It was a perfect evening, but a little
on the chilly side. Mink Creek community took a Fall Foliage Ride
into the mountains around Station Creek. It was a great turnout,
more than 30 outfits, 4 wheelers or Side by Sides. The group split
into three sections, led by Nate Olson, Jeff Olson and Lin McKay,
each taking a different trail, all headed to the top. Great scenery
all along the trails. Some elk were rousted out. When the goal was
reached there were marvelous views of Glendale, Cub River, the
whole west side of northern Cache Valley. A person could see all of
Mink Creek village up to the entry of the Caribous National Forest.
Once back down to the Olson farm there was huckleberry and
huckleberry cheesecake ice cream to top off the activity. The local
LDS missionary pair, Elders Duke and Rich, provided some vocal and
guitar music along with the refreshments. It might have been cold
but huckleberry ice cream is always acceptable.
Mink Creek has four young men playing
on the Preston High School football team this year. They are Andrew
and Charles Iverson, sons of Kurt and Margret, Stetson Ostler, son of
Stuart and Alona Ostler, and Ty Jepsen, son of Kerry and Melinda
Jepsen. On the PHS volleyball team this year is Emily Longhurst,
daughter of Candy Longhurst.
We started this past week off with our
first low snowfall of the season. Sept 29th, after a
couple of days of rainfall, sent some big heavy feathery flakes in
the morning. However within just a couple of hours it had warmed up
and looked as if it had only been a dream, unless you looked up into
our surrounding mountains and the whiteness was still in place.
The Lewis and Clark Volunteers, a
Mountain Man group that headquarters in Soda Springs,ID, were here
for a weekend of fall rendezvous. The group gathers on the Vernon
Keller farm on the banks of Mink Creek. Vernon's daughter-in-law,
Denise, came up from Alpine, UT, for this annual event.
The time for harvesting chokecherries
is past, but there are plenty left on the trees, up and down our
village. Our local bird population is now doing their share of
harvesting the berries. The trees shake with the activity taking
place within their branches, in and out, repeatedly. Seeds must be
scattered for nature's planting over many miles.
Most of our residents that still farm
are hoping for enough dry days to get that third crop into the barn,
or wherever they stack it. The hay is cut, raked and waiting.
Nights are frosty and bring moisture. Gardens are done for, only a
few root crops still holding on. Vines of tomatoes, squash, cukes an
melons are black, but it is mid October and we expect nothing else.
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