others.