Monthly Archives: May 2016

An easy Sunday drive over the Hill

Sunday we took a calming dogwalk to the bottom of West Second, then loaded the icechests and began our separate migrations…

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Late snow at Eagle Lakes; dry and clear all the way over…

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and down the other side;

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A late Lake Winnemucca lunch;

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…and Wall Spring in nearly record time to reunite

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with L. and then, not much behind schedule, Scott followed by an intense period unloading the Penske with much-needed local help.

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Next day Aggie, ever smitten, reluctantly saw Scott off down the road…

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Tuesday Buzzard brought the much-anticipated bulk racks [some assembly required] to complete our storage, thus initiating a series of mild days too packed with tasks to even pause for the daily watercolors until, barely, Friday.

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[Coots, not buzzards]

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Rack-assembling and art moving proved less photogenic than the light of spring around Wall Spring, but by week’s end the interior looked like this;

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…while the nascent burnpile presented thusly;

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and the Holiday Rambler, still available to good home, remained as above.

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Friday night late brightly lit semis barreled down the Smoke Creek Road, returning before eight the next morning bearing unseen beastsĀ  to unknown destinations.

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That afternoon our great friend Enrico came all the way from France to Radar Ranch and across the desert to us with tales of Imlay,;

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We walked the Boundary Ditch finding little water but a gratifying number of Peachleaf Willows [not shown] belatedly sprouting…

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Sunday Enrico pushed on to Omaha and we ten miles east to our nearest neighbors,

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Planet X Pottery, for the Memorial Day Sale where, as always needing nothing,

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we always find something…

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and subsequently wandered home to collapse comatose as the Big Weekend wound down…

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