January 19, 2016

          State snowplows have been busy on our highway the last few days. There may be fog and gloom down in the valley but there is snow on our higher levels. On occasion we hear the sirens of our county law enforcement headed up the canyon to help someone who has gone off the road. So grateful for the services they render.

            Church basketball has started and Mink Creek community has both a young women team and a young men team. The ladies are coached by Brooke Corbett, the young men are under the tutelage of Richard Free. Eldon Wilcox is a referee for the Preston North Stake from this community.

            Mark and Karen Arnout had a full house with children and grandchildren all gathered in. The sons all live in Utah: Travis and Amber in Logan, Dusty and Jessika from Saratoga Springs, UT, Lance and Tosha Arnout in Midway. The Arnout daughter, Kelly and Adam Jensen call Rockland, ID, home. All together they made 26 family members having fun.

             The upper reaches of Bear Creek were loaded with the family of Glen and Betty Jo Jepsen during the holidays and a bit beyond. Jill and Mark Neitz came down from Albert, Canada, with their four children. Jana Musgrave and her five are from North Ogden. Kyle Jepsen is in Dallas, TX, and of course, Kerry and Melinda Jepsen and their bunch live just across the road from his folks.

           Hannah and Spencer Singleton and their two boys came to Mink Creek and home with Wynn and Cecelie Costley for the holidays. They live in El Dorado, AR, so this gave them the gift of snow and grandparents for Christmas.

            Eric and Lisa Hickman drove up from the sunshine of California. They were here to assist Eric's dad, Van Hickman with an opportunity of warmer climes for a few months.

         Your weekly weather report is snow, we have been getting quite a bit. There is sufficient that some of the less experienced drivers have ended up needing to dig themselves out of snowbanks when they have taken a corner at their usual speed.I think you would call this “hands-on learning.”

           There has been a flock of cute little chickadees making the rounds in our neighborhood. On warmer days they are scratching through the snow for any tidbits they can find. Those little grey and black bodies look like moving punctuation marks on the snow.