Julie and Jeff Workman were happy to have another weekend getting their home ready for the coming of winter. They live with one foot in Mink Creek and the other in Stansbury Park, UT.
The Relief Society planned a reaching out activity for the women of the village. It was strictly a drive-up affair and ‘come as you are’ since there was no need to leave your vehicle. Organizers Lacey Christensen and Jonia Carlson, aided by the Relief Society Presidency members, Kim Christensen and Phee Crosland, handed out a bag of chocolatey treats and a gratitude journal to start off the month of November to each lady who participated. Brief conversations accompanied the gift to start the month off with feeling of gratitude for blessings. It reminded us that we are all still neighbors and friends, even though safe distancing.
Our first snow has arrived and laid a light white blanket down the length of our village, increasing in depth from south to north. The mountain tops are feeling well covered, but there is still hope that the snow isn’t here to stay for the next several months.
A power outage hit us in the middle of a Saturday night, after we had gone to bed with most dreaming of being able to meet the following morning at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Sunday worship services which has been interrupted so often in the last 8 months. No power, it didn’t happen, the power being out until nearly 10:30am, meeting hour being at 9am.
As the season has progressed so has the amount of box elder bugs multiplied. Skunks are moseying around, perhaps searching for a suitable winter home. Both deer and turkeys are down from their summer retreats in the high country, back to being problems for driving through our community. Our wildlife know that cold days are ahead.
We were able to have our church meeting this week, it has been several weeks since we were able to meet together. There has been some changes in both the Primary and Young Women organization. The details will be in next week’s issue of the Citizen. The rise of COVID-19 cases all over the western US has had its affect on even our little village. With Governors in state around us, as well as our own making decisions and tightening restrictions again it is hard to plan ahead more than a day or two for any thing beyond our home boundaries and even those get changed when a new announcement hits the news. Hang in there, in the long run, it will be all right. Have faith, not fear. Not saying it will be easy.
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