Delayed Post

Hello everyone. I just read the last post and realized that it was written the last of August. It is now the sixth of October. Since August, we have had Bobbie come to live with us, move out to her own apartment and had Robbie and Tracy move in with us. In the meantime, Tonie came home for conference week-end. We had a house full. We were only missing Cyn and Kyle for our family to have been complete. I went to Austin Texas for a conference that lasted five days. It was really fun, I learned, I was again approached to work for the Native American Mediators things involving Environmental concerns, but as usual, I declined. I was also invited to mediate with inter-tribal disputes with a person from Colorado who has contracts to do this. I told her that if I had time, I would like to join in this. Then, I was asked to join with the director of the mediation association for Texas to present at a conference two years from now for ACR. The possibilities are fun to dream about. Leslie Goddard, the Commission Director, told me that she is retiring. She is leaving December 5, 2008. I will be applying for the position of director for the commission to see if I get hired. I do not know if the commissioners will be putting out a call for applications. I just wish I would be asked to become the director. Oh well, if I have to go through the application process, I will. I just returned Friday evening from Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene. I mediated a case, which settled. :) I then had to do an on-sight in Sandpoint to see some parking lots for accessibility. I went up to Schweitzer Ski resort and while coming back down, I took a couple of pictures. I wish I could take better pictures. The large one when blown up show the steeple of an LDS church down in Sandpoint. from Schweitzer ski resort down to Sandpoint. It is nine miles up to the top of the mountain to get to the ski resort. We watched conference over the week-end. It was really nice. We recorded it and chuckled when the new temples were announced. We had a good laugh!! It is so exciting that temples are being built everywhere. I am having a craft day for Relief Society this Saturday. I am excited because of some of the crafts that I can make. I also will have a table for humanitarian efforts. Things such as yarn to make booties, materials for making bibs, painting blocks, making quilt blocks and anything else I can think of to do. Well, I better go to bed.

Grapes a Plenty

The Grapes are on and the birds are getting fat and sassy. We have big birds that have strips on their wings coming to check out the grapes.
We also have tomatoes that Robb planted. They have produced some really good tasting ones. What a blessing it is to be able to grow something that is delicious to eat. My Squash did not do so well. We are going to move our garden spot to under the kitchen and dining room windows. It does not seem that the old garden spot is sunny enough to allow the vegetables to grow. There are trees from the neighbors that shade the garden area. We will see if we can get a bit more produce next summer.


This is a picture of Grandpa just a few days after he was moved to the rehabilitation floor in St. Al's. He is still there as of today and probably will be there for another few days. He is not progressing as rapidly as he wants and as the doctors hoped. I am not sure if he will be able to return to the farm or whether he will need to have an attendant from now one. We spent Saturday evening with him to watch the Boise State game against Idaho State University. Boise State beat ISU very soundly but it was fun to get into BSU football again. Unfortunately we do not get BYU football. We wish we were able to get that so we can watch those games also. Grandpa was wearing his BSU t-shirt yesterday so he could be in the game spirit. It was quite fun. Brad and Linda brought him an art tablet and colored pencils so he spent some time just drawing. He also has a word search book and 24 piece puzzles of a farm and the race car from Cars. He just needs things to keep his mind busy because he keeps wanting to escape the hospital. In fact, they have an alarm on him and they have him secured in bed with a belt so he cannot get out of bed by himself. He is a fall risk and they do not want him to fall and reinjure himself. When assistance comes, he is able to get out of bed and take a walk with his walker or ride around in this wheelchair.

I better go. I hope your Sunday as a wonderfun as mine.

Apricots and the birds

Well, this week has been full of work, running here and there, and work. This pciture was taken when Dad came to visit us for about two hours while Scott and SAndy went to a wedding reception. Grandpa was staying with Scott. He enjoyed the apricots. Robb has dried lots of apricots and then we left some on the tree for the birds. They had already eaten some of the ones on the top branches.

On August 19, 2008, Bobby Jo came to live with us for the semester. She is here to attend Boise State University as a freshman. She was able to register for her classes over the last two days. I think she is tired of trying to schedule her classes, etc., walking here and there, and basically going through the normal hassles at the beginning of a semester. She is taking medical terminology, into to health studies, biology, American Sign Language, and I think one other class. I can't remember. She got her student ID card and rode the city bus home today. BSU students get to ride the city bus free. The bus stops at the end of the block from us. We cleaned out my sewing stuff from Tonie's room so Bobby could have a room for herself. I emptied Cyn's dresser and night stand so Bobby could use that. I think she might be set. Bobby Jo wants to get a laptop computer so we probably will not need to get a computer stand. She has been using my computer and that seems to work just fine.

We made cookies and cream ice cream tonight to take to the back to school ice cream social tomorrow with our ward. Every year our ward and a back to school ice cream social and an end of the school year picnic. The bishop wanted to have homemade ice cream so we obliged. We will see how many people made homemade ice cream tomorrow when we get to the park for the treats. Bobby will go with us and will get to meet the members of the ward.

This Sunday, Robb and I will be attending the dedicatory service for the Twin Falls temple. It is really nice to be able to participate in the service. I still need to get white hankies for Robb and I.

This last week, Grandpa went into the hospital on Monday because he had hematomas on both sides of his brain and the blood needed to be drained. He went into surgery on Tuesday and had drains in his head for a day. He is doing better and getting very antsy to get out of bed and get home. The doctors do not know how much of his memory loss will return or if he will regain some of his balance. When talking to him last evening, he was still having delusions, talking about a wheelbarrow, and other things. It reminded me of when Robb and I went to visit Grandpa Johnson when he was in the nursing home. Robb and I went on a buggy ride with Grandpa Johnson at that time. Dad Fisher is declining in health, more steadily since the family reunion.

Well, I better get to bed because I have to work Friday. Can you believe it!! oh well, I have taken too many hours of vacation so I guess I better work some hours this pay period. Talk to you later.

July is gone

We made it through July. Robb had his birthday, Tonie had her birthday and Robbie had his birthday.

We went to the Twin Falls Temple open house on July 26th, and we enjoyed the tour. The driving back and forth was not so good. Robb ended up in bed for two days because his back hurt so badly. I of course live with pain but it did not increase because of the trip. I think I do better with trips than does Robb anyway. here are a couple of pictures.

The next event is Robb's and My anniversary. We want to do something but cannot decide what to do. I think we may wait until the week-end to do a day trip to Stanley or Cascade or something. We don't know yet and Robb is hesitant to drive very far. He does not want to be laid up again. We probably will go to Idaho City, which is about 35-40 miles into the mountains. We want to try some fishing so we may need to get our licenses and poles. Robbie is fishing a lot so maybe he can point us in the right direction. My mouth is watering already for trout.

2008 Fisher Family Reunion

Well, well, well. Robb and I survived the family reunion. Thursday we had dutch oven dinner, Friday we went boating and got soaking wet, and then Saturday we did a two-hour service project for about five hours. Whew!! in between all this, we ate and ate and ate. Sleep was squeezed in there somewhere. Today, I feel like I am a walking zombie.

Cynthia and Kyle enjoyed the family reunion with us. I heard the Kyle is a pretty good water skier. Cyn and Kyle went home yesterday afternoon. I am sure they are tired and ready to go back to work for some rest. It was fun having them home.

Last night Dennis stayed overnight with us. He is on his way back to Page with a lot of side trips on the way. Irene will be flying home on Saturday. I think we will have Merrill and Cori here on Wednesday night on their way to Pullman. I won't be here because I will be going to Idaho Falls to mediate a dispute. What a busy week. Then on Saturday, Robb and I want to get up early and travel to Twin Falls for the temple open house.

For not having much planned for the summer, we are sure busy on the week-ends.

I wish I had some pictures to share but my camera is on the "blink". :)

Pictures of Mom and Dad

I cannot believe that these pictures were available on my draft posts. Oh well, now you get to see us as we are. These pictures were taken after Cyn and Kyle left to return to Provo. I think it was late 2007 but I cannot remember when they came up to Boise. I tried to be coy aka Cynthia's poses in Yellowstone when she was about four years old.

Summer in Boise

Well, it has been two months since I last updated this blog. Since that time, Mom Fisher passed away, Cynthia Graduated from BYU, Dad Fisher received his bachelor's of arts degree from U of U, and we had Memorial day week-end which we celebrated by visiting the Veteran's Cemetery here in Boise. Mom Fisher is buried there so we took some pictures. We also participated in the commemorative ceremonies that were held there.

I love to take pictures of flowers so I took three pictures of flowers in my yard. They were so pretty and the sun was just right.

On this one, you can see my shadow in the shot. Oops. I did not want to retake it though because it was so pretty already.



This is a picture of new leaves from our tree in front. They are so pretty and I just could not resist.

After the ceremonies on Memorial Day, we went to lunch and that is where I saw this rose. It was so beautiful.

Irene and Dennis were here with us last week-end. They were on their way to Pullman, Washington, for six weeks so Irene can get started on her dissertation. She has a mentor who is going to help her. It was nice to have them here. They were here when Tonie came home on Friday night. It was good to see Tonie, as always. We love seeing out kids. Robbie spent time over here for the week-end and we had Father's day. Robb got a outdoor fire pit for the backyard. WE lit a fire and loved the ambiance it created. Robb also go more clothes for work and a cover for his grill. It was really a nice and relaxed day for us. We did miss Cynthia and Kyle but understand that they probably could not get off work and probably wanted to save their money for family reunion in mid-July.

This morning, Robb and I awoke early for a Saturday morning. We got up so we could make my annual drive to Pine Top, the church owned camp where the eleven year old scouts meet for camp every year. As part of their program, I do a presentation on Navajo history. They love it and I enjoy doing it. Well, we were on our way and got to Pine Top in good time but none of the cars parked there looked familiar. We went to the lodge and found out that there were a group of boys at the Heleman's camp from Meridian stake. Oops. We called Sherri Fuhriman, who asked me to do the presentation this year, and found out that the camp is next week-end. I guess Robb and I will make the trip again next week-end. Oh well, all was not lost. Robb and I picked up three rocks for my rock garden. They are sparkly and add color to the rock garden. I hope we do this again next week-end.

Well, Robb has lunch ready for me. I better go. bye.