And now, back to the original column, plus the additions of tonight.
Christmas
tree, oh Christmas tree, they are being gathered from our mountain
canyons, and transported down our valley to unknown destinations in
large quantities. There are trees tied to the tops of automobiles,
trees loaded into pickups, trees filling up large trailers. It makes
one wonder, are the mountain slopes bare after all that have been
hauled out this past couple of weeks?
Angelo
Crosland, son of Robert and Phee Crosland, has received his
missionary call to the Indiana, Indianapolis, Mission. He will be
leaving Mink Creek in the middle of January. At present he is in
the Washington DC area enjoying some time with an older brother,
Armando Crosland.
Jeff and Kayleen Hill were up from
Utah to spend holiday time with her dad, Vernon Keller along with her
brother Kelton and Denise Keller of Alpine, UT.
Laural and Jody Janke and their
children drove to Vancouver, WA, for a week of fun with the family of
Claudine and LaMar McKague. With a total of ten cousins in the
McKague house there was limited time for peace and quiet. They
reported that the weather in the northwest was “wet, as usual.”
Karl and Marian Haws came to their
Mink Creek home from Santa Barbara, CA, to have Thanksgiving with
some of their family. Aaron and Heather Haws and their children
drove over from Meridian, ID. Lauren and Ken Nash who live in
Solvang, CA were here, as were several grandchildren and in-laws.
Rocky Mountain Power sent out a crew
to remove some ancient cottonwood trees from the bank of the
Riverdale Canal that runs through Mink Creek. One of the trees had
toppled, rather crashed, and had sent wood and debris rocketing in
its fall, barely missing a power line. Rather safe than sorry, the
rest of the group of trees were brought down recently. A hawk that
has been in residence for years in one of the trees watched closely
while his nest was being threatened and eventually went the way of
the world of machines. We hope he doesn't move out of the
neighborhood and builds again close by.
Our days are getting shorter. Proof
of this yearly time crunch is that the solar lights in our yards
tend to loose their glow after just a few hours once dark descends.
And dark comes early in this month of December.
Add Bob Erickson's name to the list of Mink Creek
shoulder surgeries. This happened almost three weeks ago and Bob is
doing well. It is a replacement of the shoulder, not a repair.
Amazing stuff, the possibilities of the modern medical world.
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