The Dust Bowl and Eagles

The Dust Bowl had estimates of over 7,000 left dead from dust pneumonia and other dust related deaths. 2.5million left homeless, or forced to migrate. Those who lived through this hell on earth were Dust Bowl Tough! Dust bowl survivors had one tie that bound most all of them. They were Christians! They had an unshakable faith in God that drove them to get out of bed each day, and keep going. They prayed for the return of the rains, for their crops, and for the small scraps of food that they managed to place on the table before their family each night. Dust Bowl Tough is in the spirit of those who understood, and knew what loss, and sacrifice were. In all civilizations throughout time, there has always been a rise, and a fall. The rise takes place whenever there is struggle that finds success, and makes people stronger for it. The falls always take place whenever people work for nothing, expect everything, and have no personal knowledge of the price that was paid, and have never had to pay a price themselves. The people who lived in the states like, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas, never expected a hand out, or something to be given to them. All they asked for was the opportunity to be able to pursue happiness. They left everything they knew, and forged west in order to chase a dream. These people were pioneers in the largest since of the word. Even whenever mother nature, and their own farming practices had turned against them, they did not give up. The people of the dust bowl forged forward, and fought. Some of them looked for knowledge, and a better understanding of the land they were farming, while others sought solutions by packing up everything they owned and headed west in order to find a better future. The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent erosion, and the deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains, which killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.

The eagles are so cute they are awake and so cute. Spirit is still so tiny. They are getting really close to flying lessons and when they learn to fly they will be on their own. Remember to see them go to http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp.