Sunday At The Browning Gunshop

So Richard is in heaven.  He not only loves to give tours but in the gun shop none the less.  He and I worked with the Jensen’s for the afternoon.

Jonathan Browning was  from Brushy Fork, Tennessee.  He married an Elizabeth Stalcup.  They moved up to Nashville when they were married and he had been making his own guns for several years.  He was the I inventor of the repeating rifle, which made “warfare” much different after the civil war.  His son, Jonathan Moses Browning invented the machine gun and over 187 patents to the Browning name.  I guess they would make the invention, patent it and then sell it to other manufacturers, such as Winchester, Remington, Smith and Wesson etc.  They were quite well off in Nauvoo.  He stayed in Winter Quarters  for five years before going to Utah.  Brigham Young asked him to help people with their wagons and guns on the way west.

Kelly and Ryan eat your heart out!!!! Can’t wait until you come out here and see these first hand.

Big boys and their toys.  He is demonstrating the “rifling” process.

Outside of the Browning House.  The flowers are absolutely amazing around here.  It reminds me a lot of Kansas City……Homesick!

Richard is standing behind these huge elephant ears.  They are literally as big as an elephant.

Some of the young performing missionaries we work with.  I love them all so much.  They leave in the morning and Nauvoo will be a different place without them.  The one on the left, Elder Solomon will be going to Chile on a mission.  They open their calls in the Seventies Hall.

So my darling, talented and dependable Jerianne, helped me with a little sign that I put in bags of gummie bears.  It says,”I will miss you Beary much!” I put 45 packs together and went and dropped them off this morning.

I guess I will forever be the queen of nothing important, but as Richard says, fru-fru.  I will miss them so.  I look around and see little children and parents, and kids my children’s age and I just want to cry……………………

So today I worked at Brigham Young’s house again.  I will do that twice a week from now on.  It is so unbelievably beautiful outside.  I left all of the doors open for the entire day.  When it wasn’t busy I took a little walk outside.

Birds singing absolutely everywhere.  Cardinals all over the place, squirrels, bunnies, I love it all.  I am not in Colorado anymore!  Richard brought home two bikes that someone was giving away and so this evening off we went.  Probably rode for about 45 minutes.  I think it will be a tradition until it gets too cold.