Our Entertainment Center

Well, the project has begun.  We are doing an entertainment center down in our family room.  The TV will go in a large corner cabinet, and then we will build wings off each side for storage, books and pretties.

The shelves for the corner unit are 96 inches long and about 42 inches deep. 

These are the five shelves stacked on a work bench.  The shelves have been notched to fit in the two front upright supports.  The uprights are 1 1/2 inches wide x 4 inches thick.  The corner cabinet is being built to hold a 70 inch flat screen TV. 

On these first three pictures, the uprights have not been notched yet.  The uprights will be notched so they fit into the shelves.

This  picture is kind of hard to see, but the uprights have been notched to hold each individual shelf and so the upright fits into the notch on the shelf.  Below is a picture of the uprights with the 45 degree bevel on the edge.  That makes it so the upright runs in line with the side edge of the shelf and is flat at the front to line up with the edge trim on the front of the shelf.

 

 

 

 

The corner cabinet will be about 83 inches tall with room for the 70 inch TV, storage on the bottom of the TV and storage on the top of the TV.  

 

 

 

Children's Parade in the neighborhood

Saturday, July  27 was the children's parade in the neighborhood.  They line up on Janice Drive and go about two blocks to the neighborhood park where we have breakfast.

The parade had two fire trucks, a Sheriff's vehicle, an old antique car, lots of kids on bikes, four wheeler's and walking.

One of our neighbors "borrowed" a float that was for sale on KSL and that's what we rode on.

Scott and I were made King and Queen of the neighborhood last year at the neighborhood party.  Our one and only official duty is to be in the parade.

One of our neighbors was driving by a house on 13th west and saw a float for sale.  He asked if he could borrow it for the day.  On the way back to his house, the Angel Moroni got knocked off by a low lying branch.  The guy kept driving and had to fix the Angel Moroni on Friday night.  Saturday when Scott was running errands, he found the broken Angel Moroni on the road.  He picked it up and returned it to the owner of the float.  What are the chances????

Pioneer Day - 2013

Wednesday, July 24th was Pioneer Day.  We went for a morning bike ride.  It has been so hot this summer that we have not had much of a chance to ride the mountain bikes.

Wednesday we went up Provo Canyon and rode on the bike trail.  Started right at the mouth of the canyon and rode up to Vivien Park.  Round trip, about 12 miles.  One way is all up hill and pretty good exercise.

Stopped at Bridal Veil Falls for some pic's.

 

 

 

Good thing we stopped on the way up the trail for pictures.  On the way down, there were a ton of people walking up the rocks and playing in the water.

Glacier Ride

This was our destination - to ride on the glacier.  This picture taken from the visitor's center, pick up point to ride buses to get on our ride.

These are the vehicles we rode from the bus out on the glacier.  They cost over $1 million to build.  Top speed 20 mph.  They driver told us, $1 million + and they don't have air conditioning or power steering?

Our ride was actually the Jamaican painted bus.

This is the rode from the drop off point from the buses, on to our vehicle.  The hill was really steep, but at 15 mph, it was not bad.

Hard to see in these pictures, but the melting water, running through the glacier was so pretty.  The water was clear and blue, so pretty!!

Yep, coats felt good today!!!

Lake Louise

Thursday, July 11th we did a session at Calgary Temple, drove through Banff National Park and not far from Banff was Lake Louise.  A beautiful lake, surrounded by mountains and another huge chateau or lodge built by the railroad.

The rooms here at the chateau start at $700 a night.  We did not stay here.  We went on to stay at ____.

Scott had been to Lake Louise with his family and had stayed in the chateau.  He was hoping they did not remember him and they had removed the ban they placed on him and his family when they were there the first time.  Apparently they were in a dining room having dinner and the evening entertainment was a soprano opera singer.  When she started hitting the high notes, the kids could not stop laughing.  They eventually had to leave early, before the singer was finished because they could not stop laughing.

When the guys bought tickets for the Gondola, they also bought tickets to ride out on a glacier, but we already had our hotel for the night at some little town, I can't remember the name.  We got to our hotel around 1:00 and then headed back to the glacier in the morning.

Banff National Park

Next stop was in Banff.  It was incredible.   We rode a Gondola ride to the top of the mountain.  The views were awesome.  Once on top, there was a gift shop, but also a walk to another mountain peak.  There were a million stairs, but we walked to the top of that peak too.  There was a cabin up there where some man lived and worked in the cabin for 34 or 35 years studying the cosmic rays.  Who knew?!!!

Top of the Gondola ride, with the gift shop in the back ground.

The picture below is some of the stairs leading to the top of the other peak, where the small cabin was.  In the background, you can see the gift shop and top of the Gondola ride.

The views were incredible.  Banff looked like a pretty cool little place.  A lot like Park City or other mountain resort towns.  Could come back to Banff and spend some time there.

Temples in Canada

While in Canada, we saw three temples; Cardston, Calgary and Edmonton.   These pictures are of the 

Calgary Temple.  We did a session on Thursday, July 11th before we left Calgary.  The theme in this temple was wheat, to celebrate the Calgary wheat producers.

 

 

Anything that could depict wheat, did.  The door knobs and backer plates had wheat, the stained glass windows had wheat, the ballusters on railings inside the temple looked like wheat.  The fabric patterns on couches and chairs had wheat.  Very, very pretty.

Day 2 at Calgary Stampede

On Wednesday, July 10, we went to the rodeo.  The rodeo completion goes on for 10 days and the winning rider in most events wins over $1 million purse.  It started out with some motorcycle guys doing jumps over some trucks.  They were way good.

In a lot of ways, the Stampede was like a huge State Fair.  Rides, game booths, exhibits, etc.  They had shows with dogs, tractors, and stuff like that.

We even rode on the sky ride from one end of the park to the other.  Lots of people.

Calgary Stampede

Opening ceremonies of the Calgary Stampede.  One of the largest rodeo's in the world.  Tons of people and lots of animals competitors.  Interesting stuff with the stampede.  There are no entry fees for the competitors.  They are invited based on their performance at other rodeo's.  They invite only the best of the best.

Tuesday, July 9th was the Chuck Wagon races.  Crazy!!  The chuck wagons have teams of four horses with a wagon and two out riders.  They line up the chuck wagons side by side inside the stadium.  One of the out riders loads a camp stove in to the back of the wagon and the chase is on.  They go around some barrels and then around the stadium.  The two out riders have to finish within a certain time of the wagon, or the team is eliminated.  It was wild and crazy

After the Chuck Wagon races, they set up a stage for an incredible show.  There were gymnasts, singers, dancers, violin players and this piano player.  This guy was playing while they lifted his piano off the ground and he floated around on cables suspended above the stadium.  The band Kiss sang one song.  Incredible show!!

 

Lethbridge and drive to Calgary

Before we left Lethbridge, we went to the Remington Carriage Museum.  It was incredible.  A collection of possibly 400+ carriages had been restored and they were beautiful.  The museum was very nice and clean and organized.

They also had a restoration shop at the museum.  We were invited to go in the shop to talk with the workers and see what they were working on.  Quite fascinating how they take in private work to restore wagons and buggies and they have a 2 year waiting list.  It helps fund the museum and they can show people how they fix things.

July 8th, 2013 - Cardston, Lethbridge, Fort Macleod

Monday, July 8th we went to Lethbridge, Cardston and Fort Macleod.

We found this old park or fort, that had all kinds of old equipment.  Darrell was in heaven looking at all the old farm equipment.  There was even an old, large working saw mill.  No fences, no one around, so we walked all over the place.  Climbed up on stuff and had fun looking at old equipment.



Then we went to a place called Smashed Head Buffalo Jump.  Pretty cool place to learn about Indian history and culture in the area.  The Indian tribe there did not have horses, so they devised a way to corner the buffalo and get them to run to the cliff and jump off the cliff.  The Indians were waiting at the bottom of the cliff and harvested the buffalo.  One indian child was too close to the buffalo landing spot and got smashed, hence the name, Smashed Head.  They built a museum telling the history of the area, pictures of what the area looked like and how they used the buffalo and most of it's parts to sustain themselves.

 

Fort Maclead is an old Royal Canadian Mounted Police fort.  The fort was moved from it's original location along the river because of constant flooding, so they moved it in to town.  The fort and all it's antiques and memorabilia was fun to look at. They adversized that was the training ground for the RCMP and their horse patrol.

We went in to watch the RCMP riders do some exercises and patterns.  Pretty disappointing.  Their uniforms were dirty, ill fitting, leather was junky and they could not ride a horse.  Someone has turned this in to a tourist trap and the horse riding demonstration was a joke.  Looked like a bunch of high school kids that did not have much riding experience.  At times while riding in their formations, the horses were barely moving.  One girl fell off her horse twice.  Kind of embarrassing.

 

We stayed July 8th in Lethbridge, Alberta.