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Show I haven't missed the snow and cold p.g. blah least turn off cold and windy and miserable. We have been snowed on at Granite Flat on Memorial Day lots of times. We have been snowed on in the spring at the desert, the mountains andtheNational Parks. So just plan a fun time and you can plan to get wet. Usually. It is all because of the Utah Spring which can come anytime and can come more than once a spring. Believe me. This is the time of year when it warms enough for a day or two for you to get the wanderlust and want to go out and enjoy some time with nature. That is a good time to watch out. Nature is just waiting for you to plan that so she can give you a good dose of you know what, Utah Spring. I enjoy watching a show that comes on on Saturday mornings called the Victory Garden or something some-thing to that effect. It gives good advice on gardening garden-ing and takes you to see some very lovely gardens around the country and sometimes overseas. It makes you want to go out and start tinkering with the soil and see if something will grow. But, don't do it. At least not until mid-June or else everything will get frozen. Blame it on the Utah Spring. Don't be mislead by nice warm days and comfortable nights. They can lull you into thinking that the Utah Spring is not coming this year and you will be safe to plant and your fruit tree blooms will set on. Don't believe it. Sure as you do there will be a bigblast of arctic air which decides to come south for the spring and you will get the opportunity opportu-nity to plant everything all over again. If all this sounds a little like satire, you are right. But believe me, it also happens on a regular basis and is true to life. No matter how tempted I get, I will not plant out my flowers until June 1 . Then I can count on only one or two more days of Utah Spring and perhaps they will survive. They will not survive in April or May. Those two months are the favorite times for the Utah Spring to bring us some snow showers and really cold weather. The best thing to do is to keep your umbrella, galoshes, winter coat and one light sweater on the coat rack. That way you can be prepared for anything. Take all of them with you every where you go because you never know when Utah Spring will come and you'll need them. The other night while we watched them try to get a pickup truck out of the Murdock Canal, our toes about froze because there was still a touch of snow on the ground from the day's earlier snowstorm. snow-storm. .Jl,TaS Utah SPring again. Ahhhhh. By MARCELLA WALKER It was quite a sight last week to see the majestic Mount Timpan-ogos Timpan-ogos all covered white again. It was quite a sight to see the big fat snow flakes falling to the ground on Wednesday. ' It was quite a sight to see the ground once again covered with snow, even though it did not lastfor days on end. All of this was quite a sight, but for most of us it was not all that pleasant of a sight. All during last month the weathermen have been griping because there has not been enough moisture during April, the month in which we are supposed, and usually do, get more moisture than any other. Personally, I had not missed it at all. We had enough snow and miserable cold during the winter that I did not relish it in April, May or June. Actually, a nice gentle April shower which would bring May flowers would have been tolerable, but a blinding snowstorm is a whole other matter. It is like old man winter can't quite give it up yet, even though it is nearly May, and has to get his little bite in now and again to keep us confused. You never know how to dress. If you bank on it being warm, sure as shooting you will freeze. However, if you dress for cold you will cook. It all boils down to a Utah Spring. We ought to have a separate sepa-rate season called Utah Spring, which is a moveable season as it might occur in April, May or June, and in which it will snow for sure. If you think I am speaking tripe, listen to this. My birthday is May 8. Some of you have heard me say this before. I have had sleigh riding parties on my birthday before. I h ave h ad to stay home and in thehouse because the snow storm prevented doing anything fun. All you need to do to guarantee a Utah Spring, is to plan something fun. Plan an early camping trip. Even a not-so-early one, say on Memorial Day. It will snow or at |