Cultivating a Manageable Garden for Busy Lives There is one thing you could count on as I grew up, and that was a big, beautiful garden. Where we lived at the Baker Ranger Station in Monticello, Utah, and in Salt Lake City where I moved [...]
Printed in the Deseret News By Julian Thomas I built a trailer in a lot to the side of my mother’s backyard for Norene and me to take to Logan as we would start school to become forest rangers. It was 8 feet wide and 16 [...]
My father was a forest ranger, and my brothers and I were raised at the Baker Ranger Station near Monticello, Utah. It was a kid's paradise. The ranger station was comprised of a section of land that encompassed 240 acres. On the property was our [...]
I had a bike almost before I could push the pedal down. It was a tricycle, and how I loved riding up and down our driveway! At three, anything that moves is really exciting. In a small town one of the biggest benefits for the kids [...]
I have had such an interesting response from my article that I wrote last week. I have decided to follow it up with a few more thoughts, feelings and insights. I do not know the number of people that do not read well but I [...]
When I was nine, my allowance wouldn't cover the items that I wanted to buy out of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Monticello only had two small grocery stores. The only place we could shop was in a catalog, and we could only shop with [...]
Jared and I were blessed with the good fortune to be born and raised in the breath taking Manti La Salle National Forest in southern, Utah where our father was the forest ranger. I was born just after my parents arrived in Monteicello and Jared [...]
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