Martin's Cove Site

Aug 16Today is Nancy and Chad's 26th wedding anniversary. As always they have a full days activities planned.
It must be getting close to Christmas because the Idaho Falls tree club has a meeting already.
Yesterday morning we saw our first two wolves as they ran across the prairie to their mountain home. We had heard some howling noises the past few nights and now we know why. They were beautiful specimens with their full tails streight back as they ran. It seemed as tho the antelopes paid no attention to them.
Today was the last day of trek groups. This one was a scout troop with fifteen planned attendees. We counted only nine as we attended them. Six members of the troop bowed out before their departure for Martin's Cove. It was a great group of yooung men and a joy to work with them today.
Next was a German family which spoke very good English and wanted to hear lots of stories about the pioneers who came on the trail and their faith promoting experiences. We had to shuttle a lot of missionaries around because we are running short as we get towards the end of the "open" season.
This next week will be busy with preparations for Sun Ranch Days and all the visitors we expect. A hundredfifty pounds of beel loin has been cut up into stew meat and one of the missionaries is in charge of making this great stew to be enjoyed by all.
Today also was the last day of the excursion into the hills for fence poles. The plan was to get fourhundred plus poles to replace broken fences. The goal was met this afternoon and hamburgers were the treat for the hard working lumberjacks.
The weather has cooled dramatically. We expected frost this morning, and it came very close to being just that. Most of the Sisters wore a coat of some kind this morning.
Well, the Gospel is still true. We have our Prophet, Thomas S. Monson, who receives revelation for the Church. It is getting close to celebrate his eightyfifth birthday and the Conference Center will be filled for that event. He is a good man to be our Prophet.
Aug 19What a busy three days we have had. Friday was the Preparation Day and a full day it was as we shopped for ourselves and the ranch. Lots of repair parts we found in town, but some had to be ordered in from the manufacturers. It is always a good thing to go to town and relax from the rigors of every day activities. We are getting ready for the "Sun Ranch Days" celebration this coming Saturday, 25th of August. We are celebrating 140 years of Sun Ranch. Today we received our schedules and Joachim (Fred) will man the HAM radio for this special event. Our call sign will be K7A and we will operate on 20, 40 and 80 meters. We will call: QRZ (3 times), K7A from the highlands of Wyoming, Martin's Cove. We hope to make many contacts and we have designed 50 cards to be mailed out as a QSL. I will have to move my antenna to the activity site as will one other HAM for his Transmitter and receiver. There will hopefully be four of us to operate throughout the day.
Bernice is assigned to the first aid station, the lost child and information booth.
We hope that lots of people come, otherwise we will have to eat 150 lbs. delicious stew during the week.
Our shift for Saturday was in the morning. I was assigned to repair sprinklers with parts I bought in Casper on Friday. Also check out all the restrooms for this next week. Faucets and flushers have to work just right for as many people as we expect. Sister Gloschat (Bernice) was in the Humanitarian Room setting up quilting frames and finishing up guerney blankets for injured serviceman and women. We also write a small card to accompany each blanket thanking them for their service to our country. We have close to a hundred blankets which will be given to the Air Force for transportation to military hospitals. This has been done in the past and is not a new program.
There were several visitors here for our church service. They are mostly children of missionaries assigned here. For our services we have two couples speaking with a special musical number inbetween. Each speaker is asked not to exceed 10 minutes, but usually the sisters will take more and leave very little time for the elders. It works out OK.
The gravel roads are very hard on my bicycle tires. So far I had to repair 7 punctures on the front tube. It might mean that a new tube might have to be bought.