"the" jewerly store

This cat gets a lot of press here in our house. On the other hand the picture of Molinelli Jewelry Store takes me back to the 1950's. I often went down the street to the Chief Theater to see the show on Saturdays and walked home past this store. I a lot of times went alone and I developed a habit of going into the store for Birthdays and Christmas to get my mom a gift. I thought I did a pretty good job of picking out something and was always told I had great taste. I remember a green pin and ear rings and a red one. I wonder how good my taste really was? I know what I picked out was always appreciated and I was made to feel like I had done a good job. Good lesson in a lot of ways I suppose. Don't know why I really decided to blog about this but it is a real memory of some importance to me.

Rhetorical and Elocutionary Embellishments

I was wondering what might be something unique or original to post. This picture is an assortment of original "things".

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The books on their side under the car came out of a one room school house that was next to my grandfather's home in a place called "Cherry Creek" Idaho. The copyright shows the first printing in 1914 and the last one 1937. I took a number of books out of this school in the 1950's when it was just sitting unused and open to the elements. These are 3 volumes of a series called "The New Wonder World". It reminded me of "World Books" or an old "Britancia" talking about a lot of subjects. The book to the left of these volumes is called "Preaching and Public Speaking" and it was written in 1898. On the title page it says that it is "A Manual for the Use of Preachers of the Gospel, and Public Speakers in General" Some of the chapters titles are: The Art of Thinking, characteristics of the Sermon, Kinds of Sermons, Methods of Communicating Thought, Analysis of the Sermon, and then "Rhetorical and Elocutionary Embellishments" Pretty good stuff and actually it is a book worth reading. This book was a gift from Joseph A. Jones to Merlin as written in his handwriting in 1952. I think from a note on the inside cover that it was purchased by my Grandfather for $2.00 in 1903. The favorite part of this book may still be ahead of me. I noticed that the last thing in the book is listed on page 435 and is "A sermon by President Wilford Woodruff" I have read several books on his life recently an really found him to be a most fascinating individual. I had forgotten this chapter in a book I have had on my self a long time. I am very anxious to read it so I think I will later today....................

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The model of the old Ford is "cool". Wish I had had one.

Becuase we can.................

We probably went about 3 miles or so. today and the objective, photo wise, probably, was the sunflower. Of course the walk, and the time to do go out together, and the nice temperature, and the overall experience, and "because we could", were good reasons too. Near the end of the walk we found more sunflower shots and pictures were taken. Now on the other hand I had this one photo in my picture file from a couple of years back taken in our "might be a garden someday" place and it is pretty good.

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Pigeons are unpleasant birds in so many ways. They are messy and not very interesting. Today's pigeons were worth enjoying because they were a couple of blocks away from home in a park.

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Looking back over the week I recall a thought that I pondered a little. "the question was:

"why do we do this".

It could apply to taking a walk or to anything that is potentially enjoyable. The answer to why we go and do things again and again probably assumes that we enjoy them or that they are good to do or good for us and those assumptions might be the answers but then we do things out of habit that are not good for us. "Why" we do something could be to a large degree because "We can".

Do the good things while we can would be a good motto.

HB Riley

So today this young lady is 14 years old............................................... Her mom and her grandma both posted pictures of her and so I think I need to do the same. I found a photo in my files. Of course it originally was taken by her grandma and it just "somehow" made it to my files but at least in some small way this is something I found today that brings back some memories of this great young lady. Her Uncle is pretty great too. A lot about Riley when she was this age reminded me of Katie. What a great young lady she is...................................................

Happy Birthday Riley

"Our personal parade"

Just a couple of weeks and it will mark the annual celebration of my arrival in the valley. Karl Malone, who was born on the 24th of July, arrived in Salt Lake on the 24th of July once upon a time a long time ago and for years he mentioned how the town had put together a large parade in honor of his coming. Last night we had a party and a couple of new folks in the ward came and I had previously mentioned to them that we had the party in honor of their moving into the ward. Likewise I recall around the first of October in 2003 I arrived late one Saturday evening here in the Albuquerque area. I got up the next morning I looked up and saw at least 700 balloons in the air celebrating my arrival, with me. So there, Karl. think I did about as good as you did. My parade was certainly "higher" in the sky. Course folks come out for these parades and celebration. One picture above is "Katie" watching "Karl's" parade way back when but then it might have been before Karl came. The other picture is Mike a different years.

reflections

Tonight I went out for a walk. I guess I could call part of it a light run. My last post showed a "shadow of myself" so I suppose this one only invites thoughts of what a "shadow of myself" might be? A full head of hair could cast a shadow? Strong legs in motion. Maybe one could see wind against the face in a shadow. Maybe the shadow is running but really is lost in thought about dancing. Dancing with a friend. Moving graceful. All reflected in a memory.

layers

Today's walk with my friend of 44 years + was enjoyable. The air was a little cooler to start. Lots of pictures were taken. I like the idea of layers in this picture. My shadow, her, her camera, and the object of one of the pictures.

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This week went by fast. Thursday was our anniversary and we went to a shop in the morning to exchange what I had picked out the day before. It was nice to get out mid week and not be working.

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