1 Hanging it up

The Cleverly Newsletter currently appears in the early-morning hours on the first day of each month. A month ago, as a part of A Final Word, I wrote the following about the possible future of the newsletter:

"With our upcoming mission call beginning in January, we are either going to have to curtail what we have been doing with the newsletter, turn it over to someone else in the family, or discontinue it all together.

"That's where your present help is needed. Please weigh in on these (or even other) options. Please let us know what elements of the newsletter you particularly like. Or don't like. What you want us to keep? Or not keep? When you want to inherit this job? (I thought I'd just throw that in for any who want to execute a friendly takeover.)"

Having received no comments one way or the other, I have concluded that I will discontinue publication of the newsletter before we leave to go on our mission. Nearly 40 years. That's been a pretty fair run.

2 Quote of the month

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

― Woodrow Wilson

3 This month in our family

Everybody!
Sat, Oct 6: General conference
Sun, Oct 7: General conference
Mon, Oct 8: Columbus Day observed
Sat, Oct 13: Boise Temple open house begins
Mon, Oct 29: Full moon (Hunter's moon)
Wed, Oct 31: Halloween

Lyle's family
Fri, Oct 19: Shawn Burdett's birthday
Sun, Oct 28: Nathan & Amber Thomas married 2006
Tues, Oct 30: Randy's birthday

Gail's family
Mon, Oct 15: Destiny Harned's birthday
Sun, Oct 21: Joshua's birthday
Tues, Oct 30: Jeremy Harned's birthday

Kay's family
Mon, Oct 8: Chad's birthday
Wed, Oct 10: Kay & Claudia married 1963
Sat, Oct 13: Anniversary of Claudia's death in 2005
Mon, Oct 15: Talia Claudia's birthday
Fri, Oct 19: Andrea McAllister's birthday
Sun, Oct 28: Andrew born and died 1966
Wed, Oct 31: Jaxson's birthday

Gene's family
Tues, Oct 23: Gena Tully's birthday
Mon, Oct 29: Bobbie Real's birthday

Ray's family
Fri, Oct 5: Jordan Reher's birthday
Wed, Oct 10: Eugene DeMartini's birthday
Sat, Oct 13: Christian Reher's birthday

Dean's family
Mon, Oct 1: Mary Oveson's birthday
Thurs, Oct 4: Peter Challis's birthday
Thurs, Oct 4: Margaret Hodson's birthday
Sat, Oct 27: Anniversary of James Talmage birth in 1999
Sun, Oct 28: Meghan's birthday
Sun, Oct 28: Christopher & Camilla Taylor married 2004
Mon, Oct 29: Eleanor Hodson's birthday

Dale's family
Tues, Oct 30: Kaidi Jensen's birthday

Jackie's family
Wed, Oct 31: Jackie Sayer's birthday

4 Bits and tidbits

Lyle's family

Lyle called us on Saturday, September 8. He said they had spent a week up in northern Idaho (Couer d'Alene, Farragut, and such) and over into eastern Washington. They saw some of his grandkids in Spokane. They were planning a trip the next week on the Fun Bus down to Winnemucca to see Tami and her family. And I guess to have fun.

We gather from posts on Facebook that Christopher spent the final week of September visiting family in Washington State and is now back home in Maine.

Kay's family

Kay posted a link to his grandson Carson's football profile:

http://www.maxpreps.com/athletes/q9UKYSvy0EiV6sT9P3ng1g/football-fall-11/profile-carson-cleverly.htm

Carson is a junior at Heritage High School in Brentwood, California.

Marshall McAllister, Chuck and Andrea's son, was chosen last month as homecoming king at Layton High School.

Dean's family
Claudia and I spent a week this past month (from Tuesday, September 18, through Tuesday, September 25) visiting our daughter Rachael Hodson, her husband Robert, and their four daughters in Harrisburg, Illinois. We flew in and out of St. Louis.

We were there for their Primary sacrament meeting program. Rachael is the Primary president in their little branch, and the three older girls had parts on the program.