It has been an enjoyable Sunday evening!

Dearest Family,   

    Happy Birthday to Kaitlyn last Saturday! She is 16 now! Happy Birthday on Monday to Allen &  Uncle Charlie who is celebrating his 84th birthday! Happy Anniversary on Wednesday to Dak & Joy- it the 21 one!  Hope all of you have a great day! Saturday, we also enjoyed a quick visit with Uncle Bruce & Eugene Petersen, for abt an hour. They stopped here, then were on their way to Riverton for an activity later in the day & then home on Sunday!

    It has been an enjoyable Sunday evening – after many wonderful classes today! In several we taught the Memories app, also one Lesson on Sources!  Again today, I helped the brother doing the Spanish records!  His enthusiasm is great!  It was also exciting today, a sister from California, visiting her friend here in Lovell – was introduced to Indexing. Her comment - This is the greatests – now I have something worthwhile to do & I enjoy it!

    We have kept busy with the usual appointments!  Installed printer software on one computer for a sister! Then ended up back in the evening to help her with some other problems, unrelated to the work we had done earlier!  On Tuesday evening we did a class on the Apps again!  This time we broke up in two groups, a beginner one & the other one learning to do audio to text & practicing! People are excited, but just need to practice.   Like everything we do, that makes it easier! We are working with an older couple in their 80’s do memories on their computer and using our tablet to help them do stories. The brother was telling Dad about water skiing on Lovell Lake and how it came to be a nice facility when an older man volunteered to build ramps and docks on the north side. Even a little concession stand was setup on the dock. He also talked about the places they would go swimming like the railroad track bridge hole west of the sugar factory, the hole by the Big Horn Coop in the Hunt canal, ride inner tubes down the flume on Sand Draw by Farnham McArthur farm east of Lovell, and the glory hole at Ralston ( this is a 1/2 mile long cement canal that goes down a very steep hill into a big pool full of boulders with a large whirl pool in the middle, if you fell off your inner tube it was very hard to escape the whirl pool without drowning.)

    We have enjoyed visiting with many of you this week, either on the phone or here. Spent Friday a.m. at Crooked Creek Bay, totally skunked by the fish! the sunshine was wonderful.  I did some sewing this week, completing Kaitlyn’s pillowcase doll for her birthday!  Bro Croft has been busy with the yard & found an interesting bird next!  We’ll include a picture!   We have decided that the nest was built by a Lazuli Bunting. Her eggs are the small white ones, about the size of a jelly belly jelly bean!   The other ones were laid by a Cowbird, she lays her eggs in someone else’s nest for that bird to raise. This is called  “Brood Parasite“  Her eggs hatch first & the babies are much bigger.  The smaller babies seldom survive!   It sounds to me like a true “welfare case” !

    We love you all,    Have a great week & CTR...... Bro & Sis Croft