{"id":29136,"date":"2021-06-19T04:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=29136"},"modified":"2021-06-19T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T14:44:41","slug":"beyond-the-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=29136","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in the Beyonds we’re ever the Behinds…two Mondays ago triage ensued as my care of the dogs proved so wildly inadequate that when L arrived it became necessary for us to devote over two hours each daily to repairing paws<\/a> designed more for meadows and lawns than greasewood and cheatgrass which were infested at best and infected at worst by the<\/p>\n

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burrowing seeds and stems of Enemy Plants.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Within the week things improved to the point where it took less than an hour a day of mainly L’s efforts to intervene but meanwhile…pictures;<\/p>\n

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Aggie murdered a pigeon after it naively homed within range of her and<\/p>\n

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before ya knew it it was on the road again, down to the Gerlach Post Office, Friday a day<\/p>\n

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of tourist traffic<\/a> barely averted before the Fire Zones<\/p>\n

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on the way again to Eagleville, Alturas [not shown] and again Eagleville, returning to<\/p>\n

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the Jesus turn on Duck Flat<\/a><\/p>\n

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for a luncheon detour out the northeast side entailing<\/p>\n

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a little peas, calma and reminder of what venturing out into the country used to be like<\/p>\n

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before the Chaos of Here; Here<\/p>\n

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with its everlastingly unrunning ’82 Chev,<\/p>\n

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heat,<\/p>\n

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failed wildlife photography<\/p>\n

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and bright windy afternoons.<\/p>\n

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Sunday we made it into town where over a dinner of Susie’s Curious Curry I mentioned<\/p>\n

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to Johnny Limbo not being able to get \u201cAmarillo Highway\u201d<\/a> out of my head whereupon he launched into the first few lines, saying the Smoke Creek Irregulars used to start their shows with it. Never having been much of a bar person I never caught that, but kinda wished I had.<\/p>\n

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While there we also picked up our long-anticipated box from Elon which, once the cryptic instructions were decoded Monday morning, linked us up to Starlink<\/a> in time for lunch to our<\/p>\n

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considerable\u00a0delight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did the glory of our foolish afternoon with the luminous children dissolve into nothing but memory?\u201d*…or the internet.<\/p>\n

*[William Kittredge]<\/p>\n

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