April Getaway

When Spring storms dump on you, there is only one thing to do - Get Away to Hawaii!

So that is what we did in the fourth week of April last Spring. Our good friends, Richard & Lenore Snyder who live just down the street were on the Big Island for a month and invited us to spend some time with them and their cute twin grand daughters Naomi & Alexandra.

The botanical gardens were a real paradise of color.

Can't wait to go back again!

The Big Green Truck

In the process of cleaning up the yard at Dad's house in Springville last year, it came time to dispose of the Big Green Truck. It was a 1951 International Harvester Model R-152 truck that held lots of memories for our Dad but had not run in probably 15 years. It just sat in Dad's backyard and collected snow and ice and leaves and cherries falling from the tree above it. Andrew and I toyed with the idea of restoring it but we both realized we would never get around to it. So I put an ad on Craig's list and sold it for $300 (a little more than scrap metal price)

The fellow who bought it came and took it away on a flatbed towtruck. It was kind of sad to see it go with so many memories tied up with it. Maybe you have to be a "truck guy" to understand. But Mom understood. She wrote a little book called "Harold and the Big Green Truck" and gave it to me for my birthday one year. Maybe someday I'll have it published.