2022 - Year of the Big Hay
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'sfamily 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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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