The Gum Tree for 2004 October 25

3 tests in 3 days with another at the end of the week. That's my schedule. I also have some pretty difficult assignments due on wed. I have been moving supprisingly smoothly, though, and I am happy to be getting so much done. In other news, yesterday was my first day in the young men's presidency at church. I am over the larger Deacons quorum, and so far I will also be the interum Scoutmaster. I guess I had better get a scout shirt. We have some good boys, and there is also a lot of work to do. There are a few who come from single mother homes, or they might as well be no parent homes because the kids pretty much do what they please. Hey...my philosophy is, if you don't want to raise them then don't have them. Is that too harsh?, I don't think so. Although, I know that sometimes it's not that simple. I have been playing with a version of Adobe Photoshop Elements that Louise and I received with a digital camera. Yesterday I spent a few hours on our Wedding Pictures as well as vacation, etc. It is really neat what you can do with computer software. The day's here in Provo are nice and wet. I absolutly love the vivid fall colors of purple, red, yellow, up against the Green background glisening with rainwater and smelling of fresh moist earth. I am planning a ski trip during Christmas as well as in January. I am excited to get into the powder and go into the mountains. Up there, the snow dampens all the sound so that all you hear is your breathing and the crisp footsteps in the snow...it is intimate really the way that nature seems to focus on the individual and all things stand in reverence with the trees bowed down and the ground blanketed over with pure white snow. Gosh, there's got to be a Prarie Home Companion monologue in there somewhere.