Our dog your name?

We got a new dog to help grandpa Keary in doing things. And we would like you to help us in choosing a name.

And as usual

Diana got home gave me a hug and a kiss, ate then sat on the couch to watch TV and directly fell asleep.

I don't know what yous guys do to her but she is always so tired when she comes home that she falls asleep.

Actually I do know; she loves her children so much and she always wants to help all she can whether it be one of her children or anyone else. Each of you should feel honored in that you act much like your mother. I know there are differences and you should feel great that you are much like she who bore you.

Strange goings on around here.

I went to bed at around 21:00 last night and woke at 06:30 exactly and noticed that Diana was not in the bathroom as she usally is so I went to her bedromm door and called Diana, Diana, then I yelled Diana, Diana, DIAAANNAA, and then realized that I had been left for another woman. What a terrible feeling, Calixta should be ashamed for doing this to her own father I’ll bet that Diana would not have done this for any of the rest of her kids! Oh, that is because we had other kids at home or because we were trying to drag ourselves out of the financial hole we keep trying to avoid but seldom do.

This year we decided on, no presents for one another, which I broke by writing her a letter of appreciation and putting it on a certificate sheet with gold diamond shapes around the edges. Ah shucks I guess I will be sent straight to the depths of h___ for doing this, or one of many other things.

President Lee Info!

I am just trying to give you all a few pics of the front pages of the Samuel Lee Family history and Genealogy along with some pics of some of my forefathers, however they are related to me. I would be able to figure it all out but my father and his way of doing genealogy is different. He has it all in his genealogy books but instead of putting it on a cd he has put it all on floppies and has not given me instructions as to which family is whose parents and I have as yet to figure it all out.
........................................................................................President Lee and his wife below.

For those who like lights.

Diana went the night before last to see the light show on the Columbia river. We decided that I would have more than I could do in trying to walk and stand at this event. Since I have a sore on my left leg that if I don't get healed may cause another amputation.

Christmas thoughts

The biggest thing about Christmas these days is that the world has chosen to celebrate the Saviors birth at this time which is great. My problem is that satan has demeaned it by making it the greatest shopping time of the year and everyone is trying to gain a little bit of it, from diamonds and other jewelry and cars and yachts and lights to toys and tape and turkeys and hams everyone wants to disgrace othe memory of our Savior. Yesterday I read ten chapters all together in the books of Luke and John to help myself with discouragement.

Christmas 2006

Nothing to say except WOW look at Andrew & Shawnie.

Christmas Past

I don't know if this is what is meant by Past Christmases but one of my favorite memories of Christmas is when we had Santa come to visit with our girls while we lived in Moses Lake, WA. The best thing is that he came into our home and talked to each of the three girls who were alive at that time and when he came back on Christmas morning, each little girl got exactly what she had asked for.

Another story I believe was from Christmas time was when we as a family acted out a play in the Spokane Ward and the girls - Cathy, Kristy and Ciria - sang as the chipmunks of Alvin and the chipmunks and I played the father and kept yelling ALVIN ALVIN in between songs.

At last.

I'm so glad everyone else is blogging as now I don't have to, I can just sit back and read, this takes me a couple hours when everyone else blogs. Do you think your mother will every blog? She says she has to much to do and I am sure of that as she does so much for helpless me! She really does do a lot for me!

I don't know

First off, I must apologize for the lousy post I put in last called "Leviathon" and if you didn't see it you can congratulate yourself as it was that bad. I deleted it for the sake of all those who did not read it.

Sometimes I wonder what life is all about. Diana seems to always know that life is about others and I agree with her only I have a hard time achieving this same attitude. Seems that I could deal with a great big attitude adjustment about now.

Cathy seems to have learned from her mother what I wish I could learn, she is the sweetest person and she seems to always put other people first.

When one looks at me one must wonder how sick is this jerk and no I do not mean physically. I mean psychologically, if I could just look at how the savior lived his life and follow it I would do so much better but I am always worrying about myself and what am I going to get instead of looking at my fellow human and wonderinmg how can I help that person?

It seems that I got the best person in the world for me, I wonder who should have gotten Diana for a wife? I also wonder who could be bad enough to deserve someone like me.

Oh, now I remember

We were extremely rich and lived on a hill in Victor, MT. this was a beautifl site with a small stream running down each side of the hill were I would go fish and catch 12 pound trout that would be caught on a safety pin bent just so. A little sewing thread tied to the end of some pole found in the thick foliage a few yards back of the streams.

We had so many cattle they could only be counted in two months. About three million depending on how succesful the last stranger who had been caught in cattle theft had been. We had two thousand milk cows that I had to milk each morning and evening. We would get about three thousand gallons of milk each time we milked. Boy the dairys and pasturizers all wanted it as it was the best milk in the whol state and probably the nation. This milk carried almost 10% milk fat so it was ideal for butter manufacturering and ice cream as well as for the best tasting milk.

Boy don’t you wish you could have lived then? This is purely made up nonsense. It is only for the highest amount of blog posts so that I can win JK.

Christmas

I think that Christmas is the best of all holidays and yet I never get ready for Christmas. Ask me on the 24^th “are you ready for Christmas” and my answer will most often be when is it? It always sneaks up on me without my having done anything positive for Christmas. This year Diana has fially gotten the Christmas decorations out and asked me how does this look to which I had to say I don’t see it what do you mean.

As we go into this season I always feel sad for Zachery as he has to share his birthday with all the Christmas zeal. Seems that his birthday is almost forgotten because everyone is to busy doing Christmas things. I hope everyone will take the time to wish Zachery a happy birthday this year.

Diana tells me that she finds the blogs I write of my parents lives to be very blah, I hope they aren't seen in this way by everyone, else I will quit with these type of blogs.

Isn't it exciting that we are going to have such an exciting day on the 15th, Alex starting work at a new job and Calixta moving on the very same day.

By the way

Cathy: I am not interested in any contest.
I blog as a way to communicate with all my family as I am very poor at communicating with anyone by telephone, through letter writing or any other method of conversation. But I am interested in what my family does. I have no way of escaping all that Diana does LOL but my children are totally incommunicado con migo, with me. And blogging is an excellent way of writing a journal as you can write what you have done or seen. Some of the more personal things need to be kept in ones diary or dairy as you choose but blogging is a good way for people to write their life.

And I hope that everyone reads this and acts upon it.

Grandmas end

The neighbor tried to do away with my grandpa by poisoning the Epsom salts (strychnine) strychnine in the Epsom salts. They used Epsom salts for just about everything now that’s all I know about my grandmother. (How was she killed rather than your grandfather?) They put strychnine in the Epsom salts that they used for medicine (apparently she,the neighbors wife, came in the house and put some strychnine in the Epsom salts knowing that they would take it for medicine). My grandpa wasn’t feeling well oe night so she fixed him a cup of tea but he didn’t like as much sugar in his as she did and she got more of the s strychnine than he did.(So he got some also?) He got sick but it killed her. (So did they get prosecuted?) No they couldn’t prove anyrhing, they tok it to court but they couldn’t prove anything nothing to prove for sure. This is something I don’t understand. They used strychnine’epsom salts for tea, it wasn’t tea it was a hot toddy that’s why she (tea could have been a hot toddy) I was just wondering why (what is a hot toddy) (I’d say that anything hot was a hot toddy but I don’t know) I don’t know but anyway she got more of the strychnine than he did.

Wierd...

We had the weirdest thing happen tonight. Someone knocked on the door and Diana answered it. There was a man there who wanted to come in. Well Diana called me out and when I got there this guy was scared out of his mind. Apparently he and his friend were watching a movie when her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird, said at his door open up as I am coming in. There were three knocks and all of a sudden this poor guys door flew in, frame and all. Well the guy ran as he was frightened to death and hid behind our car then called 911 on his cell phone and talked to the police until his battery died then came to our house and wanted to come in and use our phone. He was scared to the point were he couldn’t sit down or anything. He talked and worried and talked and eventually we found that he works at the same place as our bishop. Small world huh?

Horses and first of grandmas

In here it says tell a story of your grandpa. I don’t remember my grandpa Passey at all, he died from diabetes when I was about eight years old. What about your grandpa?

I only had one grandparent and that was my grandpa Morgan and I was about sixt… fifteen when he died. I was a sophomore in high school and he died in the spring so I think I was about fifteen years old whe he died and all I can remember about grandpa Morgan is that we used to go see him and he lived five mile- seven miles outside of Idaho Falls and it would take us thirty minutes in the car to drive that seven miles at that time. One time Rex and I rode a horse back from his place we started at noon and didn’t get back until dark (slow horse) we would ride a ways and then we would have to get off and lead him (was it winter time) summer time but you didn’t go as fast in those days as you do now (yah well you had a horse that was worse than a mule) just about.

And this one says tell a fond memory of your grandma and I never knew my grandma Passey. She died when my father was about eleven I think but we lived with my grandma Lee and she was always doing or buying us things, I loved to sleep with her in her feather bed. She had a feather bed mattress. I can remember we used to puff it up and pound it down so.

I never knew my grandmother at all but I know that she died when my mother was eleven years old she was poisoned by a neighbor that lived in the area where my grandpa did over a fight over water rights who could have water and who couldn’t have water

Tune in tomorrow for the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say!!!

Dentures

Uncle Larry told me a story about my grandfather. Gramdpa would take out his knife and whittle on his dentures whenever they would hurt until he had to get a new set of dentures.

Dianas mother will wear her dentures until it is time to eat and then she will take them out and put them beside her plate so that she can eat without any teeth and she does a very good job of it, she even eats tripas without any teeth tripas are normally quite gummy but I guess one could say those tripas are extrely gummy. I remember one day when Cathy was asked to go into the trash can behind the restaurant we had eaten at in order to find those dentures. I don't remember but Cathy would definitely remember if she found them or not.

Want anymore denture stories? I guess I could dig some up and I don’t mean from the grave.

Visits Visits Visits 2

Well Larry did come and Diana did get the house cleaned up and fixed dinner (Chicken, Mashed taters, Green beans and Mushroom gravy) but she was mocing so fast I didn’t see her till we sat down to eat. I sure appreciate it when anyone comes over to eat, I get something besides Nalleys chili con carne or Oatmeal to eat.

Larry said that he had gone up to Spanish Fork Utah to be with his daughter and son-in-law for Thanksgiving. Spent a couple weeks there, went to visit my uncle Bill Barnes for a couple days then went to see Mom and Dad for a couple days then went to see a one of his colleagues in Seattle before coming down to see us. He spent the night with us then went to church with us before leaving to go to Portland to see another colleague. After all of this he will go down to LA for his company christmas party and go shopping with his daughters. We told him to go over to see Cathy and family but I don’t know.

Well now you have Larry’s travel itenary for all to be interested in. I hope this satisfies your challenge Cathy. Oh BTW Larry did give us some of his pictures and genealogy but no money. Larrys wife Jerry died this past May and he showed me a PowerPoint presantation that he had prepared of her life for her funeral dinner I guess, it was very nice. While we were gone to Utah one of the members of our ward had passed away and several testomonies at Fast and Testimony meeting were about death and poor Larry was really suffering because of them.

The above are my mothers family who are still alive. Right to left uncle Keith - looks like a Passey, aunt Karen, Uncle Larry - looks like a Lee and mom. Mom is 76 and Larry is 70. 70 and still working is quite awesome.

Visits Visits Visits

My mother called a little while ago to let me know that her brother Larry was coming by to see me. hope he leaves a great deal of cash while here. LOL Although he is doing quite well, he struggles just like the rest of us. I hope that the visit will be very interesting concerning genealogy and how his family is doing!

Diana is quite upset that we didn’t get more time to clean up0

Thanksgiving!

We were so frightened by the news of Karis illness and it was especially good to go in and see her in the hospital. It was nice to see everyone there at Ciria and Adams house and once Kari got home everyone else started dropping off like flies in October. Well I enjoyed myself even if I got so exhausted that I was home on Tuesday and most of Wednesday.
I forgot Brecks birthday on Wednesday as I was too busy trying to get well enough to see the doctor and then going. I am so sorry Breck. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you.