2022 - Year of the Big Hay


 Doug and Peggy Porter Year at a Glance - 2022 

JANUARY 

 1 - Livvy and Aaron's family celebrate New Years with us at the Ranch.

 2 - Viewing for my brother, Grant Hamblin Bangerter, Lehi, Utah

 3 - Funeral for Grant, Lehi, Utah

 10 - Jury duty for Peggy

  15 - Peggy gets Covid sickness, Doug about a week afterward. 2-week recovery.

 16-17 - Katherine's family at ranch.

 31 - Granddaughter, Ella Broughton stars in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" Springville High School

FEBRUARY

 1 - Branding steers



 12 - First calf of the season

 19-21 - Jacob's
family at ranch for Presidents' Day weekend









 26-March 7 - Tending Rosie and Eliza while Livvy and Aaron cruise Caribbean. Sage helps out at ranch.







MARCH

11 - Granddaughter, Brooklyn's 13th Birthday, Thatcher, Idaho


14 - Farewell party for sister Glenda and Steve Apple, headed to Recife Brazil Mission


15 - Evie's 6th Birthday


25 - Grandson, Wesley Broughton stars as Beast in "Beasty and the Beast" - 6th grade, Mapleton, UT.




26 - Granddaughter Sage in "Moana", Westfield Elementary production, Highland, UT






APRIL

4-5 - Katherine and children visit ranch.





6-9 - Jayni and Craig visit ranch








16 - Calf Branding








17 - EASTER


23 - Megan's Birthday party, Mapleton, Utah. Granddaughter, Ella's play.



24 - Katherine's surprise 30th Birthday party, Livvy's home in Vineyard.






26 - Move mother cows with babies to Izatt place.




30 - Working steers.






MAY

2 - Granddaughter Annie stars in "Guys and Dolls", Timberline Jr. High, Alpine, UT





6 - Daughter, Megan, sings in Millennial Choir, Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City



7- Clean up at my parents' farm in Alpine, Utah.






7 - Birthday party for son-in-law Craig Kingsford



8 - Mother's Day with Jayni and Katherine's family




9 - Garden and greenhouse work





11- Granddaughter, Megan Koehler gives speech at graduation exercises from Alexandria Technical and Community College.

20 - Move mother cows with babies to Stuart Field.




24 - Refreshing the springs.








25 - "Hope on the Hill" at capitol building, Salt Lake.  Livvy organized the event.




26-30 - Family reunion with my children, Gunlock, Utah, at Peggy's brother Layne and Betsy's home.




































JUNE

2-8- Sally and children visit ranch from Texas.




























8-10- Katherine's children at the ranch








12-17 - Sage and Clarissa visit ranch













20-23 - Jayni and girls visit ranch.











27- July 4 - Ella, Lucy and Annie visit the ranch














JULY

4 - Peggy's children meet at Katherine's house for barbeque, Livvy's house for fireworks.











5-9 - Sage and Cora visit ranch, also Peggy's sister Duella on weekend with grandchildren.













11 - Doug cuts waist high hay behind house and "Bend Meadow"






15 - Trail heifers to "Watercress", very late due to break in the pipe to the water trough.




Brooklyn




18 - High hay, big meadow.







19 - To Alpine for friend, Karen Allred's viewing.




20-22 - Katherine and children to ranch.








23-25 - Katherine, Tyrell at ranch with his brother Tag and Julie and children.








26-29 - Tayson and Trey at ranch.











AUGUST

3-6 - Livvy and girls at ranch with Sage.










6-10 - Austin and Wesley at ranch.







10-14 - Reunion with Peggy's family at Black Fork in the High Uintah's








17-23 - Swather problems







24 - Semis come for steers.  1.62/pound at 930 pounds average weight.






25 - Cleadonna Bangerter (my brother Grant's widow) visit ranch with Ryan and Ranae.





29 - Four wheeling with Doug's siblings Marilyn and Carolyn (Coy) in Wasatch range to our east.








SEPTEMBER

3-5- Labor Day weekend. Megan and Jayni's families at ranch
















12 - Picking wild plums



13-16 - Doug's 64th birthday trip. Star Valley, Pinedale, Rock Creek Hollow, South Pass City, Lander, Yellowstone, Big Springs Island Park







































17 - Repairing fence on the range.




18-24 - Livvy to ranch with daughters Rose and Eliza, also Sage (Jacob's)









25-28 - Little girls stay at ranch.








OCTOBER

2-4 - Harvesting and canning.








8 - Harvest Festival with Bangerter family at farm in Alpine.












13-16 - Katherine and Tyrell's family at ranch









17 - Trail mother cows and babies home.




21 - Tractor disc troubles






22 - Pre-check cows.








29 - Niece, Holly Reynolds at ranch with daughters.






31 - Halloween.  Making Spudnuts with daughters at Katherine's home.




NOVEMBER

2 - Birthday celebration with Jayni at her home.




10-14 - Bangerter siblings retreat at Layne and Besty's place, Gunlock, Utah.



19 - Baptism of Jordon Otten, a man we had taught in the Caribou County Jail



19 - Doug's "New Holland 33LA" tractor arrives from Texas.


24 - Thanksgiving at Jacob and Sofia's home, Highland, Utah, with families of Jacob, Megan, Jayni, Katherine, Livvy and us.  Sally in Texas.



Singing "Loathing" from WICKED







DECEMBER

1 - Splitting firewood



4 - Celebrate Gwen's fifth birthday, Mapleton, Utah


5 - Megan's Christmas MCO concert. Celebrate my birthday with children.


17 - Christmas party with Doug's family at ranch







22 - Christmas party with my family at Katherine's home in Pleasant Grove.












23 - My Aunt Marian Bangerter Lindsay's funeral, South Jordan, Utah


23-25 - Christmas celebrations with my family in Utah County, then home.











30-Jan 2 - Katherine and Livvy's families at ranch.
















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