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Show ;:' .,,,,., -,i i fc I' I fcy Marcella Walker What a beautiful fall season sea-son we have had so far! I hope it lasts forever. I am not a great winter person. I never have been. But I tolerated it better when I was younger and especially when I was real young and liked to ice skate and sleigh ride all the time. If it wasn't that we need the moisture out here in this dry desert I would petition that we do away with Winter entirely and go straight from Fall to Spring. Anyone agree? But we do need the water and so as we watch the beautiful flowers wilt and the crops slow on the vine and the birds head South, I will try not to moan about it too much and let Winter come with all its slush and snow and cold weather. On several occasions this past summer I have talked with some of the so called "Snow Birds" who fly South for the winter with their trailers and campers to get away from all of the cold weather here in Utah, especially Northern Utah. Some of them just head for one place in Arizona or California Califor-nia and others spend some time in both places. I don't blame them. But I would hate to live in a trailer so much, as even a nice trailer is not as big as a home and I like space. However, I wouldn't mind taking a break now and then to the warmer areas of the West. We have discussed it but have never tried it. We like going to BYU football and basketball games in the Fall and Winter and I like being snug in a well heated- home with a full sized furnace, etc. Last year in September we took a week long jaunt to Southern California and I enjoyed en-joyed every minute of it. The weather was warm and there was a lot of things to do. I think I could get hooked on that and if we had the money I could stay down there for quite some time. The whole thing boils down, though, to the fact that I don't like to be gone from my kids and grandkids for any long length of time. A few days is fine but after that I want to have the young ones around to talk to, play games with, and watch their ball games here in the city. Now we even have a great-grandson right here in Pleasant Grove and he is growing grow-ing by the day and I don't want to miss that. Really, the only down side to winter is the cold, the slushy streets, and the short days and long nights. I like to be out and about all the seasons of the year and in winter it is very hard when you only have such'a few hours of sunlight (sometimes called "daylight") every day. Life is more cheerful when we have long sunny days and no snow. But in the desert where we live here we have to get the water sometime and if it must come from snow and sleet in the winter, then I guess that is the way it is. But I do hope it does not start in too soon with the ice and snow. How about December 25 for a starter! |