July, The Month that Blogging Forgot

Sorry for not blogging for so long. July was a crazy month. Assume it action-packed with family, holidays, vacations, etc. Here are the highlights:

June 26-July 6--in Provo. Send Matt off to the MTC, celebrate the Fourth, miss the Muhlestein reunion and feel appropriated shamed.

July 6-13--my sister visits. We do much swimming and watching of forbidden TV.

July 10-13--my mother visits. Watching of forbidden TV dramatically decreases, swimming and hanging out on the balcony exponentially increase.

July 18-23--I work on an abstract, which is subsequently accepted for a conference presentation. Feel smug for a while.

July 22--Tempe Town Dam breaks. This would be big news if it was a real dam and not like a dike. Also if the breach actually flooded something besides a dry river bed. Here's some pictures.



The remains of the "dam."



Looking east to show how far the resevoir dropped. Note there are only small pools upstream.



Looking down in the resevoir from the dam to show how low the level is.

July 29-Aug. 1--Paul's brother Spencer visits. Obscene amounts of swimming ensue.

In between I cleaned everything down to the baseboards and worked on that pesky paper. Oh, and I painted and decorated a bookshelf and a set of stacking boxes. Have some more pictures.



Look at those pillows! It's like a freakin' magazine.



Sorry for the blurry cell phone pic. We really do need to get a camera.

Umm, so that's that then.