Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This is my traditional Valentine's Day post! Happy Valentine's Day!  I first posted this in 2014.  Since then, we have had various other family members become married!  So I'm adding pictures to the post I sent in 2014! To begin, this little Valentine flower light pictured below  --  is at this time sitting on the top of a cabinet in my room here in West Bountiful, February 14, 2022, where I live today.  I have several grandchildren and two of my children, who also have married since I write this article in 2014.   Last February 14th both my son Wayne and I had Covid, and I almost died, I am told!  I had a right hip replacement on February 8th, and then 2 days later, by accident was exposed to Covid! My husband Wayne passed away on February 21, 2016, a week after Valentine's Day that year, almost 6 years ago. Written in 2014:   The little tradition involves something Wayne found years ago, and between special days, it has a spot in our s...

My husband, Wayne D Eckman, and his identical twin Blaine D Eckman, were born on September 18th, 1930 in Murray, Utah.  I want to tell things about him, and his brother Blaine -- some of which have been in previous blogs. There is so much more about both of the twins in different blogs.  Please look under the "labels" tab, for their names, and names of other ancestors to find them.  They were both wonderful, good men, and raised great families! The photos above, Blaine on the left and Wayne on the right, were in the 1949 "Granitian" -- the school year book of Granite High School in Salt Lake City, from which they graduated.  Granite High School doesn't exist now.     Wayne and I, Pal, wrote a book of our life stories up to our Golden Wedding in 2005.  This is what Wayne wrote about his early school days.                      SCHOOL LIFE AT LIBERTY SCHOOL (1936-38)      A...