We try to keep in touch with friends these days but had an optional way of socializing opened to us this week when Marilyn and Cordell Rolfson walked over to our house and we had a nice “social distancing” visit out on our back deck. Sabina Denton also got in touch with us this week too and we had a nice visit. We have not heard from her in ages. She had discovered from her family history research that she was related to Tom and wanted to let us know. She is a family history expert.
Sunday was Father’s Day and we had an orange roll and soufflé breakfast which is Tom’s favourite. We had a ward “zoom” meeting and Ross and two other return missionaries gave talks. Cindy and the boys came over later with homemade marshmallows and we had a deck visit with them. Our neighbour Jean and her family brought Tom some pastry treats too. The other children FaceTimed or phoned. Zachary announced that he will be playing hockey with the Boise Steelheads and we are pleased about that. Everyone is so good to us. We feel very blessed and Tom had a lovely day.
We are deciding that we need to organize and update our family member sites on Family Search. There is an inaccurate history posted for my father that needs to be removed and his actual history put on PDF and posted instead. We need to put our mother’s histories on too and Tom’s father’s. Grandma and Grandpa Tanner have about one picture each on Family Search and Tom needs to ask the church for permission to to put more information on their sites. They seem to put a lock on information being posted for the Tanners and probably all church leaders. Our other grandparents and great grandparents need additional work done too. This additional time Covid isolation affords us lets us get to some tasks that have been needing our attention.
We renewed our car insurance again. We are just doing incremental payments for short periods of time as we do not know when we will be able to return to our mission. The British Prime Minister lifted the first level of isolation restrictions in England today so maybe that is a start. We have been able to do more work with our accountant this week while we are here though and that makes Cindy happy as she would have to help with it otherwise. Being home is good in numerous ways.
Tom’s allergies are bothering him more this year but we still get outside to walk and work in the yard and only go further afield for groceries and errands. We are always doing the “covid dance” around other people.
We have two more grandsons wanting to propose to their girlfriends. One girlfriend is in Australia and one lives here. We are now waiting ourselves to see how everything plays out and to see if their Grampa, the sealer, will here to perform their sealings in the Temple or back on his mission. When these events do happen we will have more anniversaries to be celebrating. Life goes on despite a pandemic.
We were able to post pictures last week and hopefully we can rectify that this week. Few pictures of our grandparents from our efforts to organize and record.
Harry and Vesta Davidson
Eldon and Sara Tanner
Thomas and Hilda Walker
Irvin and Edith Anderson
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