Mom has been busy! I heard that the temple in Billings was in need of an alter cloth, so I got a pattern from them and went to work. This is the finished product (looking a lot longer than it really is--it is 50 inches long)

Yesterday...Friday We, that is Elden, Connie, Bill & Ellen, went to visit Leon and Eva at St. Vincent's hospital in Billings. We found Leon in Room 532 in the stroke unit asleep. He is under 24 hour per day observation, someone is in the room all the time. That morning they had done some surgery to put a tube into his stomach so that he can receive nourishment because he can't swallow. He also has MRSA infection http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/understanding-mrsa-methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus I looked that up and found the indicated link which is a discussion of it.We didn't stay there long, just long enough for the nurse to tell us his condition and why they'd done surgery. It didn't appear that a long stay would be satisfying to him or us, so we went looking for Eva. We found her room just as Butch and Diane had stepped out, so we visited with them for a while. Then when the nurses finished what they were doing we went in and visited Eva a little while. She is looking better. She tries to communicate and appears to be making some progress. She seemed happy to see us. I told her that she had found a good place to hide out as I had a hard time finding her room. (But then I get lost really easily!)Yesterday was a long day. We left home at 5:00 AM, went to the temple and did our shift there until noon. Then we took in a session with Ellen and Bill after which we went and did the visiting. Following our visit at the hospital we went to the Golden Corral and you all know what goes on there! We enjoyed the meal and visit! Then, Connie and I went and visited a few minutes with Connie's sister Judy. To finish off the day we went to the temple again for the 6:20 session. Our ward was to be there...The Bishop and wife, his 1st counselor and wife were the only ones to show. I had somewhat of a hard time staying awake. I think I went unconcious at least twice! We arrived back home at 10:00 pm and went right to bed, we were really tired. And now this morning I am REtired, just got back from a long walk and I'm putting off mowing the pasture!

Ok. So here are the pictures we took on our trip today. I wanted to Narrate, but found that to be beyond my limited Blogger-deficient accomplishments. So, just the pictures and not in the correct order, and I see one of them repeated...o well. The ones of the lake are south of the cause-way showing how high the lake is at the present time. Now I'm to tired of this project to comment any more...hope you like the pictures.

I wanted to show you our trip to the mountains, but I'm having trouble getting the right order...apparently I should have started at the end so you could get it in the order we went. And I can't figure out how to "undo" what I've done. DUMMY!

From the same spot, different view.















this one is looking at the place where a big wind blew the trees down many years ago.
this one is on top just looking at some flowers...there sure were lots of them.



This one turned out ok!

We went to the Big Horns Today, July 4th. We went to Lovell, then toward Greybull. We took a side-Road half way to Greybull. I've never been on that road. We saw lots of desert which is what there is between Lovell and Greybull. We came out at the Bentonite plant in Greybull. I wanted some pictures of scenes there, but the batteries on the camera were dead. And I just charged them a few days ago. Must need some new re-chargeable batteries! We bought some regular ones at Ron's Food Farm in Greybull and continued on our way. We saw a sign a few miles out of Greybull that pointed toward "Devil's Kitchen." I've been there before but we couldn't seem to find it today. Wasted over an hour taking a couple of different roads but weren't successful in finding it. Just found a lot of places where they dig up bentonite. We finally stopped at the top of Shell Canyon a shot a few pictures, this is one looking back toward Shell.

These pictures are for your entertainment. Folks here had a good laugh, so you need to also. The "new look" is courtesy Annette. Should I go to work this way???????????????? Roland has been trying to get me to for 4 years. Annette also has given me a certificate for a ride on the motorcyle....dressed in these clothes obviously!