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Beginning to look a lot like fall back here...

East side of the temple in the afternoon.

We just started getting a couple of days that the temps dipped below freezing then popped above 40+ again.  Days are still very moderate and nice but 80 or less most of the time.  We're below anything in Camino.  The trees have just started to turn in earnest.  Lots of leaves are just dropping like crazy without turning and we are getting very little rain so the grass is all drying up.  Kind of a change from the spring.  They are harvesting the corn/soybean crops.  Had a few afternoons where the humidity dipped below 25%, which sends the feeling inside the temple into new, cold feelings for the fall.  Guess winter will be an interesting time.

We got a new couples missionary picture from Tom Simpson Photography (I hafta mention the company name) so here it is:

Hmmmm...black coat and a black background...probably not the best choice...and, of course, I'm half asleep.  Well, better than nothing.  We have 9 couples leaving this week then most leaving the following week.  We will have the winter missionaries filling in for the winter months.  It'll be a slim crew of people.

We visited the Sarah Granger Kimball house last Thursday before work.  It's a nice little old house.  She was the instigator of the Relief Society back in Nauvoo.  She moved to Nauvoo when the Saints went West.

Sister Seger and the house.

That pole in the center is a new fangled "washer" for clothes.  She had all the latest "appliances".

Upstairs with the kids room.  The spinning wheel and to the left there is a "weasel".  It would turn 40 times then go "pop" as it wound the yarn from the wheel so they knew when they had hit the right amount of yarn for a skein...hence "pop goes the weasel" (not responsible for mis-spelling).  See, you learnt something...

 

Master bed, trundle bed and crib.  Note tiny shoes on bed.

  

A shot out the kitchen window.  Yep, looks like fall.

Oh, I fixed a temp sensor up in the attic above the #6 Sealing Room last week and the engineer that I work with told me he had never seen that thing work in all the years he has worked here, ever.  He was excited to have it working right for once.  Really, all these people that have come through here and no one ever figured out that you just needed to replace a less than $20 sensor to fix that erroneous sensor and it would start working again?  No wonder I was sent here...sigh.  He also told me I had justified my mission here.  "So, that means I can go home now?"  "No, wait, I have this list...not for another three years or so....".  I guess he wants me to stick around for a while....

I've been working on the formulas for the washers (called "extractors" in the business).  Boy, are these things complicated.  When I first looked at the way they set up the formulas to wash clothes, I was absolutely mystified as to how it all works.  After staring at the books, looking at the formulas, staring at what we had, many hours of going over and over the books, I finally figured it all out and can now actually understand how they work.  These are 60# washers (30" and they are small washers) and the washers get quite a bit larger.  Pretty doggone complicated making household washers pretty simplistic.  These things have been running for nearly 15 years with relatively few problems but they are gosh awful expensive when something goes awry.  I am replacing the system board, display board and connecting cables at about $3, 000 a pop.  But, when you consider how much laundry these things do during pageant, I suppose this is a bargain.  They run all the time.  Interesting to work on.  1999 technology.  wonder if they have updated it any.  Like entering data on an old Nintendo....

We have the annual Temple Workers Devotional this Sunday at the temple in the Assembly Hall with the Temple Presidency.  Won't be able to take pictures but there should be a lot of people there.  Usually have a General Authority but not this year.  Just hafta settle for locals.  Brother Marshal will be singing to us so that will be good.  He sings beautifully.  Looking forward to it.  I'll report on it later.  See ya! As usual, more to come...