When we don't have snow our world is
starting to look very green. Leaves appearing, fields brushed with
green growth (unless the excess water has killed the young plants),
weeds bustling to get a head start on all other desired greenery.
Various birds are announcing their presence: mourning doves, geese,
owls, magpies,robins,to name a few. Dormant insects and animals are
waking up to warmer days. However we did wake up to two mornings
with snow this past week so we aren't taking spring for granted.
The farmers' fieldwork is crying to be
done, but most fields are still to soggy to welcome machinery's
weight. Workshops are busy places with repairs underway. The hunt
for replacement parts can be a big challenge as machinery ages.
Larry and Lillian Hansen were up to
open their home to spring and the possibility of family gatherings.
They were surprised to find their yard on the banks of Bear Creek
covered with snow.
Kelton and Denise Keller and their
daughter Mauri have driven up from Alpine, UT, for a few days with
Kelton's dad, Vernon Keller.
Rita Warburton Cargill is amongst us
once again. She has come up from her home in California to assist
her father, John Warburton, with his recovery program after his
recent hospitalization.He is back in the hospital now with pneumonia.
There is a new
grandchild in the family of Kent and Tammy Beardall. Michelle and
Gary Wall of Grand Junction, CO, have a new son. Tammy has been in
Colorado, enjoying the role of grandmother with the Wall children while welcoming the newest
one.
The work of a farmer is
hard on a person's joints. Craig Larsen has recently had some knee
surgery and is in the process of recuperation. He has also worked as
a farrier, another one that takes some knee challenges.
Davis Collins, grandson
of Bob and Claudia Erickson, spent his spring break from BYU/I in
Rexburg enjoying some down time in Mink Creek. Rico Crosland, son of
Phee and Robert Crosland, did the same. It just so happens that
these two young men attend the same ward in Rexburg while attending
school.
As I write this evening
it has been raining for the last 3 hours. This is not helping the
problem that the Twin Lakes Canal company is working on where the
canal goes around our Cedar Hill. There has been a crew of men
working there for several days.
Our Easter dawned bright and beautiful, as an Easter morning should be. Hope yours was a special day wherever you were.
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