Thursday, September 07, 2017 – 46^th Anniversary, New Missionaries at FM, Yearsley House Again, Wm Weeks Home, Temple & Dinner

Today Sis. Johnson and I are celebrating our 46^th wedding anniversary. It is hard to believe that Sis. Johnson has put up with me for that long!

 Earlier today Sis. Johnson and I shared a “Memory Post” with pictures from a year ago. It was the story I wrote last year on our anniversary. I would like to thank all of you that took the time to like and comment on the post. We love and appreciate each of you and we which to thank you for your thoughtful comments. Thank you all!

We took the time today, on our anniversary, to make it special. We started by attending an Endowment Session in the Nauvoo Temple. The session was made even more special because we have our grandson, Elder Kyle Johnson, serving here with us in Nauvoo and we were privileged to have him celebrate our anniversary with us.

 Next we went out to one of our favorite places for dinner, “El Camino Real” Mexican Food Restaurant.  The food was good as usual and the company was the best. We came home overstuffed as usual. Tomorrow I will have to let a notch out on my belt. But it was worth it, we love eating there.

Today at work we went back to the historic home of David and Mary Ann Yearsley. We helped Richard Hancock, our boss and FM’s Horticulturalist, put in two brand new flowerbeds around the house. Richard’s plan is to spruce up all of the high profile historic homes; renovate and revitalize their landscaping.

 It turns out that the Yearsley home is on the corner of White and Partridge Streets which is right next to the outdoor Nauvoo Pageant Stage. During the month of July guests arriving to see the Pageant walk around all sides of the house to get into the Pageant seating area. All four sides of this building needed to be planted and now they are.

After we finished mulching the new Yearsley flowerbeds we headed over to do a couple of other sites while we had time. First we went to the Pageant Office to weed, next weeded and cleaned the William Weeks historic home and ended our day at the Visitor’s Center killing more “Rogue Trees” coming up in the middle of the beautiful weeping Beech trees. I don’t know how many volunteer trees I’ve cut down and poisoned in the past year and a half but I’ll bet it’s in the thousands by now. Every time we turn around we find more.