Ribbon Cutting Idaho Falls Airport Oct. 1, 2008

Western Construction Inc. had 30 days to reconstruct the 9000 foot runway at the Idaho Falls Airport. We completed the 8.5 million dollar project and actually opened 6 hours early. I have never been involved building such a perfect project to such demanding specifications. I can't believe how good our team is. Without sounding too boastful, I don't think there's another contractor in the area that could have done it. We're genuine hero's in the eyes of the airport manager, Len Nelson.
We worked 24 hours a day for the first 15 days and then we were able to perform all the asphalt paving work in daylight hours. Great weather helped.
I can't believe the talented bunch I get to work with. Ed, Marilyn, Grant, Randy, Rick, Ron, Pinky and Neil are the best!!

Fall Harvest

September brings harvest time to the Snyder Household. Carolyn canned over 100 quarts of peaches and this whole counter of canned jams and jellies. She made peach, peach/rasberry and peach/blackberry. I also spend 4 hours at the Church's Garden City Cannery inserting 3 pears every 6 seconds into a machine that peeled and cut in them in half . From there they fell onto a conveyor belt where they went down the production line and into cans.

The peaches, jams and jellies will sure taste good this winter!!

Boating at Lucky Peak

Eric and Gretta at Lucky Peak. We enjoyed a beautiful day boating and swimming.

Boating at Lucky Peak

While everyone was in town for Grandmother's funeral we had a chace to go boating. Anna and Little Gretta.

The Captain & The Lovely on the Payette River

Jack and The Lovely at Big Falls

No, we didn't run the falls!

White Water Adventures South Fork Payette River

The lovely and I had the opportunity to float the Canyon section of the south fork. The lovely is quite the sport. She volunteer to "Go Big" with the rest of her raftmates. Little did she know that "Going Big" equated to flipping the raft. Need less to say we survived the ordeal and had a great time. Carolyn did say it was scary being under water for a period of time. The photo is taken at Big Falls. We had to portage around the falls. The river is quite wild although the Banks-Lowman Highway runs along the river it is always well above the level of the river.