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Show ; is . .. . ;o'- , :' ' by Marcella Walker It is September and Fall begins this month! This is that wonderful time of year for mothers as their kids go back to school after the long, hot summer and it is football season, sea-son, as well. It is a joyous time for the kindergarten kids who have eagerly anticipated this experience expe-rience but after the first day some won't want to come back again and others will love it. It is the time for teenagers teenag-ers to get back to school, perhaps per-haps not for the class studies as much as to see their friends and teachers once more. It is the time of year that mothers dream about all summer sum-mer long. I know. I have been there and done that. Now I am an oldster and I have grandchildren in grade school, junior high school, high school and college.. That means there will not be so many sleep overs as there were in the summer. There will not be so many requests to play games. I will miss it! For the older grandchildren, it might mean I don't get to have them over to play games as much as I did in the summer. sum-mer. The pre-schoolers are still around, though, so that is good. We recently experienced an event which brought us together to-gether with our local children and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, great-grandchildren, and also our kids and grandkids who live in Madison, Wisconsin. One of the granddaughters whose family lives in Wisconsin got married here and our daughter daugh-ter and her family came out for the great occasion. It was a thrill for so many of us to be together for this occasion. We had not seen most of those from Wisconsin for a long time and for us it was one of those memorable experiences which we will long cherish. This was the capstone for a very nice summer, but why we are having all this Fall type weather now is beyond my comprehension. I loved every minute of it, by the way! Actually, this is normal weather weath-er for a normal time of year and it has, for the most part, been nice and warm and I have loved it. Now comes the hard part, the part when Summer turns to Fall and the weather begins to get colder day by day and the summer picnics will have to go into retreat until Summer comes . next year. The salvation, of course, is it becomes Football Season, one of the best times of year that there is. Well, I like Basketball Bas-ketball Season, too, and so they are kind of equal seasons in my book but I am looking forward to BYU and Pleasant Grove High having a very good year in both. Football just happens to come first. This is the time of year when I sit down and try to make up a schedule of things I can do during dur-ing the Fall and long Winter season. sea-son. I am not a good winter person. per-son. It is cold and slushy a lot of the time and I am not as great a lover of this wonderful time of year as I used to be. If it were not for the football, basketball, and holidays, I would move to a warmer climate. We have family in Arizona and it is nice down there in the Winter, usually, and that is a temptation but I would have to find a way home for the ball games and such so that is not a viable answer to the problem. Remember when we were kids and loved Winter because of the fun of making snowmen, sleigh riding, going ice skating, having snowball fights and all that neat stuff? I loved it. Now I am an old lady who does not enjoy doing those things anymore because it is usually very cold outside and I like to stay warm as much as possible. But those ball games are the fun part of life and if it requires me sitting in the grand stand with sweaters, coats, and blankets around me, it is still worth the time and the money. At least basketball is an inside in-side game! This Summer has been a lot of fun and we have done a lot of enjoyable things. One of the things my husband thought up was to have a combined Family Home Evening on the first Monday Mon-day of each month this summer. We held it at one of the picnic spots in American Fork Canyon and it was so much fun and everyone ev-eryone seemed to enjoy it. It brought all of us who live in the area together to eat, talk, play with the little ones, and just relax and keep up to date on what everyone was doing. And Grandpa caught fish and shared them with the rest if they wanted want-ed any. I am not a fish person myself! Of course, our daughter daugh-ter and family in Wisconsin could not attend but they have a daughter here who has two of our great-grandbabies, plus the daughter who just recently got married, and we had a wonderful wonder-ful time. It has been a Summer to remember and we will probably prob-ably plan a similar time to get together next Summer, too. I would like to add a word or two about good old Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove City, which I love. I was bora in Brigham City, spent my youth in Ogden, spent my college years at BYU, and since we have been married we have lived in Provo, California, Sandy, Bountiful, and we have lived in Pleasant Grove since 1973. This, to me, is home and you all know how much I have loved writing about Pleasant Grove for the Daily Herald, and "BLAB " continued on Page 9 "BLAB" continued from Page 2 Pleasant Grove Review over the many years. This is home to me and I am sure it is to most of you, too. School has started for this new year and may it be the best year ever for all of us. After attending Pleasant Grove City Council meet ings for many years and writing writ-ing the news for everyone to read, plus I wrote the Lindon news for many years, too, I learned to take an interest in what was happening in the community and I encourage you all to do the same thing. You'll love it ! |