April 25, 2012 Fishing Day

Today was great, we asked Steve and Madeline Adkinson,
if they would take us fishing, so today 5 missionaries went
fishing.  We had so much fun.  Sister Ann caught the first
fish.  They liked worms, mepps spinners, jigs, and just about
anything else, the weather was hot, but a slight breeze was blowing,
so we didn't mind.  The fish that we caught included, Black Bass, Blue Gill, and
Channel Catfish.

Sister Ann Stokes caught the first fish,

a Blue Gill

Elder Boyce Black

Sister Pam caught a Blue Gill

Elder Jeff caught a Bass

Steve Adkinson with a bass

Elder Jeffrey like usual, catches alot of fish,

he was using a jig.

Pams Catfish, 6 lbs

another shot at the Catfish

Steve with his nice 5 lb bass

Ann caught this beautiful 6 lb bass

Elder Jim Stokes carried to the basket.

Ann's 6 lb bass

Elder Boyce Black caught this 5 lb Catfish on a small mepps spinner.

Here is the basket full of fish.

Sister Ann Stokes, with the two prized bass.

Hers is the biggest!!!

Steve fileted out the fish for us we had over 11 lbs of fileted fish.

Sister Pam Gibson with her prized Channel Cat,

I was so excited to catch a catfish. 

We had alot of fun, enjoying this time outdoors.

April 24, 2012 Working on the Quilt

Sister GayLynne Crane, created this beautiful jean quilt,
it will be donated to the Jameson Community, to help raise funds
for the town.  So the sisters are quilting cute boxes with and x through the
middle of each jean square.  It looks so nice, we have many talented ladies,
and then theirs me, but I will attempt to learn.  It is just so much fun,
to visit, now I know why the early sisters quilted so much, it was a chance to
visit and grow together as a family, and community.

Sister Ann Stokes, and Sister Kathleen Black

Sister GayLynne Crane, and Sister Kay Kelsey in the background

Sister Janee Spencer and Sister Pam Gibson

Sister Connie Huber and Sister Ann Stokes

April 23, 2012 Men Working

Went out and caught the men working again.
On the West end of the valley the men are working on the Esbeck farm,
cleaning up the trees and building a new fence.

Jeff up on the 4-plex roof patching the holes, it rained,

and we had a leak.

New tile just laid in the Doxey Trailer

Beautiful Country road headed to the Esbeck Farm.

We arrived just as this huge tree fell to the ground.

Elder Bill Holliday work on the large tree with the loggers.

Elder Bill Crane digging up the roots of the trees that were cut.

Now that's a tree root

Say Hello Bill

Elder Jim Stokes, and Elder Gary DeLeeuw

Pulling out the fence post.

Pile of trees, my dad would just love all this wood!

Tree line that the loggers are working on to prepare for the fence.

Director Larry Crane, making sure us girls don't get in the way.

Logger pulling away the huge tree to clear the road.

Fun old barn, just hanging around

April 21, 2012 Missouri Scenes and Critters

Just a few more photo's of fun.

Back in the brush we sited this old shelter,

now it houses other critters.

The Old Wabash Train Trestles

New Window at Tower Hill, the men just cut down the

tree's to create another view of the Valley.

Old Window you can see how quickly the cover grows back.

Flowering tree at the bottom of the window.

They did not see me or they would have jumped into the pond.

Look real close you might see the eye of the frog

Canada Goose

Morning mist on the pond near the 4' plex

Sunrise

Cardinal

Large Black snake that lives at the 4-plex

about 5' long

Slithering back to the barrell it leaves in.

Our neighbor hood turtle slowly walking back to the other pond.

Not sure if he visited the pond for a week.  But

appears to be my last week visitor again.

Cardinal

I have an itch.