The condo - Lava Hot Springs, Idaho
Dan's office - Pocatello, ID
Last week Clarine and I went to Lava Hot Springs for a visit of one week at a condo in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. We did a lot of things. One day we drove to Pocatello to visit Dan at his place of work. His sister-in-law, Karen Hill also works in that office. Dan, Clarine and I went to lunch at the Sizzler. We had a fun visit before driving back to Lava Hot Springs. It is only a short 30 minute drive between the two cities. We drove to many cities (towns) in the southeastern part of Idaho during the course of the week - Soda Springs , Montpelier, Ovid, Paris, St. Charles, Garden City, Grace, Treasureton, Oxford, Clifton, Dayton, Preston, Bancroft, Chesterfield, Round Valley, and several other places that don't come to the top of my mind just now. Dan drove down to Lava and spent some time with us Thursday. Among the places we went besides Lava were the Dempsy Creek area, Soda Springs , Hooper Springs, and we tossed some bread to the fish in the Portneuf River. At Hooper Springs we shot sling shots at some steel charcoal grills. We saw the geyser erupt in Soda Springs. It spews for about ten minutes. Clarine says it goes a hundred feet high. Dan said 35 feet and my projection was that it goes about fifty feet. Someday perhaps we will read how high it goes. This is only the first edition of the trip summary. I have some more pictures for which I will include another blog.
We returned home on Friday, and I mowed my lawn and winterized (burned out the gasoline and changed the oil) in the lawn mower. That night was Halloween. Clarine had about a hundred young visitors to whom she gave out a can of soda and a Twinkie or a Hostess Cup Cake. I told her word would soon spread, and surely enough we ended up with only a few Twinkies. She gets a real delight out of having all of those young people come. Her brother-in-law works for Hostess and provides her with Twinkies and cupcakes. He says that all she needs to do to repay him is to make some of her good potato salad, and bring it with her on a visit. We went right back to our temple assignments the next day. When we got home that night, I drained the sprinkler system and got it ready for winter. My timing was about right as it turned cooler today and stormed. gwh
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