Robert writes home #73 7 July 1996



7 July 1996
Dear Mother,
                We had a fun 4th of July. Ryan Fawson (Janet’s nephew) called on Tuesday night and said he was traveling through and was going to stop by. We had him stay over for Sam’s birthday (He was born on the fourth of July). We had a great visit with him. We found out that he was good friends of your great grand daughter, Julie Jones, and her new husband. He was looking through our scrapbook of wedding announcement pictures and saw them there.
                On the fourth we went to Merced and picked up Megan at a friend’s house (where she had spent the night…she is living in Turlock now) then all went out to Yosemite lake for a couple of hours. Then we went to the new Home Town Buffet. We all ate to excess and then went to Wal Mart and then home. Megan came home with us and Charlie and Sam took her back to work on Friday while Janet and I went to Oakland to the temple. The weather was nice, surprisingly, after being 108 on Monday and continuing in the 100s through Wednesday, it dropped to 93 on Thursday the fourth. It went back up to 102 yesterday. Now it’s supposed to be 102 again today.
                Megan has a little apt. with a family in Turlock. This way she is in the same town as her partner and ride (he had the company car that he drives to work in) lives in.
                Our watermelon patch is looking good. We’ve got some big melons that I’m afraid will ripen before the reunion. It’s a special variety. I was hoping to have them for the grandkids, but they’ve all set on at about the same time and are about 16 inches long and I think they’ll be ripe before another month. But we should have plenty of the others, which are the best flavored.
                We are about satiated with apricots. One whole tree’s crop fell to the ground without ever being harvested. We just didn’t get to them. We have one more tree left. The nectarines are ripening now and so are some of those pink seedless grapes.
                We’re (Sam, Janet and I) going to Utah this Thursday evening. Janet and I are going to speak in the Especially For Parent program on Friday Morning. Then we’re going down to Richfield for the Miller reunion program on Saturday. We’ll see you on the way. Then Janet will drop me off at the airport to fly home while she and Sam go on to Melinda’s until Wednesday night when she picks me up again and we go to Provo for EFY on Thursday and Friday. Then we do the Vern Fawson kids reunion on Saturday with Deanna; then we do the Joshua Fawson reunion on Sunday evening in Grantsville. We’ll stay over in Grantsville with Grandma Fawson; then go back to Provo Monday evening and do one more lecture for EFP on Tuesday morning; Then fly home at 2:40PM. I’m excited. This is fun having all this exciting stuff to do.
                
                Charlie is liking his job with the bee keeper. He’s only gotten stung once…so far.
                Sam and I put the electric fence up around the watermelon patch yesterday to keep the raccoons out.
                I’ll be seeing you soon.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Charlie, and Sam


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