My first 10 miles back to running. The COVID lung set me back. A lot!
I decided to sew Rin a bag for her baptism. I haven’t embroidered in years. I had to dust my machine off and figure out how to turn it on!
Turned out pretty cute.
The family, minus Seth.
Rin is so pretty in her dress!
Went to the library and look what parking space I was able to park in. Electric car parking. I love it!
We went out to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. The fried cauliflower was pretty good. The sauce was a bit spicy, but I would try them again. Eli sweet talked the waitress into free ice cream. That boy gets free items out of everyone. A few weeks ago at Great Harvest he talked the ladies into giving him 4 cinnamon rolls!
Paul and I finally made it to the temple.
Eli has been begging me to let him ride his bike to Mormor’s house. So today was the day. I grabbed my shoes and ran next to him. My little coxswain encouraged me to go faster 🙂 I can’t keep up with him, he’s too fast! He had a lot of fun. We will have to take another ride to their house before school starts.
The Russians have swarmed three times. We failed to capture them, but each time they have come back to the hive. Time to split them.
Smoking the bees to calm them down before we take off the top of the hive.
That bee is poking his backside out! So cute!
This comb has some larva or baby bees. This hive is doing well.
We moved half of the full frames from the brown hive on the left to the white hive on the right. Then filled both hives with empty frames. I failed to get a final picture of the completed hives.
From left to right, we have Russians, Carniolans, Carniolans, and then Russians.
Miniature horses in the pasture today.
We did take a full frame of honey from from the Russians. 🙂
Removing the wax from the capped honey to expose the fresh honey.
This is a treat. Paul won’t let me take honey from the hives very often!
Paul wanted to start out our first backpacking trip of the year with an easy, kid friendly hike. He chose Kamas lake.
We started at the Main Fork Weber River trailhead. Note the distance of 1.5 miles.
The trail started out with a lot of dragonflies.
He needed a selfie with one of the dragonflies, ha!
It was a nice hike up.
Which way? Stay to the right.
We saw a few flowers on the way up. Not sure if we were a few weeks too early or a few weeks too late.
We passed this stream and thought this was a good hike for Eli. We were a mile in and thought this was a perfect hike for him until we turned the corner.
That’s when the climb began. The trail went straight up for a mile! Little Pea was NOT happy. We were not happy. It was a hot, steep, long, hike to the lake. We were not expecting a mile straight up, or the extra mile.
Finally! We made it.
2.5 miles to the lake. Not 1.5 miles. This was not a kid friendly hike 🙂
We set up camp.
Paul did some fishing.
Eli did some echoing 🙂
Eli was pretty excited to do some fishing as well. He wanted to use his new fly case.
I stayed back and read in my net bug free.
Eli joined me. What a cute dimple. 🙂
We ate dinner. Pasta Primavera. Paul thought his picture of me eating was funny.
That night I wore my comfy, cozy socks preparing for a cool night. The socks didn’t help. I was SO cold. Miserably cold. Between Eli and his snoring, the cold, and my insomnia, I think I had about 3 hours of sleep.
When daylight finally came Paul got out of his bag saying how hot he was. Turned out I was in Paul’s bag and he was in mine! Apparently my bag is thicker than his. I won’t make this mistake next trip.
The next morning we hiked over the boulders to the other side of the lake and had a snowball fight.
Eli thought this was funny. See his face. Now that is a genuine smile. Do you see his snowball? Yes, it hit us 🙂
Eli found fossil tracks 🙂
Back at camp we ate lunch, cleaned up, and hiked out.
Kamas lake was a beautiful lake to visit and we had a fun two days. With the downhill hike of a mile at the beginning of the trail and the 1.5 mile up hill to the lake, it was a hard hike both ways. I don’t think we will be back any time soon. Too many other lakes to check out.
Today we went to Myung Rang Hotdog. I’m the one who suggested this one and everyone was surprised because of the hotdog!
They have a table of sauce. You can either use their formula or make your own.
Eli’s is on the bottom. A sausage dog.
The tasty one on top is the potato hotdog. This one is mine 🙂
The outside is potato and the center is filled with cheese! All the meat eaters thought this one was the best! I would have to agree 🙂
After lunch we went down the street to Sweet Churros.
Churro with ice cream!
Chocolate and dulce de leche filled churros for this side of the room.
It was nice of Aaron to treat us to the churros. I drive past this place all the time, so it was fun to try. I wouldn’t come back only because churros are not my thing. Eli was begging to come back because he wanted the churro with fruit. For the price they wanted, I told him we will pick up three churros from Sam’s with several cartons of fruit!
The potato filled with cheese? Will be back tomorrow for another one!
We finally made it to the air show! The last time they had a show one of our Quarry Bend employees refused to come to work so I had to work for him and missed the show. Fast forward through the every other year they put on a show, the COVID years, and finally the time has come to see the show and I’m not going to miss it!
We took the front runner to Hill Air Force base and so did the other 500,000 people. We were crammed in there. Paul and I felt like we were back in London on the tube at rush hour! No seating or standing room. No need to hold on to the railing when the train came to a stop because we all held each other up 🙂
Just as we reached the Clearfield station the train conductor told us they were not going to let any more people onto the base because they reached capacity. We we got off the train and walked to the shuttle anyway. We came all this way. I was going to set up my chair and watch the show from afar. Good thing we stayed. After 1/2 hour they opened the base and we headed up there.
This simple trip to the base was an ordeal. We left home at 10:00 am and arrived on the base at 1:00pm! We were pretty tired when we got there.
The wait and craziness with transportation was worth it. We walked onto the base, found some shade, set up our chairs and these two came out!
Dad walked around showing Eli the planes he worked on when he was in the air force.
He talked my dad into purchasing the most expensive airplane.
It was worth it. He loved it!
He followed all the jets in the sky with it.
Finally the Thunderbirds came out!
F-16’s are my favorite planes. I absolutely love them! I remember being on base for family day. Standing next to the tarmac and having that first jet fly over us. It flew so low and so LOUD! I was hooked on these planes.
It was a VERY long day. We left the base at 4:30pm and didn’t get home until 9:00pm, but it was worth it! I sure hope Eli loved it as much as I did 🙂
Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron came and slept on our couch for the last 7 days!
Meet our nurse. Eli kept our cups full of water and brought us blankets when we were cold. For seven days he played legos and watched PJ Masks all day long. All. Day. Long.
I love my mug. I had this full of sprite every morning.
Eli: “Can I have Doritos for breakfast?”
Lrrr: “Sure.”
Yeah, don’t mind the bed in the living room. 🙂 The nights were brutal. The days were full of coughing, fevers, chills, extreme sore throats, laryngitis, and nausea, but the nights! Oh, the nights were the worst. Coughing, heavy and cut lungs, and the crazy dreams. I dreaded going to bed at night.
Eli watched TV non stop with us. When we were taking a nap, Eli was watching PJ Masks. He must have watched 4 seasons, all episodes three times.
When we were awake we watched cooking shows together. When I watch these shows, I have my laptop next to me downloading recipes. Eli wanted to do the same so he started transcribing the recipes. Every night, a new episode and a new recipe he wrote. Eli said we are going to gather our recipes, make a recipe book and sell it on Amazon. I love it.
This is Eli taking a shower! Okay, not quite, because I asked him to grab soap and he didn’t. 🙂 But, he is cleaner than he was yesterday.
Paul and I were reminiscing that we have had one flu/ cold a couple of years ago that cough was worse than this Omicron. But this is lasting 7 days. That other rough cold/ flu was about 4 days. Just waiting for Lrrr to leave.
This was a terrible way to start out our summer, but we are now immune for the rest of the summer. Time to enjoy the next few months!
We had some excitement last week with the bees. This is where we are currently.
Hive from the left to the right:
The brown hive has Russian bees.
The white box has Carniolan bees.
The decorative box with the cute roof has Carniolan bees. This is the hive that swarmed last week.
The hive on the right will be full of Russians after Paul splits the brown hive. That is if they haven’t swarmed and left already. We received another phone call saying the bees were spotted swarming again and then flew off to the North. Paul told the bees, “Good luck.” He doesn’t like working with the Russian bees because they are aggressive. Apparently the other breeds are calmer.
Paul doesn’t like the Russians and I don’t like the Saskatraz. Last year both our Saskatraz hives picked up and left around October. They took every drop of honey with them!
The two smaller hives in our backyard didn’t make it through the winter. Paul was diligent in brining them into the garage during the coldest part of the winter and we thought they were good. Two weeks before spring the warm weather tricked the bees and the cold snap that followed froze them. Paul said he won’t replace them until we move, because he doesn’t like mowing around them. I’m going to miss having a hive in our yard this summer.
We will have to see how our three hives do this summer and which hive makes it through the winter.
Yesterday, Paul’s parents neighbor said she saw the bees swarm, so we rushed over there, but didn’t see anything.
Paul went over this morning to check on the bees. The first hive he checked was the hive with the swarm he caught last week.
It’s doing very well!
How do we feed the bees? That top box is a feeder. We mix 1 lb of water to 1 lb of sugar. Heat the sugar to dissolve and then cool.
Pour the sugar water in the top tray. Both sides. The bees come up from the bottom of the hive and drink through the holes. They can’t get into the water and drown. After they drink, they go back down into the hive.
Paul went to the brown hive, the one suspecting of swarming yesterday. Paul didn’t get a chance to look inside.
Before Paul could open the top, he noticed bees were spilling out of the hive. Then the bees were flying everywhere. Maybe the neighbor did see them swarm?
A few minutes later they started to gather. Within 6 minutes we had a swarm on the top of the greenhouse.
Paul was about to get a broom and sweep them into a box, but he didn’t get a chance. As quickly as the bees arrived, the bees quickly left the green house and moved back into the hive.
The hives were quiet again, like nothing had happened.
Why are they swarming this year? Maybe because this is the first year were able to keep the hives alive through the winter. The brood has hatched so now they are too many bees for the hives. No room for all the bees so they pack up and move out.
Paul will be gathering some boxes and frames to split the hives. Hopefully we can be ready by this weekend before they swarm again.
The next morning Eli made me a waffle for my Mother’s Day breakfast. He did a fantastic job and it tasted so good. I was sooo hungry. He also loaded me up with donuts, a cinnamon roll, fruit, and juice. He is such a sweet little boy. Love him so much!
We loaded the car, check out of the hotel and drove to the McConkie Ranch Petroglyphs.
We started at the Upper Main Panel Trail.
I told my parents this would be an easy.8 mile hike. Ha!
My knees started to cry again.
Eli pulled my mom. My dad pushed my mom. Lulu went her own way.
We made it!
My little boy with Luci’s leash in his back pocket. He kept an eye on her the whole weekend.
Discussing with dad why I don’t remember this crazy vertical hike. I remember the petroglyphs being off the side of the road. He said that was in 9 mile canyon, near Helper. Oh… 🙂
I had to take a picture of this chunk of rock that fell.
If I hadn’t run 13 miles and stair stepped 4 miles the day before, this would have been an easy hike. It was steep though. We walked along the cliff to see the petroglyphs.
Another chunk….
And another. You would think this mountain was unstable 🙂
After we climbed down the mountain and back to the car, we talked to a Vernal resident. She said she ran the Dino half many times and it was a challenging race and the race description hides the difficulty. Yes! Thank you!! I now had confirmation that this race was challenging. 🙂
She also said the hike to the Three Kings is a nice hike. Not long. Just 1.3 miles round trip. I just couldn’t do it. I’m ready for the 4 hour car ride home with my slippers.
Since I have talked myself into running the Dino half again, we will do the three kings hike then. We will also have to bring binoculars to see the three kings as well.
