Cheer up, dear readers. The weatherman tells us this siege of April showers will move out in time for a sunny and dry weekend. If accurate, the prediction will be mighty welcome after a solid week of rain, sleet, hail and snow. Two inches of mini-snowballs (we heard someone call them “fat rain”) decorated our streets and hills Saturday, and up to three inches of new fluff greeted early risers Wednesday morning.

Little Pearls

Don’t miss the beauty around you, even if it is only the potted plants in the window. Beauty is like vitamins. You need some every day. Beauty feeds the soul and enriches life. It changes the drab commonplace into loveliness. Your mind finds peace and goodness in beauty. If you want your ration of beauty every day become more aware. Beauty is all around you even though you may have been missing it. Not everyone can see nature at its best every day, but there are no places completely void of beauty. In the cities are dramatic structures and gardens and art works. On the plains are sunsets and waving wheat, fences and windmills. In the mountains are snow-capped peaks and forest and streams.

From the Fox’s Corner

A little-known athletic team at Woodland Park High School scored well among 26 schools last weekend in Pueblo. The WPHS rodeo team won a first place ribbon and a third place prize, and may still have another honor coming when bookkeeping procedures are completed. Butch Fuqua was the team’s top scorer, winning first place in the saddle bronc event and qualifying in bareback bronc riding and bull riding. Fuqua is a candidate for the weekend’s all-around cowboy. Another athletic note advises us the WPHS track team finished second in a triangular meet April 8 at Fountain Valley.

With the cost of living these days, we have to keep reminding ourselves that it’s cheaper by the doesn’t.

-Compiled by Suzanne Core