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Show BUSY TIMES - JUNE 1992 - 3 Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of Castle Valley In early spring of 1975, there was much ditch work needed on the water works which would later become the Castle Valley Irrigation Company system. The ditches had not been used for over ten years, and in some places you could not even find where the original ditch had been. 80 it came to pass that two corporate dropouts would rebuild the system. One, Mr. Robert Degles. was more experienced in Castle Valley and had bought one of the very first problem—not enough noodles for the lots. I get Bob a plat map, and we find spaghetti. Annie, thinking on her feet, announces that we can choose between spaghetti sauce on noodles or spaghetti Lot 214, as I recall. I find myself staring at this man. I finally break into their conversation. “I’m sorry, but haven't you and I met before?" He agreed that he had a vague idea that we had. So we began comparing our past lives and where we had been. He was from Canada, Europe, and New York; I was from Utah, New York, and California, but the timing was wrong. The process of elimination was getting us closer in time and place. BINGO! Almost 15 years earlier, in Socorro, New Mexico (a little college town of about 4500 people), as president of the Physics Club, I had invited an internationally famous atmospheric physicist to lecture for a sauce on tacos. And what a feast we had. We ate together on boxes, rocks, etc. outside, because the trailer was not big enough for more than two. Besides, Annie had between 10 and 15 dogs and cats, and one of the German shepherds considered the trailer his private domain. We didn't feel like arguing. We were the only people in the world, it seemed. —-Joe Kingsley P.S. All friends of the Lists extend their prayers for Trudie in this time of serious illness. May God bless her and watch over her. week on mankind's environmental impacts on the atmosphere. In 1961, airbome pollution was a very new Sarah Hedden authority. So we meet again in what is ways. And the other, myself, was fresh from the city, eager to learn the ways. Degles was a very skillful river runner, a real river rat of the old school. And he had already rebuilt part of the Old Homestead and worked on the original almost a different world—and a small one at that. Would he like a Bud? After we’ve visited for awhile our break is over, and it is time for dinner: Annie‘s famous spaghetti under the stars, ending with an all night game of surveying of lots in Castle Valley. He is truly one of the originals. It was an unusually warm spring day, but working in the ditch made it cooler—we could work longer in a stretch, maybe 30 minutes or so. We would start around 10 am. and go to about noon, then a long lunch and around three or four another long break, usually to the start of next day. Castle Valley ways were hard! Besides, we had to work in a little daily on Bob‘s raft. After several days of this grueling BATTER UP! subject, and this Canadian was a world _ cribbage. Bob asks if Dr. Ronald List and his wife Trudie would like to join us for dinner. They would be pleased to experience some country western C'mon kids! Wouldn't it be great to have regularly scheduled games here in C.V.? The LDS Church has kindly given us permission to use the playing field on a regular basis for the summer. Call us, give cooking, they say. your name, age, phone We caravan up to Annie McLanahan's place—an old 15 or 16 foot trailer up on “the bench”—on the number, and preferred day, and we'll get organized. Call SOON at 7580. first CVRR lot ever inhabited. Annie knows that Bob and I will show up sometime. We always do. But she doesn’t expect two more. That was a crowd in those days! Now we have a schedule, we decided to have an early “Bud” at the DMA Sales Office, Castle Valley River Ranches. The office was an Aframe made of plywood, 2x43, a patio door front, with a small porch overlooking the creek. Barefooted, muddy, unshaven (for days, maybe longer), there we were, relaxing, when a car from Canada pulls up. The fust car we’ve seen in several days, and from Canada yet. The driver gets out of the car and walks over to Degles. “Hi Bob," he says. “I bought a lot here in Castle Valley and am looking for the street. Can you help me?” It turns out that he had come while the crew was-surveying Canyonlands Llamas ANN BENGE CVSR l9” Moat). Utah 84552 (Bill) 259-5759 |
