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…
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…
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,…
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. …
Heading up into the hills… my first real hunt By Randal B. Thatcher After four years of living in this lovely, high-mountain valley of ours, and having had so many horizon-broadening “country” experiences during that time, I wasn’t sure how many of these experiential “firsts” were still left for me to assimilate. But…
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come Randal B. Thatcher Columnist 1-19-2017 A New Year has dawned, and with it, a fresh new beginning, filled with optimism and hopeful expectation. Or, as Tennyson put it: “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be…