Monday Linda left for Lincoln before dawn and after the usual mucking about I had the dogs

in the car and away before 8:30, not such a bad time to be doing it as it turned out….

We stopped in at Heather Glen, Donner Summit and then made it easily through Reno

to Wadsworth where buying gas slowed things down somewhat.

Afterward, though, the empty road through Nixon

and upto Gerlach was uneventful,

no one went by during my very rudimentary lunch at the water tank nor was anyone seen

on the way to or at Wall Spring until Seth came by to work on the batteries while I unloaded

and mostly unpacked, Linda safe in Lincoln with her friends the Duncans.  Everything’d

greened up in my absence but the next day rain brought muddy dogs all through the house…

Linda’d had a glamorous Tuesday in Lincoln and Wednesday while I sat on the porch

in more rain she was off to Pratt, KS., with Robert [in a plane with pilot borrowed

from a friend as his was in the shop] in support of a show of her maquettes there,

returning just ahead of some extreme unforeseen weather while here the weather predicted

merely made more mud for dogs’ paws though by the time the sun broke through

there was dust aplenty heading east…April fool?  Naah…

So, hey, hopeful April, 2026, no foolin’.