I have a story that I have been meaning to write about. A couple of years or so ago, I was returning home one afternoon from a shopping trip to Cortez. It was a cold winter day, the jeep has a warm heater and all is comfy. I feel asleep at the wheel above Montelores bridge hill, missed a curve, hit a huge snow bank and went sailing upsidedown toward a ravine and a big old pine tree right in front of a UPS delivery truck. Brad Sieber, now my hero and guardian angel, the driver-gets to me with his special digging shovel and frees me who has been hanging up-side down mind you. I did what I thought I should do and wrote a nice letter to his manager advising him of what Brown did for me! In September, Caleb Soptelean of the Cortez Journal staff wrote an article about a UPS driver a Good Samaritan-man stays with elderly woman until ambulance arrives. Turns out he and wife Charlotte (I read in the article) were taking a holiday and came upon a bad traffic accident, he scaled the steep drop to tend to the elderly lady who was still in the vehicle while Charlotte found some resident up the road who had a phone and called an ambulance and fire department for assistance. As you all know, cell phones are not working in the mountains too well at times. Brad did it again, with Charlottes help. Not everyone can be as fortunate to have a guardian angel servicing your area!
Kelby Nunley, daughter of Jenny Nunley and Wyatt Jones, son of Kim and Todd Jones of Rico attended the 31st Annual Hesperus Leadership Conference along with other members of their FFA chapter from the Dolores high school the 25th and 26th of September.
The Holts have returned to Arizona for the winter, which means that we no longer have our unofficial weather man to tell us what we need to know when it snows a foot or whatever. Come to think of it, Duane may not even know how to collect and measure snow since they never see anywhere they live in Arizona!! We keep a daily record, when it snows, of the inches received on our calendar. That will have to do until we can find someone to do the winter weather reports.
Speaking of snow and winter weather, we have not received any of either, so far 22 degrees a couple of days ago though. With a slight breeze, the cold does give one a cold nose and colder hands. We have observed that this first rifle season is bringing some results. Several families have harvested their game. We did not get the two inches of snow to help the hunters, but it was pretty as far as wind, etc., is concerned.