Griffin Family

DJ and Emma were having a little tiff...Dad (Dallas) took off his sweatshirt and wrapped them in it. They had to hug it out.  When they were done being mad, they were released!  

Bittersweet day as Andy did his final broadcast on Friday, December 5, 2025. He had some longtime guests and friends come and chat about things one last time.    Jack Lancaster, longtime friend, owner of Anglelica's Restaraunt Melodee Finlinson, side kick and friend View from the studio Shelly Griffin on air, 1X only for like 5 seconds Andy Griffin saying his last words as show host for  the Andy Griffin Show on KDXU Radio Steve Dunham Washington County School District View from the studio window View from the studio window Dale Desmond Replacement for Andy

The Washington First Ward Building was sold to the City of Washington. Part of my responsibilities included dispensing of the organ and pianos in the building (along with other things).  It is an Allen, approximately 1970s.  I put the organ up on the auction. There were a couple of other people that were bidding on it, but I ultimately won the bid (for under $100). On the day I won the bid I was able to arrange a mover!!! I paid $250 to have someone from the piano store move it to our house (I have no idea how he managed to get that into the back bedroom....but he did it!!!) Then, it wouldn't work. 😭 I waited for approximately 6 weeks before a guy (who had to be 80 years old) came down from SLC and repaired the organ. (So the organ wasn't actually broken, it had to do with the electricity and the house talking nicely to one another.) It took him a couple of hours to figure it out. He charged about $200 and voila! I have a working church organ.  Cool, eh?  Now, I got...

As is customary, within 7-10 days from returning from a trip we go to the hospital.  We stayed out of the ocean -- while we were in the Bahamas -- in order to keep Andy healthy. (We have determined that he has been getting infections through his swollen legs or cuts on his feet.)  Andy did not get infection from being naughty! haha BUT he somehow picked up COVID!  What the heck?! On Sunday last week (Aug 10) he started having a scratchy throat, voice. It got worse and most of last week he had laryngitis.  That resolved itself and he was feeling pretty fine. We had a full Wednesday. Around 9 p.m. he said he was feeling a little funky/woozy, whatever. Off?!   We went to bed and his temperature reading was still below normal but he was having body aches and shivering. We tried to sleep but he was clearly in pain and tossing and turning.  About 1:00 a.m. I got up and checked his temperature...100. Hmm. I looked at his legs and it looked like he might possi...

Kinda last minute, we decided to have a getaway (for our October anniversary) and just because we can! Andy found a reasonably priced cruise going out of New Orleans, and I found inexpensive round-trip tickets out of St George, so we just said - Let's do this! We flew into New Orleans on Saturday. We took a taxi to our hotel, the Embassy Suites. When we arrived, there were officers blocking the streets.  We wondered if there was something sinister going on...but no!  It was in preparation for the white linen festival. An annual art show. And our hotel was right on the edge of it!  Saturday, we walked around downtown (it was really hot and humid!) and then ordered room service and had a New Orleans dish - with beans and some beignets.   When evening arrived we went down to the festival and walked around and enjoyed the noise and commotion of the city. There was lots of drinking and dancing and happiness out there!  The party ended fairly early but all night ...