February 13, 2018

         Happy Valentine's Day. Thank you for reading this. Please feel free to comment, it would be most helpful.

           Kent and ReNae Egley have managed to get some winter fun snowmobiling in the area around Henry's Lake. They have been soaking up the beautiful snowy forest scenery and wishing they could bring some home to Mink Creek.

            Giovanni and Kristina Crosland and their four children were here for a weekend. Gio is still in his doctor's residency at the hospital in Blackfoot, ID. At the present time he is assigned for a few weeks to a hospital in Layton, UT.

           Still much evidence of the wreckage our terrain suffered from storms from 2017 Spring. There were some serious slides of earth during those wet months. Scars of red brown streaks are evident from the top, yard upon yard as it slid down to the base of the hill or into the creek which ever was first. The color of the scars vary, some are nearly black.

         Larry and Lillian Hansen and some of their family were up from Utah to see how the Mink Creek winter was progressing. It is a good thing they weren't planning a sledding party.

           We have two young ladies, students at Preston High, who are cheerleaders: McKinley Longhurst, daughter of Sheldon and Candy Longhurst, and Hayden Egley, daughter of Jared and Juli Egley. They keep pretty busy this time of year between all the winter sports: boys basketball, girls basketball, wrestling, plus their own cheer competitions. They have recently been participating in the Cupid's Challenge at Highland High School in Pocatello. This activity requires such perfectly synchronized movement with the entire team.

          A crew from the Twin Lakes Canal company are working on their winter maintenance of this part of the canal, where it begins. They are shoring up the banks. This is a regular procedure prior to the arrival of the irrigating season when the waters are turned into the canal from its supplier, Mink Creek.

           Adding to that last paragraph:there has been trucks, backhoes, a huge track-hoe all occupied in this endeavor. Now they have diverted water from the creek to the canal to test the situation before moving to another section further down the route.

            It is a strange year. We keep hoping for moisture, barring that, that it can remain cold to discourage the spring growth, the fruit trees and all such from getting a headstart that most likely end in a good freeze. Proper timing is an important thing, and something over which there is no control.