COOLING OFF

We started up our new gas fireplace for the first time and it really works! Within a few minutes the house is totally warm. In this house we have a traditional gas furnace with a heat pump. VERY STRANGE, when the heat pump is working the conductor is actually pumping cold air out of the house. I can't wait to get the utility bill at the end of the month. I will either be happy or I will have the heat pump for sale on E-Bay.

We met a person the other day, Alex Arevalo. He is an ARTIFICIAL ROCK ARTIST from Spain. In other words, he creates WATER FEATURES, like Disney Land. He has done the ROCK ART in large aquariums in Colorado and Japan. We have commisioned him to create a water feature in front of the house. He made up a model of how it would look. We are very excited!!


If everything goes well, he is also going to make a ROCK WATER FEATURE above the pool in back with a 20 foot waterfall, cascading into the pool. You ask how can we afford such a thing? He has just moved from California and wants to get started in the St. George area. He says our home is one he wants to use as a show place to advertise his art and to get in with our pool builder. We'll see how everything works out. This spring we will either have a Disneyland park in our backyard or a Mickey Mouse junk yard!!! As Daniel says, it's just money.

BEAUTIFUL WORLD

HOME

Home at last! We were greeted with our Christmas present we ordered before we went to NY, Arnold Freiburg's, Peace Be Still. If Charles can have Christmas early, I can too! We wanted this painting because, both Karen and I have connections with Arnold Freiburg. Karen's grandmother in the 70's helped Freiburg's wife when she was ill. It would seem from Karen's grandmother's history, she was very dependant on Karen's Grandmother. My connection happened when I was 17. I and Kent Parkin, a High School buddy, knew Arnold Freiburg's Daughter from a Dance club we were in. Arnold was very proctective of his daughter and would watch her every move. One afternoon, she snuck away from her home and Kent and I picked here up from her lane. After driving around for a couple of hours in Kent's old Studabaker, we took her back to her lane. We were met by a very mad Arnold Freiburg. He literaly dragged all three of us out of the car and up the lane to his house, he is a big man. He put Kent and I in his studio and told us to say put and took his daughter to the house to deal with her. After about a half hour he returned to two very scared boys. By then he had calmed down a little and started to tell us about his paintings. He showed us all his paintings and told us the history of each one. He told us he was inspired how Jesus Christ looked when he painted him. He had just finished the paintings for the Ten Commandments movie. All the scenes and costumes were painted by him before the movie was filmed. He told us that Cecil D. Demill, the producer received many religious ideas from President David O. Mckay for the movie. The laying on of hands passing the Priestood from Moses to Aaron came from President David O. Mckay. After a very scary start it ended in a very inspiring and unforgettable evening!



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