June 20, 2023

 

Friends and the family of Marion Jenny Engels Haws gathered in Mink Creek for her graveside service in the Mink Creek Cemetery. Her husband Karl and their seven children, spouses and grandchildren and great grandchildren participated in the services with song and memories shared. The Engel/Haws family have always had more than one place of residence: California and Mink Creek, Idaho, for nearly sixty years. Now the descendants are a little more scattered, California still, some in Utah and some living year-round in Idaho.

Three young women participated in the High School Rodeo event held a few weeks ago in Preston. They were Ella Jepsen, daughter of Kerry and Melinda Jepsen, and two sisters, Annie and Josie Christensen, daughters of Dan and Casey Christensen. Josie placed 3^rd in the Jr. High Division and qualified to participate in the National Jr. High Rodeo held in Georgia. Annie competed again at the Idaho State high school rodeo in Pocatello.

Spring, for real, brought Hansen siblings and their spouses home for a weekend at the Hansen House on the banks of the roaring Mink Creek. Wes Hansen is from Ogden, Roxanne Beutler lives in Dayton and Pat Bowles lives in Fairview. It was a time of many memories, laughter and fun.

The Trek to the Seller’s Ranch by members of the Preston Idaho North Stake was one of much anticipation and it didn’t disappoint. The countryside and camp offered a mix of pushingand pulling of handcarts, lots of walking. Mud, snow on the ground, rain and sunshine were part of their days, but somehow the heavy wet weather that had been forecast skirted their area. Mink Creek had two handcart families. Trevor and April Rasmussen were the parents of one cart, Claudine and LaMar McKague parenting the second one. The fourteen youth on the Trek were Emma and Kate Rasmussen, Conner Iverson, Morgan and Danny Keller, Clara Jones, Devlyn and Larien Currie, Jared Cheney, Jyllian and Greenlee Christensen, Orrin and Hazen Baird, and Emma Rydalch. Other adults accompanying the group were Bishop Paul and Terrie McKay, Dallon Baird and Jesse Wilcox.

You’ve all heard “make hay while the sun shines”, when this is applied to a hay crop it is the major wish. We have recently had some sunshine and acres of hay were mown. Just a couple of days following the cold and the rains hit. The hay is at a stage where there are two choices, cut and risk the rain, or let it grow and have the weevil infestation devour the hay leaves. “Life on the farm.”