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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Well, we have hopes for
a white Christmas, but it’s
a 50% chance. The newly
watered grass in our poor lit-
tle rock-pile of a yard is so
green! That rain was certainly
a blessing. The carrots haven’t
sprouted, though. However,
the potatoes in their bin on
the back porch have! What’s
wrong with this picture!
Winter has begun. Those of
us with SAD are very happy.
That means that every day
will have more sunshine! And
here come the 2022 garden
catalogs…
Did you know that there
is corn in colors other than
yellow: red, pink, tan, gold,
white, rust, blue, white
and green. Some can be
ground for cornmeal. OK…
Then there’s the tomato:
orange, black, pink and yellow.
Red, yellow, purple and white
potatoes. Radishes are still
red, carrots are mostly orange
— one is yellow — beans can
be green, red, purple, or yel-
low. I see a cream-colored
pea and a yellow cauliflower,
a white pumpkin and yellow
watermelon.
You can even grow your
own bananas, olives, oranges,
lemons, limes, pomegran-
ates and coffee on your back
(or front) porch in their own
pots! Since we are in zone 6
and those dwarf trees are all
for zones 8-10, you have to
bring them inside for the win-
ter. And for all you people
that like to go out and com-
pete with the bears for the elu-
sive huckleberry, grow your
own in your own backyard!
“All-American shrub bears
tons of glossy, purple-blue
berries in midsummer. Foli-
age remains evergreen in zone
6 and south. Self-pollinating.
Full sun to partial shade. Bare-
root. Zones 5-8. Not available
in CA, GA, WA. $14.99.”
Did see a pink blueberry,
but all the strawberries are
still red!
You can even buy five
milkweed plants for $30!
Now why would you do such
a thing? Because milkweed is
the sole host plant for mon-
arch butterflies, that’s why. I
was surprised to see that some
of the flowers that I assumed
would only be growing in
Hawaii-like climates can be
grown in zones 5-9. Then
there’s lilac that is rated for
zones 2-9. “Hardy,” it says.
And only $20! Hmm. Travel
the back roads and look for
old homesteads. There will
usually be one still surviving
next to the fallen-down house.
(Better stop there or I’ll get in
trouble…) The garden people
have even propagated a thorn-
less blackberry.
Its name is Born Free. Har,
har.
Thoughts for the new year:
“Happiness: a good bank
account, a good cook, and
a good digestion.” — Jean-
Jacques Rousseau (1712-
1778), French philosopher and
writer.
“If you want to be success-
ful, it’s just this simple. Know
what you are doing. Love
what you are doing. Believe in
what you are doing.” — Will
Rogers (1879-1935), Amer-
ican cowboy, humorist and
showman.
“The most important thing
in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’
and start saying ‘I will.’” —
Charles Dickens (1812-1870),
English writer.
Hebrews 10:3-5,7 “But
those sacrifices are an annual
reminder of sins, because it
is impossible for the blood of
bulls and goats to take away
sins. Therefore, when Christ
came into the world, He said:
… a body You prepared for
Me; … I have come to do Your
will, O God.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
I have not been keeping up
with the calendar. I’ve been
forgetting that this article you
read is one week after the fact.
So hope you all had a very
Merry Christmas! Oh, before I
forget, Happy New Year, too!
At least I won’t be late with
that mention. Ha. May the
Lord bestow upon you all as
you look to Him, peace, joy,
and hope for the future.
Our cooks, Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell, prepared for
our meal pulled pork sand-
wiches, french fries, coleslaw
and peach cobbler for dessert.
We sure were a bunch of hun-
gry folks. I had to go back and
get some more french fries.
We thank our cooks for their
work.
Our volunteer at the table
was Kristi Guimont. She had a
few kids with her that she was
watching and they helped her
at the table. Kristi also made
some announcements and led
us in the flag salute. Yours
truly prayed the blessing over
the meal.
An important announce-
ment you must take note of
is this: Starting in January,
due to the increased cost of
food and supplies, the price
for meals will increase. Senior
meals (for those 60-plus) will
be $5. Non-seniors will be $6,
and children up to 12 will be
$2.
There will be potluck
bingo on New Year’s Eve at
4 p.m. The early time was to
accommodate some of our
friends from Spray who like to
come, and we don’t want them
to drive home too late.
The winner of the last tur-
key raffle was Ron Browning.
The winner of the Len’s gift
card was Dinah Cowger. The
free meal ticket was won by
Betty Breeding. There were
a total of 47 meals served,
counting both dine-in and
takeout meals.
Well, I have added a cou-
ple of animals with my herd
of goats. I found and bought
a couple of young alpacas! I
am so blessed to have a hubby
who encourages me and helps
me. We picked them up almost
a week ago. I have a female
and a male. They are unre-
lated. They are still young
babies. We named them Cyrus
and Reese. Cyrus is about 4
feet tall, and Reese is just a
few inches taller than Cyrus.
The alpacas are a little skit-
tish right now, and I am try-
ing to work with them to have
them get used to me. Cyrus
is a little bit friendlier than
Reese. She is more standoff-
ish. I am hoping to harvest
their fleece, which is suppos-
edly softer than wool. A new
friend in the area knows how
to make her own socks and
sweaters! Won’t that be a cool
thing to learn?
Like I said before, if you
don’t know how to do some-
thing, Youtube! There is a say-
ing: Ignorance is a choice. We
live in the information age. So
much knowledge is out there.
You can find and learn about
anything. The Bible says that
in the last days, knowledge
will abound. That should get
us all thinking.
Daniel 12:4 But thou, o
Daniel, shut up the words, and
seal the book, even to the time
of the end: many shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall
be increased.
OUT OF THE PAST
75 YEARS AGO
Joaquin
Miller
Resort
changes hands
It was stated this week by Paul
Rix that he and his associate Bill
Hudson have sold the Joaquin
Miller Resort property on Can-
yon Creek to a party from Califor-
nia whose name was not revealed.
It was stated that the new owner
plans on operating the Resort as a
boys camp, however, full particu-
lars were not available.
Mr. Rix and Mr. Hudson
acquired the popular recreational
center about a year ago.
50 YEARS AGO
Scots dance to bagpipes
As young people waited
patiently for “their” kind of music
Saturday night at the annual Day-
ville ScotsAmerican dance, mem-
bers of the county’s declining Scots
population made a grand march to
bagpipe music by George Jamieson
of Condon and — joined by oth-
ers — danced to “American” tunes
by Caeser McKrola’s Orchestra.
It was snowy outside and the hall
chilly — at first. But the evening
warmed up as everyone danced.
25 YEARS AGO
Tigers pound Spray Eagles
A slow first half was put behind
the Tigers as they scorched the vis-
iting Eagles in the third and fourth
quarters.
Senior Jeff Thomas and Bob
Martin led Dayville-Monument
after sluggish first-half starts.
Thomas was benched with three
fouls five minutes into the first
quarter and Martin scored only four
points, all in the opening period, as
the Tigers trailed the Eagles 8-6
after the first quarter and 24-18 at
the half.
“In the first half we were lethar-
gic and we weren’t moving quickly
or moving the ball with crisp
passes,” Tigers coach Skip Inscore
said.
Thomas scored his 18 points in
the third and fourth quarters and
Martin hit three three-point shots,
adding 17 points in the second half.
“Bob (Martin) is starting to
take on the leadership role and we
need that from him, “Inscore said.
“He stole the ball and made some
three-pointers. The kids look to
him to get energy.”
After trailing by as many as 10
in the first half, Dayville-Monu-
ment rallied and regained the lead
38-36 on a Martin three-pointer to
end the third quarter. The Eagles
never were within four points for
the rest of the game.
Martin led the Tigers with 21
points and had three rebounds
and two assists. Thomas added 13
rebounds and two blocks, Stoney
Geinger scored six points and had
nine assists, Mike Meyers had
eight points and four rebounds,
Scott Bilyeu had four points and
six rebounds, and Eddie Mund had
four assists.
Blue Mountain Eagle, File
Dayville-Monument’s Jeff Thomas provided defensive prowess in the second half
against the Spray Eagles as he blocked two shots and pulled down 13 rebounds in
a 1996 contest.
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