Marolynn's Retirement Party
We probably can't reverse this now; our retirement papers are in and Marolynn had her retirement party on Friday in the school library. This coming week is the students' last week. The week after, we do another Utah trip in order to get Jon up to Idaho Falls to a wedding of his friends.


The party was for four retirees. Marolynn was informed that the faculty was going to give her a Nambe' dish and asked us to give them an idea. We looked at the Nambe' web site and selected a metal butterfly dish, thinking we'd get a small one for candy, but the gift turned out to be the largest butterfly dish made - a handsome gift indeed.

Another retiree was Marolynn's workroom aide, Dorella, so the library is going to completely be re-staffed next school year. Heres a picture of Marolynn and Dorella, 'the long and short of it' as she said.

Mother's Day Visit
Actually it was the day before Mother's Day because we were on the road back to Albuquerque on that day, that we visited the cemetary and the new gravestone of Marolynn's Father and Mother who passed away in November. One of the family had already been there and left flowers. We went on down to Michael's where we stayed Saturday evening before making the trip back home.

Seeding the Garden
We did another road trip to Utah this weekend, to take care of some things with Jonathan and to plant a dozen tomatoes that I had raised from seed and to plant other seeds directly in the garden. Added to the tomatoes were cucumbers and dill, winter and summer squash, bush beans, and a hill of "Big Max" pumpkins. Its Jon's responsibility to water and weed when we're not there. Jon seems to be doing well. He was offered a job at the pioneer farm (run by Salt Lake County; a job that he acquired by himself from scratch, so we're proud of him. We offered anyone in the family who would come and help care for the garden, a portion of the harvest. Of course, Missionaries to Ghana are automatically included by default. We'll go back up at the end of the month and take Jon to Idaho Falls where he'll be the best man to a couple of his friends who are getting married.

Lake Powell Fishing

This past week I (Paul) was on Lake Powell doing some bass fishing for the very first time. The days were generally bright and sunny and the Lake was for the most part quite calm, and the fishing was pretty good also.

We fished for five kinds of fish; smallmouth and largemouth bass, striped bass, walleye, and crappie; the latter two yielding the best eating. I didn't know it until I started the trip that part of the cost of the trip was put into a jackpot for the biggest of each of the five species. Everyone expected a big run of striped bass and though we fished in a hugh stone ampitheater hundreds of feet deep, and saw stripers all over on the fish scope, they wern't biting, so a fairly small catch won the striper jackpot.

Early in the trip we tried trolling in the evening and I brought up a 2.11# walleye which stood as the record all through the trip and worth that part of the jackpot. Next day, we went out for bass and I brought in a 1.4# crappie (the smaller flatter fish in the picture) which also held, though two others matched the weight and we split the jackpot on that one too.

The trip brought back memories of the Scout trip which my dad arranged, down the Colorado River, 53 years ago when we floated the river in large rubber rafts the year before they closed the canyon to build the Glen Canyon dam. Now the bottom 500 feet or so of the river canyon is covered by the lake. We had opportunity to fish several of the small winding arms of the lake Pictures do it injustice as the sandstone walls rise 500 to 1,000 feet above the lake.