Fall Cleaning

I’m not sure why the spring cleaning bug bit in fall this year.  But he took a big chomp out of me!  After completing the refresh of my master bedroom, I tackled my office and craft room.  I have a wall of cupboards for scrapbooking and card making supplies, two desks, a 6’ tall shelving unit and an island in the center of the room.  I had planned to wait until I had finished Marine Corps League historian albums and my own heritage albums before tackling that room, but the cleaning bug wasn’t waiting.

Over the 20+ years I’ve been scrapbooking, I’ve collected a lot of “stuff.”  (That is an understatement in case you haven't heard one.)  I was either past various subjects in my crafts or I simply had too many – a lot of which were papers.  I have a paper addiction!  Almost all of my unneeded supplies were donated to the Pottery Club of SunRiver, the Card Class at SunRiver, a couple friends, the Senior Center in St. George and a few things to The Hope Chest, a local charity thrift shop.  It was a huge job and took quite a while but now I’m glad it’s done because it’s much easier to use the room.

I’ve caught up on the MCL historian albums and am working on a Christmas project now before I’ll get back into my heritage albums.  I have done a lot with my heritage, from my Phelps ancestors as original settlers – up to my 6th grade pages.  Just a few years to go!  (To reach my age of 29, you know.)

Only thing left is to reduce my closet.  Much better than buying more hangers. 

Happy Heavenly Birthday

Happy 5th Heavenly Birthday

You were Special

I Miss You!

 

An Extra Visit From Family

My daughter and Grace and Claire paid me an extra visit the last of August.  Since I was in the middle of refreshing my master bedroom, they were invaluable help, shopping, finding the right pillows and throws, bringing curtains from IKEA, ironing and hanging curtains, etc.  What fun we had! 

Next step will be chalk painting my makeup desk in a distressed white or chalk paint pink blush. 

Nine more Southern Utah Devil Pups

Southern Utah has nine more Devil Pup graduates, bringing our total since 2006 to 112.  This year our pups earned three awards, one for a perfect PFT, one for Top Ten Percent, and our very first Spirit Award.

I'm getting ready for our Awards Night program at the St. George Pizza Factory, and then it'll be wrapping up another season with thank you letters, invoicing, etc.  A few months' break sounds good.

Computer Woes

First, I find Google/gmail isn't accepting my SunRiver e-mails, in the midst of my computer-busy Devil Pup Youth Program, or they were sending them into spam folders.  I'm not sure that's fixed yet!  Then I find that it looked like someone had hacked into my SunRiver e-mail, sending out tons of messages, so they shut my account down.  I'm told SunRiver (an adult community) has been targeted pretty hard lately.  I bought a recommended virus/malware program and ran multiple scans and found nothing.  So until my server figures out the issues, I'm reduced to using the very e-mail I hate to use - gmail. 

Caryn and her AFJROTC Awards

 

Caryn loaded up on AFJROTC awards last night.

So proud of this 2019 Devil Pup!

 We are gearing up for a new Southern Utah Devil Pup season, hoping to make a big impact at Camp Pendleton in July.  No word yet on what the program will look like, but we will be ready regardless.

 SOUTHERN UTAH DEVIL PUPS

 

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