Dewey Daily

When I was pregnant with Raine, I told you it was a girl. This time I said it was a boy and . . .

There he is. Isn’t he cute!

I love Texas in the Fall. Not too hot, not too cold, and plenty of blue skies and beautiful days. It’s perfect camping weather. We decided to go camping last weekend, and though we had originally wanted to go somewhere in East Texas where you get in to some of the pine forests; due to timing issues we were forced to go to Cedar Hill State Park again. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy the campground. It’s just that on a scale of real outdoor camping, this park comes in just above camping in the back yard.

We had a great time though. Have we mentioned that Raine really loves the outdoors? She would just wander around the campsite picking up rocks, playing in the dirt, and trying to help Kim and I with whatever we were doing. Here she is helping me cook breakfast.

No Raine, the pancake recipe doesn’t call for any rocks.

This is what she did after asking us if we wanted to see a train wreck.

We also went and played at the park…

and did a little fishing.

All the hiking trails were closed because of the rain we had earlier in the week, but we had a great time.

No, it’s not pickled goat brain. It’s the latest addition to my food storage. Last night we pressure canned 20 pounds of chicken. Everyone assures me that it will taste delicious, despite its ghastly appearance. I’ll just have to take their word for it though, because all my jars sealed and I’m not opening one until I need it!

It’s not often that you find yourself arguing that your house is NOT worth THAT much money. But yesterday, I apparently argued it quite well because the county appraisal district agreed. It was kind of fun to appeal to the review panel — mostly because, in the end, they decided to lower my taxes. But come on . . . really??? How can you raise everyone’s home value 6.5% in the same year that the housing market CRASHED!?!! I don’t know how they did it with a straight face. I sure didn’t have a straight face when I walked out of the hearing with my new LOWER home value.

Kim and I went to the BYU/Oklahoma game on Saturday, and boy what a game it was! I have to admit, I didn’t give BYU much of a chance to win the game, but they proved me wrong. One of the greatest wins in BYU history, and we were there — pretty cool!

A brief word about the stadium… it is huge!! When we parked, we thought we had found a nice spot pretty close to the stadium. We started walking towards it, and after what felt like 2 miles we were still only halfway there. The place is so big that we thought we had parked a lot closer than we did.

Once we got there, we made the long hike to our seats in the upper bowl. Did I mention that the place is huge? Here is a picture of us clear up in the top of the stands. Behind us you can see the nerdy guys that sounded like they had had a cram session on ESPN before the game so they could talk intelligently about football. I cringed every time they started talking.


There was some pretty sloppy play on both sides, but it was exciting the whole way through.

In the end, everything worked out the way it should, and this shot of the scoreboard says it all.

Go Cougars!!