Sunday, October 5, 2008

A Great Weekend


We started our weekend on Friday with a trip the temple (2 blocks away), then a drive to Mesa Falls to enjoy the beautiful changing colors, a stop at Chiz, a restaurant in St. Anthony that you'd never believe. It's the old fashioned "U" counter restaurant where everybody sits on a stool and visits with the other customers. They have fantastic hugh deepfriend shrimp with salad, baked potato, texas toast and on Fridays and Saturdays ...Prime Rib. Dad thought he'd died and gone to heaven. We'd been there before but never on a Prime Rib night. He talked about it all the next day. Good Prime Rib makes that man happy! Three different neighbor couples from Rexburg arrived while we were eating. I wanted to take a picture, even had my camera, but somehow I couldn't do it. Saturday we loved every minute of General Conference then had a couple over for a sandwich and visit. The men picked up Bob's brother, Sam, and headed for Priesthood and Fran and I visited on the couch the whole time! It was wonderful! How I love that girl. She and her husband, Art, served with us in the student ward and we've become good friends - quite the lifesaver when you are away from family. Sam's wife, Nancy, joined us when the men returned and we had peach pie together.
Yes, I have a great fresh peach pie recipe from a dear Mesa friend and we've put it to good use. We continued to visit and just had such a great time.

FRESH PEACH PIE

Bake any basic pie crust; cool. Cut up enough fruit to generously fill the pie shell. Set aside. In a saucepan, put 1/2 C. sugar, 3 T. cornstarch (stir together). Add 1 C. water/ bring to a boil (stir constantly). Remove from heat and add 3 T. peach jello. Stir well. Mix with fruit and put in pie crust. Refrigerate until set. Slice and top with whip cream or ice cream...Yum. Glaze can be used with strawberry jello and fresh strawberries instead.

Today was conference again and a true spiritual feast. We had recorded "Other Side of Heaven" so watched it this evening and enjoyed it so much. Bob is headed for Alaska tomorrow to meet with economic leaders from several states - He's not too excited about the cold and I'm not excited about 5 days alone but hope to get some projects done.