Wynn Roy Covieo
If you slept on a bench on the stage while the Grouse Creek Orchestra played for a dance in the basement of the church.
Diane McMullin Tanner
You’re a tenth grader and your two best friends are a first grader and an eighty year old.
Abi Tanner
If your 90 years old and still chopping your own wood!
Wynn Roy Covieo
If you drove 40 miles to Strevell, Idaho on a Friday night to get burger and a bottle of orange pop.
Merle Tanner White
If you still say Grouse Crick.
Wynn Roy Covieo
If you make reference to the road as a “good dirt road.”
Wynn Roy Covieo
If you said “Put it on the Bill” at the Co-op
Cathe Owens Runyan
You have a “go to town hat” or “go to town hair” for that matter. And people know you headed to town if they saw you in said hat or hair.
Todd Richardson
The most important part of nightly bathing routine is closely checking privates for ticks…
Cathe Owens Runyan
A chorus of frogs sings you to sleep at night and a coyote pup choir wakes you up in the morning.
Dawna Kimber Allen
When you can ride your horse to the store
Chad Warburton
You know what a swather and a baler is and you know how to drive them.
Paul Johnston
Getting a pop out of the trough, riding the spool chairs in the stream, and eating Dutch Oven dinner at Red Top Cabin.
Curtis Poll
Getting to the top of the mountain when your crazy uncle discovers he forgot to bring mustard for his sandwich and you have to go all the way back to town to get it.
Paul Johnston
Skinny dipping on a hot day at Etna with your cousins, uncles, dad, and great grandpa. And finding leeches in all the wrong places.
Wynn Roy Covieo
Boarding the train in Ogden and riding it across the Great Salt Lake on the trestle then catching a ride in the back of the mail truck from Lucin to Grouse Creek.
Steve Poll
Your Great Grandpa threw you in the back of the truck to go fix fence and told you to hold on because he likes to go really fast, then drives 3 miles an hour, swerving all over the place because he can’t see where he is going. Luckily he could see that last warm pop behind his seat
Carol Ferro Cook
Sliding down the hill in a box, just so u can take a bath, so gramma can get the ticks off and pop them with a match on the wood burning stove.
Dawna Kimber Allen
Okay we have all forgot the two most important things my grandpas Dutch oven sour dough biskets and uncle Winfred cabin
Dawna Kimber Allen
If you remember the bull getting out and out and you where stuck up in the tree for an hr till grandpa came home and put it away
Curtis Poll
You learned how to drive when you were 10 by your parents letting you take the wheel when you hit the dirt road leading into Grouse Creek.
Kade Kimber
when the biggest concern is not that a 9-year-old is driving (a stick-shift at that), but that they may happen across Uncle Winfred driving at the same time…with no room to pull off to the side of the road to give him plenty of space.
Wynn Roy Covieo
If you have ever said this is a good dirt road.
Carol Ferro Cook
Were thrilled you got picked to hold the bowl after the men got back from deer hunting.
Heather McWilliams Ward
If you grew up eating rocky mtn oysters 🙂
Steven Kimber
If you have ever watched you eighty plus year old uncle, third gear a ford tracker with homemade buck broad trailer across two railroad ties.
Wynn Roy Covieo
When every girl in Grouse Creek younger or older was much better looking than the girls in Ogden but you were related to them all
Wynn Roy Covieo
When you referred to your school teacher as Hippie
Judy Williams
Wasn’t raised there but heard all same comments from Terrel & siblings: Joetta, Oren Lee, Karla, & Randy
Carol Ferro Cook
Learning to dance in the church basement on the fourth of July with the cutest guy EVER….only to find out he was your cousin. Sigh
Carol Ferro Cook
Being paid by not only ur mom, but ur aunt and gramma NOT to ride the calf like all the boys at the 4th of July rodeo
Chad Warburton
You remember the many dances that GC had and the Grouse Creek band: Lyman Kimber (guitar, banjo and leader of the band), Grant Kimber (sax), Archie Toyn (sax), Raida Kimber (piano), Naomi Kimber (piano), Dorothy Covieo (piano), sometimes with the band on drums: Chuck Harris. Found this picture on the internet:
Wynn Roy Covieo
Fourth of July celebration also included horse races over at Mides Pond.
John Conrad Brinkerhoff
Spent the summer with Margie & Hughie, when I was 11, moving sprinklers and farm work. Hardest working summer I ever had and the most memorable. I still remember it like yesterday, fondly
Wynn Roy Covieo
If you were given the chore to operate the hand cranked Cream Separator
Claine Tanner
You have to be from GC if the fourth grade was three rows away when you were in the 1st grade and higher education meant you graduated to the “big” room
Claine Tanner
You know you are from Grouse Creek when the phone went dead cause a cow tripped on the phone line
Kodi Kimber Nelson
You know you are from Grouse Creek when you know the difference between the “Big” ditch and the “Little” ditch
Claine Tanner
Yes, you were really from Grouse Creek if Uncle Winfred gave you rides on the road grader and shared his pocket of mints with you
Claine Tanner
You know you’re from GC when you make up a simple answer rather than the complicated truth when you are asked how you are related to another Grouse Creeker. Double bred on the top and bottom of the pedigree chart was way too complicated to explain. Hehehehe
Elizabeth Kimber
I remember when the little kids would run to open the gate for Uncle Ted or Uncle Winfred so Ted or Winfred could drive through and the kids would get a piece of candy from them!
Elizabeth Kimber
I remember when I first moved to G.C. and deer season was on, there was a line of pickups, etc. waiting to gas up at the G.C. Co-op. It was a line that would go past Winfred’s house and sometimes further. A lot more deer in the country back then!!
Elizabeth Kimber
When the semi truck would bring groceries to the Co-op once a week and we would all gather at the store to do our shopping!
John Richardson
You burned your grandpas shed to the ground
Wynn Roy Covieo
In Grouse Creek everyone is your friend and knows your name.
Terri Tanner Schutz
Your three-day-long school field trips with Lyman and Eula were some of the best vacations you’ve ever had
Clayton Tanner
After describing how isolated and cut off from the rest of the world it is, you always follow it up with ‘ there’s no place I’d rather be’.
Brenda Leigh Baxter
You know you’re from Grouse Creek if you know the proper way to pronounce “crick”!
Jason Kimber
One of the few places left accessible by dirt road only… and you know the difference between a dirt road and a “good dirt road…”
Wynn Roy Covieo
You know if you are from Grouse Creek if there is still an Outhouse outback
Wynn Roy Covieo
You know if you are from Grouse Creek if a traffic jam is caused by a herd of cattle
Claine Tanner
You have to be an old timer from GC if you remember the days when the community water went dry and you headed out along the pipeline to Buckskin with an old tire intertube and some wire to find and patch the break out. In those days the main water line was made of wood with a wire bound around the two hollow halves to hold it together. AND yes Wynn the out houses were still in operation in spite of no water.
Claine Tanner
You know you’re a deer hunter from GC if when you got close to the state line there always seemed to be a big buck on the Nevada side.
Claine Tanner
I think I was 10 years old when I learned that pennies, nickels, and dimes did not come from a sand pile. Only an old Grouse Creek Kimber would understand that one
Dorothy Covieo
You could look down the road to see if anyone was coming to town, by the dust that a car created. I would sit on the front lawn and look, with hope that I would see the dust.
Linda Covieo Johnston
Wynn may have had to operate the milk separator, but when Grandma Kimber went to the Post Office to work, she left me to clean the many parts of the separator. The milk content was high in butterfat, so the cleaning was difficult, especially if the soap was not so great. Does anyone know how many parts there are to a separator?
Linda Covieo Johnston
You know you are from Grouse Creek if you go there to see you could catch the attention of some cute boys, cousins of course. I would spend some time getting cleaned up; I would then go to the Co-op, just in time for the Men and boys to come in from the fields for a cold drink. I’m sure it was way too obvious.
Linda Covieo Johnston
You know you are from Grouse Creek, if when you go to the cemetery to prepare for Memorial Day, you rake the dirt into a nice organized and pattern.
Karma Smith Allred
You know you are from Grouse Creek if you were ever chased out of the store by Merlin with a “hot shot
Linda Covieo Johnston
You’re from Grouse Creek, if you or others ride to Church on Sunday on four wheelers loaded with as many children as you can fit on it.
Wynn Roy Covieo
You know you are from Grouse Creek if you can tell whose truck just went up the country or down the country without even looking just by the sound it made.
Linda Covieo Johnston
Don J. – You know you have converted a non-Spam eater, when you see them licking their chops, while smelling it sizzling to a crispy brown on a hot flat rock over a fire
Linda Covieo Johnston
You know you are from Grouse Creek if you ride a four wheeler up the road to church, loaded with children all dressed in their Sunday best
Linda Covieo Johnston
When you helped Grandpa Kimber chop of the heads of chickens, and watch them run around without heads. Then the cleaning began. Every single little feather had to be completely removed, then cut up, then prepared, then cooked. My Oh my
Wynn Roy Covieo
You know if you are from Grouse Creek if have already listened to the 5:00 am Ag report, eaten breakfast, finished scripture study, made phone calls, checked emails and facebook, paid bills on-line, turned the ditch water, moved irrigation pipe, grained the show calves, saddled and loaded the horses, and the out of towners are wondering what all the commotion is about when they are awakened from their sleep when they hear the trucks and trailers headed up the country.
John Conrad Brinkerhoff
You know the phrase, “Run down and pull the plug.”
Dorothy Covieo
You know you are from Grouse Creek when one of the most exciting entertainments was going to Lucin to watch the trains go by.
Claine Tanner
You may be from GC if there was a side of meat hanging near the kitchen in a cool place. Often wrapped in an old but clean sheet. Very well aged and best tasting ever.
Dorothy Covieo
When one of your Saturday jobs was to wash the glass lamp shades on the kerosene lamps
Claine Tanner
You might be from GC if the only fruit you ever seen grow as a youngster was plums and crab apples
Claine Tanner
When the power went out it was OUT for days…….no problem ………it was a modern convenience of the day
Dorothy Covieo
You were from Grouse Creek when you were excited to have a peddler named Mr. Baker come to sell cherries and peaches out of his truck
Dorothy Covieo
You were from Grouse Creek when you never did have electricity when you were living there
Claine Tanner
And maybe a hide buyer would come by and you had a deer hide or a beef hide and your folks let you have the few dollars they sold for.
Claine Tanner
You would hope for good luck to find a few pop bottles as you walked the few miles to the store where you could trade your bottles in for a sweet treat
Claine Tanner
As a teen age boy in GC you looked forward to the city girls (usually cousins) coming to visit and maybe even coax them into riding double with you on your horse. Hehehe
Claine Tanner
I thought the boy to girl ratio in GC was very lopsided. Maybe it just seemed like there was a shortage of girls. When Linda Covieo visited her grandparents I thought she was the cutest girl on the planet but way way to shy to get close enough to say hi. She was the older woman maybe even a year or two older.
Larry Warburton
You know you are from Grouse Creek if as a 19 year old you find yourself over 2000 miles from home on the east coast, starting what is touted as the “best two years.”
In a new ward you are ask to introduce yourself in priesthood meeting, you stand and say Elder Warburton, and then before you can continue you are interrupted by an old man in the front with “your not a Grouse Creek Warburton are you? Shocked you stammer “yes I am”. Then the classic reply by the older man. Well I’ll be da … Welcome to Virginy” (caught himself just in time but the Bishop was laughing along with everyone in the room).
Justin Allred
You know you are from Grouse Creek, when you’re still using an out house as your main bathroom and everyone gets excited over having plumbing put in for flush toilet in the mid 1990’s
Delma Kimber Smith
You know you’re from Grouse Creek if you all know how to dance the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
Wynn Roy Covieo
You know are from Grouse Creek when you can drive through the valley and everyone you see takes the time to wave
Delma Kimber Smith
You know you’re from Grouse Creek when if the phone rings in the middle of the night and someone yells fire you know that everyone has listened in and will respond.
Wynn Roy Covieo
I suspect back then you always had an audience when the phone rang in that all you had was party lines. .
Steven Kimber
If you can move your “house” with a tractor.
Wynn Roy Covieo
Did You Know: In the late 1800s and early 1900s many wanted men came through Grouse Creek equipped with horses, guns, and bed rolls. One member of Butch Cassidy’s notorious Robbers Roost Gang rode through town one day and was recognized by Josie Kimber. He had lived by her and her mother in Huntington. He quickly gave her a hand signal to not reveal his identity. On another occasion a bunch of men were arrested in Grouse Creek and brought to Charles Kimber Jr. home until they could be transported to jail. They were kept in the front room with Billy Kimber, the oldest of Charles’s children guarding the door. Josie was very frightened. One of the convicts, Cleve Blakeslade played on the Kimber’s organ, I’ll go where you Want me to go, Dear Lord all night.
Delma Kimber Smith
That is very interesting. I didn’t know all that. Where have I been?
Chuck Kimber
You know you’re from Grouse Creek if Merlin gave you a nick name. . . . . and it stuck.
Wynn Roy Covieo
When I was about 8 years old Merlin gave me the nickname of Wynnsor which I wear with pride still to this day. Before his passing I spent some time with Merlin and asked why he gave everyone nicknames and his response was ” well I have to c…all you call you something other than your name.” He spent the next hour telling me all of the nicknames the Tanners gave everyone in Grouse Creek. Some pretty fun names though some made no sense whatsoever.
Chuck Kimber
You know you’re from Grouse Creek if you every drag raced the quarter mile from the corner to the gas pump, very late at night.
Karma Smith Allred
You know you are from Grouse Creek if Max Tanner threatened to take you to town in the back of his pick up for said drag racing!
LeAnn Orton
You ever played Ping Pong during class.
LeAnn Orton
You and 3 of your cousins rode Winfred’s old mare all together, and when the horse hesitated, you all yelled “constipation!” (OK, we were pretty young).
Delma Kimber Smith
Or when four of you were on the horse and one had to run along behind to keep the horse going. When someone stopped to ask if the runner wanted a ride they said “oh no, it’s my turn to keep the horse going”
Karma Smith Allred
Yes, and we went all over on that poor horse.
Wynn Roy Covieo
Quiz: In Grouse Creek in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s what did it mean to set your cap for someone and where did it originate?
Olive Tanner Kimber was once given advice by Joe Barlow who came to her and said, “Why don’t you set your cap for Winfred Kimber because he’s sure a nice guy.” Joe had been working with him somewhere so after that she followed Joe’s advice. On one occasion kids were playing around at the church and Olive had a feeling he was going to ask her to come home with him and he did. From then on they started paying attention to each other. His dad owned a Model T Ford and that’s what we traveled in. On November 8, 1922, Winfred Charles Kimber and Olive Tanner were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
Andrea Tanner
You know you are from Grouse Creek when you only know your relatives by their nicknames and not their given names!
Claine Tanner
You know your from Grouse Creek if you can tell 10 wild and funny stories about Chuck Kimber.
Claine Tanner
And did you know that Valison Tanner Sr. was knocked off from a stack of hay by a jackson fork. His injuries proved fatal from that accident.
Claine Tanner
You are from GC if you ever drank an ice cold shasta fished out of the spring fed trough at Winfreds field.
Dorothy Covieo
My dad would say “That was not much of a rain storm-just enough to settle the dust”
Wynn Roy Covieo
You know you are from Grouse Creek if ever attended a party at Winfreds Field and entered a Shasta chugging contest with Junior Kimber or Paul Blanthorn always winning.
Sonee Kimber Cobbley
If the word landscaping ment multiple trips to GC for rocks for your backyard.
Sonee Kimber Cobbley
If your father can tell a story about every single person in GC and know which family they come from.
Sonee Kimber Cobbley
You can find a connection anywhere in Utah and they are originally from GC.
Dorothy Covieo
We would sit on the front porch and watch the rain come down. Occasionally, it was a cloud buster and we could hear water coming down off the hills in the washes. We would run across the field to see all that water in the big wash. It was very exciting.