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Inside Sanpete

A ball, a boy, a dad and Joe

(A man at a baseball game wondered why the ball kept getting bigger and bigger. And then, it hit him!) Play Ball! Tomorrow, March 28, 2024 is what is known as “Opening Day” in Major League Baseball. All 30 teams will be in action. The Dodgers and the Padres played a couple of games in ...

Temple open house invasion

Don’t look now, but we’ve been invaded. Thousands are arriving on Sanpete’s “shores” and stampeding into our protected valley. It’s crazy. What are they doing here? Well, for one thing, last weekend, they were buying up all our strawberries, cabbage and corned beef brisket! You ...

The smell test

A week or so ago, my wife read a funny meme thing from the internet to me. (I’m still getting used to using “meme” in my vocabulary. Can’t we just call it a quip or a joke?) It read something like, “When I miss my parents, I put 12 expired salad dressings in my fridge, and it feels ...

Where is Sanpete?

It’s been a few years ago, when I heard this talked about. It was reported that some Utah state officials were given a quiz. As I heard it, they were given maps with the 29 counties of Utah outlined, but without the counties named. The assignment was to identify the counties. I remember ...

In the swim of things

Late last Saturday night and Sunday, I felt more aches and pains in my muscles than usual. I didn’t have to think very hard to decide what the cause would be for feeling that way. The reason: I went swimming last Saturday. I don’t go swimming very often. It’s been months since I was in ...

Mrs. Brown’s Cat Has Kittens

When I was a schoolboy back in the olden days in Richfield, a couple of friends and I would occasionally make “newspapers.” We would sometimes do this when we were supposed to be listening to the teacher lecture. Or, sometimes we were supposed to be following along in our literature books ...