Manhunt!

 Oh hi Jacob. This has been an interesting Sunday. This morning mom woke me up because there was a helicopter hovering low over the neighborhood. On Facebook, sister Blake said she was walking her dog and some police told her to go the other way because they were looking for someone. From a news report I read later it says that there was this couple who had a uhaul truck. They were driving around stealing stuff of of peoples porches and breaking into cars. I guess they were spotted and tried to get away by going down that dead end street over by Rock Hollow. They turned around and tried to get away by going on a dirt road up from the canal. That road ended and they ditched the uhaul on a steep hill. The girl caught, but I heard the dude got away. I think the thirteenth wards church got canceled because there was a shelter in place order for our neighborhood. Luckies. Everyone else had to go to church as usual.

I followed mom to the eighth ward where she gave this amazing talk about my ancestors and the scriptures. Jacob believe me when I tell you of the shock I felt when she almost cried at the pulpit. I had to rub my eyes to make sure it was her. Now if I could only see Ben cry in public.

I had to leave right after to go to priest’s quorum presidency meeting. Then it was church, where your friend Brigantie’s brother gave his talk with the high council. I guess he started his mission, Covid hit, he did a year at byu, then he went back on his mission. Neither of their talks were worth mentioning. We made Joey go to mission prep after church, so it was a long day for all of us.

We had been invited to grandmas for dinner. She was guilted into inviting your uncles over because the one with 10,000 kids has, I’m not making this up, a messy house. When there are fifty people there waiting for grandma to place stuff in there mouths and dominating the conversation with everything trivial that’s not sports, I have a hard time enduring. I was grateful to stay home and have our classic roast beef dinner. 

Yesterday morning Ben had an orientation for his math job at the U. We got up a little early and went to breakfast at McDonald’s before Joey had to go to work. We came home for a minute then took Ben. While he was up there we went up to aunt Stella’s to help her fix her closet and toilet. It was super easy. Uncle temmy showed me some really cool coins. He knows the history behind them and the value is so high it makes me nervous.

After we picked up Ben and met Joe at this Mexican restaurant over by the Pie. It was the second time we ate there this week because we went to dinner with the Noble’s from across the street Thursday night. There was something on the menu that was supposed to be truly authentic Mexican food. Mom said that you would be the judge of that. 

The rest of the day we just puttered around. Mom worked on her talk. I added another electrical outlet to the garage so I could keep more stuff plugged in. I was fixing some of the drips on the bass we’re building and I sanded through the black finish. I felt pretty bad about it. I decided to paint over it but I wanted to leave some of the black wood grain showing. So I went to hobby lobby to get some regular airbrush paint. I got three kinds of black, transparent, pearlescent, and opaque. Plus some cleaner and thinner. I dug up this cheap plastic airbrush I had that was not precise enough for my models. When Joey got home we airbrushed around the outside with the transparent black. It looked great, even if it wasn’t super transparent, it fixed my mistake plus a few others. Tonight we over sprayed it with the pearlescent black. It’s probably more subtle than I thought, bit it will look pretty cool. I’ll do the back tomorrow, then we’ll put more clear coats on it and get it assembled. We did put the tuning screws in the neck and it looks pretty cool.

As far as other hobby projects go, I’m almost done with that old scorpion airplane model I showed you a while ago. I cannot get the old decals to stick, they keep curling up. I get so frustrated that I feel like smashing the stupid thing. But I just put it down till I can figure out what to do. I have a couple of ideas including scraping them off and making stencils of them. But I’d sure rather have them stick so I could weather it.

Hayden Blattman came home this week. I guess his flight came in at 2 am. His dad said that all the way home he kept commenting on ho wide and clean the streets were and when they pulled into the garage asked his dad how they had so much stuff. His dad told us how threadbare, worn out and miss matched his clothes were. He was really proud and happy. I’m looking forward to greeting you in similar conditions.

Only one more weekend without football. I can’t believe how fast the year went. I can’t believe how much hype the Utes have. Whittingham was on the rich Eisner show this week. Eisner told coach Whitt to tell usc and ucla that the Utes had chased them out of the conference, I got a kick out of that. Coach said he thinks realignment will all come down to super conferences, and if you’re lucky you’re in and if you’re not you’re out. It will be like another lower division. I’m glad the Utes are up these days, because it would suck not to be in that. The byu fans at church are pretty jealous, it always comes back to breaking the loosing streak and I always say congratu-freaking-lations. Then I say, but I feel you bro, we lost our bowl game too.

We have a fun week coming up. Friday mom got tickets to the fake Beatles. I looked up some YouTube videos of them and let’s just say maybe it’s a good thing the real Beatles broke up when they were young because these old stand ins look, and play, like geezers. But it will be nice to be outside. Saturday we have uncle Tim’s byu season kickoff, yea. And rogue one is being re released in imax so we’re going to that late Saturday. I’m excited for it.

It’s pretty late Jacob so I should finish this. I sure love you kid.

Pops