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space and firing up the trucks.\u00a0 The Tundra, five months in the repo, had to be coaxed though the ever faithful ’82 Chev was immediately up and running to the burnpile twice for<\/p>\n the only times out there all week as it turned out.\u00a0 Bright mornings,<\/p>\n bright evenings, mornings with house water woes until finally, all hope abandoned, James<\/p>\n showed up with just enough 1\/4″ tubing to resuscitate the pump before a low flowed in over<\/p>\n frozen diminished ponds bringing mad winds,<\/p>\n dust and splats of rain inspiring an interior day of popcorn [not shown] which<\/p>\n finished off clearing into low cold<\/p>\n end-of-day light.<\/p>\n Night brought small rains; Saturday’s laundry dried slowly and life went on.<\/p>\n Days ended, days began, days warmed<\/p>\n eventually to accommodate lunches [and even a breakfast] on the East Porch…the Ideal Deal.<\/p>\n Weird Wall Spring things left all summer [and then some] were returned to…and left again.<\/p>\n Later days on the Smoke Creek with Storm<\/p>\n Queen, the sculpture park…<\/p>\n in November.<\/p>\n So it ended, much like it began; all too briefly with Tuesday<\/p>\n morning promising another one of those perfect days…but instead requiring a trip down<\/p>\n the desert into Sand Pass wind,<\/p>\n the dust of Doyle,<\/p>\n more dust on 395 [closed at Hallelujah Junction but nominally navigable on 70 as shown]<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n