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Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]
In retrospect it has been a pretty sweet summer so far. I’ve spent more time than normal in the mountains of northern Utah which has been nice. The prior two summers of extreme heat and smoke just never materialized this year, and hopefully won’t in the next couple of months. Living in a place like […]
Another winter in the rear view mirror. Well not quite yet. I find myself back in Southern Nevada. And, yet again, watching the rising side of another corona virus wave. Park City has already passed the peak of it with the surrounding county achieving the tenth-worst status of all counties in the country just last […]
Finally, comfortable weather, and not just a small amount of it. Almost no smoke, just some at the time of our arrival in Southern Nevada. And temperatures that started at around 80 in the middle of August in Park City, then just above 90 at the end of September down here and are ending up […]
Ah, as the pandemic goes on, and on, and on. Waiting for the big day when it ends is starting to seem futile. But it does allow for getting things sorted. Sometimes weird things. Since the last post I’ve been back and forth between Park City, Utah and Southern Nevada a couple of times. This […]