Sept 10, 2019

         Eric Hickman and his mother Delores Hickman were up from California to close out the Mink Creek Hickman home and get it ready for the prospect of selling. Delores lives in Long Beach. Eric built the home a few years ago for his parents, Van and Delores. Van passed away this summer.

          Richie Hurst has enjoyed having some of his friends, also from California, come by and spend a few days in Mink Creek. For some of them it is their first visit to Idaho. Rich enjoys introducing them to the pluses of life in small-town Idaho.

           The “Garlic Project” that took place on the Longhurst farm a year ago has born its harvest. Around fifty friends and neighbors, along with Longhurst family, gathered to bring in what they had helped plant. The farm was busy as a beehive, getting rid of the weeds that had grown along with the garlic and finding the bulbs.

           Ben and Marie Keller are back in town full time after being employed at Camp Bartlett for the majority of the summer. Much of their recent calendar was Sundays in Mink Cree, the rest of the week, up the canyon and over the hill to help with the upkeep of facilities at the Boy Scout camp. Bartlett is a thriving spot all summer long.

          The daughter of Lin and Sharla McKay, River McKay comes up off and on while she is settling in to her new job with Backcountry in Park City. It is to our advantage that she has a tendency to get pangs of home sickness.

           As we turn the calendar over to September it marks the end of lots of summery family visits. One might say that reality sets in and it is back to school, or jobs, or just a tighter schedule. The college age set have returned from summer employment, stopped at home long enough to eat some good meals, rearrange items in their bags and pick up a few more and head out in all directions to the college of their choice.

          We are seeing, and hearing, loads of firewood being harvested in our canyons. The sound of chainsaws in action is one familiar in this place. Trailers and pickup loads go up the highway empty and come back down loaded to overflowing.

         Members of the Larry and Lillian Hansen family have come up frequently from Utah to spend time at the Hansen place on Bear Creek. Larry's ancestor roots go way back to when this farm was first homesteaded.

          We've had a couple of gully-washer storms move through town the last few days. Wind and rain left some damage spots behind them.