Winter wonders and 1 year mark

First off the Vernal City Library does in fact have an SD card reader for the USB ports. . . I just had to ask several workers to find the solution to getting my pics online. I am so happy now.

My internet withdrawals are ebbing and I think I will survive not having constant recipes, bank balance and email at my fingertips. 

This winter has been so cold to me. I know the humidity in Portland made me feel colder than here in Utah, but dang when it is -18 and the sun is not shining it is just plain frigid. Scott has had to work out in the cold every day. He hauls water in the oil field. The pumps bring up crude oil and water. Sometimes there is a device that warms the water and separates the two, other times Scott has to pull the water off the bottom of the tank until he hits the oil layer on top of the water. Then he takes the water to a disposal plant which cleans the water etc. The tanks of water on locations are heated to keep them from freezing-and it helps separation, but Scott's truck is not heated. So he has to hurry from location to disposal and usually the hoses and valves freeze in that time. One day the hose was completely solidly frozen. Thawing out the hoses takes a lot of precious time. One day Scott left the said hose for a later day. So on his day off we went out and got the hose and using a propane torch we thawed the hose. It took us several hours. We stood in the limited sunlight. I would hold the flame and wave it over the hose, so it heated up but did not catch fire and Scott would pound it with a hammer to break up the solid mass of ice. It was quite the experience. Here Scott is holding the torch-you cant see the flame and looking into the hose to see where the block was. 

With all the cold and ice and snow there has been plenty of salt and sand on the roads. Here Scott and Suzie are waiting for the car wash-No the temp was not above freezing but the auto wash has a pretty good dryer so we took advantage of sitting in the warm car while the layer of salt crud as scrubbed off. 

Suzie is such a puppy. She follows me around constantly. There is not much time in the day where she is not at my heels. Well I went to the temple one day and I came home. As is her custom when I have been gone she sniffs me. She will put her nose right on my pant leg etc to sniff to see if I had been with other dogs or whatever. So she was sniffing my nylons. It was irritating me. I just wanted to change and get warm (toes in nylons is not warm) and she was not letting me do it. So I ended up ruining the pair of nylons. so I put them on her head. She quit sniffing me and I was able to change my clothes and life was great for a minute ha ha ha. I know I am an abusive pet owner and a horrible person and if I had kids they would call child services on me. But since I am not a mom and Suzie cannot tell on me I allowed myself to torture the poor girl for a few minutes.  

Scott and I celebrated our first anniversary. It was wonderful! Scott took me to lunch in Roosevelt. There is a local place that is only open once in a while and when it is open it is only open for 2 hours at lunch. It is owned by a polygamist family and serves the usual fast food items as well as homemade bread, cakes and cookies. They serve this taco-I see every one ordering one or two of them. It looks like a soft shell tortilla wrapping a hamburger patty cut in half with lettuce, cheese and a sauce-pretty basic but they sell so many! I may have to try one when I get around to going out there for lunch. This place is always packed and the line is long. The family works together in an organized manner and the food gets out in about 15 minutes. It is fresh made burgers, fries, onion rings etc. The place is spotless! I could eat off the window seals. Never has such a fast food place been so clean. I am such a fan! I wish it was not 30 miles away and open once in a while. I am a huge fan. So lunch here was perfect! I am so glad Scott and I found each other. We were definitely inspired by God to meet and be together. I am so grateful to him and for him. 

Valentine's Day was one week later. Scott got me a lovely lovely lovely bouquet of flowers. There were so many closed lilies that today-a week later they are blooming and fragrant and wonderful! Scott also spoiled me with a portable DVD player. I used to do my exercise video on my computer and then I would watch a tv program to distract me a little. Well now that I do not have a computer he got me an alternative. I love it so much! He is simple wonderful to me and for me. 

We went to lunch with Scott's Grandma. We were at a local place called The Porch. They serve southern food and for Valentine's dinner they were sporting alligator ribs-but only at dinner. So Grandma got us a gift certificate for dinner and made us a reservation. She is so sweet! I had given her a homemade sugar cookie bouquet earlier in the day and still she out did us! Dinner that night was magical! It was delicious and wonderful. It was my favorite Valentine's Day ever!

I am sickeningly happy.