A Cowboy To The Rescue

Last night I went to bed feeling somewhat congested. I took some congestion medication which is a rare thing because I don't like taking pharmaceutical meds unless i am really sick. I didn't check the label and sure enough it said will make you drowsy. That is important because it has the reverse reaction on me. 3AM I am wide awake and miserably congested. I try to force myself to sleep but the motion sensor lights kept turning on. I knew that I needed to be up by 5am to feed animals, shower and head to my friends house to help her unpack more boxes and organize things in her new home. The next sound I hear is the 5 AM alarm sounding. I roll out of bed extremely ill and I have a fever. Suddenly I am shivering cold and disoriented. I text my friend canceling my day with her and grateful that i refilled all the animal feeders after the animals went to sleep last night.
I downed some NyQuil and climbed back into bed. A good news phone call came in from my cousin that his brother was receiving a liver transplant today, that was very exciting news!

I again fall asleep and the fever dreams start. They are always horrible! I woke up several times but had no real strength to get up out of bed. I did not even have my usual coffee cravings (a sure sign that I am really sick)!

3PM I force myself up and out of bed to check on the animals. To my surprise I open the front door and there is a huge 900 pound cow staring at me. Those that know me, know I do not deal well with animals out of their stalls or fences. I slip on my shoes and the cow heads toward my lovely garden. I run to the garage door and open it, in hopes of scaring it away. But he just looked at me and said lady is that all you got? I started to hoop and holler and he knew I was not as soft as I looked. I managed to chase him away from the garden and he hightailed it to the fruit trees and got his horns tripped up in the rope holding up the peach tree and then headed to the back yard. He stopped at the chicken coop to drink all their water. Then he decided since he reached the other side he would munch on the grass in the back yard. You know they say the grass is greener on the other side.

Chasing this beast was getting neither of us anywhere so I, sick and on medication, still in my PJs jumped in the car and drove to the neighbors. I first went to the wrong house but eventually found the owners. I asked them to come and get their cow. I could hear Alfredo's voice in my head be nice, it is okay. He'd be so proud of me!

Then a tall, handsome cowboy on a beautiful horse, comes a riding with rope in hand and with extreme precision lassos the cow and heads him out. He said "sorry ma'm for any inconvenience." I said "thank you so much for helping me out.". He was so kind and respectful, how could I be upset.

Now I bet you are thinking I was overwhelmed with fever and it was all just a dream or the medication.......

I did get a few pics

Brigham Temple

I was invited by my daughter to take a tour of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saint's temple, in Brigham City. We had an a 3:45pm tour appointment. We arrived and stood in a line in the hot sun waiting for a bus to shuttle us from the parking lot to the temple. Once we arrived at the temple the line to get in was a full city block. 1 hour later we arrived into the parking garage where we were placed in a room to view a video of why the Mormons build temples. We were shuffled into another line that led us to the entrance of the temple. Our shoes were covered with white plastic shoe covers. We were then guided through a very elegant, breathtaking, beautiful temple. The tour took approximately 15 minutes, while our total wait time and drive time was 4.5 hours. The bus driver indicated 50,000 people showed up for the tour.