i see by looking at other's posts that there are two more questions for me to answer.

who is taller? dennis is, but he seems to be shrinking faster than i am. i think that is because i have better posture. he says he hunches over because he is always in pain! i want to say that he would be in much less pain if he wouldn't hunch over so much, but then we would get into another argument and then we would have to apologize again. sigh.

who is smarter? i want to say i am; most the time i think i am, but as soon as i say (or even think) something like that, i will do or say something so inane, and dennis will hear me, and he will laugh so hard and be so pleased that i can't stand it. it's much better to be humble like my sisters and say "we both are in different ways" (dennis' ways are very different). and then, too, i married him and he married me; who is smarter?

well, enough of that. i won't be able to let dennis read this as it is.

i went to the dentist today for a check up. no cavities. now my teeth feel very clean. the dental hygienist and i got into a conversation about grammar. she is from emery county, but spent a dozen years or so in the south. she was saying things she noticed about emery county grammar that were different from other places. she mentioned the "i seen" habit. i am used to that, because dennis says that lots of times. i used to try to correct him, but that just made him mad. now leslie sometimes tries to correct him; it doesn't make him as mad, but i have observed no noticeable change in his grammar.

i mentioned the one that strikes me as so weird. someone will say "she told harry and i about the game" or some such thing. i can't figure out why people do that. she didn't have an answer either. maybe she didn't see a problem with it, i don't know . anyway, she laughed. and my teeth are clean and cavity free.

for some reason today i thought of the day dennis and i took leslie and the fauverettes to joe's valley to cliff jump. two adolescent boys arrived about the same time we did. we put life jackets on the girls and we were all (the boys too) standing at the edge of the cliff looking way down, gathering enough courage to make the leap. all of the sudden tennyson just flew off the cliff and sailed down. i can remember it like slow motion. she wasn't very big, maybe seven or so. i can see her skinny little legs and her arms held out like wings, and the life jacket which looked like the biggest part on her. she splashed into the water and it didn't take her very long to come up, thank heavens. anyway, dennis and i had to hurry and jump in so we could make sure she was alright. the boys jumped in then too. then leslie and miranda. i don't remember if whitney jumped or not. that is a funny memory. i wish i had a picture of it to show you.

sorry i didn't know about this tag thing. aa called yesterday to ask me (yes me! probably i was the only one home) about blogging because she said she had been tagged. i haven't checked blogs for a while because i felt guilty that i had not posted anything recently. i haven't taken any new pictures even though i could have taken pictures of dennis tilling the garden or the crocheted edges of baby blankets i've made. anyway i haven't done that and so i didn't post anything new and i felt guilty and i didn't check anyone else's blog and so i didn't know about the tag business. so now, are you satisfied?

who do i love? dennis, who is making steak and crab for me right now and he cleaned the kitchen and tilled the garden and apologized and brought me flowers for saying something rude to me, which was only in retaliation to a string of mean things i said to him. yes, i love dennis, i think i will go kiss him on his sunburned head; and i love ben and leslie, and mom and dad and sisters and brothers and nieces and nephews. i love people at work and people at church ( some more than others).

how long have i been married? this seems impossible but the answer is thirty years come this august.

dennis said i love you first. well, first he said "i think i love you", then a few days later he must have decided for sure, because he said "i love you" without the 'i think'. we were standing on the front lawn and grandma's house and it was dark.

we met in august of 1977 and got married in august of 1978

i don't actually remember dennis' proposal, how sad is that? maybe he didn't propose and it was all a mistake.

i do the laundry as a rule, but sometimes dennis folds and puts away if he has time. he does his share by making the most dirty laundry.

things have changed over the years as far as driving is concerned. dennis used never to want to be driven, but now i drive as much as he does, but he gives me the benefit of lots of good advice on the way.

i pay the bills, i do it online and i don't think dennis even knows how to log on. but dennis mows the lawn. i cook more than dennis, but he does most the shopping, so we're pretty even.

is that all the questions? i'm going by memory since i don't know how to get back and forth easily between blogs. i just thought of how to do that now that i'm through. well, that is all for this post.

yay, our taxes are done and e-filed and we get money back! yay! yay! leslie is still saving us money by filing zero dependants so we can claim her. i don't know how much longer that will last, but it turned out well this year.

about the movie puzzle: i admit i chose rather obscure quotes to begin with because i knew you'd get it too easily if i said "it's complicated" right off. when i can think of another movie that i think lots of us know, i will post some more clues.

yes, the chicken bog was very good. the problem with it is that i don't know how to make a reasonable amount. i have tons.

of course i think ben is the spring flower. he came in the spring and never really got past the spring of life. i love that picture and remember when it was taken: he was doing somersaults. thanks to leslie for putting it on my computer.

fyi: tennyson's piano piece is 'romance' by sibelius.

i took this video of tennyson on my camera, so i wasn't able to get the whole piece, but i thought you might like what i have.

also, here is another clue on the movie puzzle: " it's complicated."

i am making chicken bog a la lizzie right now. smelling pretty good.

see y'all soon and i know you know this movie.

i read the post i just wrote and it totally makes no sense. i tried to edit it, but don't know how, so i have to explain it. sara, to you i am referring to the doggie washcloths. the next part is about the movie i watched. sorry to be so brainless.

another clue

sara, yes you could do it if you wanted, but i will help you figure it out if not.

leslie must not have looked at my blog or i think she could have got it. also whitney or miranda could have, so i guess they haven't been paying attention, well, i don't suppose whitney has seen it. so here is another clue: "do your worst!"

to respond to the comments to my last blog:
shelley, i unpicked the side of the pocket on dennis' pants, then mended the tear, then sewed the side of the pocket back on.
sara, i'm sure that making little doggie wash mits like that one would be quite simple. find some white and pink washcloths and try it, why don't you. the seam goes up one side at the one corner of the mouth. sew the cloth into a tube, cut triangles off each side to make the pointy noise, then sew a square of pink inside that end. the ears wouldn't be hard, and i think she just sewed on store bought pom poms for eyes.

we had a tea party on saturday night. banner, tennyson and i cooked. banner helped me make ribbon sandwiches and peanut butter and elderberry jelly sandwiches cut like hearts.



banner brought down her tea set. the company was quite select owing to the fact that we only had four place settings. we invited jenny, but dennis had to share my plate after the priesthood session, and the fish weren't invited.

tennyson made apple dumplings, very delish.

i watched a movie last night. here is a quote from the movie: "did you fall out of bed?"

can you guess the movie?

gotta go and do my taxes.

it has been a while since i posted a new blog. here are some pictures of things i've been doing. this is the back of a quilt i'm working on.
this is what dennis did to his pants.
this is what i did to his pants with the new pfaff

i don't know why i put this in here, but these are little sterling salt and pepper shakers i'm collecting remember when grandma thomas made us these? and these? banner and i made this paper mache lavender sachet for whitney, but i didn't get it to her before she left. i hope she can see it on my blog. here is another picture of my take five quilt

i am watching general conference this morning. it is the solemn assembly where the quorems are voting on and sustaining our new prophet and presidency. it's a little confusing and complicated and i keep trying to raise my hand when it isn't my turn yet. maybe if i'd stop blogging and pay attention it would be better. the aaronic priesthood is finishing so i think my turn is probably coming up.

this is a pretty marvelous thing, i think. i am listening to all these names read by elder uchtdorf and i love to hear the many foreign names being pronounced in his german accent; it is such a positive sign of the worldwide spread of the church.

now elder nelson is speaking, so i'd better listen. see you soon