Monday, November 26, 2018

Week 30 - November 17-25

Christmas is coming to temple square.  This week early in the morning as we walked to the Family History Library we saw the grounds crew putting up lanterns around the little log home we pass.
 
My brother-in-law's sister made 
this wooden children's Christmas puzzle.
The puzzle is fun in two ways:  
1. as a puzzle and 2.  to setup as a manger.
We took our four day holiday to return to California to spend Thanksgiving with two sons and their families and do doctor appointments.  When we arrive in Oakland on Wednesday morning the sun was just rising.  It was beautiful.
Elder Koberstein treated me to a beautiful Thanksgiving bouquet of flowers for our Thanksgiving table.  I have enjoyed them all weekend.
Friday we hiked in Black Diamond Mines and stayed dry most of the hike.  This picture is looking down Markley Canyon at the San Joaquin River.  California has not yet had enough rain to make the hills green.

This is Rose Hill Cemetery used for burial when Black Diamond coal mine was open.  The area was a bustling community between 1850-1910.  It was part of the town of Sommersville where coal and then white sand were mined.  Many of the Atlas canning jars were made from the sand mined here.  Today this graveyard is one of the few reminders of another time.
Hiking up to one of the mine openings.
An opening to one of the sand mines.  The tracks 
were used to carry the sand out of the mine in carts.
Saturday Weston and Myra treated us to a breakfast from Golden Bakery in Pittsburg.  These buns are:  l to r barbecue beef, curry and pineapple.  They pineapple buns do not have pineapple in them.  They are called pineapple because of the look of the topping which make them look like the outside of a pineapple.  Myra says they are the least expensive in China and her family had then often.  They are very much like some of the buns we found in Japan.
 
 Saturday the family went to "The Musical Scrooge" based on Dickens' well-known "A Christmas Carol" on Temple Hill.  We were able to attend the matinee and watch Lynn dance.  He was in many scenes but listed as a phantom dancer in the program.
The Oakland Temple Hill is ready for Christmas.  
The manger is up in its usual place.
One of the two fountains was running. 
 
Another shot at the new look of the fountain
 as we left the Interstake Center.
The rain cleared up the smoke from the Paradise fire.
The city of San Francisco was visible from Temple Hill.

THOUGHT FOR YOU
Therefore, my son, see that you are merciful unto your brethren; deal justly, judge righteously, and do good continually; and if ye do all these things then shall ye receive your reward; yea, ye shall have mercy restored unto you again; ye shall have justice restored unto you again; ye shall have a righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have good rewarded unto you again.

For that which ye do sent out shall return unto you again, and be restored; therefore, the word restoration more fully condemneth the sinner, and justifieth him not at all.  Alma 41: 14-15

1 comment:

Lynn said...

Thanksgiving was wonderful. Thanks for the visit.