3rd and 4th of July

Tom has a love/hate relationship with fireworks.  He loves
to see them go off, but the noise isn't too good for his PTSD. 
We usually stay home on the 4th, so we did our picnic on the 3rd!

Putting together a picnic means pie---blackberry pie
was the choice made by all!  

First the pie shell

Second, the filling

We liked this pie so much we made another one the next day!

Watermelon as far as the eye can see at
the commissary!

Emi looks good in my sun hat!

Went to Rocky Beach as usual; saw this hardy sand flower.

Always like visiting Rocky Beach!

 

Temple Open House

                                                             

Fortunate to be able to serve at the temple open house
doing three different jobs. In the welcome tent I was tasked
with organizing the people who did not want to negotiate the
stairs, putting them in groups that could fit onto the elevator
and making sure they got situated with temple wheel chairs.

      

Another job was to count the visitors as they left the temple,
recording the totals every half an hour---lots of clicking!

Third job was to slip on the shoe coverings for people
doing groups tours thru the temple.  Here are some of the
bags of booties our Youth put into pairs.  Had to stuff Tom's car 
to the brim hauling those bags to the temple!

Kimo wasn't feeling too well the day we assisted with
booties, also known as "booty duty", but he came to
help out anyway.

 

The blue sky is so vibrant against the white of the
beautiful temple!

Light flare from my camera makes the temple look
like it's shooting a laser!