Melon Tours

Sunday, December 4, 2011

I thank you for your support

Because of your overwhelming response to my pathetic plea for attention (6 comments, a record), I will include 1 photo of Vincent and myself (thank you Shauna) at our "holiday kickoff party," and 1 musing:

As I sat just a few days ago and dated a page in my journal I realized that not long from now we will be living in the year 2012. I don’t know how anyone else has viewed this but I have not put a lot of thought into living beyond 2012. About a month ago I was on a plane returning home from Chicago when I got into a fairly philosophical conversation with a gentleman who thought that he would like to live until 70 years of age (useful physical age), then just disappear. I shared my similar thoughts about living until 55 then heading off into the desert never to be heard from again – like an old dog.

Is that what dogs do? When I was about 8 years old my dad said that our dog Abby had just left home one day, because she was old, and wandered off into the desert. Before I do this I better check to see if this is what dogs really do – we later found out that Abby had been hit by a car, and that dad knew it but thought that the wandering in the desert story was preferable. Now I'm not sure what to do.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

MELON MUSINGS

Since the iPhone I have not been taking many pictures. Also, I am not sure that "Melon Tours" really works any more (if it ever did). Also, I don't know who the audience is here -- aside from my wife and a portion of our children. So, this blog could get renamed to Melon Musings, which might just end up being some short cryptic blurb that emanates from me or my journal, like:

... Shauna and I are sitting on the deck writing in our journals with the sun beating down on us – it is very pleasant on this Sunday afternoon. It has been a pretty good Thanksgiving holiday. We went to Church in our old 10^th Ward. Sherri Wagner and Chris Durham spoke on gratitude, along with trials I guess – why do trials get talked about even when the topic is “be of good cheer?” In High Priest quorum meeting I saw a lot of the old guard there. Woody Wagner is now in the Stake Presidency with Presidents Frei and Ence. Bishop North is driving trucks in North Dakota along with John Boyle and Ken Earl on contract for some oil hydraulic fracturing that’s going on there. People are still struggling along – at least those that are still with us in quorum meeting...

Sunday, November 6, 2011

A Melon Smorgasborg

The little brothers

Falling for each other

A bunch of Daltons circa 1979

Linc being Ernest

Hands full

Hermana Dalton pre-Barcelona

A better shot of Mr. Penton

Pete & Clint w/same hairstyle

Linc hugging sisters

Luke now builds snowmen w/Cole

Super Chunk

Yikes! here we go again

Orphans

Monday, October 31, 2011

One more Pumkin

So, I can't seem to edit/rotate my pics from my iPhone. I send the pic from my iPhone to my gmail account, and, eventhough the pic on the iPhone is portrait, it shows up as a jpg in the email as landscape (like you see). So, I get into it and edit the photo back to portrait. Then I insert the photo to blogspot and its back to landscape!

Cute pumpkin anyway.