Santa Fe, Fall 2021

I flew to New Mexico to spend ten days with Clara while her parents had a wonderful adventure in France with Lucy Jane. I always enjoy Santa Fe, and Clara and I had a splendid time. I cooked some meals and ran the school shuttle. On Sunday, Clara arranged a morning in town, which is always a treat.

This is not the quickest way to the airport, but kind of fun

Yellow aspens appearing on the Wasatch back

Dinner at Sawmill Market in Albuquerque

Fabulous cheese enchiladas at Second Street

Brewery at the Railyard in Santa Fe

Farewell at ABQ Sunport

Fall fell along the Alameda while I was in Santa Fe

I LOVE this little electric car!

A quick stop at the Talavera store

Ristras 

Supper at the Shake Foundation

New Mexico skies are fantastic

Dinner at Tesuque Village Market...

With the incomparable Clara Ivy

Our Sunday adventure started at Meyer Gallery

Clara showed me some paintings by the artist her parents like

Courtyard balcony of the Casa Sena

Pendleton blankets at The Rainbow Man

Palace of the Governors at the Plaza

Up the Old Santa Fe trail to the parked car

Lunch at The Teahouse

Home below

It was great to be with Clara and to enjoy some time in Santa Fe. We are off to Paris in a few days, so there will be more. This is all for now.

OXO

D.

September 2012

September started with a visit from Mark, who met Anne halfway between AZ and WY for a weekend get together. We shared several meals with Annie and Opa, and we hosted the September group dinner. We made a quick day trip to Vernal for Arthur's birthday, including dinner at the Vernal Brewing Company. We had another post-vaccination cousins breakfast in Salt Lake City. September also included a trip to Santa Fe for Dickie. I stayed with Clara while Rob and Anna enjoyed visiting Lucy Jane in France. That trip will be a separate post, to follow when I get back to Provo.

Uncle Mark LOVED the Utah summer tomatoes

Because they are delicious

Supper out with Opa and Annie

Group dinner: Swiss steak and blueberry ice cream for dessert

Lovely flowers from TJ's

We met Evelyn at the bus stop in Vernal

Katy gave Arthur a thrill

The gang at Vernal Brewing Company

Good grub

And birthday cake to finish

Cousins' breakfast

That's not all for September, but the rest will be in the next post.

OXO

D.

August 2021

 We stayed put this August, but life wasn't dull. The craziest thing is that a birthday check Kris sent to Erick months ago, was finally cashed for $1,000.00! It had been stolen, "washed," forged, and cashed. Long story short, we had to close our checking account and Kris spent many days getting all our auto-withdrawals and auto-deposits up to speed with the routing number and new account number. Lots of forms, scanning, notarizing, and hours of phone calls. It was a mess! It's all Venmo from now on. We made a quick visit to Vernal and Roosevelt for a celebratory late and early birthday lunch for Daniel and Evelyn. We were thrilled to get our global entry cards in the mail this month, so we are one step closer to our Paris trip. After over a year without our Hansen/Calder cousins, we finally got together again for breakfast. Meagan spent the end of the month with us. She was here to get Oliver installed at BYU.

Getting our account sorted out

Taco Fiesta in Roosevelt: delicious!

Evy's birthday celebration a few days early

Katy and young Arthur

Rainy day in Vernal

Family gathering at La Casita

Meags and Embly

Ollie packed the car and moved to Budge Hall

Woohoo!

Cousins' breakfast: photo: Annie

Hours and hours of work

Tearful goodbye on the way to the airport

That's it for the month.

OXO

D.

Montana Reunion and the Rest of July 2021

 With the departure of the family, we washed linens and cleaned the Happiness Hotel in preparation for its transformation into an Airbnb for Kim and Brigham. We hopped in the car and headed north to Salmon, Idaho, en route to the Hansen Cousins' Reunion in Kalispell, Montana. The drive was beautiful, but smokey as the West Coast burned. The reunion started the next evening at Cam and Sheila Calder's lake house on Lake Blaine. The reunion was great, with good food, wonderful visiting, Cdh1 updates, a slide show of the ancestors and previous reunions, and various daytime activities on our own. We returned home to spend a few days with the Marlpit-Hill Boyntons and dinner with Rod and Vic at Sicilia Mia in SLC. The month ended with a Saturday dinner out with Opa and Annie.

Junkyard Bistro for dinner in Salmon, ID

Opa and the ladies headed to the door after dinner at the bistro

Lolo, MT (lunch stop), like the rest of the state, is Trump territory

KayLynn, Millie, Rees, Dorothy, and Kreg

Clockwise: Kris, Hank, Colette, Millie, Sheila, Cam, Becky,

Chris, SKT, Annie, Allyn

Clockwise: Annie, Allyn, Hugh, Rees, KayLyn, Norma, Grandma,

Dorothy, HB, Kris, Hank

North side of the Calder lake house

Lake Blaine through the smoke

Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell has lots of nice paintings

of the Glacier Park and the area

The building was originally a Carnegie Library

Visiting at the end of the day on the terrace overlooking the lake

Millie, Kris, and Annie

Kris, Annie, Dorothy, Becky, Dickie, and Chris

Dinner is served: Cam and a selection of meat, and beans

Brunch at the famous Sykes Diner and Market in Kalispell

Huckleberry bread pudding and vanilla ice cream

Back on the terrace by the lake

SKT, AW, Hugh, Kris, Dickie

Allyn's photo of the Dickies

Lake Blaine with most of the smoke gone

Cam and Sheila's lake house

The boat house (guest house)

Kreg and KayLynn

Cam made a clearing in woods for dinner

Cam made the tables and benches

The Orem Boyntons and the Marlpit-Hill Boyntons

at Sicilia Mia

Carbonara 

The server stirred the pasta in a hollowed out

wheel of parmesan cheese

On their way back to AZ - Kim is a superior house guest

Donburi, katsu curry, poke, and Korean beef with the

Taylor/Woodburys

The Hansen reunion was excellent. The Calders outdid themselves! Life is back to normal after a fun summer. This is all for now.

OXO

D.