Angels Landing

The day after Christmas part of my family went hiking. We hiked up Angels Landing. This hike was intense and the terrain was more difficult then it appears. Where you see the chains and the stakes in the ground that was what we held on to so we didn't fall off the cliff. It was very steep and the footing was slick. We all were lucky and made it back in one piece! :)

Christmas in Paradise

This Oasis had everything from an exotic pool and hot tub to a basketball court and nice pool table. There was also a ping pong table and an air hockey table in the garage. This place wasn't lacking a thing and was pure enjoyment for my family this Christmas!

I Can Hear Your Music

I can hear your music
I can hear your song
As wild and free, as the child in me
So clear, so strong

I can hear your music
I can hear your song
Sweeter than the sound of the rolling river
So clear, so strong

-Miten and Premal

Some Christmas ornaments that I made with my mom and sister when I was home for Thanksgiving.

Silence

Outside the trees are bare
Their leaves’ have fallen
What must they think?
With silence forced upon them

Coldness brought this silence
A silence that soon will fade
When warmness comes
To wrap them in a firm embrace

An embrace warm and true
What I wouldn’t give-
To feel warmness too
I hate this silence!

A New Year is only 31 days away!

Richard Thompson - Beeswing

Irish Descendants - Raggle Taggle Gypsy

When I graduate I think I will run off with the gypsies!

Touch a Tree Every Day

I have been given a class assignment to touch a tree every day and then to write about this experience. The honest truth-I thought to myself....what a silly assignment. Something I have grown to appreciate from this experience is the feel of the different textures of bark under my hand. I have always enjoyed sitting under the trees and listening to their leaves speak to one another, but I can say that I have now grown to appreciate the feel of tree trunks under my hand as well. I have been reminded of the beauty, elegance, and the complexity of the Lord's creations and of the blessings that surround me daily. For these daily reminders and blessings I am very grateful!

Kilkelly with Lyrics

This song is kind of a sad one, but I also think it is a very pretty song as well.

2010 Weirich Memorial Weekend - Trout Fishing in America - Nobody aroun...

Bring Me Little Water, Silvy: Live 1/10/10 moira smiley & VOCO

I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie

Bill Morrissey - Birches

Snow Outside The Mill (Bill Morrissey)

This is a fun song, it made me smile!

Peg and Awl

Author is unknown originated around 1845


In the year of eighteen and one
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and one
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and one
Peggin' shoes was all I done
Hand me down my peg, my peg and awl

In the year of eighteen and two
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and two
Peg and awl
In the year of eigteen and two
Peggin' shoes was all I do
Hand me down my peg, my peg and awl

They invented a new machine
Peg and awl
They invented a new machine
Peg and awl
They invented a new machine
Prettiest I ever seen
Throw away my peg, my peg and awl

Pegs a hundred pair to my one
Peg and awl
Pegs a hundred pair to my one
Peg and awl
Pegs a hundred pair to my one
Peggin' shoes it ain't no fun
Throw away my peg, my peg and awl

In the year of eighteen and three
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and three
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and three
New machine it set me free
Throw away my peg, my peg and awl

In the year of eighteen and four
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and four
Peg and awl
In the year of eighteen and four
Swore I'd peg them shoes no more
Throw away my peg, my peg and awl

Johnny Cash - Frankie & Johnny

JOAN BAEZ "Barbara Allen "

Don Edwards - Barbara Allen

Horsey Horsey

Horsey Horsey on your way,
We've been together for many a day.
So let your tail go swish,
And your wheels go round.
Giddy-up we're homeward bound!

Folk Music

“Big Rock Candy Mountain” and “Waltzing with Bears” are just two songs that come to my mind when I think of folk music. Folk music can sometimes be hard to define, because like many different music genres, it has a history in which it developed and changed over time. For me, I am able to identify a couple of the different folk movements. When I think of traditional folk music, musicians like Greg Brown, Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, Woody Guthrie, and the Carter Family come to mind. Names like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger come to mind when I think of the folk revival that took place in the 1960’s.
Like all music genres, folk music has a heritage and a culture. It takes more than just an acoustic guitar to classify a piece of music as folk. A lot of folk music originated from a way of life. Folk music was the basis that helped to inspire other musical movements including rock and roll and jazz.
Folk music is very interesting to me, and while I know a little about different folk musicians there are a lot that I do not know. I am looking forward to learning more about folk music this semester. I hope to gain an even broader understanding of how folk music came to be and the role it has played in peoples lives over the years.

My Latest Project....

This is me being impressed by my own quilt making abilities. This is just the corner of the finished queen sized quilt that I made. I started working on it about three weeks ago and my goal was to get it done in time for the Eastern Idaho State Fair....looks like I made it!

I bet This Sheep Felt a bit Sheepish

This sheep from New Zealand avoided being captured during shearing season for seven years. When they finally caught him, he had over 60 pounds of wool on him. Now that is what I call sheepish!

"We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it is helping us. It is called the principle of favorability."

"Well breakfast is half burned, but that's nothin' a half cup of sugar can't fix!"

"NOW THAT'S GOURMET!"

Is that Huckleberry Ice Cream and Cheese Puffs for dinner?


I dare say-"That's Kim's Gourmet in Jackson and it isn't for the faint of heart!"

The Alchemist

"The world's greatest lie....that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."

"Even God has a dream."

One Bright Shining Hope

"We know not what lies ahead of us. We know not what the coming days will bring. We live in a world of uncertainty. For some, there will be great accomplishment. For others, disappointment. For some, much of rejoicing and gladness, good health and gracious living. For others, perhaps sickness and a measure of sorrow. We do not know. But one thing we do know. Like the polar star in the heavens, regardless of what the future holds, there stands the Redeemer of the world, the son of God, certain and sure as the anchor of our immortal lives. He is the rock of our salvation, our strength, our comfort, the very focus of our faith." -President Gordon B. Hinckley

Conclusion From my Bioinformatics Presentation

My name is Kim Reading and I endorse the use of I-TASSER for single domain protein structure prediction!

Secluded Beauty of Provo

With the springing of Spring yesterday, I took a walk. I finally located some trails I had been told about. They are amazing and I am really excited to run on them today! I wish all of Provo were like this, maybe then I would like it here.

Sometimes I wish I were computer savy! I was going to post a couple of slides from a presentation that I have to give tomorrow, but bloggser keeps telling me the images are currupt. So, once again you are going to just have to imagine the coolest slides of your life. Well, maybe they aren't that cool, but it took alot of work to produce those slides so they have to be good right?!

Be who you are
and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.

-Dr. Seuss

Out with the Old....In with the New!

Today I went shopping and bought myself a new pair of shoes. The good kind....the ones you don't have to tie! Now I don't have to wait at a bus stop with feet swimming in a puddle because my new shoes have soles!

The Wolf

A Wise Chief once said, "I have two wolves over my shoulder, a black wolf and a white wolf." When asked which one has more power he said, "the one I choose to feed." Choose to feed the white wolf, to do good and to be happy! I really enjoyed this thought from Stake Confrence today and I was spiritually nurished and fed there. I hope we all will choose to feed our white wolf!

The Persistence of Memory

"I didn't go to the moon, I went much further-for time is the longest distance between two places. Not long after that I was fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoe-box. I left Saint Louis. I decended the steps of this fire escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. I traveled around a great deal. The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by suprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Perhaps I am walking along some street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger-anything that can blow your candles out!"

-Tennessee Williams- "The Glass Menagerie"

"I'll tell you how to always get your toast to land butter side up...butter both sides!"

-Brigham Young

Some Places that I Love:

Mikey Yokel Park is a place that brings out the Joys of youth.

For me: the mountains have always been like food to a starving man.

Mormon row reminds me of the past and the history that runs through my vains.


The place where I grew-up....and the openness of the Nebraska landscape.


Very few places on earth, can call to my heart like these do!

Imagine Cool Images!

I was going to post photos from my research, but the program kept telling me they were currupt. Stupid program! So, you will just have to imagine you are viewing the coolest photos of your life, because they are....oh, and think GREEN!!!!!!

I think I am a pout-pout fish!

"I'm a pout-pout fish

With a pout-pout face

So I spread my dreary-wearies

all over the place."

BLUB, BLUUUUUB, BLUUUUUB

-By Deborah Diesen

The Glass Menagerie

"I didn't go to the moon, I went much further-for time is the longest distance between two places-
....attempting to find in motion what was lost in space-"

-Tennessee Williams

D&C 78:17-18

"Verily, Verily, I say unto you, ye are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you;
And ye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The kingdom is yours, and the riches of eternity are yours."

D&C 82:8-9

"And again I say unto you, I give unto you a new commandment, that you may understand my will concerning you;
Or, in other words, I give unto you directions how you may act before me, that it may turn to you for your salvation."

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Ta...

I saw this in my humanities class the other day and I thought it was neat. I liked the emotion that Simonova created by her drawings, the music, and her movement.

"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

-TS Eliot

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give thee rest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.

-2 Nephi 24:3