Baby Hannah Surgery

Surgery was good. No problems. Baby's recovering fine. Everything looks good so far! If all goes well she gets to come home tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed!

Baby Hannah Update

The ENT folks at Primary Children's have decided that an operation is the best course for little Hannah. She's scheduled for 10:00 AM today. They don't enter into it lightly. New born surgery is tricky and difficult. They don't do well with anesthesia either. Please pray.

Hannah Mary Carter

Scott and Mary Ann's little girl was born yesterday weighing 7 lbs 6 oz and was 20" long. Here lungs were having some problems so she was admitted to the NICU last night. Here are some pictures taken tonight of Hannah still in the NICU. She’s breathing room air tonight and will hopefully be off the ventilator tomorrow!!!

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Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering

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Got to see (and hear) Suzy Boguss and some other great performers at the Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering this morning. Suzy’s clear and clean vocals are a given and she didn’t disappoint! The other acts were also great. Of particular note was “Hot Club of Cowtown”, a western swing band doing a lot of Bob Wills stuff. I bought their latest cd, a Bo Wills tribute called “What Makes Bob Holler”. I really need to get more into that genre. My knowledge up to now has mainly been an acquaintance with “Asleep At the Wheel”.  Brenn Hill is the male soloist. He’s a local guy and was also good. His friend Andy Nelson told some cowboy poetry. There had to be some of that didn’t there? He introduced a poem about political correctness with “political correctness is like trying to pick up a cowpie from the clean side”! Right on! It was obvious by the crowd reaction however that the morning really belonged to Suzy. She was the only one to get an encore. All sets were pretty short, but it was great. I’ll probably do it again next year.

Washington D.C. Pics

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Ants

We've had a problem with "Sugar Ants" in our yard for years. I've tried most of the chemical controls you can buy. Of the chemical controls, Diazanon crystals worked best but are no longer available. We found a better solution thanks to a tip from Shannon given her by a friend who's into organic methods of insect control. Her idea is to use ground up popcorn kernels as an ant bait. We tried it and it really works! All you need to do is roughly grind up a handful of popcorn kernels (un-popped!)  in a blender and spread the resulting grit on the ant hills. It's amazing! Within a few days you will see no more ant activity and no worries about toxins around the house! Give it a try. I believe it will even work for fire ants.

Albion Basin

Kathy and I took a drive up Little Cottonwood Canyon yesterday to enjoy the wild flowers in Albion Basin. Here are a few photos. I didn’t get shots of us since the parking lot was full and we had to keep moving, but it was a fun outing to a place Kathy had never been before.

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