A Trip to Rush Valley
Well, it's been another week. So, I find myself trying to stretch my mind out to figure out what happened during the week.
On Monday, I got things figured out that caused the problems over the weekend. Everything stayed up and running without any further problems. That was all good.
Tuesday, I went with the Scouts (the two other groups were included) to Life Flight. It was kind of interesting seeing how they do things. We went into their dispatch area and talked to the people in there with what happens with procedures and then went out to the hangar. We were allowed to walk into one of the planes to see all the dials that mean absolutely nothing to me, and to see how cramped it can get with a patient or two. We also looked at the helicopter and then were able to look (from a distance - we couldn't go up into it) at a newer plane that doesn't have all the dials. It is more computer controlled. Anyway, I think the boys all enjoyed that. Unfortunately, my son was not able to make it to this one (he would've enjoyed it) because he had to do pep band at the school. My wife was able to go to Young Women with our daughter and have a small dinner with a yearly thing that happens with the Young Women program.
The next day that I can think of anything worthy to report would be Friday. I wasn't at work, and just kind of did a few things around the house. Then, in the afternoon, we decided that we would go for a drive up into the mountains and go into Heber City to eat some lunch. On the way there, my wife mentioned that it would be kind of fun to go see J.J. and Laurie out in Rush Valley in their new home/business (a country Store they have opened). We had no idea where it was, but decided that Rush Valley wouldn't be so big so we couldn't find it. The only problem was, we didn't know where Rush Valley was. We knew it was out around Tooele somewhere. We turned the car around and headed out for our adventure.
We went down I-80 and then passed Tooele. We were a bit concerned with the nothingness out there, so turned around on I-80 to go back to Tooele. We went into a gas station to ask about Rush Valley and the attendant there was kind of like, why would you be going there? She said it was 20-30 miles down the highway that was there. We got back in our vehicle and headed out. As we pulled into Stockton, we weren't sure what it was we were looking for. We stopped into the post office in Stockton, and asked a lady there about the Country Store. She knew the place well, and said it was a beautiful place. She told us to keep heading out. Had we not talked to her, we would've turned around and called it a bust.
We finally got to the Country Store, and had made an invalid assumption. We assumed that they would be in the store running it. Instead we found a couple of other ladies who were running it. Plus, the lunch for the day was a burrito which we didn't feel like we wanted. They said the J.J. and Laurie were out at their new place (Pennys - I'm guessing on the spelling). They said that it was between the railroad tracks and Stockton. So, we headed there.
The Country Store was just that. It was an old home renovated so it could be a store with their home upstairs and the store downstairs. They also had a mini restaurant in there to eat. It looked like a cozy place.
J.J. and Laurie hadn't answered their phone when we called so we didn't know what we would find. We did find the place (though it isn't marked yet) and Bill (we don't know him) was working in there. He told us that this was the place, but we had missed them by about 15 minutes. He told us we could come in and see what he was doing. We talked to him for a little bit and then he called Laurie's cell phone. My wife talked to Laurie and they said they would be right over. To hang tight. We had a nice, but brief meeting with them and found out that they will be opening Pennys in about two weeks. It looked like it needed a bit more work than that, but they probably know what they are doing.
Pennys is an old auto shop. They are converting it into a grill which is going to be called Pennys after the old owners of the place. They also own about 7 acres of a lot where it is with a small apartment on the back side of it. They are renting out that, and I thought they mentioned that there was another apartment, though I didn't see that. Anyway, we will have to head back out there in a few weeks to see about this new grill they are setting up. We finally headed back to Tooele and found a hamburger joint and ate there. We then got home from all of that.
Our son told us on the way home that today was the last day for him to register for the ACT tests to be taken in April. We had him do that as soon as he got home.
Saturday was mostly a cleaning day for us. We just stayed home and didn't do too much.
Today, we headed to church, as we do most Sundays. The first two meetings were the same old stuff. In Sacrament meeting (Fast and Testimony) we had a new member stand up and bear his testimony. He had the audience kind of in stitches in explaining what he thought about the LDS church before ever stepping into one. He then told us that the MormonAds make the LDS church members look about perfect but he has found that we are just as screwed up as everybody else out there. That all got a good laugh. My kids said, you mean all we have to do is make fun of our church for a laugh? I say, we should laugh at ourselves periodically just to keep some form of sanity in this insane world. My daughter liked Brother Wallaces dads testimony the best because of his heavy Scottish accent. In her words, "That is so cool!". Anyway, the rest of today was pretty mundane stuff in our mundane little lives.
On Monday, I got things figured out that caused the problems over the weekend. Everything stayed up and running without any further problems. That was all good.
Tuesday, I went with the Scouts (the two other groups were included) to Life Flight. It was kind of interesting seeing how they do things. We went into their dispatch area and talked to the people in there with what happens with procedures and then went out to the hangar. We were allowed to walk into one of the planes to see all the dials that mean absolutely nothing to me, and to see how cramped it can get with a patient or two. We also looked at the helicopter and then were able to look (from a distance - we couldn't go up into it) at a newer plane that doesn't have all the dials. It is more computer controlled. Anyway, I think the boys all enjoyed that. Unfortunately, my son was not able to make it to this one (he would've enjoyed it) because he had to do pep band at the school. My wife was able to go to Young Women with our daughter and have a small dinner with a yearly thing that happens with the Young Women program.
The next day that I can think of anything worthy to report would be Friday. I wasn't at work, and just kind of did a few things around the house. Then, in the afternoon, we decided that we would go for a drive up into the mountains and go into Heber City to eat some lunch. On the way there, my wife mentioned that it would be kind of fun to go see J.J. and Laurie out in Rush Valley in their new home/business (a country Store they have opened). We had no idea where it was, but decided that Rush Valley wouldn't be so big so we couldn't find it. The only problem was, we didn't know where Rush Valley was. We knew it was out around Tooele somewhere. We turned the car around and headed out for our adventure.
We went down I-80 and then passed Tooele. We were a bit concerned with the nothingness out there, so turned around on I-80 to go back to Tooele. We went into a gas station to ask about Rush Valley and the attendant there was kind of like, why would you be going there? She said it was 20-30 miles down the highway that was there. We got back in our vehicle and headed out. As we pulled into Stockton, we weren't sure what it was we were looking for. We stopped into the post office in Stockton, and asked a lady there about the Country Store. She knew the place well, and said it was a beautiful place. She told us to keep heading out. Had we not talked to her, we would've turned around and called it a bust.
We finally got to the Country Store, and had made an invalid assumption. We assumed that they would be in the store running it. Instead we found a couple of other ladies who were running it. Plus, the lunch for the day was a burrito which we didn't feel like we wanted. They said the J.J. and Laurie were out at their new place (Pennys - I'm guessing on the spelling). They said that it was between the railroad tracks and Stockton. So, we headed there.
The Country Store was just that. It was an old home renovated so it could be a store with their home upstairs and the store downstairs. They also had a mini restaurant in there to eat. It looked like a cozy place.
J.J. and Laurie hadn't answered their phone when we called so we didn't know what we would find. We did find the place (though it isn't marked yet) and Bill (we don't know him) was working in there. He told us that this was the place, but we had missed them by about 15 minutes. He told us we could come in and see what he was doing. We talked to him for a little bit and then he called Laurie's cell phone. My wife talked to Laurie and they said they would be right over. To hang tight. We had a nice, but brief meeting with them and found out that they will be opening Pennys in about two weeks. It looked like it needed a bit more work than that, but they probably know what they are doing.
Pennys is an old auto shop. They are converting it into a grill which is going to be called Pennys after the old owners of the place. They also own about 7 acres of a lot where it is with a small apartment on the back side of it. They are renting out that, and I thought they mentioned that there was another apartment, though I didn't see that. Anyway, we will have to head back out there in a few weeks to see about this new grill they are setting up. We finally headed back to Tooele and found a hamburger joint and ate there. We then got home from all of that.
Our son told us on the way home that today was the last day for him to register for the ACT tests to be taken in April. We had him do that as soon as he got home.
Saturday was mostly a cleaning day for us. We just stayed home and didn't do too much.
Today, we headed to church, as we do most Sundays. The first two meetings were the same old stuff. In Sacrament meeting (Fast and Testimony) we had a new member stand up and bear his testimony. He had the audience kind of in stitches in explaining what he thought about the LDS church before ever stepping into one. He then told us that the MormonAds make the LDS church members look about perfect but he has found that we are just as screwed up as everybody else out there. That all got a good laugh. My kids said, you mean all we have to do is make fun of our church for a laugh? I say, we should laugh at ourselves periodically just to keep some form of sanity in this insane world. My daughter liked Brother Wallaces dads testimony the best because of his heavy Scottish accent. In her words, "That is so cool!". Anyway, the rest of today was pretty mundane stuff in our mundane little lives.
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