Ancestors Are Cool

Well this is looong overdue.  We'll blame it on the sweet wiggle-worm.  She keeps me pretty tired these days!  But it's worth it.

We celebrated Tory's birthday last weekend.  It was just lovely.  We really had a nice time.  We used the opportunity to use our Red Canyon Lodge gift certificate.  We went up on Friday afternoon and checked into our cute little cabin.  I was surprised by the number of bugs there, but I guess I shouldn't have been.  Other than that, it was a really nice place.  We had dinner up at the lodge restaurant.  It was really good!  Tory had chicken fried steak and I had some chicken thing with cheese and mushrooms on top.  Both were really tasty!  Oh, and of course we also had the potato skin appetizer things.  If you ever go up there, you have to eat them!  I'm not giving you a choice.  They're great.  It was kind of fun, too, since we had a special date there at the lodge restaurant 2 years ago!  We went up to celebrate the anniversary of Tory's mission (10 years since he left) as well as me finally being brave enough to quite my dumb lousy job.  It was a really sweet date, so it was really fun to go back and be there again for Tory's birthday this year.

After dinner, we went out to the pond/lake/water-place and went fishing for a while.  Our lures (Cleo and Bob) made for lots of laughs!  My belly hurt by the time we left because we were laughing so much.  Apparently the lure Tory was using was named after a dancer.  Some lure-maker years ago was taken by this dancer woman named Cleo, and he wanted to make a lure that would be as irresistible to fish as she was to men.  So he named his lure after her!  I decided my lure needed a name, too.  I named it Bob.  That was fairly appropriate, since I spent most of my time sitting on the edge of the warf thing, just bouncing my line up and down, trying to catch the big fish hanging out below where we were standing.  It was fun!  Tory caught a pretty rainbow trout!  I guess little Cleo was pretty alluring.  Too bad Bob wasn't!  :)

Saturday morning, we wanted to go fishing again, but it was pretty rainy.  We went for a nice little drive and looked at one of Tory's restoration projects for work.  It was pretty cool!  I always enjoy seeing what he's working on.  It was fun.  And we really like to drive and just visit, with no other distractions, so it was really nice.  We did also drive over to Flaming Gorge for a little while and tried fishing by the dam.  It was still raining, but it wasn't as heavy for a while.  We had a fun time!  We didn't catch anything, but it was pretty fun anyway.  We saw a lot of big fish jumping in the water, but we didn't catch any.

We had lunch at the Flaming Gorge restaurant.  That was pretty good, too!  I had a Navajo taco, and Tory got some pasta.  Sadly, he wished he had gotten a hamburger instead!

After lunch, we drove home and got ready for the party!  We had our (local) family members over for cake and ice cream in the evening.  It was fun!  We also played Apples to Apples, which is one of our favorites.  It was fun to have everyone over to celebrate with us!

Well I really enjoyed Tory's birthday!  I hope he did, too!  Tory is the best ever.  I'll just take the opportunity to say that!  I sure do love him.

The other funny thing of note was....you guessed it!.....the zombie hand.......

Last week we were getting ready for bed.  I sure must have been tired!  Actually I know I was because I was already half asleep.  We got into bed and were just talking a little before going to sleep (although I was probably already half asleep as I mentioned).  We were just talking, and I reached my arm up by my head.  As I was bringing my arm up, my hand felt something really strange and scary......the zombie hand!!!!  I felt these dead zombie fingers just hanging there next to my pillow!  Okay, so think Jurassic Park--when the black guy dies--the other guy goes to find him.  He's so relieved to feel the black guy put his hand on his shoulder, only to find that the arm is not connected to a body!  Yeah, that's what it felt like!  Anyway, I yelped and jumped right up.  Well right away I realized of course that it was no zombie--seeing as how zombies don't exist and all!  I saw right away that--as he often does, Tory had put his arm around me, under the pillow.  When I'd felt fingers next to my pillow, it was Tory's fingers I'd felt, just reaching out from under my pillow.  I think my yelp startled Tory as much as his "zombie" hand had startled me!  We had a pretty good laugh about that one!  It was pretty great.

So there you have it.  Birthdays, zombie hands, and all!