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We are probably cousins… just a few times removed!
We are probably cousins… just a few times removed! 2-20-2020 A rather remarkable thing transpired recently that still has me marveling… My wife and I had gathered at the home of friends, together with still other friends, for dinner. The conversation around this particular table was not unlike the dinner conversation around…
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Painting in natural light
Painting in natural light By: Randal B. Thatcher If you had lived in France during the late 1800s, you might’ve been lucky enough to glimpse a great impressionist artist, like Claude Monet or Pierre-Auguste Renoir, sitting outside, in front of their portable “field easel” and painting the landscape in its natural light—a style of…
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A Half-Bubble Off Plumb
A Half-Bubble Off Plumb By Randal B. Thatcher Of all the glories and splendors of our Sanpete environs, perhaps the most glorious of all is our mountains—those splendid hills and peaks that surround us on every side. Snow-capped in winter, sun-blazoned in summer, multi-colored in autumn and verdantly green in springtime, our mountains are a…
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A Half-Bubble off Plumb: Life lessons learned from recent rafting trip
Life lessons learned from recent rafting trip By Randall Thatcher 7-4-2019 As I consider the many first-time experiences I’ve encountered since moving to Sanpete County, and all the many horizon-expanding lessons learned in the process, I can now add one more: rafting down a river. A local friend, and rafting enthusiast, had been eager…
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Marvels at creativity of kids
Marvels at creativity of kids By Randal B. Thatcher Apr. 26, 2018 Today, indulge me as I marvel. I am continually amazed by the inherent creativity and innate artistry of youth. Give a high schooler a video camera, and I’m astounded by the insightful documentary film he can produce with it. (I got…
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Who turned these old doorknobs before me?
Who turned these old doorknobs before me? By Randal B. Thatcher Feb. 22, 2018 I have a cousin who has always been interested in very old things. An inveterate rock-hound and arrowhead-seeker, he is continually on the hunt for that rare item of hidden beauty or historical significance. Such expeditions have more recently led…
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This Way or That? Choose a Route North
This Way or That? Choose a Route North By Randal B. Thatcher Jan. 25, 2018 Since moving to this lovely mountain valley over four years ago, I have come to realize some unavoidable facts of life and living in our Sanpete Valley: Herds of sheep will sometimes be blocking the road you’re traveling….
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Is that really Willie Nelson’s ranch?
Is that really Willie Nelson’s ranch? By Randal B. Thatcher Dec. 14, 2017 I like to keep an eye out whenever I go traveling around Sanpete Valley for those big, iconic ranch gates that dot this agricultural county. I love to read the names of these sprawling ranches on the big gate-signs that…
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Well-Situated Sanpete
Well-Situated Sanpete Gateway to Scenic Splendors of the World By Randall Thatcher Nov. 9, 2017 Convincing friends from faraway places to come visit us here in lovely Sanpete is usually not a difficult proposition. But, for the more reluctant, I tend to sweeten the proposal with two further inducements: First, I offer to…
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Metal Shop Miracle
Metal Shop Miracle A life lesson in the form of a metal riveting hammer Randal B. Thatcher Columnist 2-16-2017 It’s been decades now, but the memory is still as vivid as if it had happened yesterday: When the least likely, least confident, least capable boy in that year’s 8th grade metal shop,…
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Reawakening my inner, snow-loving child
A Half-Bubble Off Plumb Reawakening my inner, snow-loving child Randal B. Thatcher Colmnist 12-8-2016 Leaving my native state of Utah some 30 years ago, I felt glad to be also leaving behind the condemnable snows of a Utah winter—swapping all that troublesome white stuff for the less hassle-inducing rains of a Seattle winter. …
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Watch For Sanpete Messenger 16th Home & Garden magazine to be mailed to every household in Sanpete County on Friday
