ClaraMarcus

Dallin CAN Dance

2010-03-21T09:37:00.000-07:00

This young man kept the grief to a minimum for us.

Thanks.

A Manley Man Thing

2010-03-12T10:52:00.000-08:00

The Amazing Grinder Boy

2009-11-26T11:16:00.000-08:00

Halloween 09

2009-11-08T14:58:00.000-08:00

Suz got this mask off eBay - from somewhere in England.

A Much better look.

Oct 09

2009-10-10T10:28:00.000-07:00

Chance passes hunter ed.

Oct 09 Conference at Sherrie Dee's

Scout award 7 Oct 09.

Friday Float Time, Rodeo Weekend

2009-08-02T09:59:00.000-07:00

Wedding Day 25 June, 2009 Logan Temple

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June

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Troop 80, 8th Ward Scouts, Day camp, Wed, 17 June, 09 Hull Valley, Cub River.

First Aid.

Father and Son, Race.

Yellowstone Trip

2009-06-07T17:39:00.000-07:00

We saw these two grizzlies just inside the East entrance of Yellowstone. Friday, 5 June 09

Restaurant/gift shop outside East entrance.

Cabin we stayed in.

This family of Fox live under the porch of this old Buffalo Bill Cabin.
There were 6-8 photographers with big lenses taking pictures.
( Next to the restaurant/gift shop)

See the little black dot? That is where the cabin is located we stayed at.

This deer is walking right were the Griz walked by, within 100 yards of cabin.

Wolf rug on cabin wall.

The Griz that walked by our cabin (3-4 hundred yards to the west of our cabin).

Yellowstone lake looking S E.

Taken at Paint Pots E of West entrance.

Looking W at Yellowstone, East entrance.

Sunday morning after the bear ( luckily, no bear tracks).

Snow at fishing bridge. At one point we thought we'd be stuck here for 3 days.

Pretty. South Yellowstone entrance area.

Family Stuff

2009-05-28T17:25:00.000-07:00

It takes a lot of photography talent to get most with a funny face.

Striking them out and Grand Slammin

2009-05-11T16:42:00.000-07:00

Chance goes in to pitch with 3 innings left.

Chance pitches and strikes them out & out & out!

Even though Chance is doing well....

We are up for last bats, but are still behind by two.

We somehow get the bases loaded with our people.

Chance gets up - gets two strikes - and then...

We win by two.

Gardening On My Mind

2009-03-15T12:28:00.000-07:00

In 2004, I read in Mother Earth News about growing tomato's inside during the winter.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2004-10-01/Winter-Tomatoes.aspx
In Nov 04, I cut cuttings off of some vines I had hanging upside down in my garage.
The cuttings had bumps on them which is where the roots sprout from.
I put the cuttings in some water filled mason jars where after some time they grew roots.
Thus sprouted, I put them in 5 gallon buckets of potting soil with plastic trays underneath.
The pictures below shows them on a table. Later I had to move them to the floor.
They grew to the ceiling again.
Some time later in Feb - April I got bowls full of tomatoes.

Later I moved these buckets outside where they continued to produce tomato's until fall of 2005.

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Climbing Peas

Below are pole peas that I planted in 2006.
Three 24" metal stakes hold the trellis in place.

They grew this tall, about 7 1/2 feet (see below).
I just stood there reaching in picking peas and there wasn't hardly any bending over.
A trellis or side wall is needed to support them.
These are growing on strings. Click pic to see the pods.

I purchased the peas at Smith's Marketplace in Logan. Buy early as they sell out fast.
I just tried (15Mar09) to buy some from EdHumeSeeds.com but I could not get the order to work.
I want to try these in 5 gallon pails or flower pots this year.
Wind can be an issue. Think ahead on the support system.

Lead Bread

2009-03-08T07:13:00.001-07:00

A relative requested Clara's Lead Bread recipe.

I received this recipe from Shelley Hart Beal who like her family are hopelessly addicted to it .

Clara's Lead Bread won grand champion one year at the Franklin County fair.

This recipe makes 5 loaves - a 5 quart Bosch mixer is very handy but mixing can be done by just mushing it through your fingers (wash your hands first) for some time - like I did before getting a mixer.

8 cups warm water.
4 table spoons of yeast.
1 cup honey.
2 table spoons of salt.
3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
2 eggs.
19-20 cups of whole wheat flour.

Makes around 5 loafs.

Let rise approx 30 minutes, punch down. After the punch down I like to cut and place loaf portions into each bread pan.

Let rise another 30 minutes or until the swelled loaf looks like it will fit properly into a toaster or is about the size of a regular loaf of store bought bread.
Preheat and place each unit into a 350 degree oven for approx 55 minutes.
Toward the end of the bake, check it as cook times vary.

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Lead Bread recipe as written by a technical ops planner working at ATK (Thiokol).

Step 0001
This operation mixes and cures up to 5 loafs of Lead Bread.

Step 0010
FOD (Foreign object Debris) Check.
Perform a FOD check of the areas where the process it to occur.

Step 0020
Obtain the following materials and assure each item has a completed accept tag:

8 cups warm water.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

4 table spoons of yeast.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

1 cup honey.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

2 table spoons of salt.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

2 eggs.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

19-20 cups of whole wheat flour.
From the accept tag record:
Material Expiration. Date:__________

Step 0030
Obtain the 5U132675-102 mixer.
Record S/N and calibration expiration date of mixer.
SN:__________ Exp Date:_________
Mfg:___________ QA:___________

Perform a pre-use check.
Assure all details are present and in good working order.
Check for cleanliness.
If a discrepancy is discovered contact Mfg engineer and perform a Tool Discrepancy Report.

Step 0040
Water:
Using temperature gauge assure water temperature is 95 +/- 10 Deg F.

Record S/N and calibration expiration date of temp gauge.
SN:__________ Exp Date:_________
Mfg:___________ QA:___________

Pour 8 cups of warm water into the mixer.
Mfg:___________ QA:___________

Step 0050
4 table spoons of yeast.
Using a 4U136335-O1S shop aid, measure to level 4 table spoons of yeast.
Pour into mix bowl hopper.
Mfg:___________ QA:___________

Step 0060
1 cup honey.
Using a viscometer measure honey viscosity:
Record S/N and calibration expiration date of viscometer.
SN:__________ Exp Date:_________
Mfg:___________ QA:___________

Viscosity should be between 1 - 2.
Pour honey into mixer hopper.

Note:

If viscosity is above 2, scrap. Obtain a backup sample from the tool crib as required.

Req'd ___ Not Req'd _______ Mfg:___________
Step 0060 must be re-performed if viscosity is out of tolerance.

Re-perform step 0060
Mfg:___________ QA:___________

Step 0070
2 table spoons of salt.

Oh hell - you get the idea.

Wrestler Boy

2009-03-06T22:33:00.000-08:00

Wrestling at Malad, Friday 6 March.

3 Hours of boredom followed by 10 minutes of
shear excitement.

This is the second tournament in one week.

Suz, Stacey & SY are sitting in the background
on the top row next to the right arm of the ref
in the white shirt just below this sentance.

Basketball Champions

2009-02-14T12:16:00.000-08:00

Saturday, 14 Feb 2009
Undefeated, 6-0
Chance in green jumps for the ball.

The wonder of it all.

Unofficial score keeper, official player.

2009-01-04T16:31:00.000-08:00

It was a flicker.

Chance, shooting out the kitchen window hit this can 10 times in a row at 20 yards with his new pellet pistol.

Made more bread. Both heating elements makes a lot of difference in how it cooks.

New Years day visit at Ruth and Ray's.

After Christmas Stuff

2009-01-01T17:13:00.000-08:00

Christmas vacation events.

Reed welds to reinforce a broken snow blower handle.

I used lots of wet hand towels to protect and shield from gas catching fire from welding sparks.

My plan is to wheel the whole thing out the front of the garage if there is fire.

I once say a guy put out his cigarette in a pan of gasoline when it was really cold like this. I jumped back wildly as I watched this action. They all got a good laugh about it. The gas is not volatile when it is cold outside. If it had been July, ka-WHOOSH type fireworks would have happened.

10 to 18" of new snow for Christmas.

Rallison cousins at Christmas party.

Party takes place up Cherryville (Maple Creek) just below "Deep Creek Canyon," a place mentioned in Christmas at Grandmothers or Around the Hill and a Faraway Off.

Stacey Hart and Sy Bee (engaged).

Chance Hart 9. Matthew Rallison 10.

Cousins.

Reed doing some minor touch ups on the luge that was built by Jeff Brown and Sy Bee.

The snow blower auger axle broke so I couldn't use it to beef up the turn walls which need to be high.

Chance (# 2 down the chute)

Christmas

2008-12-27T15:57:00.000-08:00

Shannon's new hat and scarf.

I just about killed myself getting all the food ready. We whipped the mashed potato's in the new used Bosch mixer. They were perfect and received glowing comments.

We got "Rock Band" which is like Guitar Hero. Three can play at one time. This has been played almost constantly and is very noisy.

JoAnn ate like crazy and cleaned up everything we put on her plate.

We received about 10-12 inches of snow, not like the 3 feet that Shelley received in Arco.

The snow blower broke half way through the blowing effort.

The luge had to be hand made this year by Shelley's Jeff and Stacey's Sy Bee.

Made some Lead Bread today, Saturday. Turns out the bottom heating element in the oven died so we had to watch the bread close and stick a knife into it to see if the center was cooked properly. After about 3 hours of this we finally took it out. The top was very dark but not burned, the lower part was cooked but seems very moist. I think it will be OK.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas: Six to Eight Inches on Saturday 13 Dec

2008-12-14T10:31:00.000-08:00

Friday afternoon ( 12 Dec) I was able to plant five thirty foot rows of garlic.

Saturday: Lots of snow blower fixing then, lots of snow blowing, three to four hours worth. It was wet heavy snow which is hard to fling. A low flying ungraceful type arc, lots of clogging problems.

Powdery snow blows much better. Twelve to fourteen foot arches which are beautiful and feathery, especially when the sun is out.

I like to blow snow. I like to blow it to a long narrow mound out by the road. The mound facilitates snow tunneling for the neighborhood kids.

My forward thinking is, when it comes time for snow to melt, I can not wait for it to melt. I'm ready for spring. So, I blow the snow from the North side of the house. I get spring before any one else.

We are now a two mechanical deer family.

2008-11-01T05:14:00.000-07:00

Emigration Canyon.

The real weapon is the blue truck. We beat ourselves to death with it.

Gibson Lake

Smile next time!

Smiles.

No elk, might as well shoot a rock.

Anual Pumpkin Carving Party

2008-10-27T18:43:00.000-07:00

Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

Justin bought a new charger.

Chance's Pumpkin.

Everybody's.

Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts.

Eat Hair Play Dance

2008-10-24T21:53:00.000-07:00

New cast.
Should come off around Thanksgiving

Funky hair day.

Saturday, Deer Hunting N E of Franklin

2008-10-19T05:13:00.000-07:00

Jimmy Ward

Chance dreams of the day.

Eric Allen Hart

2008-10-15T20:35:00.000-07:00

Funeral: 14 Oct 2008, Tuesday 11:00AM.

Click on photo to enlarge.

Eric Alan Hart

Carolyn Hart Bennett, Aunt Marjorie Eric's Mother.

Riverdale Cemetery.

Chance Breaks His Arm

2008-10-08T17:35:00.001-07:00

After school on Tuesday, 7 October 2008, Chance tried to do
a forward flip. He over shot, launching over the edge into the
strawberry patch by the S E corner of the pink garage.
That really hurt!

No one was around so he and Sam, (who he shot in the foot this spring)
went to Sam's house and called Susan at Dr Kelley's.

X-rays were taken. The doctor put a splint cast on for the night.

Wednesday at 5:30 PM 24 hrs later.

Two forearm bones come up from the bottom of the picture
and meet, the one on the right, the bigger one
is where the break is.
Click it to enlarge.

Lump from the deadening shot.
Chance handled it very good as the doctor tried to get
him to talk about what kind of bear he would like to hunt.

These finger cuffs hold his arm up, they put a 5 lb weight on his
bicep muscle by the crook of his arm.

They x-ray'd it to make sure the bone was aligned properly.
the doctor really had to muscle it which hurt some but no tears.

Wrapping.

It will stay wrapped for two weeks until our next visit.

Making Lead Bread

2008-10-05T12:50:00.000-07:00

After the last few weeks, this is the only dough I have left.

Week of 26 Sep08

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Baby rattle snake.

Chance, Tyler Wakely, and Wyatt Peters etc.

September 2008 Stuff

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Friday, 19 Sep 08
Our neighbors pygmy goat had a baby kid.

Chance turned 9 on 9 Sep 2008

20 Sep 08. Thought this was a great picture. One click it to see blow up.

Copy and paste the following link:

http://prestonidahodigitalnews.blogspot.com/

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The Fair & New Hunters

2008-09-06T19:02:00.000-07:00

Easter Idaho State Fair 3 Sep 08 Chance's birthday gift.

This is the way to hunt!

Pretty brave hunters.

Follow the leader.

Afternoon sunshine.

The mighty hunters.

Yes, they kick.

Chance took over the 12 gauge, pretty tough kid!

Proud hunters.

1 September 2008, Labor Day, Hunting Season

2008-09-01T17:40:00.000-07:00

Yes, it snowed.

Opening of Dove Season.

Frog/Pigeon Season?

Frog grabbin.

Some Hell Going Through Heaven

2008-08-24T07:30:00.000-07:00

Saturday 23 August 10:45- 15:15 [Double Click to Enlarge Photos]

We went from Deer Cliff, up the German Dugway,
along the Highline trail to Bloominton Lake parking lot.
Nice ride. Vista's. Wild flowers and bugs.

I count 7 butterflies.

A bad assurance.

From the Bloomington lot south, a one lane trail,
above Willow Flat, mostly hell.
Loose, squarish, softball sized rocks.
Chance dumped his bike 3-4 times.
I was so tired and weary, a real
doctors heart stress test for sure.
All this generated the look below.
(Oxfords, Banida in background.)

Two hours pass. No sunscreen. I better do something
or my white forehead is going to peel for weeks.
I cut the bottom of my old t-shirt to make a doo-rag (sorry Brooke).

To small. I have to cut a strip all the way around
the back side of the shirt to get a strip big enough
to go around my big melon (Chance used my hunting
knife to cut).

I assured Chance we would start down to Egan
basin just over this hill. Reality, the trail stretched
over and around for two miles like the Great Wall of China
and just as rocky.

He's pissed.

This bad stretch had some interest and beauty.

Isn't life like this; spots of intense beauty during
periods of severe trial.

Finally, we make it down to a regular dirt road.
(It was such a relief!) Franklin basin. Coast down
Hilliard Canyon to Willow Flat, then to Deer Cliff.

The day ended beautiful enough.

Green Apple Season and Other Stuff

2008-08-10T10:21:00.000-07:00

Parent turkey's and babies at the farm Sunday, 10Aug08.

Cubriver

Looking West from Riverdale hyway.

Looking N.W. Riverdale Hwy.

Green Apple Clip

Rodeo Weekend 2008

2008-08-03T06:20:00.000-07:00

Double click image for blow up of pics.
David, Mark & Reed Hart. 2 Aug 08

8 Harts

At Deer Cliff Inn. 1Aug08

Middle of pic is Red Point at Oneida Narrows where Marc and David caught a big stringer of trout when I was about 6-8 yrs old (1965ish).

Picture taken south of Reed Long's place, Cub River. Expand to see the rapture rays.

Taken North of Reed Long's place looking East, light dancing off tree tops.

Chance, Mathew & Wyatt Peters, Thursday afternoon of the carnival.

Mathew & Chance.

Happy birthday to mom

2008-07-28T17:43:00.000-07:00

Taken around 1975

Random stuff from the weekend

2008-07-21T17:13:00.001-07:00

These pictures are placed backwards so go to the end of this post and work back up to here.

Reed

Looking directly W on the hill that leads down to the old Hart pasture. Nearby is a cherry tree, no doubt a direct descendant of the cherry tree Marcus Hart, used to coerce two boys into letting him shave them bald headed for some cherries, with his new 1918 clipper set from Sears.

Looking N W at Bear River bottoms S & E of Preston. Dayton is in there somewhere by the line below the far mountain. UP^

Looking directly E from Foster reservoir dam toward the water inlet. UP ^

Looking N E just below giraffe hill Rd (or "Long Neck Mountain" as Shelley once called it) Cub River canyon Sunday morning. UP ^

Final product. This is a preliminary model of the "Triple R" ( Reed's, Rock Roller) double click for larger view. Up ^

Green dubbing, shoe lace threaded over and glued, to hook. UP^

Top, is abandoned small caddis "Rock Rollers." Middle is shoelace with gravel glued to it. Below is woven yarn wrapped around a # 6 hook. The green neck is the caddis larvae with black hair (legs).
UP ^

This is fine gravel taken from Maple Creek. Lots of sifting to get down to the right size of rocks. UP ^

This green bug is the caddis larvae. Up ^

This is a caddis fly larvae out of Maple creek. Mostly they make their cocoons out of small rocks, this looks like the one where the water gurgled, eddied and sank (See "Christmas at Grandmothers"). Double click pic for enlargement. Notice the finely constructed case. UP ^

Cub River in the Afternoon

2008-07-13T18:58:00.000-07:00

We caught this nice cutthroat on Maple Creek (12 July 08.

N E of Franklin, looking S W. two Indian burial mounds 13 July 08.

Looking West just up from Cub river church. Light dances off tree tops.

Looking East just above Glendale takeoff.

Looking S and W 3/4 below Deer Cliff.

Jimmy fishing by round-up corals.

From bend in Cub River road looking at scene just above the egg house.

Jimmy flyfishing at round-up corals.

I like to get Jimmy into a little competition which we've always fostered with each other about fishing.

I said, "If you'd ever get your pole going again, you may be able to get up to the high level of artistic style of fly fishing achieved by me!"

His reply, "Don't try to baffle me with all that menagerie stuff!"

I enjoy his irascibility.

Gloriousness

2008-07-06T18:57:00.000-07:00

Food, glorious food!

2008-07-06T18:43:00.000-07:00

I decided to cook today. Naturally, it was to die for.
(Those green things are the curly cues from garlic plants. See both pics.)

Going to the dump

2008-06-28T18:07:00.000-07:00

This is from Memorial day

Chance hit about 4 home runs today Sat 28Jun08

2008-06-28T17:47:00.000-07:00

Payson Jorgensen caught the biggest fish of the day.

2008-06-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

Using my fly pole with a beadhead nymph, Payson flung the line out and caught the biggest catch of the day. I made him pull the scrunchy face for effect.

Yellowstone Trip 13-15 June 08

2008-06-20T19:23:00.000-07:00

Find the Grizzly eating a fawn elk. follow the finger.
Teton National Park just up from the North entrance to the Genny Lake road.

Jackson Lake, 15 Jun 08 Shelley & Jeff

Jackson Lake, 15 Jun 08

Jackson Lake, 15 Jun 08

West Yellowstone, 14 Jun 08 painted buffalo's.

14 Jun 08 East of west yellowstone.

14 June geiser basin chipmunk

14 June close to yellow stone falls. Susan

Same place. Sam Keller, bald kid neighbor.
Zach Haralson, Shannon's beau.

Zach Haralson, Shannon's beau and Chance.

Number Two Home Run

2008-06-07T10:56:00.000-07:00

Home run # 2. Saturday, 7 Jun 08.

The Home Run Kid II

2008-06-06T14:26:00.000-07:00

Thursday, 5 June 2008 Chance slams first home run of the season.

Hart's Anatomy, Minor Suture Removal

2008-05-24T09:34:00.001-07:00

We took Jeff's stitches out, well, we watched and Zach took them out.
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Preston, Idaho
10:00

Shelley is chosen for the big award!

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