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Phoenix Weekend

Thursday we made a quick trip to Phoenix to visit Jay and Katrina.
While there we helped Jay build some shelves and a workbench for
his garage. Here's a few pictures of how they came out.

Here's the shelves up above.

Here's the workbench we built.

These are the corner shelves we built.

We didn't get to the shelves on the other side of the garage. I guess
those will have to wait until the next tr ...

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Utah conference weekend trip

The weekend before conference Roleen and I drove up to Michaels and
Rob flew up with Hunter and Stoney and Jay & Katrina flew in from Arizona.
The first thing we did was go to the BYU vs Utah State football game.
It was a triller which BYU won in the closing seconds.

Here's the final score

The crowd mobbed the field

Here's Jay, Katrina and Stoney.

Rob and the boys.

Of course we had to go down on the field.

Of course no BYU trip is complete without a Jimmer sighting.

All right so you can barely tell it's him. He's the half a face behind
the security guard.

The next morning we went out to Antelope Island. Here's pictures of us
when we drove out to the old Ranch site.

The kids on an old tractor.

An old pickup truck.

Walking across a log.

We wondered why it's called antelope island, we only saw a couple of
Antelope but we did see lots of buffalo.

Then we walked out to wade in the Great Salt Lake.

We appreciate Michael and Miranda putting up with all of us for
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Antelope Island Buffalo

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Pipe Springs

We figured we had passed by Pipe Springs National monument at least 50 or 60
times over the years we've been traveling to southern Utah and had never stopped.
So we finally decided to take a look.

It is also a Mormon settlement commissioned by Brigham Young. It looks very
similar to Cove Fort only smaller and the building is built right on the spring. It's
main purpose was to provide food for the builders of the St. George temple.

It has rooms on both sides but they are two stories high and it has a balcony on either side.
Here's a few pictures of the inside of the fort.

Here's the room where the spring is. When it was first built the spring supplied about
50 gallons per minute which kept this room between 38 to 40 degrees so it worked like
a refrigerator

These are rotating shelves in the room that food was placed on. It probably worked
much like a refrigerator. We were told that they made butter and cheese. At one time
they had a dairy farm and they milked up to 50 cows a day

Here's the rocks behind the fort where the polygamist wives would go hide
when the marshalls came to arrest them. The ranger said they would never go
up there because they had a fear of rattle snakes

These are pictures of the ponds next to the fort.

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Cove Fort

Located between Filmore and Beaver UT just a few
miles east of I-15.

Cove Fort is a Mormon settlement commissioned by Brigham Young in 1867. He sent Ira Hinckly
(President Hinckley's grandfather) to build the fort. It served as a telegraph relay station, a stagecoach
stop and a rest stop for travelers and church leaders traveling between Northern and Southern Utah

Here we are standing in the gateway to the fort. The missionary standing behind us is
one of 30 missionary couples that serve during the summer months.

This is inside the fort looking towards the front gate. The trees you see were planted by
Ira Hinckly almost 150 years ago.

There are 12 rooms inside the fort six on each side. This is the South side

Roleen standing in the front gate. The walls are about 18 inches thick and made of
lava rock

Every room has a fireplace with a duel flue system. It allows good circulation and keeps
the smoke out. They're very shallow which helps to heat the room well

This is the telegraph room. Usually had someone on duty from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM so the usually
telegrapher lived in the same room. The bottles underneath the table are the batteries. The telegraph
signal could only travel about 30 miles and then there had to be another relay station.

Below are some pictures of the different rooms.

If you ever drive that way it makes for an interesting stop along the way

Out back is the blacksmith shop, garden and the hay derrick for loading hay

A town was never started there because there wasn't sufficient water for an entire
town so that's one of the reasons the fort was built. It was well fortified but was never
needed or used as a fort because the pioneers were always very generous to the indians
and got along well with them

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