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<\/a><\/p>\nwhere there was a day, looking for paintings of a certain size for a friend then<\/p>\n a last quick trip to the Holiday for last provisions<\/p>\n with a view of Shasta on the way over Cedar Pass going up, which had been<\/p>\n great for carspotting [there may be a 1959 Studebaker Silver Hawk<\/a> hidden in the pic above]*, going<\/p>\n down not so much but I did finally get to stop for lunch with a view of the Granites from the Red Pit<\/a><\/p>\n on the way home, where L. finally proclaimed “Glide” complete at last…<\/p>\n while Sumi intently monitored a sneak.<\/a><\/p>\n There were last trains, no rains<\/p>\n bobcat tracks, thanks<\/p>\n to Seth and Sonny some nice cleaning up out in the park<\/p>\n and reminiscences about the trailer I commissioned in Winnemucca to transport the bathing tank Dave had built there, first thing on the land back in 1995. It’s been through a lot since.<\/p>\n Saturday, kind of last minute, we went down to south gate to visit the lads, witness their progress<\/p>\n with water and creatures<\/p>\n then home on their much-improved interior road through Parker<\/p>\n to find, last day, first time in thirty years, crickets swarming[!]<\/a>. Yikes;<\/a> getting hot, too; time to go.<\/p>\n Oh and deer, who unfortunately don’t eat Mormon crickets, so some last looks around the Repo,<\/p>\n and my ongoing disasters before Monday, last of the last of the ponds…and gone.<\/p>\n *After Bare Ranch I began to see touring cars from the ‘teens lumbering south, then in downtown Eagleville a mildly customized** 1954 Oldsmobile<\/a> coupe consorting with an original looking ’28 A sedan<\/a>…more touring cars and the occasional hot rod heading down to join them from Cedarville along with the Stude, which with the Olds went by Rabbit Traxx as I was getting gas [last gas] on the way south myself a couple of hours later.<\/p>\n **slightly metallic sage green, lowered with a slight rake; very sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that the Huge Horrific Bullshit Bill has smokingly mirrored its way back and forth between OLD’s congressional sycophants [becoming more horrendously “Beautiful” with each pass] and will soon be made official with a stroke of the Sharpie are we really ready for Ethnic Cleansing on a truly historic scale? Those cuts to medicaid and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42834"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42886,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42834\/revisions\/42886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/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> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n