cc: file, Tony Hafen, Pauline Nelson via mail, Sara and Des Penny, Claude and Katherine Warner, Lloyd and Luana Warner, Diane Cluff, Maxine Shirts via mail.
"Ron Crabtree filled a cavity in one of my upper left teeth this week. This is the first cavity I have had since I started going to Ron back in about 1986. I had a lot of cavities as a child. Must have eaten a lot of sugar back then. I remember once, in the building Dixie Leavitt's office was in, sitting in the dentist office forever. He deadend my mouth, then he went to the store, forgot about me, and when he got back had to redeaden my mouth. I was very patient with his mistake, and I don't think Mom was so patient. I remember how worried Mom was about our teeth, and how she paid Dr. Gaylen Brown to put floride on my teeth so they would be protected against cavities. Often times what we worry about most happen to us. In my mind, the problems Mom is having with her teeth literally falling apart right now is a possible example of this concept. I wrote about this in Prime Words and quoted it in a previous Thoughtlet (../9715.html), and I will repeat it, for those who have joined my life since 1997:
I had a good week. Roice stopped back over on Monday morning. Melanie
and Jared came by with him, and then came back over. I miss Sara and
Rob. Oh well! Melanie and Jared watched The Emperor's New Groove, and
so I kept working on the computer. After sandwiches we all went to see
Shreck. Great movie. Almost up there with Princess Bride. As we
left Andrea turned to me and said, that's my kind of movie, they were
both kind of like you and me. Guess I have been an ogre, and probably
due to the same kind of insecurities Shreck exhibited. Then Melanie
and Jared went back to Vidor, I went back to work for a little while,
and then Matt, Rachel, Heather, Andrea, and I went to see Pearl Harbor.
I enjoyed the movie, even if it was fictionalized and based around an
artificial set of relationships. Certainly better than the critics
made it out to be. All in all the day was better than having a cavity.
I spent Tuesday through Thursday at Chroma working on the Texaco project. Very interesting work. Tuesday night Rachel, Heather, Andrea, and I went to Riverdance at Jones Hall. Better in life than on the video tape. We all had a good time. Wednesday was a Priest Laurel swim party at the house, and Andrea had it set up for me to grill hamburgers on the grill Mom gave us as a wedding present. I missed the first part of the party because the Bishop talked to all of the deacons and their parents about some teasing and fighting that has been going on. Hopefully the boys heard and will clean up their interactions. Following the activity, the adults helping with the High Adventure to Colorado came over. Completely out of the blue, they proposed and we ended up agreeing to postpone the trip until the 23rd of July. Roice talked to Rob and he definitively said he does not want to go, so I invited Matt to go with me. It is going to be a good trip. We added Carlsbad caverns to the agenda, and I am looking forward to showing Matt this cavity. I do wish Rob would go with us, especially since I set it up as a High School graduation present for him. Oh well! Maybe someday I will learn to not have multiple objectives for activities. Thursday morning was the trip to the dentist. Thursday evening Andrea and I went to the Houston Temple. It was nice. We were asked to be the witness couple again. We went from the temple to the Vintage Wine Bar between Westheimer and San Felipe just east of I-610 and listened to Peter Duncan on guitar and doing vocals and his son playing the electric violin. I was jealous, and it was fun to see them having so much fun together. Peter mentinoned the only time his son talks to him is when they needed to practice, and when he wants money. So I guess most families are similar. Friday evening I was worn out, and went to bed at 9:30.
Saturday was a good day too. Matt and I spent the morning helping David Moore with his eagle project at Stephen F. Austin State Park. He rebuilt some trails, put in steps, a handrail, and cut down a tree which had fallen across the trail and cleaned up bushes and weeds. I enjoyed the work. I don't take the time to sit on the back end of a shovel that often anymore, and I guess I miss it, as this was a major activity of my youth. They had bar-b-queue sandwiches, pop, chips, brownies, and snicker bars for lunch. Matt was in boys heaven. Greg Steine drove my car home. He is debating about whether to try for the olympics when he turns 20. The conflict is he wants to go on a mission, and the olympics falls right in the middle of this plan. He also wants to go to the Air Force Acadamy and to become an astronaut. I have no doubt that he can do all of this, and do it well. Andrea put grass plugs all around the yard to fill in where the grass has stopped growing in a kind of `lawn cavity.' When I got home Andrea had tears in her eyes, and she was reading the book Randy's wife Kathryn co-authored with her dad: A Trial Furnace, Southern Utah's Iron Mission. It talks about Bengt Nelson and Peter Shirts, our great-great grandparents. Neat book and I look forward to reading it. Swede Nelson called just after we got home and had had my shower. He has prepared documents for three of the prospects, claiming his Camayan Island investors are going to drill all three of these prospects this summer, and possibly some of the other ones Ed Gray has been working up. I spent the afternoon and evening getting material ready to take to the AAPG.
I hope each of you also had a good week, and that if there were any cavities in your life this week, that you were able to fill them with good and positive things. More important I hope this next week is even better than last week."