Frances Irene Worth buried proper like

The following post is of my trip to Pearl, Colorado.   Tehani drove me in her car as she was leaving Keokuk, Iowa where she was attending school and is moving to S.L.C. to live with Isabella and family to earn money for her mission.  We sooooooo enjoyed our road trip together.  I really love road trips.  The weather was perfect.  We got to Pearl at Noon and Kapua them were not there so we just fooled around, read, I fell asleep on the hammock an got big time sunburned.  whew....forgot about 8,400 feet elevation.  whew.  11 of the 14 children came and we reburied my mother in a proper grave in Colorado. 

PEARL, COLORADO

 Tehani and I put up this hammock that is Bob's.   Yep, I took a nap on this when we first came....and BOY DID I GET SUNBURNED....

 Here is the fallen down "bunk house" that took care of other folks when my great grandfather Cooke Rhea was living there alone after my great grandmother died. 

here are some SWALLOWS NESTS that just have to be knocked down....but keep making new.  Hard to see, when i go again, I'll get better photos of these birds and nests. 

 they were the last to make bread in this old wonderful oven....I made bread this time...turned out GREAT. 

 Here are my grandmother's sisters, Aunt Clare (my middle name is her name) and Aunt Nina Ruth Rhea.  This and other family photos hung on all the walls of this old Pearl House.  These sisters came out here for a month every summer until they died.  They lived in Denver.

 11 kids came and myself to this old graveyard in Colorado.

 this is a photo of my dear mother that died when she was 82.  I buried her in Santa Barbara in a park that she always took my brother Worth and I to when we'd come to visit her.  That was really illegal and somehow Kapua and Ma'ata found her ashes still in the box 20 years later.  They dug her ashes up....and was always watching out for any "ranger" that might come by.  They took her all around Santa Barbara before taking her ashes home to Hawaii.  It was in Hawaii, that Kapua designed the tomb stone and had a man in Wyoming engrave it. 

 After we buried my mother's ashes, we had a memorial service up a lake that she used to play at when she was a little girl. 

Kapua designed the gravestone...and we all put lilacs on the grave.  My brother made a wood box to put her ashes in.  I'm sorry I do not have a photo of that here. 

just another view of Pearl house so far away....look at the SUNBEAMS. 

 up close, the pump house, where the wringer washer is stored and you can see the place to hang out the cloths.  When I came in 2006, she and Val Sewell were using the old wringer washer, but now Kapua goes to the laundry mat in Waldon, CO and drys 'em here.  you have to turn on the generator to use the washing machine.  There is NO ELECTRICITY in Pearl.  ALL HAVE GAS things.  lights in the house are gas, stove, refrig and gas furnace in the living room.  I'd post all of these, but it would be too much. 

 you can see the Pearl house...it's the white one to the far right...

In the perspective, here's the sign in a tire.  cute, eh?

 this lets you know how high it is up here. 

 What a view from the outhouse, eh?

When you enlarge this photo, you can see the ANTELOPE PLAY...(like as "oh give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the Antelope play".  this area was soooooooooo full of game that is the reason that my great grandfather came here in the late 1800's.  My grandmother, Ethel Roberta Rhea was the first white woman born in a log cabin in this area.

 I took these with my TABLET....

 I just love this area

wayyyyyyyyyyy beautiful

 here's a melting snow bank...

 Here is part of the desert sage area....BIG SKY COUNTRY of Colorado

 I say.............SOOOOOOOO LOVELY...SUNBEAMS

 Showing you the BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY.  ENLARGE THESE PHOTOS AND SEE THE "RAINBOWS" COMING DOWN...REALLY SUNBEAMS...

In perspective....the sign on the post of the gate.  He had hundreds of acres at one time.  The large Ranch was sold and only the white house in the "town" of Pearl that is owned by Kapua.  She bought it from her cousin. 

 Rhea Ranch sign

 here's some of my children.  Isi, Felila, Kapua, Manu, Dan, Sarina, Isabella

This is the little 2 seater outhouse that is at Kapua's place (old 1904 family Rhea house that she bought in 2006.)

Isabella and Haumana and Dan walked slow up with me.....and I'm grateful for their kindness....she ran down with others when we went back.  There are 4 more miles to get to some other lakes, GLAD we didn't try to do that one.  WHEW....I WAS TOTALLY EXHAUSTED AFTER THIS HIKE.

 and boys just HAVE to skip rocks.  You can see the dead trees everywhere. Beatles kill on Douglas fir trees.  nope, don't attack other trees.....mostly these are just cut down and supposedly just go back to "mother earth"...but such a waist of lumber if you ask me.  the beetle seems to attack every 100years or so....and only the bark...so the inside of the trees are good lumber.  Looks like a dangerous place to be when the fire comes.   sad.  I'm sure this was soooooooo beautiful when all was GREEN TREES.

this is the lake that these falls go into via the little river. 

 Here we are near the lake that the falls flowed into.

 these are the four boys that took care of their mama.  Isi, Haumana, Dan and Manu

 I have to show this stick that Manu cut up for me to use as a walking stick.  It was perfect and I needed it many times.   The sign says, "Mount Zerkel Wilderness"

 SOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL FALLS...DAN ON THE OTHER SIDE. the water was like melted ice cubes.....burrrrrrrrr. quite a few went in ..NOT ME. I so love the spray after the 2 and half mile up.  Now keep in mind that this area is over 8,000 feet up from sea level. 

 ahhhhhhh, the spray from these falls was WONDERFUL

Manu fell asleep on this log

TRIP TO WASHING D.C.

 I took a trip to Washington, D.C. on the train to deliver this Voyager harp to Claire Guggenheim.  She commisioned me to make it out of Mahaony Wood.  It was cheaper to go on the train and taking the "lower level" and keep a watch on this harp then it was for me to box it up and ship it.  the harp only weighed 18 pounds and folks that ship stuffs, often get it banged up.  Here in the first picture of when I had it in transition in Chicago.  I rode in the front little cart.  My round trip costs $220.00. (about)

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 you may wonder what this wall is all about.  Well, my wonderful friend that I met here....came to pick me up and she and her family lived in South Africa and I got to stay in their "Africa Room".  Here is what greeted me.  I loved it.  So many interesting things in her house and so many marvelous books that I'd love to read, (oh oh, that's my problem, I also have lots of books I want to read all over MY house).   On the right is Claire Guggenheim recieving her harp in Washington D.C. train station.  My friend CHRIS TROGER met us 5 min after Claire and I met.  She came with KAREN SENECA.  The 4 of us went to lunch in the food court.  After that we took Claire and her harp up to the place that she was waiting for her train back to New Jersey and Chris and Karen and I went to Chris's house where I stayed in the downstairs African Bedroom. the above is a fabulous Chess Set.  Now isn't life a "game" sometimes, eh? 

 Now If I knew how to turn this photo right side up....I would.  you'll just have to cock your head.  This is the FIRST thing I wanted to see.  Abe and I are distant cousins through my Maiden name Holmes.  I have wanted to see this for MANY YEARS.  

 Then Chris and Karen and I walked over to the Vietnam memorial.  A name on a wall....the reflection of the day ............the remembering of me singing the songs of those years....Joan Boaz.....I loved the folks songs the best and was not a war protester at all.  These were my age of men. 

This is such a fun statue.  Chris has lived in Washington D.C. for 30 years and was a super great tour guide.   you can take your curser here and make the photo bigger. 

 As we were walking to this Memorial of F.D.Roosevelt, they were pointing out the Air Port and I looked to see where they were pointing and I stumbled on the pavement.  bummed my knee and my right hand.  Karen ran back to the car and brought her essential oils and fixed me up right away.  I loved Karen for using these on me. You can see by these pictures that I'm just fine.  F.D.R. claimed he hated war....yet our country was in 2 plus wars under his leadership.  He had a lot of good sayings.  This memorial has many fountains and I enjoyed that part a lot and walked around being thankful that I was not hurt more then I was.  The three of us went to a Art Museum.  This is only a "taste of things to come"   The one place I wanted to REALLY SEE was the instrument floor in the Smithsonian Museum.  "I'm sorry, but that floor is closed for renovation".    (bummers) I loved seeing the HUGE AMERICAN FLAG.  Harrah for Betsy Ross.  The repair of that flag, the history of it, that is a must see if you go there.  We ate in the art Museum....with waterfalls behind the glass. 

 Here is the next day when I was to go back on Thursday.  We went to the Washington D.C. Mormon Temple.  It was also closed for cleaning.  We sooooooooo enjoyed the Visitors Center.  (Kapua, this is the shawl that I so love to wear.)  I must have been talking as she took this photo.  hrumph...but I was happy to see this.  Welllllllllllllllllllll, we kept on going in this traffic and OOOOOOOOOOPS, missed the train by 2 min.  yep, missed it.  Karen zipped me around as fast as we could go, she had one of my luggage and I the other...but missing a train by TWO min. or TWO hours, same smell, I MISSED THE TRAIN.  So Karen and I went to the help window and I got it all set up for the next day, Friday. same station, same time, same price same lower level.  yeah.  When we got back in the car, Chris was listening to Louise Hay C.D. and I so enjoyed that too. 

 Now, I need to learn how to make the picture right........ZOWIE they are up high.  I've been told that many Native Americans take these jobs as they are not afraid of heights.  This is in Chicago.  I had a 6 hour space there on Saturday Morning and parked my two little luggage guys and went for a 9 block walk up from the Chicago Train station to STATE STREET. It was 50 degrees.  great for walking.  I asked where the Library was.  On State Street.  I surely was the only one in a long dress.  Nobody wears dresses any more.  oh well. 

 When I was raised in Sacramento, CA........my dad often had business in San Fransisco and my mother, and brother and I would often go with him.  I SOOOOOOOOO LOVED THE CITY PIDGINS then as now.  

While in this 9 story GORGEOUS LIBRARY....there was a little display of CHICAGO, CANDY CAPITOL OF THE WORLD. I had no idea.  I had fun in this whole room full of candies that I'd eaten as a child.  I was the only one in here.  yep, MANY of these factories have "gone off shore" because of the cost of Sugar, and labor and oh well, Chicago is no longer the Candy Factory of the world, and that a fact.

 Here is this BEAUTIFUL Chicago Library.  I'm going to look it up and read more on the history of this building.  Can you see the owl on the corners?  and Look at the beautiful building on the right.  San Fransisco has many beautiful buildings like the one on the right. 

I used to sing this little song along with these words, "my stars, how does Mars make such wonderful candy bars"?  

 yep, I know this looks really RANDOM.  It's because I don't know how to move photos around. oh well, you're entertained, right?  On the day I was supposed to leave Washington D.C. we went to the LARGEST ASIA MARKET I'd ever been to in my life.  yep, AWESOME.  and got some other fun things as well.  didn't get dragon fruit though.  That's one reason I had TWO little luggage's going home.  Chris gave me a bowl made of some yellow and black wood that is from Africa.  so that and foods that Tomasi loves was in my other little luggage.  ahhhhhhhh, what a marvelous Market. It was larger then some of the Walmarts I've been in!!  and check those Okra.  Bins of live Crabs....and oh the pastries.  I love Orential Pastries, not too much sugar. 

 Here is the owl.on top of the Library. yep, can't see it very well, phone camera...but hey, knowledge is wise, right? 

Here is the Eternal Symbol that is on the Chicago Library.  I have 3 Eternal friends, Chris, Karen and Claire.

  I left on Monday 7 Jan 2013 in the afternoon on the Train from Burlington and had a little layover in Chicago and boarded the all night train that arrived in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.   Missed the train I was to take on Thursday and took the Friday train back to Burlington and arrived on Saturday 11 Jan..  Tomasi was one happy Tongan to pick me up.  both times I set up my little kid swimming pool mattruss and slept well.  welllllllllllll, could have been better if these two old ladies didn't BLA BLA BLA all night long.  I need BETTER ear plugs.  ha.  Well, that's all folks.