Chester Gump is a character from stories my father used to tell us when we were youngsters growing up in southern California. My father grew up in southern Colorado and worked on a cattle ranch named the "T-Bone". He would tell stories of a young cowpoke named Chester Gump. (No relation to Forrest) Later as we grew older we relized these stories were of himself as a young man working on the ranch. With the advent of the internet I found that there was a childrens storybook character named Chester Gump too. I have wondered if my father read out of these books as a child and wrapped his personal tales around this character. I have adopted this name for this blog and I want to publish a Chester Gump cookbook too. The recepies will be based on what Chester Gump likes to eat.

Christmas in Utah

Finally. We have Snow! We all had a concern about our water situation here in the high desert. There is no prettier place than Utah County wrapped in snow at Christmas time. My family wishes all a very merry Christmas and a reminder to keep the Christ in Christmas.