Flag Case

My Mom, Barbara Cooper passed away 2 years ago.  She was an Army veteran and we held a military funeral for her at the Veteran's Cemetary in Fernley, Nevada.

The flag that was on the casket was given to my daughter Cristal because she had done so much to help my Mom in the last 5-6 years of her life.

I decided to make her a flag case to hold the flag.  I had some old pictures of Mom in her uniform.  Scott took the pictures and fixed them, cleaned them up and got then ready to print.

He enlarged one of the pictures so we could see her shoulder patch on her uniform.  I knew she spent most all her military time at Romulus Air Force Base in Detroit, Michigan.

Scott was able to track down her shoulder patch, her rank patch, her collar pin and her medal she received and found them either on the internet or at the Army Navy Surplus store.

I made the case and Scott chased down all the stuff to go in the case.

We took the stuff to a friend to make a matte and mount in the top side of the case.

We gave the flag case to Cristal last weekend when the kids were down from Idaho Falls.  It turned out awesome.

Inspiration Point - above Willard Bay

On Saturday, August 27, Scott and I went for a ride up to Inspiration Point.  We went up the back side of the mountain and could see Huntsville and the reservoir there.  Then we got on the front side of the mountain and could see Willard Bay and got to the top at Inspiration Point.

Really a pretty ride with lots of trees.

Love that riding lawn mower!!!!

Finished master bedroom

A project that took way too long to finish is finally finished.  Had to call an electrician to move our light above the mirror and create two new lights.  Took three different electricians to finally find someone who would show up.

Looks totally different. 

Musingi's summer 2016

For the last several years, we have brought the Musingi kids to Utah for a week to play and "bond".  This year, it did not start out too good.  We met Cristal and Mike in Malad and did the "prisoner exchange".

We got back down towards Brigham City and ran in to some road construction. We had to stop, but the car behind us did not get stopped.  We had a luggage carrier on the back and that protected our car from any damage.  Not so good for the luggage carrier or the van that hit us.

 The luggage carrier had a square, metal bar that ties in to the trailer hitch/receiver.  That did not bend at all.  That bar went in to the radiator of the van behind us.  They had to be towed.  We drove down to Smith and Edwards and there were several other accidents and troopers in the parking lot doing accident reports.  No kids hurt and the luggage rack was replaced.

Ophur with the boys

On Saturday, July 9th went with Steve, Michael and Tarrin up Ophur on the side by the side. Saw some pretty cool stuff.  Ophur is on the west side of the Oquirrh Mountains. 

Master Bathroom mirror

Next project around the house is the mirror in the Master Bath.  It is a big, flat mirror with a beautiful sea shell light fixture right in the middle of it.

This is what I am going to do with the mirror.  Found this on the Houzz web site.

This is about how tall the center cabinet is going to be.  Need to get the lights replaced.

Dry fitting the bottom two cases, which will have drawers in them and then shelves and a door on the upper case.

American Fork Canyon June 25, 2016

Took the side by side up American Fork Canyon.  Beautiful ride but lots of people and lots of dust.