June 10. 2014

          The yellow and copper rose bushes are full and blooming, making bright spots against the local greenery. Chokecherry trees are full of white clusters of blossoms, hanging from slender limbs.. A ride up into our nearby mountains reveals that the higher altitudes are about a month behind, just now the curly flowers dot the forest meadows and snow can still be seen in the shady shelter of the pine trees. With each warm day there is constant change.

           At the lower elevations the blue and purple lupine and yellow ladyslipper/cowslips climb their green stems and the golden mules ears cover whole fields. Even ferny yarrow is full of white flowers.

          Carrie Ann Melton and her two little boys, Kenny and Thomas, have been here spending some time with Carrie's parents, Lorraine and Royce Christensen. The Melton family lives in Lafayette, IN.  The boys had a good time playing with Idaho cousins.

         Mike Stenberg came to the Mink Creek Ward to present a scouting award to Kent Beardall. It was the District Award of Merit. Kent has been active in the scouting program, one way or another, for thirty years.

         The Mink Creek School Reunion is scheduled to take place on June 21^st in the recreation hall of th LDS Meetinghouse. The time is at noon. This year Glade and Corinne Larsen are the family in charge. With these two individuals their Mink Creek roots run deep.

          Our community is dealing with a mudslide this spring. The oozing, bulging earth is trying to make its way across a section of Capitol Hill Road and county road crews and equipment are doing their best to keep it contained. It is taking out trees and brush, shoving things aside as it makes its way downward.

       It is irrigating time in Mink Creek, both domestic and industrial needs. Some are using garden hoses, others irrigation pipes, still others the big water guns than can cover an entire field. Water in the creeks is still high but bound to be backing off soon as the snow melt ceases in our surrounding mountains.

        The snowmobile crowd have called it quits for another season. Now the motorcycles roar up and down our main thoroughfare, with an occasional boat on a trailer, most likely headed up the canyon to Bear Lake and its attractions.