Life Keeps Changing

Well in the next few days (yes there is wagers on when) the family photo above will change. Philip and Jenny will have a new addition to there family; and John and Rachel will also have a new addition. Two new grandsons will soon enter the J Clyde Family. I keep telling my daughters that April 1 would be a great day to have both grandsons enter the world. We could really celebrate April Fools Day then and only in a good way. Hm, April Fools could be a day for Papa and all of his grandsons or maybe even all of the grandchildren to get together and celebrate. After all Papa is a April baby too.

Cheryl and I had to get out of the house this afternoon. It's been a busy week let's see. First, time for goal setting at work and determining what should be our goals. One filed lawsuit with a subcontractor to deal with, no make that the same sub but now two lawsuits. Careful how I trend, I don't want to step on any ones toes here; but I may just drop a a ten ton hammer on them toes. North Star Course is getting closer and closer and I'm still not quite sure if all of my staff is fully committed. I'm going to have to make some phone calls and press for the hard commitments now. Let's see. Grandma Clyde is in a care facility and I haven't been up in several weeks to see her. Dad has is test result back and we are concern about what the future might hold here. Yup, Life never changes!

So as you can see we must run away this afternoon to just reflect and enjoy. What a day it was, a perfect spring day to enjoy on the ski slopes. The snow was great and Park City Resort wasn't too bad for crowds but the lines seemed to move quickly. It was perfect short sleeve weather skiing and enjoying the outdoors.

The drive up the canyon was beautiful and we kicked open the sun roof to let the cool spring air in as we drove and discussed our upcoming trip to Greece. Now that trip will generate a blog or two.

Checked out the Provo for fishing and just about stopped in a place or two but I'm sorry I was just to lazy to put all of my gear on for an hour and then strip it back off to move on. I settled for just imagining the river and being on it with the fly rod.

We then decided to swing into Park City and check out the ski slopes and they were as good as anyone could imagine. In fact, they were great. After checking out the slopes we were hungry and so we ate at the Mexican Cantina there at the resort and enjoyed a great meal.

Travis and Carrie Jensen happened to see at us the Cantina and said hello and we visited for quite awhile. They are celebrating their 14th anniversary, Happy anniversary.

What a day it was, came back home fully refreshed and ready for another week of hell. Oh yea, remember us checking out the ski slopes and snow was great. That is as far as I went. I'm not a skier and never did say that we went skiing. Sorry Tay, I'll let you experience the real thing.

Papa in TROUBLE!

Thursday this past week, my wife hosted a bridal shower at the home. Okay no problem, being the social man that I am, I gratefully consented to hosting the party and figure that I would just retreat to my Bear's dungeon in the basement. Also realizing that my 4 year old granddaughter, Adyson, would be attending the bridal shower I prepared the Bear's dungeon to be tempting just in case she became bored with the bridal shower. Nothing serious just some videos and Mario Kart to help her make her mind up.

Adyson was a good sport and attended the shower and would come to the Bear's dungeon for a couple of short visits but returned immediately to the shower festivities. Finally, as anticipated, Adyson could stand the festivities no longer and ventured to the Bear's dungeon to asked Papa if we could watch a movie. No problem, who wouldn't want to watch a great movie with his granddaughter. Now let's see Papa was careful not to let her pick from "Friday the 13th" or any of his Bruce Willis "Die Hard" movies.

Let's find something PG and fit for a little princess. Adyson carefully reviewed the assortment of DVD's and selected one she had not seen but asked about what it was all about. Papa quickly exclaimed: "Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..." I thought Adyson responded with "Doesn't sound too bad. I'll try to stay awake." Papa responded, "As you wish" and we gathered on the couch and snuggled up and began the movie.

That day, Papa was amazed to discover that when he was saying "As you wish", what he meant was, "I love you." And even more amazing was the day he realized she truly loved him back.

I would have never thought that a simple story of a princess' search for her "true love" would have created so much commotion. Soon my wife came down, just about the unspeakable time that the princess dove into the infested waters of shrieking eels. "What are you doing, letting her watch this movie. She'll be up all night with nightmares!"

Okay, Okay, there are a few scary moments in the movie. As those moments came such as the shrieking eels and the dark black forest scene, Adyson would turn and ask if she could snuggle up close to Papa and all I could say of course was "As you wish." Now remember Adyson is no dummy, she had already covered her eyes and let out a sigh of disgust at the first kissing scene and was appreciative of the movie noting the same. Besides who wouldn't love the famous trio of villains/heroes in this movie.

Next it was Adyson's mom who firmly wanted to know what I was doing watching this movie with her. Lighten up mom, it's a fairy tale and all little girls like fairy tales.

"All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun." "You're that smart? I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains." Needless to say Papa was in trouble, Inconceivable!

"This is true love - you think this happens every day?" How could anyone have nightmares with stories of "Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva... So tweasure your wuv. Inconceivable!

Adyson slept peacefully that night, she actually stayed over night with us. I think her mom thought nightmares, I'll show you Papa. May have been that she was exhausted, after all it was 10:00 pm when the movie ended and she went to bed. Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons in my opinion, I'm sure Adyson slept with dreams of the many lessons learned from Princess Bride such as:

*You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
* Not much can get in the way of true love.
* There's not a lot of money in revenge.
* Beware of princes who smile too much.
* Overconfidence can be deadly.
* Inconceivable does not mean impossible.
* Getting fired can wreck a person's self-confidence.
* Revenge doesn't pay too well.
* Remember that a chocolate coating can help things go down easier.
* Sometimes there are happy endings.
* Even if you're the best, there's always someone better.
* Assets don't always look like assets.
* Don't give up! It ain't over 'till it's over.
* Even when it appears to be over, it might not be over.




Papa in trouble? I think that Adyson would probably put it best. INCONCEIVABLE!