Red Flag Warning

RED FLAG WARNING.......
Well ---- in Michigan that would mean ---- not a good day to go to the beach.  The waves are too big and there is a fierce undertow.  You'd probably get sand in your face every time someone picks up their beach towel because it's rather windy.

Well ---- here in South Dakota / Nebraska it means ---- extreme fire danger.  The relative humidity is (I heard on the radio) 15%, it's VERY dry out and then the wind.  Factor all of those in and you have trouble.
We drove past the fire station in Rosebud today and all the trucks were out and ready to take off on a moments notice....anyway that's what it looked like to us.

There was also another bad report on the radio this morning.   A woman in White River was attacked and killed by a pack of wild dogs Saturday morning.  She apparently was walking from a friends house (at 6:30 a.m.) back to her home and was attacked.  When ?!?!? are they going to realize they have to do something about all the dogs on the reservation?!?!

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Enough of that......
We had Release Time this past week.......missed the week before because I had a NASTY cold.  We had the youngest  (1st graders) and the oldest (7-8th Graders). 

 Gary was asking these little ones some review questions.....Taeden has his back to us, then Mahpiya and Kingston and on the other side of Gary is Doris.  They are getting into the songs we are learning and it's fun to hear their little voices sing Jesus Loves Me and This Little Light of Mine ....and others.

There --- that's a better picture --- Mahpiya, Taeden, Kingston and Doris.  They had just made Valentine hearts that said "Jesus Loves Me".

It was so nice out that we got the 7-8th Grade girls though 2 pages of the book on temptation and we sang a couple of songs.....Amazing Grace and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (they like the sign language with that one)....and then we let them go outside to walk on our 3 pairs of stilts.  They had lots of fun.

 These three had a hard time getting it to work....they did finally get a few steps off before crashing.  They are Tiana (Ty), Charlee and Taylor.

 Faith was the only one who had the stilts mastered......she walked all over the place.  But then Shallon was missing that day and she could have done the same.  Faith and Shallon  had practice this summer at PLYC.

It was 82 degrees today.  Time to get some summer wear out.  But we know it won't last....however, this week is supposed to be nice too --- in the 60's I believe.  That's not all good.   It's hard on the trees when this happens - they start to bud out and then it turns cold again.    We are enjoying it while we have it!!!

May God Bless you as we prepare for Easter -- that most important time of remembrance of what Jesus did for us.

Gary and Barb