Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Traces of Time . . . September 30-October 6, 2024

 TRACES OF TIME . . .                           {Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom right.} 

 "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.                               The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, 1982

"The magical, supernatural force 
that is with us every second is time.
We can't even comprehend it.

 It's such an illusion, 

it's such a strange thing."

— Anthony Hopkins 

 Note from Eileen: You will notice I call                              

my blog: "Traces of Time..."

On this blog I share with family and friends my daily thoughts, doings, what interests me, and--at times--tributes to my eternal sweetheart, Walt, who graduated to heaven on 8-21-2020.

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses-- Shawn, Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--9 spouses of G-C, and 7 great-grandchildren, with one on the way in December--for a posterity of 70.

THIS WEEk

SEPTEMBER 30-October 6, 2024

MONDAY, 
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024                            
Family is Everything...     
                     Sunrise: 7:23 a.m. 
    Sunset:  7:10 p.m.


Jayden, my home health
physical therapist came today...
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TUESDAY, 
OCTOBER 1, 2024

Family is Everything….
Institute


WEDNESDAY, 
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Family is Everything…
 Lunch Bunch was at Edna's
7 were able to come...
Tammy, Kathie, Carol
 Linda, Sharon, MaryAnn
 Eileen, Tammy
 Lunch Bunch
 Wedge Salad
 Chicken Pot Pie
Beef Stroganauf
  Tammy, Kathie, Carol
 Seven were able to come.
Counter clockwise from bottom:
Sharon, Linda, Carol,
Kathie, Tammy,
Eileen, MaryAnn. 


 Lunch Bunch

 
 We posed by the

"E " 

 
 Lunch Bunch


  Linda and I realized we

had both worn black and red.




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   Our Wednesday night movie... 

Wuthering Heights from 1970



I love these movie nights with Gary...

THURSDAY, 

OCTOBER 3, 2024


                       Family is Everything…
                        
               Jayden came... 


...to do physical therapy with me.


Jacee and Maddie 

heading to Provo...


 Maddie is a whiz at... 


...these 1,000 piece puzzels.


FRIDAY, 

OCTOBER 4, 2024

                 
Family is Everything…


Today I saw this on face book...



"Harvest 2024 has began. If you all who are not farmers wanted to know what the price of wheat is right now......it's about the same as it was in 1972. $4.86 a bushel. A loaf of bread in 1972 cost $.25

A bushel of wheat yields 42 one-and-a-half pound commercial loaves of white bread OR about 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread. A bushel of wheat makes about 42 pounds of pasta or 210 servings of spaghetti. There is approximately 16 ounces of flour in a one-and-a-half pound loaf of bread.

I bought a loaf of bread for $7 today. $94 for 42 loaves of bread if they cost $7. The farmer gets $4.86 minus the storage fee. The one who grows the wheat. The one who is a steward of the ground the wheat grows in. The one who hires people to help him cut his crop. The one who spends hours on the combine and tractors to feed the world. The one who makes payments on his equipment his whole life, and he makes $4.86 cents per bushel.

 We are feeding the world and we can't afford to buy the bread back to make our own sandwich. Things are not right in this world. Many farmers are really hurting right now and may not return to farming next year ! We are very slowing starving our country to death in more ways than one and don't even know it. When the shelves are empty because there are no more farmers what will the masses do ?"

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Eileen's comments:                                                                        This made me think about my Grampa Huffaker who was a farmer.

Photos from my Mom's Life Story...


Dave & Ella Huffaker...

He was over 6' tall,

She was 5' 2"...

In this photo she is

standing two steps higher

than he is.


1938 - Dave taking the

McBurney farm out of

sagebrush

5 miles west - a mile or 2 north

of Wendell, Idaho


1945 - Family back together

after World War II

    David, Jr., was a bomber pilot -

     flew missions in India...

escorting the Flying Tigers 

over the Hump.

I looked up in my Mom's life story when she described wheat threshing time when she was a little girl, age 6 in 1926. 

Before I share her experiences, I wondered when the threshing machine was invented.    

          THRESHING WHEAT  – BIG EVENT OF THE SUMMER

"There isn’t a single individual who is always called out as “the inventor of the threshing machine,” nor a single date that stands out as an inflection point. Instead, one finds series of important inventions across decades: Andrew Meikle built the first successful machine in Scotland in 1786, but Joseph Pope invented a popular one in the US in 1820, and the Pitts brothers made improvements to power and to winnowing (separating the wheat from the chaff) in the 1830s. Nor does there seem to have been a single design that became dominant. Instead, it’s a story of gradual improvements in effectiveness, reliability, and cost that led to gradual adoption by farmers. "


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Excerpt from my Mom's Life Story

  THRESHING WHEAT  – BIG EVENT OF THE SUMMER

1926 - Verna was six years old...

        The big event of the summer [in August] was when it was time to harvest the wheat.  First the cutting and binding of the wheat sheaves was done by the binders. 

        I loved the way the field looked with all those shocks of wheat standing up in their piles.

        I remember the big canvases that were on the binding machines.  Dad would bring the torn ones in for Mother to sew up on the machine.  He would have to hold the end out while Mother put the torn part through the sewing machine to mend. 

        We always looked forward to when the threshers and the hay men came because Mother always made a big dinner and apple or coconut cream pie for dessert. 

        When I was older, I realized it was funny how she made coffee for these men.  She didn’t know how to make coffee because we didn’t drink it at our house.  She just made it for the hired men during harvest time.

        She’d put a pan of water on the stove.  I learned later it’s usually made by a drip method by putting your coffee in a thing and then there’s a thing you put your hot water in and it drips down through the coffee into the pot.  But Mother didn’t have a coffee pot so she just put coffee and some water together on the stove and got it hot.  She didn’t know how much coffee to put in or that it needed to be steeped. 

        I bet it was so strong that it about ate those threshers’ stomachs out.  But I don’t remember anybody complaining about it. 

         After I got married and Arnold liked coffee, he taught me how to make it.  I thought about how Mother had made it and it was sure different.

        Threshing time was a fun time.  After dinner everyone helped clean up the kitchen.  Then in the afternoon, before we were old enough--about 10 or 11--to work in the fields ourselves, we’d go out and stand in the trucks when the grain was coming down and let it run over our hands. 

        After the threshing was over, we always had that great big straw stack to play on.  Then we’d take clean straw and put it in our mattresses so we’d each have a new clean straw mattress.

        Straw mattresses had big, thick ticking, they called it.  We smoothed it out and mashed it down.  The mattresses got uneven and lumpy after the straw was old.  They got schusy and flat so it was fun to have a fluffy one again.  It was nice every threshing season after we washed the old ticking to refill the mattresses with the fresh straw.

End of this section of my Mom's Life Story...

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My children with their Great Grampa 'n Grama Huffaker

in their back yard in Wendell, Idaho in 1973.

Simpson David Huffaker -

             1891-1982 - Age 91

Ella Louise Morris Huffaker - 

             1891-1982 - Age 91

 Awaiting the Morning of the Resurrection . . .

     I love them. I look forward to being with them again.

 Above was from my Mom's Life Story

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Information I just looked up:

"A 1920s threshing crew typically had wagons, buggies, a steam engine, combines and other equipment, as shown in this photo circa 1920 from Manitowoc County.

 Photo courtesy of Manitowoc County Historical Society.

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 Wheat – the Staff of LifeWHEAT - THE STAFF OF LIFE

Often called the staff of life, wheat is a long-standing symbol of fertility, bounty, and resurrection.

Process of wheat becoming bread...

Milling Flour--Once the wheat has been harvested it goes through a process called sweating before it gets milled. This process takes six weeks and creates small metabolic changes in the wheat berries that will improve the quality of the milled grain.

 

Flour is made from wheat that has been milled, which is the process of grinding wheat into a powder. The milling process involves several steps: 

·        Quality control: Removing foreign objects like stones and sticks 

·        Tempering: Adding moisture to the grain to help separate it 

·        Milling: Grinding the grain into smaller pieces using burrs, stones, or rollers 

·        Sifting: Separating the bran, wheat germ, and white flour 

 


When I write my Life Story. I will put this in it...

My Grama Huffaker made the best homemade bread, and so did my Mom. I so wish I had a photo of her taking a batch of bread out of her oven.

Part of page from "Dave & Ella" Their Life Story I had printed in 1969.


Grama and my Mom and then I

baked 4 or more loaves at a time...

We lived with my grandparents in 1949 for several months when my Dad was remodeling and building on to a little house (he had bought that was by my grandparents' farm) he had had moved into town. We had lived in it from September 1945 till June 1949. It had been the teacherage for the McBurney Country School. 

When we came back from living in Long Beach, California during World War II -- January 1942-September 1945, we needed someplace to live.  My Dad helped build ships for the Navy during the War. The Army wouldn't take him because he had flat feet. They mistakenly thought men with flat feet could not march long distances.

Dad did this remodeling on this home each evening after his full-time carpentry job during the days. He had bought the lots on the north side of Wendell--just up the hill from where the new chapel for The Church of Latter-day Saints is now (built in the early 1960s).

My baby sister, Janice—my only sibling-- had been born in June of 1949. I was 10 1/2 and starting 5th grade that Fall.  When I'd get off the school bus at their farm (6 miles from town--Wendell, Idaho, population 1,200) my favorite thing was Grama taking her hot, homemade bread out of the oven, cutting a slice for me, spreading butter on it, then sprinkling a little sugar on top.{I can taste it as I type about it!}

 End of quote from my Life Story...

Wheat is called "the staff of life" because it is a staple food that is used to make many different foods, and is a key part of the human diet: 

·        Foods made from wheat

Wheat is used to make many foods, including bread, pasta, crackers, cookies, and cereals. 

·        Other uses

Wheat is also used to feed livestock, and is being increasingly used in aquaculture and plastics manufacturing. 

·        A staple food

Wheat has been a staple food for thousands of years in Asia, Europe, and Northern Africa. 

·        A major part of the human diet

Wheat is a major part of the diet for most people, along with rice and maize. 

·        A rich source of vitamin E

Wheat is one of the richest sources of vitamin E. 

The phrase "the staff of life" is an idiom that refers to a necessary or staple food, especially bread. The expression was first recorded in 1638. 

“The Staff of Life” (D&C 89:14)

According to the Word of Wisdom, the principal or chief element of our diet should be grains. Grains include grasses like wheat and rice.

 Why is wheat called the staff of life?

 

 



SATURDAY, 

OCTOBER 5, 2024

  
                    Family is Everything…

  The 194th Semi-Annual 

General Conference of 

The Church of Jesus Christ 

of Latter-day Saints...


               In the glow of

October General Conference 

 I adore this post on face book

 by Melinda Sue Bridges 

“God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets” (1 Cor. 12:28). In another letter from the Apostle Paul, these Church officials were likened unto a building with a “foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone” (Eph. 2:20).


Apostles – Seniority

    Apostle           Date ordained apostle apostles – Senioriy -  Replaced whom in the Apostleship

         Russell M Nelson          12 Apr 1984               

LeGrand Richards


         Dallin H Oaks             03 May 1984               

Mark E Peterson


         M Russell Ballard         10 Oct 1985               

Bruce R McConkie


         Jeffrey R Holland         23 Jun 1994               

Ezra Taft Benson


         Henry B Eyring            06 Apr 1995               

Howard W Hunter


         Dieter F Uchtdorf         02 Oct 2004               

Neal A Maxwell


         David A Bednar            02 Oct 2004               

David B Haight


         Quentin L Cook            06 Oct 2007               

James E Faust


         D Todd Christofferson     05 Apr 2008              

Gordon B Hinckley


         Neil L Andersen           04 Apr 2009              

Joseph B Wirthlin


         Ronald A Rasband          03 Oct 2015               

L Tom Perry


         Gary E Stevenson          03 Oct 2015               

Boyd K Packer


         Dale G Renlund            03 Oct 2015               

Richard G Scott


         Gerrit W Gong             31 Mar 2018               

Robert D Hales


         Ulisses Soares            31 Mar 2018               

Thomas S Monson -----------------------------------

     Patrick Kearon             9 Dec 2023  Replaced M. Russell Ballard

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Here is a list of the current living apostles of 
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day and their ages: October 2024

1.     President Russell M. Nelson (born September 9, 1924) – 100 years old

2.     President Dallin H. Oaks (born August 12, 1932) – 92 years old

3.     Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (born December 3, 1940) – 83 years old

4.     President Henry B. Eyring (born May 31, 1933) – 91 years old

5.     President Dieter F. Uchtdorf (born November 6, 1940) – 83 years old

6.     Elder David A. Bednar (born June 15, 1952) – 72 years old

7.     Elder Quentin L. Cook (born September 8, 1940) – 84 years old

8.     Elder D. Todd Christofferson (born January 24, 1945) – 79 years old

9. Elder Neil L. Andersen (born August 9, 1951) – 73 years old

10. Elder Ronald A. Rasband (born June 30, 1951) – 73 years old

11. Elder Gary E. Stevenson (born July 15, 1955) – 69 years old

12. Elder Dale G. Renlund (born November 22, 1952) – 71 years old

13. Elder Gerrit W. Gong (born December 23, 1953) – 70 years old

14. Elder Ulisses Soares (born October 2, 1958) – 66 years old 

15. Elder Patrick Kearon (born February 27, 1957) – 66 years old


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194th Semi-Annual 

General Conference


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024


                     
Family is Everything…

General Conference

Morning Session














President Nelson


preisding and speaking...








General Conference is always

inspiring and uplifing.

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** *I am so thankful for The Plan of Salvation and the Atonement of  Jesus Christ that makes this Great Plan operational.
At the end of this October 6th,

I pray you have had a

restful , peaceful, and spiritual

Sabbath Day...

I share these truths as my testimony to you...


Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence.  He loves us just as we are at this very moment.
Daily Scripture: Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. - Psalm 150:6
Daily Quote: I think the Latter-day Saints have a great obligation pressing in upon them to rejoice in the Lord, to praise him for his goodness and grace, to ponder his eternal truths in their hearts, and to set their hearts on righteousness. - Bruce R. McConkie

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Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all. 
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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead. 
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."
Daily Scripture: And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. - 3 Nephi 12:6
Daily Quote: We have been promised the constant companionship of the third member of the Godhead and hence the privilege of receiving revelation for our own lives. - Sheri L. Dew
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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration.  He is the Restorer of all things.
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President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world. 
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
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Daily Scripture: This life became a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead. - Alma 12:24
Daily Quote: I invite you to diligently learn about and appreciate the eternal importance of temple covenants, temple ordinances, and temple worship as you strive to come unto the Savior. - David A. Bednar

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today.  Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.
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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
October 6, 2024
Next week October 7-13, 2024


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