Just so you believe it is really happening.

You don't need to read this: it simply states that I am actually getting things tossed from the study.

Journal entry July 16, 2010


Michael has gone to work. We got up around 2:30; I fixed breakfast (three over easy eggs with toast and jam) while Michael finished up in the bathroom. After finding him phone numbers for Panguitch Meats and Panguitch Taxidermist, I went back to bed and he went to work. We are having a heat wave here in Las Vegas; temperatures are in the three digits; it was around 115 yesterday.

I woke up and couldn’t sleep a little before six. It was so nice to sleep in for a change!

This is the day I’ll attach and begin to conquer the study I mused. Nannette had suggested that I simply dump all cookbooks ( at the least the paper ones from the supermarket). Of course I was not able to do this and quickly became bogged down in reading recipes and tips. It was quite fun actually. I did manage to discard some of the advertisement pages. Now I have a large pile of colorful pages to be categorized into specific food sections. Oh dear, I looked up and saw some notebooks on the top shelf. Looking into them I found old school notes.

I managed to really banish these into the gray waste basket. Here’s proof.

However the next notebook was defeating as it had interesting recipes and notes about Nannette’s wedding.

I was back to the memory of making her Dupioni (silk, hers made in India) dress and making a pattern for the duplicate doll dress ( and a suit for the male doll). It was interesting that the Beehive temple clothing bill was 78.30 ( and had a 71 cent discount?).

THE LACE SHOP was in business then and lace for the dress was $48.62. This was marked dress trim sleeves.

There is a note with someone named Angie Pischotta and the word cake.Another note seems to indicate she did the sheet cake. Interesting as another note states Pam Gleason-cake. Another notes simply states: Mike-nice suit; Joe-has four in his closet.

Also included in the paperwork is a large Citibank bill ( $3781.04) that I detailed in hand written notes-gas, dinner, room shore excursions,clell and Mike suites, luggage, goblets, Tammy dress, doll things. A large piece of that cost was for a trip to Alaska. It definitely was not the best time to go with so many other important events happening, but that is when we went with Lynne and Mont.

Slowly I was able to trash whole receipts ( much faded with age) for wedding bowls, paper plates, food,( $599.04 for food trays from Smith’s) salad fixings, wedding punch,

even a $85.60 receipt from Dillard’s that appears to have been the cost of the dress I wore.

Nice to get rid of those unnecessary scraps of paper.



Kristi Stratton helped people with Wedding receptions at the time and was a tremendous help organizing and supplying items for the reception at our home.



An hour later I was almost finished with “Nannette’s wedding” memorbelia. Almost- I saved two sheets and two photos; as said in Gone with the Wind, I decide what to do with them tomorrow.



Next I went onto serious ripping and taking out old recipes from specially categorized notebooks. I tossed anything that LOOKED strange and all recipes with the words ‘gumbo’ soup in them.

When I sent to East High School in Salt Lake City I was required to take a home education class. Half the year was sewing and half the year was cooking. I located and destroyed the liver and mushrooms recipe we were required to cook. At the time it tasted okay, but I can’t fathom even sampling it now. Yuck.

I discovered several rabbit recipes, and quickly destroyed them.

Two hours later, I was still reading and ‘sorting’ recipes. I started feeling bonkers about this time. Need to move more quickly as the space on the top shelf was not getting any larger.

When I began this morning I set nine o’clock as my stop time. Time to shower, dress and make sure any shopping was accomplished before Michael came home tired and hungry. I made it until 8:51 and ran to the shower. Enough was enough!