April 10, 2018

      Spring Break from school duties scattered Mink Creek families in all directions. Most headed to areas where it was a little warmer. After a week in the sun it was hard to readjust to colder temperatures when they returned home to reality and Idaho.

        Sherrie and Shane Corbett and family, Brooke and Austin, headed to St George, UT, for spring break. Fun and R & R were needed items on their itinerary. From all reports all those goals were met.

         Jon and Portia Jepsen and some of their family drove up from their Salt Lake neighborhoods to soak up some down time at their Mink Creek home. Within a few hundred feet Jared and Andrea Jepsen and their children were hanging out at his parents place, Mike and Mary Ann Jepsen. Cousin time is a wonderful memory maker.

         Richard and Vickie Free and Robert and Phee Crosland, plus Mario, Celina and Jacobi, flew to Hawaii during spring break. This excursion has been a year in the planning stages and the timing was perfect. They soaked up hours in the sun at the Free's condo on the island of Maui.

          There is that hope locally that perhaps our yearly mud season may not last too long this year. Provided the spring storms allow for some drying time in between as we are always and forever dependent on the weather.

           A drive through our community shows that our spring burning of dry winter debris and growth has begun. The fence lines, the ditch banks, canal banks, creek bottoms are just right---will still burn, but enough moisture about to help in a controlled burn. One burn got away from an“unknown someone” however and a power pole or two became part of the flames.

          Shawn and Calllie Beardall and their four youngsters have been up for a visit with his parents, Tammy and Kent Beardall. Visits get traded with this family, not long after Tammy drove down to Spanish Fork, UT, for some more grandmother time with the kids.

           It has been too wet for our farmer population to get started on their spring field work. No one like a tractor stuck in the mud. Things do dry out given a few sunny days and farmers are accustomed to relying on the weather for nearly every action, every decision. It is the way of life on a farm. It won't be long before we have our green world around us.

          The gazillion turkeys have moved out. It has felt like they almost crept away in the darkness—one day they were scratching up the new growth in the fields and marching across the highway and the next day—gone. All of them! It is a temporary situation.