Monthly Archives: November 2016

Life beyond Thanksgiving…a last, but not lost, weekend

[But first immense thanks to Willey for the loan of the Cat, Dave for the backhoe, to Linda for showing up with love and crabs [not THOSE kind of crabs] and being able to put all or most of the long-term plans to rest before the Freeze.]

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In a November we’ll remember

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for horrendous news, wintry views, chill

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breakfasts on the porch [not shown]

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and, thanks to rain days and a holiday,

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sufficient time between hoe and Cat to complete the cleanup before Willey’s return.

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Sunday, after all those mornings fraught with frost, saw a dusting of snow on the desert.

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‘Cold’, it’s called, wherein a person eschews the views to breakfast inside.

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The clouds burned off nicely by ten

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Version 2

inspiring an Expedition out the Smoke Creek Road

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to pavement, then two miles south

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to Planet X Pottery for celadon and hospitality.

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Home by one where the sun was soon finished

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and the backhoe,

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also finished, ended parked at the gate for Monday’s pickup…weekend’s end.

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Two of the lunch pond koi [not documented], having survived months of low [or no] water, appeared just before L. headed over the hill Monday, leaving me

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to unload gas cans and wonder if the leak into the lower pond will preclude its completion…

To be continued.

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