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Show rfmmttm7mrflfmit - - I i . 1 by Marcella Walker When the predicted blizzard bliz-zard did not arrive in Pleasant Grove last week I was overjoyed. over-joyed. I do not love winter and anytime a predicted snow does not arrive, I am overjoyed. I was really overjoyed after all the dire predictions we had heard on radio, TV, and mouth to mouth for several days before it did not happen. I know that we need the moisture to get us through next summer, but what we get here in the lowlands just runs off into the lake and it goes to Salt Lake, etc. The snow in the mountains, however, is another story and it lasts for a very long time. In my years of attending city council meetings, I have learned that it takes a couple of years for the snow that falls on Timpa-nogos Timpa-nogos Mountain to seep down through the rocks and what have you, until it ends up in one of the city's water tanks at the foot of that great mountain. Then it is either treated for water for us to drink or it is used for irrigation purposes and ends up back in Utah Lake where it is shuffled off to Salt Lake via the Jordan River. We did take a drive up American Fork Canyon on Friday Fri-day to see how the snow was up there. It was great and there were many snowmobilers and sleigh riders at Tibbie Fork Reservoir. In many places the ice had formed on top of the American Fork River (the technical tech-nical people call it American Fork Creek) and it was lovely. In places it formed miniature water falls and I have not really seen that in that river before. One thing that I don't care to attend this time of year are the evenis of Black Friday, as it is called. There is no gift that is so good or so reduced in price that I would brave the cold weather, let alone the crowds, to stand in line for hours just to be one of the first to start my Christmas shopping. This day, which used to be called the first big shopping day for Christmas, should not be called "Black Friday" anyway any-way because it is the first day of the Christmas season, so to speak, and the Christmas season is supposed to be in memory of Christ's birth which is just the opposite of anything black. Thank you for letting me spout off on that subject. Anyway, I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving holiday, holi-day, and that you have finally finished off the leftover turkey. We actually had two Thanksgiving Thanks-giving feasts. One was on the real Thanksgiving Day and we spent it with our son and family, plus a few other folks we love. The other was on Friday with our daughter's family who celebrated cel-ebrated two days, one with our son-in-laws relatives on Thursday Thurs-day and then on Friday when our daughter, who had to work at her job in the ER on Thursday, Thurs-day, was home and invited us to come for their second celebration. This was also the weekend week-end for our annual "put up the Christmas decorations" ritual. Our granddaughters make this an annual event when they sleep over and then they help us dig out all the Christmas decorations decora-tions and put them out for the holiday season. This is one of my most favorite fa-vorite days, as I am sure it is "BLAB" continued on Page 3 "BLAB" continued from Page 2 for many of you who like traditions and are eager to get o,u.t. the. lovely Christ-, mas decorations whiclvyou have collected over a lifetime.! life-time.! am so grateful that my granddaughters enjoy doing this with us every year, but I hate to think how tedious it will be when they are in college or married and are not here to help me put up the decorations. decora-tions. I am sure I will not put up as many decorations then as we do now. AhyvVay, I hope all of you are up to and ready for the Christmas holidays. Have fun shopping. |