Utah Summer

This summer has been more typical of the weather in Cache Valley. Highs in the high 80's to low 90's low's in the 50's to 60's. Last summer we had 15 days over 100 degees and lots of fires. It has been hazy from the fires in California but that has cleared out. The wildflowers are wonderful up at Tony Grove which is an alpine lake above Logan. Deb and I went up there last Wednesday for a hike. (found a patch of snow and couldn't resist)

Life has settled down for now but it is expected to compress here in the next 2 weeks. I had an interview with Utah State Department of Engineering for a full time position with their junior engineering education outreach program. I would deliver the engineering modules to the schools throughout the intermountain region , in-brief the faculty on each of the modules they will be using then turn them lose with their students. Some schools also conduct an after school show and tell for the parents in the evening.

That's plan A. Plan B is already in motion. Contingent on Utah State, Oklahoma University has offered me a job teaching at the FAA Academy beginning August 18th. So you see, things will be happening very quickly. We either have to find housing here in Utah or housing in Oklahoma plus all the fun of a re-location. All this entertainment away from home keeps us out of trouble.

Chrissy is due to deliver her baby in a couple weeks and we plan to return to PA in August for a brief visit.

We are still processing our Warm Springs Indian experience. I down loaded a combined 29 gig of images including videos. How do you go through all that? I burned my first DVD with raw videos, no fades, music or any fancy effects. It's a learning process. The picture I attached is Bruce Farrant and I sharing images from the day. (Marjie, you would have been extremely busy trying to keep up with Bruce's passion for taking pictures)

Thanks for reading, I'll post next week when there's more news of our plans.

Warm Springs Indain Reservation

Hi from the Confederated Tribes of Warms Springs Oregon. We arrived here Saturday afternoon and met up with Linda and Bruce Farrant. The rest of the group arrived about and hour and a half later. We went down to a pow wow they were having here and it was really interesting. Lots of dancing, drumming and singing.

Warm Springs has about 5000 people living here, most live near the town of Warm Springs. Yesterday was our first day and for those of you who have been out with me on mission trips, first days can be good or bad. Yesterday was great. Not having any idea about our work projects or the lay of the land we had a great day. We worked at the boys and girls club replacing a window and scraping in preparation for paint. While part of the team was doing that another group went door to door asking people if they had any prayer concerns we could take with us. That was amazing and the team had great reports.

I'll have more to report from Warm Springs later. Right now I have to go to work.