hymn variation, crazy week, conference words tally

First off, the hymn Praise to the Man, written about our Prophet Joseph Smith, being sung to a different tune than is in our hymn books. I LOVE this so much.

It's been a most unusual week.

Starting with a man beaten with a baseball bat showing up on our front doorstep early Monday morning. Later a deputy said the man had lost a lot of blood and they were afraid he might not make it. From a comment by the man's sister on Facebook, it sounds like 3 men are involved in the beating and I'm guessing they are known by the Sheriff's office. We know there was a search and seizure warrant issued for tribal land but whether the men are in custody, I don't know. Wish we had more info.

We are happy to say that the sheriff's Facebook page on Tuesday said the man was recovering in a hospital in Reno. That post also mentioned a man Glen often helps out who is a disabled homeless man. He had been found tied up and beaten by another homeless man a few weeks ago (and rumors had been going around that he had died), but he is also in Reno recovering as well. His assailant is in custody and charged with attempted murder.

And there are now 3 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Churchill county.

Crazy. It all seems crazy and unreal.

So, this week, Glen and the kids worked on fixing the leach lines for our septic system. After 27 years, a lot of tree roots had ruined the previous leach lines. So blessed to have Alan and farm equipment to help with some of the digging and gravel moving. Thanks Alan! And thanks Glen, Eric, Ryan, Angeles, Hannah, and Kaellen (my very small contribution was to hold the surveying equipment at one point)!

Another project this week is the "pinkhouse" that Glen and Hannah designed and are building with the help of everyone (once again, my contribution is rather minor--I did a little bit of painting). We would call it a greenhouse, but they mixed all the available paint we had to paint the wood and the color came out pinkish. Anyway, the project is still a work-in-progress. Hannah and Kaellen start school again tomorrow, so won't have as much free time to help out, and of course Glen still has a lot of school stuff that he's working on, but it will get done.

And I did the final tallying of the words we picked to listen for in General Conference:

Glen: 17 fires and 1 fiery
Beth: 26 trusts
Andrew: 38 purposes
Heather: 12 mothers
Henry: 5 schools
Joy: 16 happys and 11 belongs
Eric: 4 flys (flies?)
Ryan: 4 tomorrows
Angeles: 31 gathers
Hannah: 50 changes
Kaellen: 148 times
Alex: 24 missionarys and 77 personals

That represents a lot of candy eaten, at least in this house.

Hannah and Kaellen painting the pinkhouse

walls are assembled and the roof will come next

Hannah is teaching Angeles how to make a book!

Hannah and Kaellen are painting the cabinets and walls of their 5th wheel

burning trash followed cleaning the garage-Hannah is on hose duty

Section of the totally blocked leach line. No wonder it wasn't working right!

Alan scooping dirt for us

Glen, Eric, and Ryan on ditch digging duty

this gives a different perspective on the huge dirt piles

see all the tree roots?

Hannah (left) and cousin Sarah (right) practicing social distancing

gravel time

Alan finishing the job by filling in the trench and smoothing things out

Glen adds that these photos are for family use only and are not to be shared on Facebook or any social media sites.

And Glen made some cinnamon rolls for us this morning!