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Show ( 1 I Castle Valley Comments . . . j This time of year seems to be the busiest time for the folks here in the valley. I guess they feel more like working when the sun isn't so hot. People are building and moving in and out all the time. The new neighbors on the hill up Shafer Lane, the Bowthorpes, came late in the summer and really worked up a storm, but they are gone again. Not for good though. They went to Texas to stay with some of their children for the winter. The Drakes finally moved all their things up from storage. They also moved their goat Pepper although they didn't really intend to. Pepper was staying at the Ehlers but her pen burned last week. She remained calm throughout the whole affair. af-fair. An amazing goat. She gives about two gallons of milk a day and has a very calm and stable personality. So now Pepper Pep-per is living on the end of a chain tied to the back of a big truck. The Drakes are hoping to get her pen built soon. My mother has been canning pears like mad this week. Al Duncan brought them down from the Johnson place up the valley. The Hoffman's owned the place at one time, then it was later bought by Dean Luxton and sold to the Johnsons. There is a big, beautiful home there now which was built by Dean Luxton and his wife Cindy. The old house burned. It is a beautiful place. Al Duncan Dun-can appreciates living there and acts as kind of caretaker when the Johnsons John-sons are gone. He has the privilege of picking a lot of the fruit and he always shares it with us and his son Al who lives across the road from us. His wife Ginny likes it there too because at that high altitude television comes in quite good. Soon the Rodenbecks will be leaving. They are mSving back to California Calif-ornia to be closer ' to relatives and because of her health. They really enjoyed the time they lived here but they do get lonely for their children and grandchildren. They also missed television for awhile but started reading a lot of books and magazines. They trade magazines with us and others in the valley. Everyone here does a lot of reading and we have really enjoyed our neighbors neigh-bors the Rodenbecks. Not just because of their books, but because they are very good neighbors who will help you in any kind of scrape, and are hard working, kind, friendly people, always willing to invite you in for a cup of tea and a chat. They always have time for others. I hope they will have a good life in Fresno, California, where they are moving to. I was sick this last week again so I didn't get around too much. I guess one of the Jarmin boys was sick with a high fever and had to be taken into Moab in an ambulance. There seems to be a lot of sickness going around. Hopefully we can all get well before the real cold winter sets in. Our neighbor who built a basement house, Ken Johnson, was laid off in the recent lay off of the Atlas Minerals. He was working for Colorado but will now have to find other employment. He is going to California to hunt for work. They are thinking about going back there until he can find employment employ-ment of his type here. Monday morning my brother brought home news of a wrecked bus on Pace Hill. He checked it all out and said it looked like someone had been towing it and it got away. It was a total wreck. The bus was not a passenger carrying bus, but had been converted into a recreational vehicle. It will take quite a lot of effort to get it out of the arroyo in which it is lodged. Pace Hill is a very narrow road leading into the valley and I know people hope every time they travel it that they themselves won't go off. The sides are deep ar-royos. ar-royos. It is almost like riding a roller coaster. It gets very treacherous in the winter and there have been times we have had to park our vehicle and walk on home. |