The birds and the BEEZ

Well, minus the birds, I found myself plenty bees this weekend. I decided I would do some yard work. I had just gotten done mowing the lawn, and started to work on the sprinklers. Kay has been telling me about a green box in the back yard that has had bees going into it.

Granted, had I looked into the problem 3 weeks ago when I was told about it, I may not have been as engulfed in bees, as I was, when I opened the top of the box. But on the other hand, it may not have looked as cool if I got rid of it three weeks ago right? To give you some idea how big it is, it is a little smaller than a basketball.

The Storm of the Century

UPDATE:The city is now into the storm by $13,000,000 for clean up

Well it was an eventful day in provo on 8-1-06. A storm called a super cell came in with vengeance! Here are but a few photos to share. The airport got hit hard. They lost two helicopters, may airplanes, and lots of structure damage. There was even a WWII P51 Mustang that got damaged ($2,000,000 plane).

The south west part of Provo looked like
a war zone. Trees, power poles, and power
lines down everywhere!

I was one of the lucky ones, I was on a detail where I was in a home, and escaped the rath. Looking from the inside out was cool though. It came in all at once, just a wall of water and wind. They say the rain came down so fast it accumulated an inch in 15 minutes.


Thankfully there weren't any injuries with the storm, but it left lots of people without power for several days. They had to call in Spanish Fork, Payson, Lehi, Murray, and bountiful Power companies just to help them clean up the mess. One number I heard, who knows how accurate it is, but 168 poles that were affected, and provo had 40 poles in reserve.

trying to get around the city was a joke just after the storm, from poles to great big trees that blocked the streets made it impossible to get anywhere.

the third picture down is where I sat for hours blocking the road. You know how at Christmas time two or three homes would be out done in lights, and everyone in the county has got to load up the kids and go real slow past the houses, and take pictures? This was just that, but worse! Drive by 3, 4, 5 times, and everyone had a camera or a camera phone. Ridiculous! And everyone had atleast two dumb questions for the cop that knows all.












Anyway, as of today, they are still cleaning up all the trees. Some downed trees still have not been touched yet. But they are getting there.

CANCUN!

Well here are a few photos of our trio to Cancun. This was our hotel, and beach front. Every night a kid would come out to the beach and line up all the chairs. They would be perfectly inline with each other. Because drinks were free, most people sleep late, this is what we saw every morning.

The food was impeccable! The grass awning just in back of the chairs is one of 4 restaurants. That one you could eat your food as you looked out into the sea.

because of the past hurricanes, both hotels to the side were closed, and gutted. The hotel we went to the first year was nothing but rubble. I would say 3/4 or more of the hotels were destroyed, and gutted. This made life on the beach nice! For 3 or 4 hotels in each direction, the beach was ours, no people.

We went all out with this trip. It was all inclusive. All the food we wanted, with a choice of 2-3 restaurants, and 24 hour room service, that was free, tips included. We had a great big pool, two hot tubs, a game room, putt putt golf, tennis courts, free water sports, activities during the day, a show put on by our hotel, and it's sister hotel down the road (music, dance type thing, with food), and night activities.


we also went on a horse back ride along the beach. That was cool! Half way through the ride, we stopped at a private beach where we went swimming with the horses! They just walked into the water to the point that they were swimming. At first we were not too sure about the idea, but it was well worth going in with them. They made such an awful noise, because of the pressure on there ribbcages, they had to breath differently. They said it does not hurt them, but it sure sounded like they didn't care for it much.

anyway, we loved every second of it. We want to make it a habit going there, the white sand, and all-inclusive hotel is addicting! If anyone is thing of going, first of all, let us know, we just might go with ya, it would be fun to have some one there to hangout with, and go into town (that is a trip in its self). And now that we have gone twice, we have several suggestions to pass along (like DON'T go through a travel agency, it will save you money).

MANA

OK OK OK....so it has been a little while since i have updated my blog. now that we have DSL, I hope that will change for the better. Lets start with MANA. She is no longer ours. We wanted to give her away so that Anson could run and play in the back yard, without a dog that would knock him down. The Dog pound was out of the question.

long story, short; we found a place that adopts out labs. In a short few weeks, a family of 7 came to the house, asked questions like, does she like hiking, swimming, and having lots of attention. This is Mana to a "T". So they took her home that day. We have not heard from the family, but we hope she has adjusted well.