Leaving the Winter Blues

I'd have to admit that I do love the winter time....but this winter has been bitterly cold and wet. On the Rez the mud is not like anything you have ever encountered. The mud is slicker than snot and it's more dangerous to drive through the mud than the ice and snow. 4x4 Trucks get stuck daily in the mud and with the temperatures creeping upwards into the thirties the melting of the snow brings more MUD! There's a song by Garth Brooks with the chorus "his neck was red as Alabama clay". For some reason I began to ponder on that last weekend during our 1.5 hour trip into Walmart. I turned to Jesse and said, "you know what? Alabama's clay isn't as red as the clay mud out here and they don't have to worry about driving through it!" So, if you want to experience true 4x4 Mudding take a trip out here and you'll never again see it as a "sport". The worst part of the mud is that it dries hard and is impossible to remove. The vehicle becomes a permanent "clay pot" vehicle. Regardless, the scenery is beautiful and I'm looking forward to the Spring time. Canyon De Chelly is flowing with water and I'm looking forward to green.

Since I mentioned Alabama in the past paragraph it brings to mind something exciting: my sister Kimberly, who currently lives in Tennessee, was accepted into Law School at Samford Law School in Birmingham, Alabama, and University of Tennessee. I am so proud of her and she has worked extremely hard to get to this place in her life! CONGRATULATIONS KIM!!

I wanted to leave a picture of Newman (the blue eyed-brown eyed dog) and Midge (the other one). We took them ice climbing two weeks ago and poor Newman hurt his leg. It's a good thing that dogs have 4 legs so that they can always hobble on three.

Jesse's next on the postings......Until next time I'll leave you a verse from Luke 12:22-24:

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!!