One of the best features of our house, I feel is our backyard, and in our backyard, my favorite things are our fruit trees. It is sooo divine to take just a few steps, and pick a lovely, delicious piece of fruit to eat. I also love our garden which Mike so lovingly plants and tends. Here are some pictures of what we're enjoying right now. If you're worried that I won't remember you when it comes to giving away the pears and apples, don't be shy to let me know you want some!
Yesterday Jess, Brad, Ann and Trace joined Mike and I on a delightful hike to Temple Fork Saw Mill. The leaves are changing, and I dare say that you won't find a more beautiful sight in very many other places of the world than fall in Logan Canyon. . .
I just finished reading Pride & Prejudice for the first time. I've loved the movie for years, but never attempted the book. Now I'm wishing we all talked more like this. . . "we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation." or "and though she was not very sanguine in expecting it, the application was a something to look forward to." or "no arguments shall be wanting on my part, that can alleviate so severe a misfortune; or that may comfort you, under a circumstance that must be, of all others, most afflicting to a parent's mind." and lastly, the most eloquent way of putting someone in their place. . . "Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these. How far your nephew might approve of your interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but you have certainly no right to concern yourself in mine. I must beg, therefore, to be importuned no further on the subject." Go Elizabeth!!! I love her! And I love, love, love the love story between her and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
We had a great time camping with everyone we were with today with the addition of Carol, Tanner and Taylor for a few hours. Friday night we ate delicious tin foil dinners, and played ultimate frisbee in the pitch dark. It was a little crazy, but fun. On Saturday, we played more games, and went for a hike to Rosys mine.
