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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday March 9, 1988 - Page 20 and black and green, con-stantly alive, changing with the play of light and shadow. The clay hills are not red or orange or sand colored but a hundred shades of those tones, always different. And always beautiful. Unfortunately, ever since Eve gave Adam the apple there have been problems when we think weve found paradise. On Comb Ridge its the ups. We climbed to the Ridge top. We found our way down. Then the usual question arose. How do we get out of here, back to our car? We could go down and try to get across Butler Wash and , For the past few days Ive awed my associates around the store. Ive been working. I wasted all those dull dreary winter days sulking and complaining and suddenly it comes to me that the tourist season is almost upon us again. The moving Finger has been scribbling away like mad and seems to be propelling me into action, ready or not. Of course, in one way Im more than ready since we spend the winter buying rugs, pottery, baskets and jewelry and gloomily contemplating the prospect of eating them, with a little salt and pepper, if no one comes to buy during the season. The oil fields may be stretching and waking up, too. Bill Skeen and Clint Howell have been in Durango conferring with geologist Bob Laugh regarding new drilling sites and Bill Sutherland is making progress with his recalcitrant on Comb Ridge so obviously someone came to our rescue. But I worry. Its the old cat with nine lives theory. I know I can count on a certain number of assists when Ive been stupid. Only thing is I dont know what the number is and I seem to have used quite a few of my Doris, did you lock the door on your side? I tried it. I had. This sides locked, too. said my friend, and my keys are in my purse behind the seat. Do you have extra keys at home, I asked. We can walk to the highway and drive my car to Monticello and then come back and get yours. . . uh oh. No, we cant. My car keys are in your, glove compartment. We could maybe hitchhike to Bluff and get one of the deputies there to help us only I dont have the nerve because its only been about three weeks since they got me out of trouble in here the last time. Joyce Martin and I arent still walk on the road and then the highway and across the rocks, Joyce said. If we go on this side of the Wash well have to climb up and down a dozen canyons. I protested, Theres a lot of ' mud down in that Wash and the last time I tried the road, I kept sinking in up to my ankles. Lets go across. If therere a dozen canyons you can say, I told you so. It was dusk when we finally got to her car but I wouldnt let her say, I told you so, because I only counted eleven and a half canyons. More ups than downs. I was very ready to ride rather than walk when Joyce asked, credits already. Emergencies Anywhere in San Juan County Dial CORNER'S LEADING FURNITURE STORE Town & DMTTIilESY Country FURNISHINGS PAYMENT: 'TILJUN 8 rs wac pipe. Howells drilling project had been proceeding without incident until he was lifting 750 feet of pipe out of the hole with a drill plug attached to cable. The cable broke. The pipe retreated back into the depths, falling 100 feet. Now he has it all up except for 300 feet which he has several times snagged and pulled almost up . . . until it let go and fell down, down, down In addition to kerplunk. Murphys Law: If anything can possibly go wrong it will there is another: Life seems to have a lot more downs than ups. Unless, .of course you happen to be hiking on Comb Ridge 'and then the law reverses. Recently Comb Ridge had been the only place I know locally where it has been possible to walk without returning home liberally plastered with portions of the good earth since it is composed of an awful lot of rock covered with a minimum amount of dirt. For a period the road was impassable but Joyce Martin and I got around that problem. We parked my car at the stone marker at the top of the Comb and drove in hers over the rock along the old highway route, Ive parked and climbed. to before to the top managed get and looked over the edge to see hills dwarfed by the clay-san- d distance rippling toward Cedar Mesa cliffs with Monument Valley drifting on the horizon, but I never cease to marvel at the magnificience of that vista. Ripples! Now it comes to me. Ive tried many times to think of how to describe that view. Its like the waves of the ocean which are not blue but myraid subtle tones of blue and gray SUPER VALUE SUPER VALUE 07995 . 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