Barbed Wire

The good news is that the dry climate of the desert preserves old artifacts, some of them ancient. The bad news is that the dry climate of the desert preserves virtually everything. I cannot remember all of the times I tore my clothes or got cut by barbed wire while I was a child. As children, we developed a method of crossing barbed wire fences almost at a run but sometimes we got caught. I know I hit a barbed wire fence that someone stretched across a bike path and cut my leg. I also remember a panic stop in my car when a barbed wire fence had been erected over an old abandoned paved road. Barbed wire has always made my life interesting.