Progress is a beautiful thing. Our solar now runs water, the water pressure pump, washer, refrigerator and more. All from the sun and a big 'ole goose egg for a monthly bill. Talk about freedom!Oh beautiful for spacious skies......
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| We gave up on sod (mucho expensive) and planted grass seeds instead. Worried about the birds carting off with our seed? No problem - we have a dachshund on duty who takes her bird chasing responsibilities VERY VERY seriously. |
The work never ends but fortunately we have supervisors who are pretty tolerable.
And....allow the workers multiple breaks....
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| In case you're wondering...mud....NOT cow pies! |
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| And fortunately they clean up well! |
There was even time this week for a truly necessary and much envied rainbow mohawk (props to John Cordova @ Shear Irony in Flagstaff)
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Monsoon season is upon us allegedly until September 30th. It is like nothing we've ever seen and we mean that literally. You can actually see a storm move towards you, neatly bundled with lightening flashes, ominous clouds, sheets of rain and punctuated thunder that bounces off the surrounding mountains.
The rain is so fierce that even the locals flee to the road to avoid the rivers, streams, lakes and just plain flooding...of course this creates huge traffic jams!
Yet the end result as the sun emerges is beauty, plants, bushes, trees turn green, things literally spring from the ground it seems overnight and what we already believed to be beautiful becomes simply breathtaking...
We've now spent 5 weeks camping in the high desert. We have gone from no shade or amenities to comfortable, albeit rustic shelter; running water and electricity. As we sit back and survey the accomplishments we're filled with a sense of pride for the things we accomplished and learned. The peace we feel in our ever developing paradise is simply indescribable. Ladies and gentlemen...life is to short....DREAM ON!
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What we've learned? There is nothing...nothing that compares to experiencing a thunderstorm from inside a tent trailer...warm and cozy yet surrounded by lightening, thunder and a downpour; trailers are wonderful, wonderful things in monsoon season, trailer canopies are not (may they rest in peace); our children have never been happier surrounded by wide open space and wondrous creatures (all right even we admit some of them are not so wondrous-that cute little white fuzzy thing is bad ju ju and can down a cow); coyotes, cows, jack rabbits, elk, javelinas and more are normal back yard accouterments and as our houses make their way towards us the memories we've made in the last 5 weeks will be with us for a life time. Viva la familia!
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If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.
GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the
Medusa
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