When we met on Memorial Day

When we met on Memorial Day. Perhaps we can all remember how wonderful it is that others have given to us moments like this. Lets do our best to preserve the freedoms we enjoy. Lets keep our covenants the best we can.

Start of a new Job

Here is a picture of Paul with his new truck and at the start of a new job.








Here is a picture of Duane also with a new truck and at the start of a new Job. We both worked at a company called Valley Protein. I started there after my mission. We traveled around northern California to many of the farms. In the fall was it was corn, in the spring it was oats and on the coast north of San Franscisco. Yeah baby!

Scout Inventory

We cleaned out the garage on Friday. This consisted of taking all the loose stuff out and finding the proper place for it to be stored. Many items were stored in the big black container just outside. That container is now heavy and full. The car now has plenty of room in the garage. We also identified a location to store a generator, and a home for the two burner stove. We also reveiwed our water storage and other various building materials. We also put up two new doors.

Along the way I found a great many items that have been well preserved. It was hard to throw anything out. I now have the whole bottom row of shelves. Among these items include:

• Wood carving kits, which includes the Wood Carving Merit Badge book, several different samples of wood to carve from, items I have carved: including a whistle, neckerchief slide, names, items in relief and in the round.
• Real Flint. This is a special kind of rock that when struck with steel will actually create a spark or split a steel shaving off. Once Dave Hansen showed me how to start a fire with flint and steel, I was on the hunt for some rocks of my own. He said he knew where some were, but he would have to travel miles out of the way to obtain some more. Well he did. Then Craig and Sarah brought home some rock without any elaborate story on how they obtained it. Now the steel is a different story. I found the correct steel at work, but it does not throw sparks well enough. The best steel Dave used was some old broken files. Maybe I will have to purchase some files at Harbor Freight and break them so my fire making kits are complete.
• An example of Lehi's compass. For the first AP Camp we had in 1999 I made a device that could resemble the Liahona. It even has a compass inside. It also has some strange writing on it. This writing is actually the theme of my Wood Badge course. And this saying is 'Beyond the campfire and forever'. It also has a small symbol for the 'Hale Bop comet' that we saw while we were on course.
• Name Tags. Now if you were to take a branch and cut it on a long diagonal you would end up with an oval about 1/4 inch thick. Then you drill two holes in it for string which holds this around your neck. You then write your name with a dark marker. This makes a great preopener. Everyone can make their own name tags.
• Bucket of Song Books. Again for AP camp I made about 200 camp song books in 1999 and again in 2001. We used them in 1999, 2001, & 2003. But for 2005 someone made Song Sheets and we did not use these books. So I ended up with a whole bucket of books. These contain some of my favorite songs. Silly songs and church songs.
  
• A's and P's in two #10 cans. Again for AP Camp I made A's and P's out of apple wood, then drilled a whole through them for a string that can be wrapped around your neck. The A and P were to represent Aaronic Priesthood. I patterned these after the TL beads we received for Timberline. (Ask Paul he knows what a TL beads are) These also were used until 2003. They were not as popular in 2005.
  
• Material for making Indian Heads out of clothes pins. And lots of cloths pins. Here was a great example of saying thank you for years of service. Kent & Nadine Johnson had made up these Indian Heads for everyone on staff for the past five years. After receiving mine I asked if I could help by making them. Well I got the can, paint, brushes, picture frames, and samples. For quite a few years I made Indian Heads and mounted them on glass with a frame. After 10 years they again found another project to say thank you for service. I have a book with my name on it with pictures of past camps.
• Whirley Gigs. The material for making these include twisted wire, clips, beads, bobbins, strips of paper for the propeller, and the instructions. For many years I made enough for each boy and parent. It got so as I was making about 600 kits every year. Then one year I told them that someone else needed to make them. It was hard to let this project go, but I had to do it. It was great satisfaction to see a father and boy attempt to assemble the kits. It was especially gratifying to allow the boy to discover this for himself.
  
• Rope. Raquel said we needed to find a container that would fit all the rope. It is as big as a trunk. Most of the rope is sisal, which is good for practicing all the knots a boy could want. Most of the time it was used for AP Camp or a PowWow and the Pioneering Merit Badge. I also have some specialty ropes. The poles used for lashing are stored offsite at the ward scout closet.
  
• Basket making material. For one of the camps I was asked to teach Basketry. This was way cool. We learned two styles of baskets. The round kind needs to have an odd number of ribs. This is so that as you weave out it always goes to the opposite direction on the next pass. The other style is a box style. This is where you hook a start then hide the end where you started, then go to the next layer.
• AX and Bow saws. One year Clyde Hawkins purchased two ax and two bow saws. We did not know what to do with these, so I ended up with them. Brand new and hardly been used.
  
• One Tub of Varsity training materials. Since I am the Varsity Huddle Commissioner I use these manuals for resource materials. We also use them for Varsity Leader Specific Training, which happens about twice per year, in April and September (or October this year)
• On Target Mirrors. The premier activity for Varsity Scouts is once per year on the third Saturday in July, Scouts participate in 'On Target'. They hike a peak, have a program, then signal to other scouts which have done the same on another peak. The purpose is to see if they are 'On Target'. These kits also include test reflectors called old license places, super glue, instructions, several sample mirrors, and raw material for making your own mirrors.
  
• One marshmallow gun. Yes a gun that is out of the case. I can get in really big trouble when shooting this gun. It is usually mothers that get after the children for shooting in the house or out of doors.
  
• Bees Wax. Not the kind you pull out of your ears, but from bees. This is a project in the raw. This is because I don't really know what to do with it. But it is just really cool to have my own bees wax. Maybe I will make some of my own candles with it.
• Leather working tools. When my parents lived in Meeker they made many projects with leather and obtained their own tools. I remember several sets of moccasins, then I don't remember anything else. So after my father left, I was given the set of tools. I have used them a time or two, but mostly it just sits.

• Finally one big computer disk. Now days we use thumb drives to store data outside of the computer. Before this we used 3.5 inch floppy drives formatatted to 1.2 MB, before this we used 3.5 inch floppy drives formatted to 750 K, before this we use 5.25 inch floppy drives formatted to 720 K, before this we used 5.25 inch floppy drives formatted to 360 K, before this it was something even bigger. And here is an example of a big and old external data device. You may wonder why I still have a few of these around. I suppose one reason is just to show you what was once used. Another reason is because I think it would make a great clock. Well if you take it out of the case and attach the guts of a clock, then assemble the numbers in the proper order, then a hook to attach this to the wall, it would resemble a wall clock. But this does not take up much space. And it is really cool.

Do you suppose Antique Road Show would be interested in any of this stuff?

Flowers around our home

Just look at the flowers around our home

Division B State Championship Game

Then there was the day we traveled to Weber State to watch the team Paul coaches. They were in the state championship game. Everyone that was anyone was there. It was the right place to be. Even tho they were 2nd place it was a great opportunity for all the boys to be in.

And then there was Mike Nelson, a freshman, starting, playing, scoring. Is there anything that is going to stop that boy? 

Hurrah for Becca

Meet my fourth counsins

On Friday May 12, 2006, I met my fourth counsins, Larry and Greg Dean. We missed our opportunity to take a picture when they came by to visit. So the next best thing was to post any picture I could of them.


Let see how am I related to the Deans?
Gary Hutton, Granville A. Hutton, Granville A. Hutton, Jeremiah Hutton, Amos McDonald Hutton, John Hutton.




Then there is Larry & Greg Dean, Vernon Dean, Mary Alice Hutton, Columbus Jefferson Hutton, John Milton Hutton, John Hutton. [Columbus and Jeremiah were cousins]



Then Becca really wanted to meet them also. As we were looking through the pedigree chart she was really suprized to find that we have a Chessman in the family. Yeah, that is what I said Cheese Man.

The no fire at Peter Boveys home

Rebecca wanted me to tell the story of how I saved Peter Bovey's home from burning down.

It all started in our home. One night we were watching cartoons. You know how young people are. They don't see the value in watching the NEWS. Mother was in the kitchen. She was probably cooking chicken on top of the stove. When all of a sudden she screamed. We all ran into the kitchen to see what the noise was about. My dad calmly put the lid on the fire, and the fire was out.

Then he showed us what happens when the lid came off. He was probably just having fun with us. He took the lid off, and the fire flamed up again. He put the lid on, took the lid off, put the lid on. Then came the boring lecture, blah, blah, blah.

It must have made an impression. Just a little while later I was over at Peter Boveys home. He was my best friend. We were close. We used to have sleep overs at each other home. At his home they had a trundle bed. It was stored under his bed, so to make it work, they just pulled it out from under his bed and lifted it up and snap - a bed. At my home I just remember sleeping out of doors in the back yard.

Well one time, Peter wanted to make some popcorn. Now the Boveys were known for their reckless abandon. Peter had an older brother Jamie, and an older sister Jennifer. Many times they just did things without thinking through the whole process. Peter showed me how to cut the heads off matches and stuff them into an empty 30-06 shell. Then you place this at the backend of a pipe that your friend was holding. It was kind of like a bazooka. Then you light the end of the shell and it shoots out of the front of the pipe. It was really cool. Many years later Peter showed me a missing digit on his finger. I asked him what happened, and he said, he packed the shell too tight, and it exploded in his hand.

Another time after a sleep over we were all sitting around the kitchen table having breakfast. Probably it was pancakes. Then Jennifer came in and announced that she just lost her virginity. There was a hush that came over the room, they then rushed her into another room. I had no idea what was going on. Peter even tried to explain this to me but I still did not understand. I must have been younger. Remember that Jesus explained "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven".

Jamie gave me my first motorcycle ride. It was a Honda 50. It was just about out of gas. He said when you are out of gas you just turn the throttle all the way open, and you can go for miles on the fumes.

Oh yeah, the popcorn story. It really would not make much impact without the background information about the family. Peter wanted to make some popcorn. This was in the olden days when the only way to make popcorn was heat the oil and popcorn in a pan and shake it until it is done. Well Peter got the pan right, and the oil right, and the seeds right, but we must have got distracted, because the pan just started on fire. Peter started screaming, just like mom. He grabbed the pan and set it on the kitchen floor. I was just watching the whole thing. I just put lid on the pan, just like my father. (I did not take it off, put it on, take it off, put it on, etc.)

I supposed it would have ended there, except we had to explain how the kitchen floor got burned in the shape of the pan.

As I think about this now, they should have given me a life saving award in cub scouts, but maybe they just wanted this story to be forgotten.

Wash The Dishes

I was visiting with my brother Duane on Sunday. We spoke of Spencer and which school he will be attending next year. He chose UC Irvin. Spencer is a pretty amazing guy. He does not drive a car yet. He has not even taken driver education yet. Then again he has lots of friends that love to take him around. We wondered how he will manage next year when he goes to college.

I then asked him what the other options were. He said UC Davis and Cal Poly in San Luis Obisbo. We then reminisced about the time we drove our motor cycles to San Luis Obisbo. We went there to visit his college friend Tom Countis.

The family ran a company call Countis Industries. They make a product with ferrite. They explained that if they change the properties just a little bit they could make fridgerator magnets.

Duane then asked me if I remembered washing the dishes. He explained that when we arrived in the home, Tom, his brother, and father had used every dish in the house. They had run out of all the dishes and silverware. They were using pots and pans to eat out of. I mean there was no clean dish available. Period. Duane and I got up on Sunday morning and starting washing dishes. We did pretty good, because when we finished Tom's mother came home.

Actually I don't remember washing the dishes. However my brother does remember our visit. But I do remember that I enjoyed the visit. You also need to realize this was before I starting writing in my journal. So I thought I would record this event here.

I bet you did not think I ever washed dishes.


And then I remebered these pictures. Here is Duane at Big Sur.










Then here is Duane and I also at Big Sur. We are sitting on a stump pretending to ride. It sure was a wonderful trip down Highway 1.















Then here is a picture of the time we went to Yosemite. You can see my gold Honda 750, and Dale Boreman (she married Jerry Fleming), and I can't remember the name of the other girl. I was taking the picture.

Two Hutton Books

This article recently appeared in the Church News. Larry Dean talks about his trip to Moline and the telephone book, and the book of Huttons which is 2 inches thick. Yeah.

You all remember that my Grandfather Grandville A. Hutton was born in Moline.

I am looking for a copy of this Church News. Does anyone have a copy of this page?

Thank you,

Madison Nelson the Smiler

Then Madison came by to play the piano. She was really hard to take a picture of. She kept on changing her poses. But she sure can smile.

Not too many words, lots of teeth, and an easy smile. 

The Big Nelson Prom Dates

Michael and Joseph were by to visit us on Saturday. It was a great visit. They seem like they are doing so well. Then Michael had to show us the pictures of their Prom Dates. Don't these look Great?

Plus you can clearly tell which one is having the most fun.
 

The Blessings of Joseph

I have been pondering the blessing that was given to Joseph. As I understand this these were the blessings that was given to him and all of his family. Now I am either a direct decendant from Joseph or I will receive the promises by adoption, as long as I keep the commandments. As I read these words, I can begin to understand how we have been blessed, because of the promises given to Joseph.


From Genesis 49:22-26


Joseph is a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:

The archers have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him,
and hated him:

But his bow abode in strength,
and the arms of his hands were made strong
by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;
(from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

Even by the God of thy father,
who shall help thee;
and by the Almighty,
who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts,
and of the womb:

The blessings of thy father
have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of him
that was separate from his brethren.

What is new with Rebecca

Who will be the first to describe what is new in this picture?
I look good here don't I?

6 more of Sarah

Eat your heart out Andy Warhol.

Some Pictures of Sarah

One of the favorite things my father wanted to do was to clip the fingernails of his grandchilren.







The girls around the pool in the backyard.






All the girls in the family.














The kids at Christmas time.











Then Sarah shoots the ball

Craig Yerke

Here is Craig at his first prom date. Then another one, what a hunk.

Paul & Becca and the famous Norman Rockwell Picture

John at graduation

Well who is looking at the camera? Everyone else is looking another direction, except John.












Same as this famous George Seuart painting.

Relia & Becca

Here is Rebecca with Relia. This was at her 100th birthday party.

Anna & Becca in the Closet

Now what are the two twins doing in this closet?