One day, when I went to clean the house, I brought with me some photos that I had been wanting to show Bill, and some to give to him from last year when he taught the children to make quail callers.  We both laughed when we came to one picture.  He looks like a combination of an old Irish sailor and an old wrinkly cowboy. 

One picture in particular started quite a story.  It just happens to be the picture that is my profile picture which was taken going toward Strawberry, Arizona near the Mogollon Rim.  A guy he knows went hiking in those canyons and found a cave way up on the cliff of the rim.  Determined to scout out the cave, he went home and got his rock climbing gear and like a spider climbing down her web, he entered the mouth of the dark cave.  It turned out to be the burying place of a Native American chief – probably Apache.  There were many pots, lots of jewelry and other artifacts.  His greedy eyes lit up and out of the mouth of the cave he went LOADED! What he didn’t realize, was that not only does the Indian Nation have motion and sound sensors, but so does the U.S. Government and so as soon as he got back to his truck, both tribe and police were there waiting for him – BOTH armed.  The officer told him that he had a choice: either he could go back and put EVERYTHING back EXACTLY where he found them, or he would walk away and deal with the tribe however they saw fit, who had their rifles pointed at him at that moment.  Of course, he chose the former. 

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