Diving right in to the final boarding process…

…Wednesday went, first thing, to around the block with the dogs,

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first thing being requisite for being up and about in time for Alfredo to load out “Glimmer” for powder-coating,

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…followed by inserting three sets of flatfiles into the two pickups and yet another morning, Thursday…

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All the while, with sporadic persistence, chipping [or dissolving] away at the rust on the summer hood, first freeing up the sidepanel hinges and then, with repeated applications of Liquid Wrench,

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… the right and finally the left latching mechanisms in between laundrying, sorting, packing and loading [none shown].

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Getting the hood functional, though tedious [or maybe because of being tedious] was a curiously rewarding project…as was, on the eve of departure, our first barbecue/dinner out of the year.  But woke Friday occluded and late,

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and despite getting off at 10:30, stayed that way…traffic, rest stops, gas at Hallelujah Junction where after decanting coffee into a travel mug I left it on the pump, not discovering its absence until halfway to Doyle…

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Lunch at Sand Pass sans coffee, Smoke Creek around 3:15

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and reached the gate just behind L., who’d gone up the pavement via the Gerlach P.O….well, last time I was just ahead of her.  But, still, pretty weird.

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So unto sunset, barbecued lamb, and a drastic drop in temperature soon after.

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Saturday was social, with Brooklyn and the baby;

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also the last day of ‘winter’; first greens evident, including the lethal young greasewood…

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…plus a friend out from Truckee for lunch, conversation and forced labor, moving Linda’s “benches” to the shore of the upper pond;

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after which we took the skinheads bowling…

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Then a cloudy Sunday, tending towards wind, dust, splats of rain…

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…and finally, right at the last minute,

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sunlight to week’s ending…

Ending, here.

M

 

 

2 thoughts on “Diving right in to the final boarding process…

  1. Kirk Moore

    Ah…..did our bocce addition get you into the skinhead bowling league?
    OK, if you and L meet at the gate a THIRD time (one via Sand Pass, one via PO Box in Gerlach), then it’s going to be really spooky.
    Have fun “out there”!

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