Martin's Cove Site

Sep 30Well, September is almost over and with that our last 11 days at Martin's Cove have arrived. A lot of clean-up work is being accomplished with the cold season fast approaching. Pipes and water systems need to be purged, wells sterilized, new septic systems/ leach fields finished or prepared for the long Wyoming winter months.
The sisters in the humanitarian center are organizing their materials, finishing blankets, crocheting a baby afgan, making hats for cancer patients. A large shipment of blankets was delivered to a military base for processing to a hospital in Germany. These blankets are made to fit a hospital guerney and should keep our injured soldiers warm. During this upcoming winter, the missionaries who stay here will have ample work in the humanitarian center. This center has five sewing machines, one serger and one embroidery machine. There are at least twelve shelves of materials with no less than 3 yards per material bolt. Cabinets upon cabinets of yarns. All the materials have been donated by members or friends of the Church who then bring this material with them when they come to serve here. Some of the material also comes from neighboring stakes; Riverton, Rawlins and Casper mostly.
Our last combined (Willie Site and Martin's Cove) potluck was today and we all said a teary good-by to each other. Many friendships have been forged with some of them being long term. Some of us will probably never see many of the missionaries again while in mortality. The Grim Reaper will see to that.
It is time to start getting the motorhome ready for the trip to Bigfork. The nights are cool and the furnace comes on now and then. The days are still warm and school groups are coming to visit the Cove as part of their Wyoming history classes. A group of about ninety school children are expected during this week.
The Antelopes are in an agitated state during mating season right now. Every day we see fights for dominance and we don't seem to matter with our presence. They run into motorhomes, buildings and cars chasing each other and their "girlfriends." Sometimes it is comical and sometimes downright dangerous.
The local wolfpack, coyotes and cougars take their share of Antelopes for their food chain. We see evidence of that almost daily. Their cries, howls and barks we hear just about every night. The Antelope feels safe here at the Motorhome park so there is quite a number of them living here. Two bucks chasing each other came close to toppling Sister Gloschat as she was coming back to the motorhome from the pavilian.