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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 15-18, 2007 * The Park Record A-14 M.T. RANCH ESTATES MORE DOGS ON M A I N STREET By Tom Clyde • Spring is here 0ffered at $1,399,000 5745 Mt. Ranch Drive r I Lnique and charming craftsman style home on 3/4 acre corner lot with sunny southern rear exposure backing to open space. Main floor master suite and office spacious great room/dining room, family room off kitchen, 4 upper level bedrooms one which could serve as bonus room with kitchen, huge rear deck with outdoor fireplace with areas for hot tub, BBQ and large gatherings,radiant heat including driveway, A/C, walk to city bus stop, school and park. . SUSAN CATENACCI Associate Broker, CRI (fy Prudential Utah Real Estate 435 655-8574 888 655-8574 (toll free) susancCS'xmission.com www.parkcity4sale.com him trying to decide between the Kraft mac and cheese and the cheaper house brand. The inflation in food prices sort of p i hit me in one of those short ski-lift conversations. One of the guys on the lift was in the commercial bakery business (I suspect he made Twinkies, but he wasnt about to say). He said his costs for~flourhad tripled in the last year. The market for corn is so hot that every farmer with the option has converted land to corn. So the remaining wheat is in short supply and costs more. The corn is going for ethanol production rather than food. So beef prices are going up to cover the cost of fattening cattle on more expensive corn. In a world where almost anything you buy at the grocery store is packed with high-fructose corn syrup, everything from ketchup to Coke is going up in price. Little by little, it begins to matter and we end up with real inflation. The generic mac and cheese begins to look good. ~ Ethanol was supposed to lower energy prices, WaS SUppOSeQ tO Spring is here. I know it will snow some more, and actually hope it does to keep the skiing good. But there's no mistaking it - the season has changed. This has been a rough winter. The total snow accumulation is really just about normal, \ watch the snow stake at Trial Lake on line. Total precipitation for the year is spot on the longterm "normal" line on the graph, The water content of the snow for the year is only about 90 percent, of "normal," whatever normal is supposed to be. After a couple of pretty light winters, reverting to normal was a real jolt. The abnormal thing about this winter is that it all came at once. Back in December, with balmy temperatures and bare ground, it looked like the odds of the resorts missing Christmas were pretty high. We got lucky, and Christmas turned out to be tolerable skiing. And then came January and February, when it just wouldn't stop snowing. It was a good old-fashioned Donner-Party chop-up-the-piano-for-firewood kind of winter. I logged over 30 hours on the tractor plowing snow around my place. 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So to fix the mess, we're all going to get rebates. In Neighbors who don't ski, snowmobile or find some other recreation in the snow were just plain crabby. a couple of months, after we've filed our tax returns, By February, the joy of high-horsepower snow IRS will send us all an economy-stimulating check. removal was waning, and the novelty of shoveling Most people will get $600, and families will get three roofs had given way to deep back pain. We'd wave or four times that. It's not chump change. For a lot of when passing on the highway, but you wanted to keep people it's a month's rent or mortgage payment. The a safe distance. Conversation was high risk. Cabin problem is that it's money the treasury doesn't have. fever is a dangerous and unpredictable affliction. It's We're running huge deficits, so we are actually borrowing the money to make the stimulating rebates, best cured by skiing. Now the cattle are having their calves. The red- and encouraging people to go spend it on imported winged blackbirds are back. The bald eagles that crap at Wal-Mart. Genius. spent the winter in the dead cottonwood across from You wonder what would have happened if the my house have moved on. The road in to my house is same amount of money had been spent with some river of mud in the afternoons. The six-foot windrow plan in mind. How about using idled factories in of snow on either side keeps-it from draining away, so Michigan to build solar water heaters, which would instead there is a stream flowing down the middle of be installed by unemployed construction workers in the road, with Class II rapids. It's not quite deep Florida and other sun-belt states where the housing enough to float a kayak, but close. I can hear my bike bust is at its worst and solar water heaters work best. calling from the depths of the garage. That might have resulted in real employment, real I paid $3.75 a gallon for diesel fuel this week, and energy conservation, and maybe oil prices under $100 it's gone up since then. Gasoline is following it right and bread under $3. up, and crude oil is almost $110 a barrel. I dont pay Instead, we're going to run to Wally world and buy much attention to what I spend at the grocery store. a big screen TV made in China. If I needed to cut back on the food budget, I could With leadership like this, it's amazing we can even eliminate one Deer Valley lunch a week and solve the keep the lights on in this country. problem. If I were feeding a family of six, it would matter, but for just me, groceries aren't a factor in the Tom Clyde served as Park City attorney in the 1980s overall expenses. Still, it was something of a shock to and is the author of "More Dogs On Main Street. "He spend $3.79 for a loaf of bread and $2 for a dozen has been a columnist at The Park Record for nearly 20 eggs. I understood the liftie's dilemma when I saw years. SUNDAY I N THE PARK By Teri Orr • Coming (some Sunday) soon The calendar says spring will be official next week. that warm. Yet. My yard says something different. And I filled the The other day, when the sun came out for two two bird feeders blue-sky days in a row, I noticed along the path to the that I could reach front porch a little votive candle stuck in the side of and then I looked around the garage. I looked longthe snowbank. I remembered I used them on ingly at the chaise lounge and the wicker rocker. And Christmas Eve to create little lighted snow castles then at the painted pots and spades. And then I (bundt pan molds) for the grandchildren. In the forced myself to look away. Such longing will only snowpack of the yard, that candle was in a prehistoric produce melancholy that can't be easily fixed in the level layer of accumulation that was maybe 18 inches mountains in spring. So I grabbed some of those up from the lawn. There is, at least, three feet of snow bundt pans and I filled them with birdseed and I on top of that. And while I have lived in the moun- placed them on the top of the snowbanks, around the tains my entire adult life and I know how quickly edges of the yard. Within minutes, it seemed, I was snow does melt in the spring, I am fairly certain the rewarded with tiny birds hopping up and down, makentire process will not occur by next Friday. ing little Woodstock prints in the most unlikely Which is regrettable. places. It is, in fact, snowing again as I write this. And the On the back porch, which is unreachable until, I positive part of my soul knows the moisture is good don't know, July, I think, I noticed, at the spot where for us in the desert climate after years of drought. The the heat tape is and the snow melts straight down, an less positive part of me that can become depressed by icicle had formed. A really, really, big icicle. Picture endless parades of days in shades of gray, is, well, less the trunk of a giant redwood tree. And while I know positive. that can't be good for A{ the markets, which either the roof or the / looked longingly at the chaise deck, it seems like it all have stepped their presentations in recent take a chainsaw lounge and the wicker rocker. And would months, I've noticed not and a blowtorch to cut only are there more offer- then at the painted pots and spades. through the middle of ings of cut flowers of so that stalactiterightnow. many varieties, but there And then I forced myself to look away. At lunch the other day, are pretty plants, too. I some of the guys at my used to have a personal Such longing will only produce melan- table were discussing the rule that was never to buy choly that can't be easily fixed in the calves just being bom. sushi or flowers from the . • How it all seemed a bit n grocery store. They always _ disappoint. But that rule, mountains in spring. e ari y . which the global ' warming folks will tell like so many others in my ^^**^^m-^^^^^m life, no longer makes sense. ^ ^ " " ™ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ " • " • • • • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ you is all related. Many species, I think I read, Anyone who has purchased sushi from Whole Oats or Wild Foods, or whoever those folks are, knows are birthing several days, even a full week, earlier these past few years. that their sushi is restaurant good. First, I should stop and say I love the fact that I And the flowers and plants ... amazing. Lilies, of live in a community where this is still a topic at lunch course. After all, this year Easter is early and it also falls next weekend. We have cancelled the egg hunt in among high-powered business people, some of whom Oma's yard, by necessity, and are now working on a just happen to be gentleman farmers/ranchers on the side. And second, it gives one hope. The birth and plan for a hunt in Salt Lake City. Sigh. With a great burst of energy on Sunday, when the rebirth of the earth is on approach. And though it clocks changed but I did not, I declared it a personal feels today like we will never see grass or sun again, spring-cleaning day. I started in my room and was still we will. Soon enough, the little lambs and calves will there a full day later. Just like the layers of snow and be out in grassy meadows all over the county and a sediment in the front yard, I explored the layers of Sunday drive will be a bucolic, water-colored, if not clothes and sentiment in my room. It predated the luminescent spring green, adventure. It will cost us votive candle. I found magazines from November, nothing to view. If the calves are birthing, surely Christmas cards from December, Sundance movie spring will do the same. Which is important to flyers from January and Valentines from February. remember, as I pull on my gloves and hat and throw The clothes, in piles, followed along similar layers of on the tired parka and head out into the still-white discovery. There was a rust-fall-colored sweater I world. And though it won't be this week, I will plan in thought I'd lost, a turtleneck with red and green rein- the not-too-distant future to take a long drive in deer, a lot of black tops and pants, and a candy-heart- county where it is still the country, and welcome pink blouse. There were eyeglasses I had given up on spring, some Sunday soon, in and out of the Park... finding; ditto an earring. All in all, it was a feeling of great accomplishment to tackle the room, but a bit Teri Orr is the director of the Park City Performing overwhelming when I remembered my house has Arts Foundation that provides programming for the many such rooms. I put on a long-sleeved T-shirt on George S. and Delores Dose Eccles Center for the this sunny blue-sky day and I wandered outside. Performing Arts and the Big Stars Bright Nights S Concert Series at Deer Valley. Orr is also a Ui.Lvi ui i i i c i d i u R e c o r d . a sweatshirt over mat. Hie sun was bright, just not all i |