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Show Amufll- n Utt (Eapes Park Record Thursday, May 18, 1989 Page A13 eoo BY TOM CLYDE A garage full of artifacts Rainy weekends are a great cure for procrastination. pro-crastination. All spring long, I have been trying to get around to cleaning the garage, but keep putting it off because there was something more fun to do. So, with a rainy weekend keeping me close to home, it was a perfect opportunity to get things whipped into in-to shape around the house. I took a nap instead, but finally got around to straightening things up in the garage, if not really cleaning it. It's amazing what turns up in a fairly thorough inventory of the garage. I found a hub cap to a car I sold before I moved into this house. I must have moved it with the other garage stuff, but I sure don't know why. There is also a pretty good collection collec-tion of almost bald tires. You probably have some of those, too. Tires that are good enough to drive in the summer, but nothing to face the winter on. The theory is always to put new ones on in November, then take the new ones off and put the others back on to get the last 5,000 miles out of them the following spring. But somehow, the new ones just feel better, and spending the time and money to put the old tires on the car never seems to make sense. It has been known to snow here in July. So they accumulate in the garage. I came across a box of old clothes I was going to take to the homeless shelter last fall, but forgot. The mice had been in them kind of bad over, the winter, and I'm not sure that the donation would be appreciated in its present condition. I guess anything stored in the garage long enough becomes trash. All kinds of things deteriorate into trash on their own schedules, kind of like radioactive radioac-tive materials turning to lead. The half-life of paint, in this cold climate, is one winter. Clothes can last a couple, if they are in a rodent-proof container. con-tainer. Pieces of plywood left over from the construction construc-tion of the house, those scraps that are too small to be used for anything but are too big to burn, seem to have a half life about like plutonium. I moved a stack of scrap lumber around again this year, neatly stacking it in another position where the snow and muck from the bottom of the car will melt and soak it up all winter. Gradually, even the scrap lumber will be trash; There were a bunch of boxes stacked in the corner cor-ner of the garage that I didn't remember putting there. Some of them were filled with the old stuff I had dragged around from house to house in my various moves. The fact that it was still packed in newspaper from the move to Park City seven years and three houses ago is some indication of its value. It got hauled out to the curb on garbage day along with the old ski boots with broken buckles. I don't know what I was saving them for. The most surprising find, though, was a huge box way in the very back of the garage. I didn't recongize it at all, so I was pretty curious to find out what was in it. "Well, I'll be darned," I said to the dog. "Look at this. A great big ol' box full of Indian In-dian artifacts. And right here in my garage. What do you know. You just never know where those things will turn up." I started sifting through the box of ancient artifacts. ar-tifacts. They didn't seem to be' anything too special, not like you might find in some garages, , but just your basic, garden variety pot shards, grinding stones, projectile points and the like. All the major tribes were represented. There was Hopi and Navajo, and some stuff may have been from the Anasazi, Koreans and Taiwanese. Those rascals. All this time we thought they lived down in the desert, and here they are, squirreling away artifacts in my garage. In the back corner of the garage was a little Moki hut, where they used to store corn and grain. Those were usually built high on cliffs in the desert, but I guess my garage would offer about as much shelter as one of those exposed cliffs. And there aren't any sandstone cliffs around here anyway. Any port in a storm, those cliff dwellers always used to say. Well, finding all those artifacts in my garage was a real shocker. I mean, the house is only about four years old, so it was hard to explain how ancient an-cient people's broken china was turning up by the truckload in there. We sure didn't run into any of that when we dug the hole for the septic tank. All I can figure is that there are still a bunch of them around, stashing artifacts here and there, and traveling disguised as UP&L meter readers. I boxed all the artifacts up and set them aside, thinking there must be something to do with them later. I was going to clean the store room at the back of the garage, too, but gave up when I peeked inside. in-side. It was going to be an all day job just getting the dinosaur bones out through that little doorway. Sramnmifrt tt miinmmmntt mm Pitkin addresses greenhouse blues T! Winterkill moved from roads Carcasses left over from last winter's Yellowstone Park mortality count have been moved away from roads to avoid possible humangrizzly confrontation. "We move carcasses that are in the most highly visited areas," said park spokesman Joan Anzelmo. "Our goal is always the protection of the visitors. We move them further into the woods so that they won't attract at-tract bears close to the road." Mortality was high last winter due to last year's drought and the heavy snowfall. Anzelmo said few deaths were attributed to last summer's fires. He added mild winters during the past few years attributed to less winter kills. "Death in an ecosystem is a natural process. It's part of the nutrient life cycle," said Louisa Wilcox, program director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. "It will be a boon for other animals, such as grizzlies, who will have lots of carcasses to feed on." It is predicted over 10 percent of the bison and elk population perished due last winter due to natural causes. A MEMBER OF THE SEARS FINANCIAL NETWORK Never settle for less than the best. Fit -TT EXCEPTIONAL LOG HOME Located in Holiday Ranch. Flowing stream adjacent with one share water right. Four stall barn, fenced pasture. Serene setting! No. 47 Holiday Ranch 1 1 76 Lucky John $285,000. Robert Ziegler 649-4400 EXCELLENT VIEWS! GREAT PINEBROOK HOME Newly remodeled. New hardwood floors, carpet and paint. 7189 Hitching Post $225,000. Scott Vultaggio 649-4400 ' . j, i'.v lief "'ci K...'..,.-.,.. .V,.A,J1..,.J...J. .. -. ,.,JJr,....,- (.-.. It 4 " o CAPE COD 4 DOORS FROM GOLF COURSE Great location in Park Meadows, this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is in one of the best areas of town. 20' tall trees in the front yard really sets this one off. 2146 Lucky John $143,500. 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See agent for details. 1 662 Bonanza Drive $375,000. Bernadette Clahane 649-4400 1 750 Park Avenue 649-4400 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Pitkin County is trying to do its bit to help put a stop to the destruction of the ozone layer and the global warming warm-ing trend caused by what is known as the "greenhouse effect." Proposals by county staff include awarding density bonus points to those developments which take measures to reduce their contribution to the greenhouse effect; prohibiting rental car companies from renting vehicles with air conditioning; enforcing regulations controlling wood burning; trying to reduce fuel consumption con-sumption by 15 percent for each county department; and banning plastic foam a source of the halogenated chlorofluorcarbons believed to be destroying the ozone layer. Tom Newland, the county's land use engineer, said he suspects some of the suggestions would be illegal, particularly par-ticularly the ban on plastic foam used for packaging fast food or restaurant carry out food. County attorney Tom Smith agreed, and said "it's probably something that's outside of the county's jurisdiction." But, Newland noted a few other city and county governments across the U.S. have attempted a ban on the foam. He is checking out how they have enacted their local ordinances and whether or not they have been legally challenged. Ticket prices up Sun Valley is expected to hike its lift ticket prices next season to make some general improvements at its Bald Mountain ski area. An all-day pass will cost $35, and there will be a $1 hike for lift tickets sold to those who hold discount cards. That will increase rates to $18 on weekends and $21 weekdays. Improvements are expected to take place this summer, sum-mer, and include improving restaurants on the mountain, moun-tain, expanding snowmaking capacity and recontouring a few of the runs. Specifically, Limelight lift may be removed so Limelight run can be widened and contoured for intermediate in-termediate skiers. , LA Another big project the Sun Valley Company might undertake is to create a second set of base facilities at River Run. Now, it has a base at Warm Springs which Wally Huffman, Sun Valley Company general manager, says is "a mess." "I don't know how Warm Springs works," he said. Huffman cited the lack of parking, poor circulation and no room for expansion as drawbacks at Warm Springs. He also said the 160 acres at River Run might be made into a hotel and residential lots. It is the major portion of the 169 acres on the mountain owned by Sun Valley Company Com-pany (rather than by the U.S. Forest Service), and, according ac-cording to Huffman, is "a critical piece of property" to develop properly. No big plans for ski area Aside from a new poma lift and replaced shuttle bus, the Jackson Hole Ski Corp. does not expect to undergo any major construction this summer. The ski corp. asked permission to relocate a section of the Gros Ventre ski run onto Forest Service land to make room for a new condominium complex. They also expect to make improvements on the parking lot. County officials said they would not approve any new lifts until new parking was provided. Brucellosis claims cattle A possible buffalo-transmitted infection is being partially par-tially blamed for the loss the Parker Land and Cattle Company's cattle herd. 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