Cove Fort, Utah

Alley Hart in front of Cove Fort, Utah

Cover Fort was built by Gordon B. Hinckley’s grandfather Ira Hincley.with the help of Mason Nicholas Paul.

 The Fort celebrated their 150 anniversary this year on the weekend of August 5^th

In 1867 it would take 10 days to get from Salt Lake City to Cove Fort and similar 10 days from Cove Fort to Toquerville.  It took Alley and I about two hours each way.

This is the house that Ira and Adelaide Hinckley lived in with their 7 children:

Allie and I are standing in front of the horse barn.  They used to have lots of horses and cows, but now they just show it off.

Notice how the bed frame that held the mattress was attached to bed.  They had a tool to “tighten the frame” when it got saggy.

They cooked all their meals on this stove.  Looks a lot like the stove my Mom cooked on when we lived on Munkebjergvej 53 on Amager, in Copenhagen. 

They did a lot of weaving.

They used washboards to scub their clothes on and so did my Mom and I when I was a kid in Denmark:  

They made their own soap.

Alley having fun on the pioneer wagon.

REAL FRIENDS ARE LIKE TRUE PEARLS

People collect all different kinds of things in this world.  Some collect antiques, others collect stamps, but the only thing I have ever wanted to collect in my life is REAL FRIENDS.

They are more precious than finding pearls in the ocean. They become an integral part of your life and help to form who you are.

I don’t mean the “fly by night acquaintances” we all have.

People who come and go in your life. 

I mean “REAL FRIENDS. The ones that become “like family” to you.

They know you in and out and you know them the same way.

There are no pretenses.  

The ones that you feel emotionally safe with. They don’t doubt you nor intentions.

The real friends that trust you 100%.

They don’t tear you down or try to find faults with you, nor do they criticize you for “what and who you are” and what you believe or stand for, but accept you totally without hesitation  – even if you differ from them.

They build your self-esteem when you spend time with them, so when you leave them you feel at peace and tell yourself: “I am ok”.

I have been lucky that I over the years have had such REAL FRIENDS.  The real pearls. But they differ from the pearls we find in the ocean. They die.

You feel an emptiness in your heart when they are gone and still a gratitude for they being a part of your life.

Something of you are missing and still they have enriched your life because of them being a part of you.

Within the last 2 months I have lost two of my precious pearls:

Ingeborg Carlsen in Denmark.

 Beautiful Ingeborg Carlsen

The view from Ingeborg's place.

 What a woman. If you wanted the truth about life and yourself, Ingeborg was the person to talk to.

She would not always just tell you what you wanted to hear, but what you "needed to hear". She was a "true blue" tell you as it is, person.

I feel richer for knowing Ingeborg.

Carol Remilliard

Carol and John Remilliard

Carol in her apartment in Calgary

me and Carol in Toquerville 2015

Carol Remilliard, who was born in Utah, but whom I knew when I lived in Calgary, Alberta Canada was a "build up your ego" friends.

Always fun to be with.  Always fun to talk to and go for lunch with.

Always ready to "live in the moment" person..

And I am still carrying every day the purse she gave me.

Ingeborg and Carol were true, blue precious friends.

They enriched my life and I feel so lucky that they allowed me to be a part of theirs.

I honor them.

Vibeke Lindhardt

13 August 2017

WHY DO PEOPLE LEAVE A JOB?

In my 55 years of "work time" I have worked in places where I have been extremely happy and I have worked in places where I have been extremely unhappy.

Of course when I worked in a place I was happy I wanted to stay for a very long time and there are some jobs where I worked for years.  There has also been places where I was very unhappy and of course I left sooner.


WHEN YOU ARE WORKER

One thing I did learn in those years is "that you have to be a team player". Having common courtesy and respect toward your boss and your co-workers in my opinion, is a top priority.  It is not "all about you", nor is it "all about the person that manage you".


WHEN YOU ARE A MANAGER

When a person is a manager having respect for the workers and not "micro manage" is in my opinion the most important.

I have worked in places with wonderful considerate managers and I have worked in places where the person would micro manage you to the point that he/she would make life unbearable.

One thing I did learn in the places I worked is that most people quit their jobs because "of the manager" and where I left earlier it was because I felt "micro managed".


WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES WHITE HOUSE AT THE MOMENT?

12 people have either been fired or quit within the last 6 months in the "United States White House".

Is it "because "The Boss is Micro managing"?


Vibeke Lindhardt

1 August 2017