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<\/a><\/p>\nas well as afternoon went to prepping for the annual Burning of the Slash…<\/p>\n come Friday’s dawn, still and bright and every bucket frozen solid,<\/p>\n we had ignition<\/p>\n etc.<\/p>\n followed by lunch [chillier than it looks]<\/p>\n and visitations about the artpark until<\/p>\n End of Burn,<\/p>\n further visitations<\/p>\n and Dogs.<\/p>\n Sumi kept up her immersion therapy despite the 20 degree mornings as elsewhere<\/p>\n Others made lives on\/in the desert<\/p>\n and the afternoons blended into mornings, suddenly warmer; unusually warm, dry as ever.<\/p>\n Eventually there were visitors from Afar [Brent Fenty<\/a> outa Bend, Oregon] and not so far [Seth<\/p>\n and Sonny from just up the road to try again on the ’82 – still not quite there but maybe soon*].<\/p>\n Brent stayed over for a tour of the Parker, where I’d not been either in quite awhile, though<\/p>\n had to cut that short and rush back<\/p>\n to catch a call from Loreto which never came**.\u00a0 After lunch I and the Inkies, left alone,<\/p>\n tried to gather our wits about us for a last day…<\/p>\n a day of packing, loading and hoping that maybe<\/p>\n next time there’ll be time for the studio beyond just crashing there in afternoons’ sun.<\/p>\n – All the while intermittently wondering what the f-k happened to those batteries<\/a> I spent so much time on tracking down and ordering.\u00a0 Well one assumes it’s all gonna get sorted out; at least there wasn’t a palette of them abandoned out at the gate…<\/p>\n The winds picked up along with meadowlarks’ elaborate vocalizations in the brush which might<\/p>\n portend an early end to winter 2022, a winter which it seems Finnegan and friends<\/p>\n yet again survived so…<\/p>\n out the gate, not too late, Thursday 03 03.<\/p>\n <\/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><\/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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n