The local deer cleanup crews are
overdoing things. One resident went out to harvest her fall grape
crop, only to find the grapes had disappeared as a deer feast. There
went her visions of grape juice, grape jelly and grape syrup. We have
reports of bites taken out of squash, pumpkins, tomatoes. The
critters are also hard on flower beds. The petunias that have
survived the frost are evidently an entre on the deer menu.
Garden spaces are becoming bare as
they get cleaned off. It is time for the age old preparation for the
coming colder months. Root cellars,bottles and jars, bags and
freezers are getting their final fill of the season's growth.
John Garr reports that his mother,
Bobby Garr, has survived the cancer treatment she has been enduring
this past summer in California. She is now declared cancer-free by
her oncologists. We have missed having George and Bobby with us for
several months and are delighted at receiving such positive news.
It was a big day in the life of the
Jeff Seamons family. Samuel Seamons, the son of Jeff and Jennifer,
spoke in the LDS Ward prior to leaving to spend a few weeks at the
Missionary Training Center in Provo before departing to the
Philippines, Legazpi, Mission. This same family had a younger son,
David, ordained to the office of a priest on the same day. Extended
family members who gathered for the occasion were many: The family
of Randolph and Janelle Seamons of Riverdale, ID, the family of
Rebecca S. Liechty and family of Tremonton, UT. Andrea Haehnel,
currently going to USU, represented the family of Jeff's sister
Catharine. On Jennifer's side of the family were her siblings Mary
Erasmus and family of Draper, UT, and Jamon Jarvis and family of
Springville, UT. Both sets of Samuel's grandparents live in Mink
Creek, Catharine and Scott Seamons and Kathy and Joe Jarvis.
Pedro and Avery Gomez are happy to
have a new granddaughter. Their daughter Nicole and Matt Van Buren
brought their tiny girl to Mink Creek for her baby blessing by
grandfather Pedro. The name she was given is Taylor Emery Van Buren.
Welcoming relatives attending this event were great-grandmother
Beverly Bruderer and Lacey and Kerry Christensen of Mink Creek,
grandparents Joe and Denise Hardy of Thatcher, ID, Matt's siblings
Sydney, Wyatt and Paige and two aunts, Donna and Lauralee.
The Young Womens program of the LDS
Ward has new leaders. Cecelie Costley is the new Young Womens
president and Terrie McKay and Wendy Westerberg will be serving as
her counselors.
Julie and Jeff Workman enjoyed their
UEA days at their Mink Creek home. Each time they come they find it
harder to go back to their real lives down in Utah. Welcome to the
Mink Creek fan club, glad to have them on board.
As soon as the sun sets behind our
western peaks the chill sets in on a daily basis. People are busy
laying up a store of firewood judging by the pickup and trailer loads
that go zipping down our main drag on their way south. The sounds of
chainsaws compete with the gunfire accompanying deer season.
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