Sweetpea is not Houdini. Houdini may have been good at getting out of knots and chains, but Sweetpea is better at getting into them. We have her on a long tether so that she has a good amount of feeding space without access to the newly planted garden. But she likes to use the tether… Continue reading Life in Lyman: Not Houdini
Category: My Life
Thoughts feelings and experiences from the life of Scott E Franson.
Life in Lyman: Up up & away
I heard the tears while I was still in bed. They were so sad. One of the other children came running to tell me that my five-year-old daughter had let her balloon go outside. The tears were soon remedied with a gift of a red balloon from her older sister, but the yellow one is… Continue reading Life in Lyman: Up up & away
Life in Lyman | Sweetpea
Sweetpea is a new edition to our small but growing farm. She is a pygmy goat about 2 years old. She is fun to play with and when necessary she stands her ground. She likes to head butt her reflection in the sliding glass door. She may have kids in July but there is no… Continue reading Life in Lyman | Sweetpea
May 1st seems like a good day to start living again
The past two years have been filled with medical challenges for me. Bile duct cancer, cancer treatment and liver transplant. (Thank you to my donor and their family). So with most of that behind me, May 1st seems like a good day to start living again. I have the summer off from school and have… Continue reading May 1st seems like a good day to start living again
Life in Lyman: Boing-1019-Boing-1020!
One Thousand twenty non-stop Boings! We will have to see if he sets a higher record this summer.
Wood Glue
Three of the four ukulele bridges popped off with the strings tuned and tightened. I designed a new bridge that gave a larger gluing area. Then one of the ukes was bumped off a shelf and the neck broke off. I fixed that one this morning and after a day of drying time I will… Continue reading Wood Glue
Sproing! Sproing! & Sproing!
Sproing! What a terrible sound but I heard it three times yesterday. After applying all of my physics mental capacity I think that I have a solution. I will let you know as soon as I know if it works.
Christmas 2008
The morning was wonderful and the kids liked the cigar box ukuleles that I made for each of them. Here are some photos. (click images to enlarge)
Christmas is Comming
This year our family is making our gifts that we are giving to each other. It has been really quite fun. I have been working on mine for several weeks. It is not right to post to the world before Christmas day, but I will give a few hints. It is made of plywood &… Continue reading Christmas is Comming
Tim, this “Daler Mehndi” is for you!
This is a video that one of my favorite students brought to motion design class one day. All these years later I still love the finger choreography.
The Beginning … Again
My creative slate is clean at the moment and I am looking for the next project. I want it to be a book and so I need to find a concept and an interesting way to share the concept. This is a frustrating and exciting part of the process with many dead end roads traveled.… Continue reading The Beginning … Again
Choose to Live
Just as I was leaving work this evening I noticed that I had a new e mail. I opened it and it was devastating. One of my students was killed in an automobile accident. Truly, I am not afraid of death but it seems such a tragedy for young life to end so suddenly. It… Continue reading Choose to Live
Walk:07-11-08
Walk: 07-10-08
The only post transplant exercise condoned by my doctors is walking. As it turns out I am most comfortable when walking. So I have been walking around the neighborhood. Today I decided to bring a piece of the walk back with me each day. Here is the first entry from my morning walk.
Six Weeks and all is Well
Yesterday was my 6 week “re-birthday”. I feel great and will forever be in debt to an unknown donor who gave me a new life. In addition to the liver transplant that I received, the donor gave 2 kidneys, a pancreas, and a heart. All I know is the donor was a male about my… Continue reading Six Weeks and all is Well
I Feel Good. Oh I Feel So Good!
I am having a hard time expressing how good I feel. I hope the attached image will help. The left side of the image was taken just before surgery on May 25 and the right side of the image was taken on the morning of May 27. Thank you to all who have blessed our… Continue reading I Feel Good. Oh I Feel So Good!
Donate Life
It has been nearly a year ago since I first began recognising symptoms that would result in the diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). I have been treated for the cancer and now wait for a liver transplant. I never dreamed that it would take this long. At the time it looked like I would… Continue reading Donate Life
A Moment that makes Me Smile
August’s Caterpillar**Disclaimer: A caterpillar was harmed in the making of this production.
Stories from my Mother
On Monday evening my family shared a nice dinner with my parents. As the meal came to a close one of my children asked the adults to tell an experience from when thy were young. My mother volunteered the following. One day at church my mother noticed that my brother and I had big wads… Continue reading Stories from my Mother
Memory: Big Yellow Tonka Truck
Big Yellow Tonka Truck! Can you remember that? I loved my truck. I grew up in a suburb of Ogden, Utah, called Washington Terrace in the early 70s. I can still remember the address 288 East 4525 South, Ogden, Utah. (I had to memorize my address in Kindergarten and I don’t think I will ever… Continue reading Memory: Big Yellow Tonka Truck
A Rated “G” S.O.B.
A few weeks ago I was sitting with Tomie dePaola in a hotel in Los Angeles. He asked those of us at the table to relate embarrassing experiences that we have had. As always my mind went blank. So two weeks late, here is a moment from my life. It was necessary for me to… Continue reading A Rated “G” S.O.B.