House on Boulder Mountain

Annette posted a new photo she took, today, of their house in Utah, from up the horse/cattle trail, the "Old Horse Trail," that they hiked, following some rancher friends on horseback. She reported this on Facebook, and included the following photo, among a few others.


Annette's description is: "The photo does a nice job showing how our house is on a knoll back in the canyon with the view out toward the valley."

Thank you, Annette, for sharing. NEAT!

It was a very good day! ;-)

White Angel Food Cake with White Frosting

This cake has a long tradition, for me and in my family, as birthday cake. I do have an older photo, but this one is probably spring of 1947 for Jim's 3rd birthday. I would have been approaching eight years old.



This photo is taken on the east side of the farm house, before the big new "porch" was added... you can see the doors to the cellar steps on the right. How about those outfits? It must have been Sunday!! ;-)

With rain in the Ozarks, it was another very nice day! ;-)

Family Photo in Sept 1962 - 4 gen

I've been doing some work on old photos to move toward using them in the new website by decades. Here is one from the early 1960s that has always been a favorite.


Nancy and I, holding Annette, Eileen and Pete Smith, Grandma Dorothy and Grandpa Paul Kinnick sitting down, of course. We had been married just over 3 years. Photo taken in front of the kitchen of the Smith farm house. Seems so obvious, but I suppose it is important to identify all those things. Interesting reminder.

Rained this afternoon, really cooled off nicely. Great on a July 20 afternoon.

It is another very good day!

Checked out the Clubhouse for Anniversary gathering

We went over to the Clubhouse today to take some photos for Arrion as she continues the planning for the August 8 family gathering for our 50th Anniversary (actually on the 7th, of course) Celebration.

Lots of nice tables and chair, kitchen, and a flat screen tv at the front of the room.

It was a very good day! ;-)

New Smith Family Activities and History Website

Along with continuing this and my other blogs, I have initiated a new Smith Family Activities and History Website that is intended to connect all of the internet activities of our family all in one location, utilizing the escrapbooking.com server that Annette and Larry will be maintaining into the indefinite future.

This will also be the site where I will be able to share with everyone many of the photos we have from the past that have not yet been digitized, and to organize those that have. The site is organized by decades, in the 21st century, in the 20th century, and even earlier... eventually.

An RSS feed has been set up on the What's New page, that I use to record the work that is done on the site. Annette helped my set it up like their Travel Log pages. It is much like a blog; except comments need to come via email... Using the RSS, you can get notified of each update on your igoogle page, just like a blog.

Here is the What's New page: http://www.escrapbooking.com/smith/whatisnew.html

It was a very good day! ;-)

Poetry Night at Entrada Institute in Torrey

Larry and Annette and I went to the monthly Entrada Institute meeting in the Robber's Roost Book Store in Torrey, Utah, last Friday night. They posted a bunch of photos taken at the meeting, and we were in one. Notice how attentive we are to our presenter.


It was another very good day! ;-)

Sombrero Bill

I was only in the Flute Shop for a few minutes, but Annette got this photo of me trying on a Sombrero - oh lay! or whatever! ;-)


It was another good day! ;-)

P.S. I'm writing these up in the Hampton Inn, in Las Vegas, as we get ready for our early morning flight, tomorrow, to Little Rock via Dallas. Yesterday, we went up to Donkey Reservoir on the 4-wheel drive roads in the Jeep. That was an adventure... to be shared later on. ;-)