It has taken almost a week to get settled in at our apartment in Logan, Utah. Our oldest daughter Stephanie and her two boys Layne, age 7 and Wieland, age 5 are also along on the trip. We were glad to have Steph help drive and the boys are a most enjoyable addition to any expedition.
We are staying in the apartment complex we stayed in 5 years ago.
Since our arrival on Tuesday, we have hiked the Limber pine trail and had a picnic lunch at Tony Grove Lake which is an alpine lake up Logan Canyon.
We travelled down to North Ogden to my favorite Army Navy store and the boys had a blast.
This week we meet with an engineer from Cache County who is to advise us on what we need to do to obtain a building permit for our lot in Avon. A complication has arisen after the county mandated a geological overlay which describes our lot in a landslide area. We are now in a position where we must underwrite a geo-engineering study to validate the state's claims.
We leave Utah on Sunday for a week long mission trip in Oregon. We have been going to the Warm Springs Indian Reservation for the past  7 years and have made many friends there.
Steph and the boys leave for home Wednesday and it will be very quiet here. I think I prefer the  commotion and joy of their company.

Westward HO

Headed back out where the sky is big and blue and the air is dry, really dry. Yeh.
Have to put a roof on the house and re-build a retaining wall this summer either before we go or after we return. The grand kids are getting bigger and we are bringing 2 of those guys with us on our trip along with their mom. We anticipate a great noisy chaotic trip.  Standby for lots of stories. Our youngest member of this expedition is a story teller in his own right. He has nurtured a tall tale about "Mooseman".  I don't know how he conjurs these stories but they are good and I have been encouraging our daughter, his mom to write all these things down as a seedbed for when he gets older and can't figure out what to do with his life so he will turn to writing. Brilliant.
Ok that's enough, my fingers are getting tired from tapping.
RP out.