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We’re presently in Amarillo, Texas. One of the strangest things we’ve seen in a while was when we walked out of a fast food restaurant at lunch and saw two Mallard Ducks playing in casual water that had accumulated from the previous night’s rain. The unusual part of it was that the water was in the middle of a shopping area, with cars and people everywhere…Where’s my shotgun?
We’re presently in Amarillo, TX and staying in a very nice new RV park. Since it is new there isn’t much in the way of trees or other tall vegetation…which might be a good thing. This part of Texas is flat, flat, flat. There’s a wind that blows all day, but over the last few days, starting about 6:00 in the evening the wind fan is cranked up to high. The sky in the west becomes black and a storm with rain and some hail comes in until about 9:00. Then, everything is quiet. The owners do a tornado watch. They have a siren that will go off if something is coming…I believe they are conscientious, because one of the owners lives in a RV about four spaces from ours.
Monday, June 23, 2008  
We’re presently in Amarillo, Texas, and last night we got a deluxe Texas Panhandle storm. As it turned dark we could see black clouds on the horizon. Then, just before midnight there was so much lightning that the sky was more often light than dark. While the lightning was in full force, the rain mixed with hail came on. Although Monte, our Montana fifth-wheel’s skin is fiberglass, it sounded as if we were inside a drum. After an hour or more, the storm moved on. This morning the sun is peaking through the clouds. The day promises to be a humid, hot one. We’ve had a bit of an environmental shock over the last week. A week ago we were in Show Low, AZ among the pine trees at 6,500. Over the last few days we’ve been in Albuquerque in what would be called the high desert. The first picture is our view as we looked out the window of Monte our RV when we were in Show Low. The second picture is what we’re presently seeing.
Our friend Jan Gray who lives in Big Bear, California has a neat looking Icelandic Pony that she enters in horse shows. Over the last weekend Jan and Hali Thor (the horse’s name) won three blue ribbons.
Incidentally, Jan has a ribbon tree in her house that contains all of Hali Thor’s ribbons. There’s three more for the tree. While in Williams, Arizona we had dinner and spent an evening at Wild West Junction. After a great dinner, the entertainment started off with a short concert by a Union Civil War band. Then, there was the mandatory Old West shootout.
Finally, it was time for the main act, “The Midnight Howlers”. This is a local group of four high school age kids who are unbelievable performers. They play several of their own songs as well as classic Johnny Cash and Elvis songs.
We highly recommend spending an evening there if you’re in the Grand Canyon area. Anyone familiar with our newspaper or weekly radio show knows that we promote “Living The Code.” We’ve not only established precepts to live by, we encourage people to commit to living by those precepts. And to remind them of their commitment, we send them certificates suitable for framing. Recently, the children in the Carl Albert State College Choctaw Headstart class requested “Living The Code” certificates. The picture is of that class proudly displaying their certificates.
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