I have been thinking about the fact that we are going to miss two winters. When we moved to Utah some 19 years ago, I was worried about winter. I immediately bought a large snow blower – which we still have – and a four wheel drive vehicle. It was lucky that I looked ahead because the first winter was one of worse in many year and there has only been one to compare with it since.

Now I think I will not just miss – meaning not experience – but also miss in the fact that I have come to enjoy the season. To be honest I do wish it only ran for three months but I would like those months to be full of snow. This is because the land looks so beautiful and peaceful under a blanket of white.

Of course in Indonesia we will have only two seasons. Hot/wet and hot/dry.

Today was rather quiet and I must confess I did not put much time in on learning Indonesian. We had an appointment at the bank where we changed all the store account signature cards into Keith’s name. People have a hard time with the idea that although we sold the stock in the business the corporation itself does not change. They all want to close one account and start another. That is not bad since that means my signature and any guarantee that goes with it are cancelled.

Later in the morning we drove up to Midway to attend the funeral of an old acquaintance Bob Johnson. Bob was part of the Lennox Ward crowd and had been dying of cancer for the last couple of years. After seeing Bob and what the illness did to him, I told Mary that I looked that bad, I did not want an open casket. I do not want friends, children and grandchildren to remember me that way.

For lunch we went into Heber to eat at Grannies. I was surprised when we could walk right in and order. I was used to Grannies being filled up for lunch. My guess is that it has not recovered from being shut down for a time after the new owners could not make a go of it.

Mary spent the rest of the day working on Indonesian, extraction and watching TV. I took a long nap, went visiting people in the ward, read and watched TV. I did manage to study a little Indonesian before going to bed.