Our Granddaughter, Chloe Nelson, asked for a link to a song about her. I had not written a song specifically about her, yet, and so I did over the last 2 days. It is based on recent memories from our 15th Annual Nelson Grandkids Summer Science Camp at Teasdale Jewel, Utah. My cousin, Eric Krueger and his wife Annette, have a lovely vacation home they rent out next to Capitol Reef. The theme this year was Math. And one of the things the kids liked the most was the trampoline. Especially Chloe and Karson. Karson Nelson lives across the street, and is the grandson of my first cousin Paul Nelson. My cousin’s son Kendall reported for his mission the same day Chloe’s Dad, my son Paul Nelson, did. Since the Kendall and Wendy live across the street from the Teasdale Jewell, they clean it, and their 3 kids, Karson, Ashlyn, and Madison, joined several of our Science Camp activities. It was a fun summer get together.
As a side note, two of the things we teach the kids is to always drink a lot of water, and never go off on your own. A couple of weeks after Science Camp, Doug Grimshaw, Kevin Kilcoyne, Andrea, and myself went to Peter’s Leap South to replace a monument which had rotted and fallen down. After most of the work was done, I took off, without water and alone, to cross the ravine and get coordinates for the Peter’s Leap North Monument, for SUP’s ongoing documentation. It was hot, I had a long-sleeve SUP levi shirt on and was wearing levi’s. I got dizzy on the way down, fell and got a coupe of nice bruises. On the way back I could not climb up part of the steep hill. Doug found me disoriented and with heat exhaustion. Andrea called 911. Doug and Kevin moved me to a little more shade, and took off my levis and SUP shirt. Doug took my hat to the creek, filled it with water, and poured it on me, several times. Three groups of fire fighters and others came, and put an IV in, and monitors on. They said it would take 2-hours to carry me out. So they called in a helicopter and moved me about a quarter of a mile. I’m fine, and my thanks go to Doug, Kevin, and Andrea, who saved my life so I could write Chloe’s song.
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