JANUARY 2007

The West Fork has ice edges and the Avalanche General Store is closed now. When we moved here almost 30 years ago there were country stores every 4 or 5 miles. Bloomingdale, Dell, Brush Hollow, and Fairview all closed down, but the Avalanche Store stayed. People remember going to school here, before it was the store.

I called it downtown Avalanche. You could buy beer, and tackle, fishing and hunting licenses here. You could get marshmallows, eggs, cheese and butter, cat food and bandages.

I really do miss the store.

Correction:

To those who noticed my mistaken naming of Tinglet for Kinglet in the last postcard, I wish to say that the mistake was mine, not Rusty's. He knows his birds.

I remember once when Sofia was little and ill she diagnosed herself with a bad case of Scarlet Tanager.