Have you ever driven behind a semi truck in the rain? I guess we all have. Blinding, isn't it. Can't see a thing with all that muckety muck flying around in the air from the semi. Well, when I came home this past Sunday, David showed me a photo depicting the results of letting the Frenchies outside with the foster we have been keeping (Petey, the Pitt Bull). To David's defense, we had just had 9.5 inches of rain in a 12 hour period and everyone needed a break from cabin fever. Therefore, everyone got to go outside to get the wigglies out!
Petey the Pitt Bull loves to play chase. Actually, Petey loves to have the Frenchies chase him! He will grab their toy and off he goes! He stops if there is no pursuit. Must have been a good run that particular Sunday by the photo I saw on David's phone! Runnin' in the Rain.....behind a semi truck.
Dead Horse Point is a peninsula of rock atop sheer sandstone cliffs. The peninsula is connected to the mesa by a narrow strip of land called the neck. There are many stories about how this high promontory of land received its name.
According to one legend, around the turn of the century the point was used as a corral for wild mustangs roaming the mesa top. Cowboys rounded up these horses, herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck, which is only 30 yards wide, was then fenced off with branches and brush. This created a natural corral surrounded by precipitous cliffs, affording no escape. Cowboys then chose the horses they wanted and let the culls or broomtails go free. One time, for some unknown reason, horses were left corralled on the waterless point where they died of thirst within view of the Colorado River, 2,000 feet below.
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