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One beautiful golden day on the desert an old woman and her much loved old humane society rescue mutt were on their daily desert hike. Going up a low rocky outcrop, the old woman's soft hiking shoe dropped into a narrow slit between two large rocks that bent the soft sole. No big deal. After taking off her survival pack and laying her hiking poles down, she tried to pull her shoe up and out. The shoe would not budge. No big deal thought the old woman as she unlaced the trapped shoe to slide her foot back and out. The foot would not move! The old woman looked over the isolated terrain to make sure no predators, like a screaming cougar or the crazed shooter who shot the old woman on Bessie Butte years ago, lurked nearby. The isolated spot held only the old woman's and her dog's tracks!

I am writing out of concern. The High Desert Museum had an old [bob]cat in the atrium for the last number of years.

My mother not only raised four girls to becomestrong women, she also helped us with my two daughters. She did this in a time when women were expected to stay home and raise the children, volunteer at school and church functions and obey their husbands.