Genealogy find!

I'm working on our genealogy. Mary Field lived to be 107. There's a great story about her! The short verison; She came across the plains with the Mormon Handcart Company. Her red hair attracted a native indian that wanted to marry her. Her parents kid her at night in a secret compartment they made in their hand cart because they thought the indian might steal her. 

But I found new information today!

Mary Field~

Birth 1 Feb 1836 in Hill, Gloucestershire, , England

Death 20 Jul 1943 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States

Mary's parents were converted to Mormonism in 1840. They emigrated to Nauvoo where they experienced the death of her father and two sisters. Her description of Joseph Smith was, "His voice was clear and distinct...We were proud to call him our leader at all times." Once, peeking through a picket fence, she saw the visit of some Indians to Nauvoo. She was at the meeting when the mantle of Joseph Smith fell on Brigham Young. Her brother, James participated in the Battle of Nauvoo. She made a hurried crossing of the Mississippi River with her bread dough still in pans. The mobs allowed her a temporary return to Nauvoo. Comments: #21. Mary's parents were converted in 1840 through the efforts of Wilford Woodruff.

Online Shopping VS the store

I love shopping online! I can shop whenever I want to, in my pajamas, and don't have to fight crowds or stand in line.

We ran out of cat food, milk and bread on Thanksgiving!! I could have went to the gas station but I don't shop on major holidays. I don't think anyone should either.

So, we went without and that's how it should be. (I keep tuna fish and a few cans of cat food on hand for "non-emergency"emergencies. No cat went without food and we made do with what we had without breaking out the 72 hour kits.)

Anyhoo, I have done almost all my holiday shopping online. I do have one more thing to buy for Abby. I know the exact price of this item as I have been keeping an eye on it and fit it into the budget.

Last night, I had the rare opportunity to run into the store and I didn't buy it....

Here are my options~
1. Buy it at the store and pay the higher price.
2. Buy it online, save $20, and have it shipped to my home for free.
3. Buy it online, save $20, have it shipped for free to the store. Pick the item up at the store in 3-5 days.

I am so confused.This makes absolutely no sense! I don't understand!!!

The slug/snail war

Ugh. The snail/slug war continues. I hate killing them. I have a set of conditions that has to be met before I eliminate them. For example, I don't kill: moths, worms, potato bugs, katydids, grasshoppers, praying mantis, etc. If a spider is in my home, it's fair game and probably lucked to be smashed by me vs my cat torturing it to death.

We have lived here for almost 2 years and I never saw a slug and I left the snails alone. I like their big shells and they have these gross yet cute faces.

The battle started with the bees. My husband huge one of those yellow bee catchers and happened to hang it outside the kitchen window. He caught some but I made him take it down as it made me cry.

Then the weird orb weaving grass spiders came and were terminated.

I don't mind spraying the aphids because they are tiny and were chowing down on my beautiful rose garden. NOT COOL!

By the end of the summer, something was eating our ground cover and the bottom leaves of our trees. I didn't know we had slugs (they are tiny) and I had no idea snails could do so much damage!

I had a vegetable garden but never saw a slug or snail in it.

I read every article online I could about these slimy critters. Many sites suggested handpicking as an option. I burst out laughing. We have tons of ground cover, there is no way.

Although in the fall, I cut off the top of ground cover in one section of the yard and baited and hand picked.

I'm nice. As I go through the yard, I shovel all visble bugs into a bucket which I dump in the green yard waste bin. THEN I SPRAY!!! Unless it's one of those millipede/centipedes, not sure which ones we have-a-pedes,  SCARE-A-PEDES!! All those wiggly legs running at me! I could faint!

Once they meet Green Can Heaven, it's up to God. Although they when I open it the next day, they are all stuck to the lid. LOL!

I recently read that they are hermaphrodites..... Great.
And that each one can lay 500 eggs each season....Great....
And that they can live up to 4 years......Yeah....

Did I mention that I don't think any of the previous renters did any gardening? .... Great...

It's been rainy and despite a mass effort to annihilate them. They are out there, hanging out in plain sight.

Are they taunting me?

Did they not see all their friends die? Did they not smell the poison? I'm been hand removing them from my butterfly bushes and the area of ground cover I removed for 2 months. I spray ammonia mixed with water on the yard with a spray bottle. Ammonia is STINKY! Good for your soil but STINKY!!

Why can't they pack up their shells and leave?

Ugh.

Stupid drivers

Last week, I was driving home from an appointment I had in Salt Lake. Abby was at school and I was alone.

There wasn't a lot of traffic and I was driving with the speed of traffic. I usually drive in the fast lane until I reach the corner that goes around the mountain (Herriman) and then I move into the slow lane. (Us Utahan's call it "the point of the mountain".)

The point of the mountain can be dangerous. There are at least 6 lanes to drive in and it's a huge freeway! It sucks because the speed demons hit the corner going 95-100 miles per hour and then there's the traffic hazard drivers that slam on their brakes and drive under the speed limit. It's hard to tell what the cars upfront are going to do and you have to be prepared. I won't drive around it at night as I can't see very well at night and avoid the freeway.

SIDE STORY:
The one time I did drive around the point of the mountain, I was alone and it was dark outside. This was when they were still doing construction and so the traffic was sucked! I got overly religious as I made my way around the corner, people were passing me even though I was going the speed limit and I prayed God's ear off.  After made it around the mountain and I immediately got off the freeway the 1st chance I got. I found a parking lot and had a panic attack.
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Anyhoo, some jerk comes rushing up behind me and had to drive way too close to me. If he wanted to drive that fast, why didn't he just pass me? I don't understand. There wasn't a ton of traffic. I was going over the speed limit but there is no way I am going to drive a million miles an hour. He must be starving for a ticket and an accident!!

Some people are so rude!

Sensitivity

Bryce and I were at a department store and the cashier had a disability. I hope that's the correct word. He couldn't find my phone number in the system and swore at me under his breathe. He was obviously in a bad mood or maybe stressed out so I put my happy face on. While he was ringing our items up, I tried to make small talk with him and he ignored me. He kept acting annoyed and angry. I nicely said, Did I do something that made you mad? He looked at me and said No. Then we wanted a price on an item to determine if we wanted it or not and that made him madder. 

Should mad people with a disability that swear be allowed to work with customers? If he didn't have a disability, I would have called his manager.

Politics and young children

Politics and kindergartens: I was watching a segment about the President and Obamacare on the news. But that's not the topic...

I believe in freedom of speech and I know that regardless who is president, they are always people who complain. I can control/monitor what my 5 year old sees on TV and the internet. (The news/media has gotten really violent and I only watch it while she's is at school.) But it really bothers me when adults say negative things about presidents (past and current) in front of children.

I want my child to continue being patriotic! She is not old enough to understand politics. She gets really excited when she sees the current president on TV and I want to keep it that way!
(I'm not upset or rilled up, just something I noticed.)

Men who whistle and make comments out of their car windows to women need a punch in the face!

Background: I have lived in the Salt Lake City area my entire life. We moved to Utah County because my sweet husband didn't have to keep making a long commute to and from work. I am not familiar with Utah County and honestly, it's like living on another planet! I'm still trying to figure out where everything is! Thank God for Navigation on my phone!! I'm not complaining. We love the house we are renting and plan to purchase it next year. Our neighbors and wards are fabulous. But that's a different subject!

One thing I have noticed living in Utah County is that men are constantly whistling cat calls and hollering things out of their car window at me. Yes, this happens in Salt Lake as well, but it happens to me non-stop and I'm tired of it! It's rude and disrespectful!

On a hot summer day last year, Bryce and I were driving to the store. We were stopped at a red light. I was smoking and had my window cracked open a few inches. A man in a giant black SUV yelled "ROLL UP YOUR WINDOW!" I'm a polite smoker and would never blow smoke into another person's vehicle. Angrily, I looked over and yelled, "YOU ARE THE ONE THAT NEEDS TO ROLL UP THEIR UP, JACKASS!!" The man looked arrogantly looked at me, showing me his 'how dare you speak to me this way woman" face.

When the weather is nice, my 5 year old daughter and I often walk to either the park, the gas station or to get a sandwich and Subway. I wear my wedding rings and I dress modestly. Yet, every time I walk down the busy street, several men hoot, cat call and holler at me as they drive by. How rude!! I can't think of any woman that appreciates this and it makes me even madder when I'm with my 5 year old daughter.

Friday, I was standing in front of my child's school and hear a man's voice yelling "NICE PINK HAIR" in a sarcastic tone. I turned around to see who was shouting at me and it was some redneck in a pickup truck that was waiting for his child. I gave him a dirty look and turned back around.

Some men are complete pigs! Do they really think women take this behavior as a compliment? BARF!!

Test to figure out how this works!

Yeah! I want to blog but am not sure how it works yet. So this is just a test.