YELLOW BEETS???

    On the way to the cabin we stopped as we always do at Frei's fruit market in Santa Clara.  Their display of squash, pumpkins, gourds, etc was impressive!   Victor and I had a "hankerin'" for fresh beets again.  (We came to really love them during our fresh market days in Chile).  At first didn't see any.   Guess that was cuz they went and changed the color on us!!

Behold - man has once again tampered with nature and you can now buy Golden Beets!!

Rating?  Well...It's a good way to avoid dying everything else on the plate red - but my brain kept thinking I was going to taste Rutabaga instead of beets.  Slightly milder than red beets.  For a lady who always wishes there were new vegetables to choose from at the market this fits the bill!

IT'S HERE !!

Headed back up to the cabin yesterday afternoon to prepare for the annual General Conference / Fall Colors weekend.   Came up the back way (thru the Cedar Breaks/Brianhead road cutoff) and were rewarded with all this glory!   I just never tire of Fall Colors!!

A lot more red this year than we have had for a while

Fortunately we haven't even hit peak yet so there will be lots more to come in the next few days as our guests from Colorado and Las Vegas get to travel up thru it all too.

I NEED TO RANT !!!

     Just returned from several days doing my genealogy thing in Brigham City and Ogden.  Just cuz Smiths Food King needs a parking lot is that ANY REASON to destroy the beautiful Lorenzo Snow home?  Just cuz some insurance agency wants some office space do we ALWAYS have to tear down the past and pieces of history?????????????????????

     In both towns I spent several hours driving around to photograph ancestral homes for the Forsgren blogs.  I grew very weary and very sad, when again and again I had to make the note:  "No longer there"
      Why does progress always have to be at war with our past???

Here is the photo of one gem that hasn't been visited by the wrecking ball!   Worth the visit!

The Oscar Forsgren home (4th child of Peter Adolph Forsgren)

124 South 5th West, Brigham City, Utah

In 1918 this home was featured in a newspaper article about this roof style.

And this is what an arsenist did to the historic Grist Mill, later purchased by the John H. Bott Monument company!  (The Bott's have marriage connections to the Forsgrens as well as having created most of the headstones in Brigham City Cemetery).  The 26 yr. old man who set the fire was caught and sentenced to two years in prison.  Ironically he (a Hunsaker) has great historic roots in this town as well!

ARGH !!!!

LABOR DAY AND TINY HANDS

     Made a quicky trip to take Bishop Austin home from the cabin so he could keep some Sunday commitments.  I then turned around to return on monday, Labor Day, so that I could head up to northern Utah for some cemetery tromping and people interviewing.   It was a cooler, overcast day.  Such a relief from the horrible bake Las Vegas has experienced for almost a month straight!    I glanced in the rearview mirror when I went to make a lane change and what I saw brought a wide smile to my face:   little grandchildren handprints that had become covered in dust and were visible on the back cab window.    Audrey and Ethan had played back there after a trip into Duck Creek Village one afternoon.   Made me reflect how much I love all these little people that have come into our lives!  They just exude enthusiasm and give loves, and warm people's hearts.... and always just enough to keep us loving and forgiving them when they do their tantrum thing, right Moms and Dads??????

Got to Cedar City to start up the mountain about 4 p.m.  I noticed a lot of descending traffic.  I was tiring a bit so decided to count cars somewhere along the way.  From the time I started until I pulled onto Ponderosa Rd. I counted 222 cars!!!    ONE was going the same direction I was.   Usually we pass no more than 10 or so coming toward us!   Just shows you how popular that weekend is to get in your last vestige of freedom before school and the fall/winter holidays consume our lives!   Autumn is indeed in the air and a few leaves are already starting to turn colors.