Remember our 2A Rights!

In order to maintain our 1st Amendment Rights we must always remember to maintain and defend our 2nd Amendment Rights. Our 2nd Amendment Rights are not for hunting or for sport but for our individual defense and assurance of our 1st Amendment Rights.

I stumbled on this SUPERB video about our 2nd Amendment Rights, titled "2A Today for the USA". It was produced by the organization "Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership" (JFPO). It's a great video with a LOT of education packed into it. Whether you personally want to keep and bear arms is you choice; but you owe it to yourself to watch this video and become aware of the historical and political reasons for defending your 2nd Amendment Rights.

Went and saw the Declaration of Independence...

Today I went to the State Capitol and saw the Declaration of Independence that is currently on tour around the country. There was a fantastic video of the reading of the DOI by such great actors as Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson, and several others. It was very moving.

The actual document is one of the original copies made and sent around the nation to the various states.

This is the video we saw... it's only about 15 minutes long and well worth watching...

24th of July Hike

We went for a hike today up Millcreek Canyon on the "Rattlesnake Gulch to Salt Lake Valley Overlook via Pipeline" hike. It was a little over 2 hours round trip... fairly steep the first 30 min., fairly level and easy the last part. Thanks to blog.utahdoghikes.com for helping us find a dog-friendly hike to go on!






Heather and Tazzy at the Overlook

Tazzy, trying to "beat the heat" inside this old piece of left-over pipe












Looks pretty shady in there! :)

Update: Backyard Project

Well we have finished adding 1 of 3 stone paths to our yard (pictured above) and have completely ripped out our old rotten wooden deck and dug and leveled the trenches for the concrete-block deck we are installing in it's place. If you want to see the photos of the progress so far click here.