Mountain Comparison

Dry Weather

Everybody, it never fails, tells me that when I mention that I love rainy weather that I'm a total idiot to be living where I live. Well, maybe they don't say that I'm a total idiot, but they imply. The thing is I love diversity. I love that I can see desert and lush forest all in on short car trip. I also love my home, I think everyone loves their home. People like to love where they live. It's a big part of their identity. I don't like when people get angry at me for not knowing some obscure fact about their home county, city or state, so I don't get angry at people when they don't know that Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the U.S. 

What am I getting at? Well we've been experiencing a severe drought here in NM. I guess I prefaced what I'm getting at with what I just said because people don't really understand the climate in NM. When I say that we're experiencing a severe drought, people might think that it's just always a drought in NM, so how could the lack of rain be out of the ordinary. Well it is out of the ordinary for some parts of the state. We were just on the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo mountains where it's normally pretty green with creeks and lakes. I noticed such a difference to what I normally see this weekend. The stream that normally fills a pond was dried up. The grass was brown. The air was dry. We are in desperate need of some moisture in our state. Every day that I look at the weather report I see there is a red flag warning. It's so dangerous in the forest. I'm really hoping that we see some rain, and some good rain soon. In fact I'm heading to weather.gov right now. 

Another Good Article

Lindsey sent me the link to this article. It was really interesting.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/granderson.children.dress/index.html?hpt=T2

Great Article

My boss showed me this article today. I really enjoyed reading this.
Life is a blessing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42599413/ns/us_news-life/

It's a Good Day

6 "What is the price of five sparrows—two copper coins[b]? Yet God
does not forget a single one of them. 7 And the very hairs on your
head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to
God than a whole flock of sparrows.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/carson/recreation/fishing/trampas_lake.shtml

Let It Happen Every Time

I remember being in high school and wondering when someone would love me--a girl ya know? I remember thinking that high school was probably not going to be the place where I would meet someone to love. This is really cheesy but I feel like I need to write it down. It just makes me happy to see my patience paid off when I married Lindsey. She's the girl that when I think about puts a smile on my face. We're faced with questions on where to go all of the time, but I couldn't have thought of any better person to make those decisions with than with Lindsey. In a confusing world she helps me make sense of things. When I was dreaming about my future wife in high school, I was dreaming of Lindsey. She's perfect. When I was dreaming, sometimes I would be listening to "Let It Happen" by MxPx. I know that is really lame. I know people hate MxPx. Here are the lyrics and link to the song that I was listening to if you really care to take the time.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/s/Let+It+Happen/pY2KM?src=5

I want someone to love
a girl that when i think of
will put a smile on my face
i want to hold her hand
want her to understand
there's got to be a better place
than this world cause this 
is the best time of our lives
Should I be thinking about that now
She turns my world around 
I let it happen everytime
i want a lot of things
somethings always seem to bring
all the pain back in my mind
which way to go
answers to questions I don't know
there's better things that we can find

FW: [kob] Re: Mayor will meet with FDIC to determine Anasazi's future | KOB.com

> Subject: [kob] Re: Mayor will meet with FDIC to determine Anasazi's future | KOB.com
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> Clark_Nova wrote, in response to bobthehermit:
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> If you want to attract people downtown, try closing about 75% of the sleazy bars, hookah lounges and strip clubs. Do something about the panhandlers and street crazies, too.
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> We don't need skyscrapers. Land prices aren't high enough to justify them. I think you should go back east, you're not fitting in well here.
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> Let's finish it and attract more people downtown! I can see a thriving downtown Albuquerque one day. Coffee shops, music venues, nice restaurants, apartments...maybe a light-rail to connect it all together. Stop living in the past New Mexico! Let's get some skyscrapers up too. It's been twenty-one years since the Bank of Albuquerque building has gone up, I think we're due a nice 30 or 40 floor skyscraper.
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