Trippin' with Susan Straley

Greetings from the little public Library in Bruneau, Idaho, Sometimes I am up, sometimes I am down.  It is life and I am going with the flow. They have nasty thorns on the ground in the high desert of Bruneau, Idaho.  I found that out last night while walking back from the showers in my flip flops.  It had been raining.  (In the visitors' center a sign said they only get about seven inches of rain a year.  I think they got one of those inches yesterday.)  I took a step and something stuck me hard in my big toe.  It was dark and I didn't bring a flash light.   I had read a kiosk the day before about the scorpions in the desert.  So my first thought was it could be a scorpion.  I cussed as I limped my way back to the trailer.   When I got inside, I pulled a big thorn, like you would find on a garden rose, out of my toe.  I was relieved it wasn't poison, but at the same time, I felt grumpy.  That was the second time I had been poked by those things.  It hit me that earlier in