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<\/a><\/p>\nUPS pulled in with the bit we needed to get the cable through the wall, “out for delivery” since Thursday, almost but not quite too late .\u00a0 I contemplated laddering up to finish the run around<\/p>\n
the corner and under the eaves but, already diminished from heat and an incoming cold, postponed the inevitable as at least the coax was no longer being crushed between doors.<\/p>\n The next few days the weather trended towards more seasonable livability as the moon,<\/p>\n full when I arrived in May, was filling out again just in time to leave.<\/p>\n The temps – low nineties – became temporarily more typical for late June, as were the skies.<\/p>\n Last things; our restored address** was returned to its accustomed post out on the road<\/p>\n but despite more forgiving temperatures afternoon walks remained abbreviated as the colds<\/p>\n took holds…the winds, however,<\/p>\n picked up, bringing first dust and then, surprisingly, rain on the tin one eve.<\/p>\n Low energies and expectations so slowed things that I was still laboriously packing when the<\/p>\n Install Kit finally arrived in Gerlach Friday*** afternoon, necessitating a trip in<\/p>\n for that, the Post Office and so, returning with grommets<\/p>\n in hand, the cable was affixed, sealed and coiled inside…phew.<\/p>\n A last evening, supermoon waning, next heat wave on the horizon…<\/p>\n Saturday, after a shortened inspection of Storm Queen, last stuff stuffed into the Taco<\/p>\n and one false start [returned from the gate to retrieve a camera left by the pond on the glider]<\/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