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is very little closet room but can surely make do for a little while there is a nice sized storage unit in the basement where we can put boxes until we re ready to unpack them so there is that the bathroom has a walk in shower so there s no more crawling over the side of tubs hooray we bought two beds yesterday afternoon and opened a small checking account at a local bank so we could get a safe deposit box as soon as we can get our furniture delivered we ll start the unpacking and settling in process i haven t been down the hill to see the sound yet although we catch glimpses of it whenever we drive just about anywhere the sun is out and birds are singing and things are taking shape i m content posted in family moving 4 replies father s day posted on june 17 2012 by abbiewatters 2 we took a day off almost today and just stayed in spokane for an extra day we didn t want to arrive in tacoma on a sunday afternoon we figured it wouldn t be very convenient for the staff to have us arrive on their day off we also took advantage of the fact that there is considerably less traffic on a sunday for us to drive around the old part of spokane looking for addresses i was able to look up the addresses where papa and his family lived through the years because ancestry com has the city directories from 1900 1935 on line they lived in about 10 different places between 1908 and 1925 apparently apartments and small rent houses that aren t there any more in 1926 they moved to 928 w 17th ave and lo and behold the house is still there it s a charming bungalow and the lady who lives there now was out in the yard and saw me taking the picture she said it was built in 1908 and there was one family that had lived there from 1940 through 1995 they bought it then and had raised their children there she was entranced to learn some more of the history of her house and i was pleased to learn that many people had had happy lives there she also told us where lewis and clark high school was and i remembered seeing papa s diploma from lewis and clark the lady told us they had just recently rehabbed and refurbished the school and it looked really good it looked like they had been very true to the original design unfortunately the interstate runs right by its front door so i wasn t able to get a really good picture of the front but there is a lovely green lawn at the side we also found the first presbyterian church although i didn t remember whether he was a methodist or a presbyterian when he was growing up after that we went back to the motel and spent the afternoon resting up we went to dinner at a very good steak place about 4 30 we still haven t gotten our stomachs acclimated to the new time zone and we re lucky we went then because by the time we finished there was a long wait tomorrow we press on to tacoma the next issue of the blog should be pictures of our new home posted in family moving 2 replies moving right along posted on june 16 2012 by abbiewatters 2 goodness gracious i didn t get a blog written on either thursday or friday and here it is saturday evening i guess the reason i didn t write anything is because we spent most of the last three days in the car thursday we left st george and kept going north there s not much to look at until you get to salt lake city and then there s so much traffic it s hard to look at anything except the other cars we decided to press on to pocatello id for the night and we got in there about 6 pm that s a long day for us we planned to get to boise for friday night and while it s not really that far we also planned to stop and see the craters of the moon national monument there have been 13 separate volcanic events in the last 25 000 years that s right about one every 2000 years the last one was about 2000 years ago so we can expect one any time in fact the ranger told us they are predicting one any time between the next 24 hours and 1000 years the craters of the moon is located on a great rift an area of the earth s crust that is weak enough to allow a series of eruptions and volcanic events periodically this one is basalt based so it throws out cinders like the volcanos in hawaii the active volcanos in washington and oregon are rhyolite based and throw out ash looking across a cinder field the big boulders are part of the cone that was blown off when the last eruption occurred you can see a cave or vent near the top of this spatter cone there s an amazing amount of wildlife even on this desolate landscape you should be able to see a tiny ground squirrel on the path there was a whole colony living in the crevices of the lava and foraging in the low growing bushes there are also many plants that have taken up residence in the cinders it s amazing how life can restart in this burnt out topography this cinder cone was almost completely covered with these tiny low growing white flowers i was reminded of the little growing things that frodo and sam found just outside the gates to mordor this little cone is called the snow cone because you can look down its throat and there always snow at the bottom of it this lava flow looked just like someone had dumped truckloads of black clay out and then run monster trucks through it i ve seen water soaked fields in georgia or alabama that looked just like this after a concert you could get stuck in it up to your ankles the only thing about this stuff was it was hard not viscous after spending a couple of hours in the lava beds we pressed on to boise funniest thing the grass isn t really blue there it s green like everywhere else today we spent in the car all day driving to spokane i m of the firm opinion that the engineers for the department of transportation in oregon need to have their heads examined they seem to think that it s fun to go straight down a mountain and then take a right angle turn at the bottom there was one three mile section that was so steep that they recommended the big trucks go between 30 and 16 miles per hour big al took us down it standing on the brakes and trying desperately to keep the car under 85 miles per hour we made it but not without a few extra gray hairs i was able to visit the genealogy section at the spokane public library spokane is where papa was born and went through high school we ll drive around tomorrow and see if we can find the addresses where he lived as a boy they are probably all gone by this time maybe i ll get on the train after we get settled and come over here and spend a couple of days particularly on the days when the genealogy society is meeting posted in family moving 2 replies zion canyon national park posted on june 13 2012 by abbiewatters 1 today we headed out to zion canyon i didn t mention in yesterday s edition that we have already seen zion one of the ways to get back to st george from bryce leads through zion it was after 5 pm yesterday when we left bryce and i asked big al which way he wanted to come back the shorter in distance or the shorter in time he chose the shorter in distance based on the fact that there would probably be less traffic and he would be able to go slower on any curvy hilly parts of the road i warned him that the road through zion looked like it would be pretty curvy but that way was 25 miles shorter so he chose that way the first part of the journey was through a lovely green valley with farms and herds of cattle munching on knee deep grass beside a meandering stream on us 89 then in mt carmel we turned onto utah state road 9 which turns into a federal highway as it traverses zion and then turns back into state road 9 on the other side of the park everything was fine until we actually got into the canyon when big al claims the road was laid out by a two year old with a crayon it twists and turns in a descending series of hairpin curves with no guardrail in most places and it might not have been so bad except we were there about 6 30 in the evening and the windshield hadn t been cleaned after driving all day and we kept going out of bright nay even to say blinding sun into deep shade he did okay with all the curves but when they threw in a mile long tunnel that had been blasted out of solid rock back in the thirties with no lighting except for occasional windows blasted in the walls he almost lost it he wasn t sure whether it would be better to meet a happy camper with no lights in the tunnel or on the road with no guard rail and a sheer drop of 100 feet into a rushing boulder strewn riverbed by the time we got out of the park and back on the sedate state road i wasn t sure whether i would get him to go back today or not only the promise that we would ride the shuttle bus in the canyon and he wouldn t have to drive it convinced him to go back that and the fact that we hadn t taken any pictures yesterday and he didn t have any way to prove that he had been already anyway he agreed to go back today and we had a really good time until the heat hit us by 11 30 the temperature was in the upper 90s and we were ready to come back to our nice cool air conditioned motel room and wash clothes for probably the last time before we get to tacoma but i m getting ahead of myself we rode the shuttle up the canyon all the way to the end before we started taking pictures once again the canyon is beautiful but there s too much of it to really be able to appreciate it and there s no way pictures can begin to convey the shear size and scope of the thing proof that big al did agree to go up the canyon with me blue blue sky red red sandstone rocks green green cottonwood trees there were hikers walking along on top of the white part i don t even want to think about how they got up there the virgin river that caused all of this wonderful cool spring water was available at this shuttle stop and we drank plenty at the court of the patriarchs in the next two pictures the first two peaks are named abraham and moses and in the second picture you can just see jacob the white peak peeping out from behind maroni the red mountain in front named for one of the mormon prophets on the way home we passed through several lava fields but we had forgotten to ask when in the timeline of the park the volcanic activity had occurred if anyone knows i d love to hear from you to our amateur geologist eyes it looked like the volcanic activity was on top of the navajo sandstone that comprises the topology of the canyon but there was no evidence of anything volcanic in the park posted in family moving 1 reply bryce national park posted on june 12 2012 by abbiewatters 1 after an in depth look at distances and driving times we decided it would be almost impossible to do both bryce and zion in the same day so we extended our stay in st george by an extra day we also decided that since bryce was further away it would be best to go there first that way we could do zion on wednesday and hopefully have time in the afternoon to get the wash done so after a good breakfast we took off to bryce we decided to take the guided bus tour rather than just use the park shuttles so i called and made a reservation for the 3 1 2 hour tour that left at 1 30 it was a nice drive up there with some interesting views and not too bad driving sorry for the poor color on this picture but i took it from inside the car we went through a couple of tunnels after we turned off the main road after we got on the bus we learned that today we could see at least 120 miles the first stop was at the far south end of the park and the elevation was over 9100 ft let me tell you the air is rare at almost 2 miles high i found this fellow taking movies with his ipad the topography was caused by both wind and water erosion the main rocks are red because of the iron oxide in the water as the sediments were being laid down this is mostly sandstone held together with dissolved limestone sediments the indians said that all their ancestors had gone into the canyon and had been turned into rocks they called the statuesque rocks hoodoos some say this one looks like mayan warrior this is an arch not a bridge natural bridges are caused by the erosion of water arches are caused by the erosion of wind on the way home we still saw lots of formations that deserved to be photographed i ve realized that my allergy to the tall pines in east texas is readily transferable to the ponderosa pines in utah i ve been fighting sneezing and coughing i ve identified the ponderosas as the culprits because i could see their pollen stalks tomorrow is zion posted in family moving 1 reply 47th anniversary posted on june 12 2012 by abbiewatters 2 busy day today lots of pictures to share with you all gentle readers we left flagstaff about 10 this morning and took the scenic route through the national forest to the grand canyon above 6500 ft the pinion pines and junipers begin to give way to the ponderosa pines this ride through the forest was good for my soul after days and days of desert we also say some really interesting rock formations and this place where the whole side of the mountain had just slid down we entered the park a little before noon if you get tired of looking at pictures of the grand canyon sorry we just couldn t stop taking its picture who do you suppose that is look there she is again this next group was taken at grandview one of the original hotel sites in the late 19th century farther along the south rim we finally spotted the river far in the distance at the bottom of the canyon if you look really close you can see the rapids on the river just to the left of the sign we went out the east gate and turned north on the highway through the painted desert the colors don t show up really well in the photos but there were a lot of gradations of color from grey to pink to red to orange to white to palest blue we all know that i hate abhor and despise the desert in all its various forms so why on earth did i take so many pictures of it because once i get to tacoma i don t ever have to go to or through the desert again and if i do go through the desert again i sincerely hope it will be on a lovely air conditioned train preferably at night when i don t have to look at it say good bye to the desert in page az we saw a little of lake powell there was quite a controversy about the creation of the lake because of the incredible geological formations that are now submerged and possibly lost forever we celebrated our 47th anniversary at the olive garden in st george utah tomorrow we see zion national park and bryce canyon i hope i can figure out what time zone i m in because we ve been in and out and in and out again of arizona that is really in mountain time but it doesn t observe daylight savings so it s with pacific time we re in utah and i hope we ll stay in mountain time until we go into pacific time in washington posted in family moving 2 replies arizona posted on june 10 2012 by abbiewatters 2 friday we left las cruces and made our way west into arizona just a few miles into arizona i spotted a bro...