Family Reunion

I have an image to add to my blog about the family reunion. I can't get the image icon to respond, nor can I turn off the bold face icon. So this is what you get. Perhaps I will show some images later, but for now, I am tired of fussing with the machine. It has a mind of its own and I am apparently not smarter than the machine.

Any way our reunion was held at Hoop Lake in the Uintah Mountains. The lake is so much on the north slope of those mountains that it is most easily accessed by going via the Wyoming communities of Evanston, Ft. Bridger, Mountain View, Lone Tree, and back into Utah. The lake elevation is above 9,000 feet. I could feel it in the breathing difficulty. All of my children were there with some or part of their families if they had such - 23 of us total. Mostly we interacted, entertained, hiked and fished. My first great grandson, Eliot was there and put on an excellent exhibition of how to enjoy dirt. I even did one of my increasingly rare presentations of "Ah, Ah Nickoshe." I am now seventy-nine years old. Maybe there won't be too many more such renditions. It turns out that my posterity knows better than I how the words need to be sung. After two or three attempts it got so that the words they told me to use felt right.

I fished for trout for the first time in many months. I got lots of help from grandchildren and children, but on my line I believe there were nine or ten trout caught over the three days. (One of the pictures I was going to post was of a trout that Zach helped me land. In focusing on Zack and the fish, I cut the heads off from Alex and Wilmar.)

Here is a statement from Clarine that can be taken as a compliment. She is amazed how well each of the family interacts so well with differing opinions with no one getting out of sorts or arguing. Opinions are just accepted as that and love and calm prevails. I am obviously very proud of each and every one.

When we got home, we spent some time getting clean and napping a little bit much.

(Kim has taken over the role as my mentor in blogging. If she gives me a call and tells me why my icon for "adding an image" is not responding, I may yet send a pic. Maybe she can also tell me why I can't turn the "bold face" type off.)