Whoa!!

Is that rumor I started TRUE??

Makes me feel a bit better having been born on the old pre-government Columbus Day.

(kinda cute - my alcoholic little sister calls me to wish me a happy birthday on whichever day the government declares Columbus Day that year).

And a cute story some haven't heard. I'm in full turn out after the Flagstaff Highland Games. Got caught in a speed trap crossing the Navajo Nation on my way to Hopiland.

Navajo cop writes the ticket (you can NOT talk your way out of them) and after he's done he asks me why I'm dressed like I am.

Told him I just came from the Highland Games. He asks, "Who won?" He had no clue but got it when I told him the Highland Games were like a Scottish Pow - Wow.

I know many people were here before me, but this land will always be special to me since somewhere on the South bank of the Alabama River near an old Army Air Corps hospital lies a piece of my flesh. The victim of my first, and so far only, amputation.

My flesh is now part of the dust of this land.

Ron