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Gonna try goose breast this weekend.

Gonna try goose breast this weekend.

A month since Christmas.🎄(1) I’ve always like

A month since Christmas.🎄(1) I’ve always liked keeping my tree and decor up deep into Jan and now I have the words for it: Christmas is a winter holiday. The persistence of our generated light shining thru the dark days, showing our hope for spring.

🎁 (2) I’m still chewing on these and other words on gift giving: “A Christmas present is a symbol. We give of what we have, to indicate our intention to give of what we are.” More on the blog. Link in bio.

Missed ‘20,’21,’22. Came back to reclaim the

Missed ‘20,’21,’22. Came back to reclaim the throne.
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Favorite Utah tri: Jordanelle Sprint by @gotriutah. Kudos to @daamaamodt for keeping alive what @crbowerbank started 25yrs ago.

PS Harward Commander, US Navy 🇺🇸 Commission

PS Harward
Commander, US Navy 🇺🇸
Commissioned: June 26, 1941
Deceased: January 27, 1961

Pilot, VAH-13
Last Flight: Douglas A3D-2 Skywarrior, BU 138960 out of NAS Sanford

Also on board:
- Phillip Brown, ESN
- Henry White, AMH1
- David Cortright, AE3

Phillip was the first citizen of Bingham County Idaho to receive an appointment to a US military academy. He and future astronaut Alan Shepard entered the U.S. Naval Academy in the fall of 1941. His class graduated in three years instead of four, on account of WWII. He and BernaDean Jones married in June Week right after graduation — the day after the invasion of Normandy.

He flew thousands of times; was gen 1 of pilots that took off and landed from aircraft carriers. He was involved in atomic bomb tests and later trained pilots to deliver these bombs, taking off from aircraft carriers. He may have flown U-2 photo recon missions. He was selected for the Naval Test Pilot School — from which many of our first astronauts came.

He was preceded in death by his oldest brother, Leon, who died 3 years before he was born; his second-oldest brother, Kenneth, who died an infant; his parents; and his sister. He left behind six brothers … and my grandma, two girls and two boys.

In Jan 1960, he devoted himself to living the practical matters of his faith in full. In so doing, he wrestled with being an agent of death at work — and an agent for life at home.

“In these past six months, I have learned more compassion, more social and civic understanding, more faith and knowledge of the principles of Christian living than ever before in my life.”

Grateful for his ambition to adventure into the grand unknown beyond southeastern Idaho, for always keeping an ear tuned to God and truth, and, in the final analysis, deciding that family mattered most.

“My children showed me the way … family solidarity [w]as the most precious thing in my life.”

#MemorialDay

Long winter. Still going. Day 27 ⛷️

Long winter. Still going. Day 27 ⛷️

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