Well it is Oct. now we have some of the leaves changing the weather is turning football is being played, clouds have been red, life is great.
We harvested our garden this last week. One plastic bag of potato's, some peppers, squash, tomato's, onion, and carrots. Won't grow underground stuff it doesn't grow and what does has lots of bugs.
We have lots of cactus on the place so I decided to just cut it down and skin it. it's pretty dangerous and easy to stalk except when the wind is blowing the limps start to jump around and I have to be quick to keep from getting stuck, lot's of fun though.
I got to talk to a man yesterday that had at the age of sixteen joined the army to fight in WW II he had a lot of good stories to tell of how they had to melt out the enemy as they were in the great white north. He was from Kansas I think I had been through his town when we used to visit my grandparents in KC MO. He also fought in the Korean conflict said it was colder there than Alaska I don't know.
As I got ready to leave he looked at me and said he was Mormon too joined in 58 hadn't been active for along time. I asked him if he would like some one to stop by and talk about that and he said yes he would.
Ya never know who, or where you might meet someone so it is best to be good and not have to say your sorry for not being good.
Love Dad

Two more days and it will be Oct. It is hard to believe that this is going by so quick. The weather is feeling like fall and the temp has dropped some but it is not cold it is barely cool in the mornings when we walk.
Sis Lowery is running most of two miles how and I can walk again I am doing two to two and a quarter in thirty to thirty five min. so I think that is pretty good for someone as old as we are.
We went to a state park Sat. It is a place that would be good in the winter but a very hot one any other time. the formations are made from old lava flows the same that made the copper deposits and places like the cat walk that I pictured here before.
we also went to a town celebration it was small but alot of people were there.
We have been low on people at church though we have had many come just at different day's.
we went to the college's football game they lost to a team from Colorado it was kind of fun to see a game live maybe we can get to the high school game. More people attend them than any others I can see why.
Also this old fort had a celebration it would have been a great place to have a Dutch Oven contest maybe we can get one going for next year.

See ya'll in a minute
Dad

September the 20th 36 years and one

Can anyone remember what was going on a year ago today? I guess maybe not. Thirty six years ago it was a wild and windy day for Sis Lowery and I. It is hard to believe that we have been married for thirty six years. I can still remember being thirty six and all those young kids we had.
I wish I had some of the pictures from that time I would post them and then you would all make rude comments about how graceful we had aged.
It is great that we get to share this date with Lesa and Gavin and wish them happy anniversary
and next year we can celebrate together along with the rest of the family.
The weather here is really crazy with the rains turning everthing green it seems just like spring with the cooler temps. The deer are still in the velvet and we have four bucks on the property some time each day. We had a deer roast that we cooked for the Elders last Friday along with potato's and corn bread and home made gravy it was pretty good even Sis Lowery liked it.
We are happy and things are going well.
Love Mom and Dad

well it has almost been a month. We had a melt down with the computor last month and did a factory restore. I almost deceided not to even post another blog as that experenince was very tramatic for me. We can hardly believe that another month has gone by and today is the openning of dove season up home. Some of the archery hunts have openned up down here and look what I found in the back yard. this buck was with two others and they hardly cared if we were there or not.

Life has been fine our garden has been producing alot of tomato's and even more squrriels. I think next year we will do the upside down tomato's so the wild life doesn't get it.

Alot of the memebers have returned to the out of town schools, we are trying to help incourage some of the members here who haven't been out to stop by and visit so they might feel like they can attend church and activities with us.

We have done another peach cobbler evening with one of the wards here and one with the college so I can still even after one month layoff I remembered how.

See ya later

Elder Lowery

storms

Yesterday evening we had quite a outdoor show. There were different storm cells across the sky with alot of lighting. Some rain would fall and when it did it was very heavy but one could go a couple of blocks and it be bone dry. One of the members own a ranch to the south of town and as we watched the lighting we realized that there was some also we texted them they said that the fire was on their ranch and they were fighting it. The crew of fire fighters that were up the canyon mopping up a fire there came down and a couple of different volunteer deptments came to help fight the fire when another storm cell came by and put the fire out I am not sure how much burned but it is very dry here and rain is really needed.
We are grateful to be here and are glad that we have had this opportunity to serve. I know it's because so many of you have given your support and our children have taken on so much of the responsiblities that were ours.
Love you all
Dad

July is gone

We have had a great time this month. We have had three activities with the YSA this month one camping, one temple, oh we are going to the cat walk tomorrow which is August not July. I had fun
trapping the rodents of the area. Cutting down jumping cactus to carve into music batons finding I don't like the needles from them stuck in my paw, had more variety in the humming birds that came to the feeder, trapped more rodents, saw deer just outside the fence wondering how the corn would taste, fawns, trapped more rodents, picked squash, ate some cheery tomatoes , waiting for the large tomatoes, had a strawberry, watched lighting, dodged waterfalls from the sky,almost burn out new breaks coming down a steep canyon, saw an old building come down on campus and another one start up, had students graduate, new students come, friendships start between, gasp, young men and young women, finished a mission Prep class, an institute class, and have two of the members, leave on mission's. Well in August they will. Fixed some electrical problem's for a couple of members cooked dutch oven meals, fixed rusted dutch ovens, read books, listened to cd's teaching us how to teach, went to a twenty fourth of July celebration in Demming and that donesn't include all that Mom has done.
Love Dad

Squirrel's, roads, and fun

Tomorrow is the twenty fourth we should be in the monsoon season we get lots of clouds and thunder and little rain. We did get a couple of showers and things started to flood so I don't know just what would it would be like with a couple of hours of rain.
I have been having fun trapping critters in the garden. we have as of today six squirrel, mice, one kangaroo rat, bugs, and we could catch rabbits if we opened the gate. The deer have yet to jump the fence and eat the corn.
We went to Mongollon Wednesday cause the cleaners came around one made us leave. Mongollon Pronounced " Mogeeon" it is an old mining town in a narrow canyon a baseball could be thrown from one house to the other with no trouble at all. It is also at the bottom of a steep climb in and out being mostly a one lane road and when it rains it cause's rock slides on the road , we almost burned out our brakes coming out, but finally the lower gears were engaged the speed limit was fifteen mph. and that was fast.
We have been live trapping and yesterday we had hauled that squirrel out of town. when we let him go he took off running not just to the trees, or the next set of trees, not even just to the dry creek bed which was a block away, but to our knowledge he is still running, man did we laugh. Here he had been living off the lowery garden and next he was in the hot dessert wild's. Too fun.
Till later Love Dad
Cool old car.