The Run for the Vice-Presidency

Braeburn threw his hat in the political ring last week and ran for senior vice-president. He made it to the finals and then lost to Miss Bonneville. I don't think he was too devastated and it gave us several hilarious posters to look at after the race ended.

He had all sorts of posters carefully calculated for the audience he was appealing to. Sports shots for under the drinking fountains, Joseph Stalin for outside the history classes (Golden Delicious and I tried to stop that one), Citizen Kane outside the film class, and a few others. This was my favorite. They were on the junior and senior lockers. I like the lumberjack/pirate theme.

After Joe Biden's gaffe with heath care... what can I say? It's difficult to find role models in this area. I assure you Braeburn would be a much better choice than Mr. Biden.

A Little Vanity

I've been looking for a bureau for Golden Delicious for a long time. I went to all the regular furniture stores and about died when I saw how expensive everything was. Finally I thought of the antique store. They had this darling little vanity from the 1930's. I fell in love and brought it home.

I also bought a few vintage table linens. They are so adorable. I couldn't resist.

As Mr. Bechtel was hauling it to her room he told us this funny little story. (Names have been omitted to protect the innocent... or guilty...)

One of Mr. Bechtel's clients built a lovely new building and the executives were giving tours. They went through the hall ways and meeting rooms and ended up in a nice office. The executive pointed to the corner bureau and said, "and here's a little vanity." One of the people in the tour group piped up and said, "Oh, there's more than a little vanity here."

I'm sure no one was able to laugh. Business is so dreadfully dull. And the man no longer works there. I wonder why? And that's the story of The Little Vanity.

Happy Late Easter

More Milestones

The Spy Twins attended Priesthood Session for the first time this weekend. I thought the boys all looked very sharp. Of course both Nova and Prairie Spy wanted to be as tall as possible and were on their tip toes the whole time. But Braeburn still has them by a bit.

Happy Birthday Granny Smith

Happy birthday Granny Smith!

We love You!!

Jack's Wood-Fired Oven

Yeah! We finally made it to the restaurant, which is right on main street in Logan, across from the library. It was so fun to see Jack and Julie again. I really miss Julie's serene happiness. Here's Golden Delicious and Mr. Bechtel ordering. The menu on the back wall was written by their daughter, Becca. It is a professional work of art. We tried a bit of everything.

Here's Becca and her beau making our pizzas. They look happier than normal pizza workers...

The Hungry Masses....

Yum. This is the "Cache" pizza. It's got a white sauce with chicken. It was really good. We got several basic pepperoni type pizzas for the kids that don't like "weird things" on their pizza. They were great, I think... They disappeared before I sampled them.

This is my favorite. Oh boy. This is Lyon Bread. Thin, puffy, crispy bread with olive oil drizzled on and parmesan cheese... Definitely yummy. We tried several of them.

They also have sandwiches, called Grinders, that are big squares of panini bread grilled in the oven with various fillings. We tried a "Captain Jack" (beef with peppers and cheese) and a "Boxcar" which is BBQ pork with fresh pineapple. Here I'm trying the boxcar. It passed inspection! They were delicious. Braeburn and Mr. Bechtel heartily approved also.

What a yummy dinner and we timed it perfect too. There was a little lull in traffic and we had time to visit for a few minutes before the main dinner crowd came in.

Then we went to tour Utah State campus, and even though we'd just had a great dinner, we still found room for an Aggie ice cream.

To Be Continued...

Day Trip!

Well, I am sick, sick, sick of winter and we all decided we needed a little break, so on Saturday we headed down to Logan to visit our friends. They moved down last year and opened a new restaurant making Pizza in a REAL wood-fired oven. We miss them (and the pizza) so we decided to go check it out!

First we had to stop at Red Rock Pass which is where the outlet to Ancient Lake Bonneville was.

From the top you can see over into the next valley where there is some great ranch land that would be a good Louis L'Amour ranch - you know, "nestled in a mountain valley with the back of your cabin against the cliff wall so you're protected from villians." etc. (You always have to keep your eyes open for good ground - except that this drives Prairie Spy nuts because he can't handle just dreaming about it, and becomes adamant that we must move there Right Now.)

Unfortunately, dreaming is about as good as it gets right now. Driving through Preston was great and we pointed out all the Napoleon Dynamite hot-spots: The Cuttin Corral, Summer Wheatley's House, etc.

We couldn't get ahold of Carlisle's so we just decided we'd follow our noses and trust that they were there. After all, running a restaurant is like milking cows, you have to be there. Granny Smith, though, was much more interested in finding his buddy, little Jack C. So we decided to try and find their house before heading to their restaurant.

To be continued...