Winter Over?

I won't belabor our travails during our return to Cedar City, but they were many. The most frustrating was waiting an hour for our luggage which had clearly been sitting on the tarmac in the rain. It rained all the way to Cedar City, where the precipitation changes to a light snow. We even had a windshield wiper malfunction that we fixed in the parking lot of an Auto Zone store in Mesquite, NV. Thanks for the kind gentleman who held the flashlight while I made the repairs.

Once home, things really kicked into gear. I had to drive over to Escalante for a board meeting on Tuesday. It was a snow-packed, white knuckle drive, but a very interesting meeting with the Escalante Heritage Center board and the architects who are designing their new wayside exhibits. The snow was pretty much gone by the time I drove home.

After Tuesday, I don't remember many details except that things were busy. Friday night we were just glad to be home and on Saturday we did our early morning shopping and then met Uncle Phil and Aunt Karen for lunch. It was fun to catch up with them. They are planning and preparing for their trip to Japan to visit Jim and Kim during cherry blossom time. Uncle Phil is shopping for an mp3 player and was actually considering buying a Zune over an iPod Touch, because of the added storage. I told him, probably too forcefully, that the gold standard of mp3 players is the iPod. If he needed the added storage, he should still buy an iPod classic over the Zune. However, I pointed out to him that a 32 GB iPod touch would hold about 60 movies. How many did he think he would need for his flight to Japan? Besides, the user interface on the Touch is so very elegant, and then there are the gaming capabilities. I guess he had been getting the same story from Tony, and he said he would buy the Touch, and I agreed to show him how to use Handbrake Lite to convert his DVD library to mp4s. I am confident he will love it.

We went to watch the last T-Bird home game on Saturday night, but not before taking a long walk in the spring-like weather. Sunday was Sunday, with a ward conference an elders presidency reorganization, but a nice weekend. Sorry we don't have any photos to share, but the snow is almost entirely gone from the front yard, so life is very good indeed. St. George will be in the high 60's this week. I could be fishing down there very, very soon.

Buboppy