Apples (or not)

 Started a new gym workout and it's got me sweating. Rog forewent the gym in favor of hunting, but since he goes with his 2 buddies, they take turns actually going after the deer and it takes 3x as long. But he did say he feels like he's lost ten pounds already (which may be true with his metabolism). 

The new priority project of the week was finishing my mythology book and planning out my Roald Dahl - esque poetry book on the subject. I did finish reading the book and now I can get to part 2. Still working on Articles of Faith in my spiritual study and am kind of disappointed that it's just straight facts and not more like Jesus the Christ with some different insights. 

We had dinner with Stu and Eve when they were in town for another eye appointment and then en route to another family reunion. It was a delicious ham and potato salad. 

I planned for Kelly's arrival this weekend and also for Roger's trip to Lake Powell to catch some fish for a presentation at his fish job this month. (This time, he's only missing a 2 days of Kelly's visit rather than the whole thing lol). 

Our gain. 

We picked her up on Saturday and spent part of Sunday trekking up to Page's Lonely Dell orchards where the free fruit is plentiful (with a park's pass) and Rog's dad said the apples are ready. So we brought our buckets and met up with Roger's sisters Linn and Hannah to get some apples to sauce together and were SORELY disappointed at the lack of apples. It looked like there had been some blight to the apples because several trees were significantly pruned and all apples and buds had been eliminated entirely.