Day Log 07.19.05 Tuesday

We are up at 6:15 after a night that started off warm, then cooling off where covers felt good. The neighborhood had a visit from Mr. Skunk last night so windows needed to be closed for a while. Sun is bright today which means the trip across from here to Delta will be warm. Grandma Mary is busy packing for the trip to mover forward but feeling very sad that she has to leave little Drew again. She has warned Kelli that tears will flow at this parting as happened in February. Thank goodness for the digital cameras and internet that allows weekly updates. Ok shower is open and I am next inline. More later.
We were packed and ready to roll at 8, but getting out the door after taking a few more pictures, a couple more kisses, tears, hugs, and away we went at 8:30.

We traveled up and down, around this curve, into this valley, out of trees into desert, out of sage brush into meadows, and then 30 miles from Delta over a crest and down into the Sevier Dry lake. All of the travels today were done in sunshine and temperatures from 87-107. Some places the wind was strong and other places no wind at all. We traveled for a total of 487 miles and did it in nine hours on the road with a short stop first in Eureka, NV., for lunch and Ely for gas.

After checking into a Best Western here in Delta I called Kenny and we met them at the Assisted Living location that turned out to be converted from the Motel Mary and I spent part of our honeymoon. Any way with all of us there a good visit was had. Aunt LaPriel was looking good, but she didn’t even know Kenny and Connie tonight, let alone me or Mary. We talked about some things in the past and she was not sure any of them were part of her life. She is asking questions over and over again. It is sad to see her this way. Connie had two of their grandchildren with them and had taken them to the park near by. After it was time for Aunt LaPriel to go to bed the rest of us walked over to the park and talked for a while longer. Delta has changed, but Grandpa Clyde’s home is still there but looking so much older and is empty right now. We will hit the grave yard in the morning before leaving town.