Mary Louise Higgins was the tenth of fourteen children born to Elisha Albion Higgins and Susan Mabel Davis. If my count is correct that makes her the little one covering her eyes.
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Becoming a Utah Rockhounder
This past fall it was decided that my grandson, Silas, who helps take such good care of his younger brother, deserved to do something adventurous.
When the local rockhounding group was invited to go visit the old Mammoth Copper & Gold Mine, we joined in. It was “take what you can haul out”
We went for the sheer thrill of it. 
The group met early in the morning at the old ghost town of Eureka, Utah, where we wandered around until all arrived. Continue reading Becoming a Utah Rockhounder
For All These Beautiful Girls
we sometimes see others as having better looks Continue reading For All These Beautiful Girls
the life of Gid
Today marks another day in the life of Gid
Gid sometimes has trouble walking
so mostly he runs
in the picture he is bouncing off a trampoline
but this morning there will be none of that
today a long awaited part of a journey takes place
one where hopefully the pain in his mouth will be assuaged
doctors and dentists work their magic once again
to help make him whole
Comics, Take Me Away!
When I was a little girl, we would go visit that house on Hill Street where my Great Grandparents lived and after enough time talking to them, we kids would slip upstairs, yes, these very stairs these crazy relatives are standing on, and take a right into a cozy little bedroom with a nice fluffy bed with pillows, and a dresser with a glass container full of marbles and peeries, and a nice sized box on the floor full of the most over-read comics on the planet.
Whew! was that a run-on sentence or what? Continue reading Comics, Take Me Away!
Safety in the Fall 