Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Dear folks,  I haven't had internet since last Saturday, March 2nd.  Wayne and I moved our computers to a different room, and for some complicated ? reason, couldn't make the internet work.  We are also changing to a different company, with the package deal of land-line phone and internet together.  I've had a tech guy here yesterday, and he got Wayne's computer working, but today another man came, and apparently there is a loose connection inside my hard drive, and I have to get it fixed ( $ ) to be able to get internet on mine.  So it may be a few days yet.  I'll have to take it in to a fix it place.  I don't know how long that will take. I have 2 entries ready -- the life stories of my mother's father, and also her mother.  Interesting stories, but they are on my computer -- and not this one!  So please be patient, and I'll have more to post as soon as I can.   Thank you to whoever is still reading it each day.  I hope you e...

These are pictures through the years of the identical twins, Blaine D and Wayne D Eckman.  Blaine was about 15 minutes older than Wayne, and born at home.  Read of them first in blog # 3.   Then their father Roy Waldamer Eckman's story is in blog # 93.  Their mother Gladys Dayton Eckman is told about in blogs #106 and #107.  More of their lives will come in the future.  This is a record of photos through the ages!   Some of them have been in previous blogs, but it is nice to get them together here, chronologically.   They were born on September 18, 1930, and Blaine passed away suddenly at age 68, on March 19, 1999, and Wayne is now 83 years old, March 2014.  Joyce is still living, in St. David, Arizona, near their daughter Janise Wooten. Some are copied from our book, and I will rewrite the captions, as they are hard to read.  Above it says "The twins about the age of the Turkey incident, and Ronald about age 1. ...

A few gentle and happy thoughts !  Just a quick entry for today, on something I got on e mail.  I like it -- The Charles Schulz Philosophy The  following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip. You don't have to actually answer the questions.  Just ponder on them. Just read this straight through, and you'll get the point. 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the  world. 2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. 3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant. 4  Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. 5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress. 6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners. How did you do? The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies.. Awards tarnish.. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades an...

        Continued from Blog # 106.  --  Gladys and Roy Eckman  -- For those who read Blog # 106, check back -- I added more pictures I just found!              Roy and Gladys holding the twins, Wayne and Blaine, born 1930. Roy farmed for about a year on 3200 S. Redwood Road, and we then moved to 421 E. 45th S. in 1941 where we lived, until June 1948. We moved to 3384 S. 2nd W.   (This is where they lived when Pal met Wayne, and most of their children were married.  Pal and Wayne lived in Sandy, and would drive up to their home almost every Sunday evening, where they always had ice cream and cake.  She was a wonderful cook, and included dessert with each meal.  She always did the dishes right after each meal , no matter what, and always kept a very clean house.)   We received our endowments 10 Jan, 1934, in the Salt Lake Temple . This was one of the happiest days of our lives. Six c...

                          GLADYS TREGE NNA DAYTON ECKMAN             (Copied from her own Book of Remembrance in her own writing,                                       written in 1961 --  and condensed somewhat.) My parents were Joseph Henry Dayton , born in 1871 at Cedar Fort, Utah, and died in 1915 at Tooele, Utah, and Ann Elizabeth Henwood , born in 1872 at Tooele, Utah, and died in 1944.  They had 7 children,  two who passed away when they were two years old.  ( More about them after Gladys' history.)  Her middle name "Tregenna" was after the maiden surname of her mother Ann Elizabeth  Henwood's paternal grandmother -- Jane Tregenna who lived her life in England.          This is Glady's parents, Ann Henwood, and Joseph Henry Dayton. ...

I believe I need to "Sharpen my Saw!" Remember Stephen R. Covey? I believe we have all read his books, and benefited so much. I remember one we had years ago which was called "Spiritual Roots of Human Relations." In it he recommends that we include in our planning, an important area on which we must focus which he calls “sharpening the saw.” A story exemplifies what it means to “sharpen the saw.” A man is feverishly sawing away at a tree with his hand saw. A friend walks by and asks the man working so hard on the tree why he doesn't stop for a little while and sharpen his saw so that he can cut the tree more easily. The man cutting the tree replies that he can't stop to sharpen the saw, he is too busy sawing. Have you ever felt like you are continually busy, yet you are not accomplishing anything important? There are things in life that we can do that, if we did them on a regular basis, would help us to sharpen our saw and in so doing, allow us to ...