I just love living on the mountain.
Junkero
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Sunrise San Bernardino Mountain style
When there are some clouds on the eastern horizon during sunrise it can be about as beautiful a dawn as you can see anywhere. The mountains get outlined, the sky will run with colors of purple and orange. This is a resent one I took on the way to work.
I just love living on the mountain.
Junkero
I just love living on the mountain.
Junkero
This year has been pretty fun
We did a lot of adventures this year. July was pretty busy for us. After the Bodie trip my computer guy let us stay on his cabin cruiser down in the harbor at Chula Vista near San Diego.
We had breakfast with him and headed off to do something in the San Diego Area.
We ended up at Point Loma in the Morning time.
The Cabrillo National Monument is there.
This is a very nice place to visit. It is west of San Diego on Point Loma naturally.
There is a Museum and the Old Light House out there.
Point Loma Has a nice sea shore on the Pacific side.
It has tidal pools and even some areas where the wave action of the surf is carving out the rocks.
The erosion along the cliffs was fantastic.
I discovered rather late in this adventure that cute fiancee doesnt' do well with heights.
I helped her down to and area where she could see around and wanted to stop there.
Ok. I walked on down the path in front of her. From where she was standing it looked like the cliff edge. There was actually another ledge below it and a rock to step down onto.
It must have looked like I jumped over the edge to her. I jumped down to the rock (2 feet).
and turned around. By that time she had spun around and was gone up the hill.
There was some cool tidal pools there but I didn't stay because cute fiancee had disappeared.
I found here back at the truck. She was not happy with that. Poor thing she saw me just jump over the edge.
To make it up to her I took her to the San Diego Zoo.
We had a good time but it was hot and that zoo is all hills. Funny thing. We found this cool tree there that we liked but couldn't find anything like it online....lol
We asked the next time we went down but still no knowledge on that tree.
The silly zoo is also a Botanical Garden and every thing has a plaque on it telling you what it is.
Except this silly tree. It is probably a weed and we don't know it....grin
The next week end we had my son with us. Cute fiancee had inventory at her store in the morning, but we wanted to go do something after she was done.
Alex and I dropped her off and headed on a little adventure, to find the road that goes to the hill with all the communications antenna on it north of Victorville.
We didn't find it. but I did let Alex drive the truck on the dirt road we were on.
He begged me to let him, but when he got in the seat he was a little nervous...lol
He drove well. We did a small trail and he learned how not to hit the rocks and trees.
We picked up cute fiancee again and went to breakfast.
After that we went to one of our favorite places to go to above Lucerne Valley Ca
It has these cool outcroppings of Decomposing Granite rocks.
We decided to go up this trail. It looked fun, but as we go into it the trail turned more into a quad trail that a road. We came to this point where there was this huge rock on one side and nothing but brier on the other. I folded in the mirrors and we crept by just missing the rock but the brier squeeked along the paint on the truck. Reminder to self, must wax truck.
we came to a fork in the road. A place I know called White Mountain was to one side and the main road to the other.
White Mountain it was. What a goat path we had chosen. Not the best road to have your new truck on. but the top was pretty darn cool.
At the top we discovered why it is called White Mountain. It looks like Marble. There are Gypsum mines to the east of this mountain so it might be something like that to.
There was the starting of a mine up there.
There was also this green mineral here too. I can't find any info online about this area so I can only say it is green..not what it is darn it.
It isn't Jade or Turquoise. It really looks like Miracle grow in its raw form.
They didn't dig very far into this mine.
Above this location there was whiter stuff and you can see where they were sample drilling and couldn't get a drill bit back and had to leave it.
We need to slowly make our way down from this hill top. Don't think that we didn't take some rock samples with us..grin
On our way down we met up with a Jeep club going up. They wanted to know how to get down from where they were at to the desert.
We gave them directions. They were too chicken to take those lifted, big tired Jeeps up that hill.
That was where we were near the white area at the top.
It was a fun adventure and we didn't tear up the truck.
That area is full of adventure. We will be going back to it again.
Junkero
We had breakfast with him and headed off to do something in the San Diego Area.
We ended up at Point Loma in the Morning time.
The Cabrillo National Monument is there.
This is a very nice place to visit. It is west of San Diego on Point Loma naturally.
There is a Museum and the Old Light House out there.
Point Loma Has a nice sea shore on the Pacific side.
It has tidal pools and even some areas where the wave action of the surf is carving out the rocks.
The erosion along the cliffs was fantastic.
I discovered rather late in this adventure that cute fiancee doesnt' do well with heights.
I helped her down to and area where she could see around and wanted to stop there.
Ok. I walked on down the path in front of her. From where she was standing it looked like the cliff edge. There was actually another ledge below it and a rock to step down onto.
It must have looked like I jumped over the edge to her. I jumped down to the rock (2 feet).
and turned around. By that time she had spun around and was gone up the hill.
There was some cool tidal pools there but I didn't stay because cute fiancee had disappeared.
I found here back at the truck. She was not happy with that. Poor thing she saw me just jump over the edge.
To make it up to her I took her to the San Diego Zoo.
We had a good time but it was hot and that zoo is all hills. Funny thing. We found this cool tree there that we liked but couldn't find anything like it online....lol
We asked the next time we went down but still no knowledge on that tree.
The silly zoo is also a Botanical Garden and every thing has a plaque on it telling you what it is.
Except this silly tree. It is probably a weed and we don't know it....grin
The next week end we had my son with us. Cute fiancee had inventory at her store in the morning, but we wanted to go do something after she was done.
Alex and I dropped her off and headed on a little adventure, to find the road that goes to the hill with all the communications antenna on it north of Victorville.
We didn't find it. but I did let Alex drive the truck on the dirt road we were on.
He begged me to let him, but when he got in the seat he was a little nervous...lol
He drove well. We did a small trail and he learned how not to hit the rocks and trees.
We picked up cute fiancee again and went to breakfast.
After that we went to one of our favorite places to go to above Lucerne Valley Ca
It has these cool outcroppings of Decomposing Granite rocks.
We decided to go up this trail. It looked fun, but as we go into it the trail turned more into a quad trail that a road. We came to this point where there was this huge rock on one side and nothing but brier on the other. I folded in the mirrors and we crept by just missing the rock but the brier squeeked along the paint on the truck. Reminder to self, must wax truck.
we came to a fork in the road. A place I know called White Mountain was to one side and the main road to the other.
White Mountain it was. What a goat path we had chosen. Not the best road to have your new truck on. but the top was pretty darn cool.
At the top we discovered why it is called White Mountain. It looks like Marble. There are Gypsum mines to the east of this mountain so it might be something like that to.
There was the starting of a mine up there.
There was also this green mineral here too. I can't find any info online about this area so I can only say it is green..not what it is darn it.
It isn't Jade or Turquoise. It really looks like Miracle grow in its raw form.
They didn't dig very far into this mine.
Above this location there was whiter stuff and you can see where they were sample drilling and couldn't get a drill bit back and had to leave it.
We need to slowly make our way down from this hill top. Don't think that we didn't take some rock samples with us..grin
On our way down we met up with a Jeep club going up. They wanted to know how to get down from where they were at to the desert.
We gave them directions. They were too chicken to take those lifted, big tired Jeeps up that hill.
That was where we were near the white area at the top.
It was a fun adventure and we didn't tear up the truck.
That area is full of adventure. We will be going back to it again.
Junkero
The Rest of the Story
Man has time flown. I started way back in July to tell you about our trip to the Ghost Town of Bodie. It was on the July 4th weekend if I remember correctly...lol
I better set this back up so you the reader can understand. On the 4th of July weekend we had planned on going to Bodie after a Class Reunion of sorts. For more click on the July entries here and read the first part of the trip...grin
I had wanted to see an old mining town called Masonic on the last trip to Bodie but had taken the wrong road. I google mapped it and found the fork I should have took. I knew I should have taken this fork the last time I was through here but took another one that took us back down a valley all the way to the Nevada State Line. Funny place though. It just had a wood plaque that said Nevada on it and there wasn't a Casino in sight.
The last time we went down that wrong road we discovered something rather interesting. The valley you go through is just ranch grazing land. It has a dirt road cut through it. The first time we drove down this road there was these black rocks scattered all over the road. We stopped to investigate. It looks like under the surface of the land there is Obsidian or Volcanic Glass as it is also known, and when you disturb the top soil the Obsidian turns up.
Well this time around we wanted to pick up a bunch of this stuff to build a fireplace with.We would like to make a possible Obsidian band somewhere in the rock fireplace we have dreamed up. We roamed around and picked up a bunch of it and loaded up the floorboards of the back seat with the stuff. We are such rock hounds. When I think about it, how all that Obsidian littered the floor of that valley, it puzzles me.
After getting the Obsidian we trekked down the correct road towards the mining town of Masonic. At one time this mining town, if you want to call it that, had an interesting way of getting the gold ore out of the hills and to the processing plant. They had this cable tram/bucket contraption suspended through their valley. In the info I had read online it said some of this stuff was still visible. Nope. Stripped and vandalized is the best description of this place now.
There was a Clint Eastwood movie called the "Gauntlet" way back when, and in the final scene of the movie Clint's character and his love interest/witness must drive a bus down this street and all the cops in the city fire on this bus as it passes. I digress this way to tell you what this old mine looked like. In the movie the bus finally comes to rest at the steps of the town hall all shot to hell. Swiss cheese. That is what this town looked like. Shooters come out and shoot at any structure they can see. Sad actually, some people have no respect for things...sigh
Masonic was a bit of a disappointment.
We headed down the road and met back up with Hwy 395. Headed back down towards Bishop so we could spend the night. On the way I took a picture of Mono Lake from a pullout up above the lake.
Hard to believe that the lake level was up higher than the road at the bottom of the picture, 15,000 years ago.
I talked cute fiancee into seeing more geologic formations on the way back to Bishop...grin
There is a place between Mono Lake and Mammoth Ca. It is called the Obsidian Dome..!!!
There is this huge outcropping of Obsidian off the 395. It has a sign pointing you to the dirt road it is on. Cool place to stop and have a picnic and for the kids to climb all over and damage themselves....lol
This Obsidian is different from the stuff we had picked up earlier in the day. The cute fiancee said some of this would look good on our dream fireplace too. All the sample around were huge and there was noway I could move them, or so I thought. What made this Obsidian different was that is was infused, if that is the right word, with Pumice. I looked for a piece I could lift, so I could possibly break a larger rock at the bottom of the formation. The rock I picked up was rather light. It took me a while to find the right rock to break. Mind you we don't go out and do this to disturb the site like the shooters that put holes in everything. We like taking samples and leaving the place pretty much has we found it. I had 4 good size chunks, that had they been real glass I would not have been able to lift them, to put in the back of our truck.
After spending the night again in Bishop we hit the road for home. We stopped in the town of Lone Pine for Breakfast. Lone Pine has this Movie Museum in it. I always thought it was out of place, until we had breakfast in this coffee shop in the middle of town. The coffee shop was full of movie memorabilia. On the menu, I think, was some literature on the Alabama Hills.
Odd name for some hills on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, especially with Mount Whitney towering directly to the west. Looks like some prospectors in the area were Confederate sympathizers and had taken a liking to the exploits of the CSS Alabama during the Civil War and named some of the claims after it and it finally stuck to the whole mountain range.
Click on the blue link above for more info.
The Hollywood connection it seems it the fact that a heck of a lot of movies have been filmed in them thar hills. IBMD list of movies filmed there.
Serendipity strikes again. We had to see this place. The road is also the one that takes you to the hiking trail porthole to Mt. Whitney. We stopped at place with information and got bearings. This place also had some picnic tables and a stream running through it. Cute Fiancee had to put her feet in the stream.
Decomposing Granite. Besides Mt. Whitney that is all you see. Little kids would climb themselves sick on all those rocks.
Wind and rain have carve these rocks in to all sorts of cool formations.
There are dirt roads taking you all over these places. Lots of places where you can drive up some little cove and camp right up against the rocks.
It was a fun adventure. We hiked around some of the coves, but it was starting to get hot. We still had a long way to get back home. I like the Idea of sticking my feet in the water like the cute fiancee had done. My feet were hot from the hiking, so we found a place to park near the stream.
I balanced my butt on a rock and stuck my feet in the stream. Holy Makeral was that stream cold. I could only do it for maybe a minute it was so darn cold. We got in the truck and headed out. The bones in my feet hurt for a while after that, darn cold...lol
Last picture Alabama Hills with Mt. Whitney behind.
Well you know we found some rocks there and had to put them in the truck too...grin
Cute fiancee gave the go ahead to take a side road back home. This road skirts Death Valley National Monument. We went out this road to maybe go to another Ghost Town Called Cerro Gordo, but chickened out. The town is actually private property and you need permission to go up to it. We did stop at the small community of Keeler. Cute fiancee fell in love with this quirky town. She was even more ectatic when a plaque told her the original name of the town. Hawley.
Her name is Holly so it fit. I think.
At one time Keeler was a busy shipping port, not that you see water anywhere nearby.
Back in the 1800's there was a lake in that valley, but do to the thirsty needs of the City of Los Angeles the lake is now dry. The, now dry, Owens Lake was a key water way that made Los Angeles grow first then they drank from it and dried it up.
Keeler was the ore processing town for the mine at Cerro Gordo up until the Silver Prices crashed in the late 1800's
Keeler had a short but busy life mining Silver, Zinc, Lead and Limestone. It also was the end of the line of a Narrow Gauge Railway that was finally closed in 1960. The train Depot is still standing.
Leaving Keeler we set out towards the town of Trona. There is a mine north of that town that was mining something green out of this black rock. That took us out into the Death Valley area.
Cute fiancee slept most of the way there. She liked the rocks. By the time we left the mine the bed of the truck was full.
We were pulling up this grade when cute fiancee says. "wait go back"
I stopped and backed up. Glad that the road is deserted.
She is pointing at this hole in the hill. "are those figurines or dolls or something in that little cave.
It was for sure a very weird diorama. A Barbie doll with a what looked like a Mr. Bill head on her, and some stuffie toys. Probably the set for Toy Story 4 or something.
It was hot that day and trucks temp kept getting to warm. Drive a little while with the A/C on then at a certain temp shut it off let the temp come down.
The rest of the drive home was uneventful. It was a good time.
I'm so glad I got to finish this story....lol
Junkero
I better set this back up so you the reader can understand. On the 4th of July weekend we had planned on going to Bodie after a Class Reunion of sorts. For more click on the July entries here and read the first part of the trip...grin
I had wanted to see an old mining town called Masonic on the last trip to Bodie but had taken the wrong road. I google mapped it and found the fork I should have took. I knew I should have taken this fork the last time I was through here but took another one that took us back down a valley all the way to the Nevada State Line. Funny place though. It just had a wood plaque that said Nevada on it and there wasn't a Casino in sight.
The last time we went down that wrong road we discovered something rather interesting. The valley you go through is just ranch grazing land. It has a dirt road cut through it. The first time we drove down this road there was these black rocks scattered all over the road. We stopped to investigate. It looks like under the surface of the land there is Obsidian or Volcanic Glass as it is also known, and when you disturb the top soil the Obsidian turns up.
Well this time around we wanted to pick up a bunch of this stuff to build a fireplace with.We would like to make a possible Obsidian band somewhere in the rock fireplace we have dreamed up. We roamed around and picked up a bunch of it and loaded up the floorboards of the back seat with the stuff. We are such rock hounds. When I think about it, how all that Obsidian littered the floor of that valley, it puzzles me.
After getting the Obsidian we trekked down the correct road towards the mining town of Masonic. At one time this mining town, if you want to call it that, had an interesting way of getting the gold ore out of the hills and to the processing plant. They had this cable tram/bucket contraption suspended through their valley. In the info I had read online it said some of this stuff was still visible. Nope. Stripped and vandalized is the best description of this place now.
There was a Clint Eastwood movie called the "Gauntlet" way back when, and in the final scene of the movie Clint's character and his love interest/witness must drive a bus down this street and all the cops in the city fire on this bus as it passes. I digress this way to tell you what this old mine looked like. In the movie the bus finally comes to rest at the steps of the town hall all shot to hell. Swiss cheese. That is what this town looked like. Shooters come out and shoot at any structure they can see. Sad actually, some people have no respect for things...sigh
Masonic was a bit of a disappointment.
We headed down the road and met back up with Hwy 395. Headed back down towards Bishop so we could spend the night. On the way I took a picture of Mono Lake from a pullout up above the lake.
Hard to believe that the lake level was up higher than the road at the bottom of the picture, 15,000 years ago.
I talked cute fiancee into seeing more geologic formations on the way back to Bishop...grin
There is a place between Mono Lake and Mammoth Ca. It is called the Obsidian Dome..!!!
There is this huge outcropping of Obsidian off the 395. It has a sign pointing you to the dirt road it is on. Cool place to stop and have a picnic and for the kids to climb all over and damage themselves....lol
This Obsidian is different from the stuff we had picked up earlier in the day. The cute fiancee said some of this would look good on our dream fireplace too. All the sample around were huge and there was noway I could move them, or so I thought. What made this Obsidian different was that is was infused, if that is the right word, with Pumice. I looked for a piece I could lift, so I could possibly break a larger rock at the bottom of the formation. The rock I picked up was rather light. It took me a while to find the right rock to break. Mind you we don't go out and do this to disturb the site like the shooters that put holes in everything. We like taking samples and leaving the place pretty much has we found it. I had 4 good size chunks, that had they been real glass I would not have been able to lift them, to put in the back of our truck.
After spending the night again in Bishop we hit the road for home. We stopped in the town of Lone Pine for Breakfast. Lone Pine has this Movie Museum in it. I always thought it was out of place, until we had breakfast in this coffee shop in the middle of town. The coffee shop was full of movie memorabilia. On the menu, I think, was some literature on the Alabama Hills.
Odd name for some hills on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, especially with Mount Whitney towering directly to the west. Looks like some prospectors in the area were Confederate sympathizers and had taken a liking to the exploits of the CSS Alabama during the Civil War and named some of the claims after it and it finally stuck to the whole mountain range.
Click on the blue link above for more info.
The Hollywood connection it seems it the fact that a heck of a lot of movies have been filmed in them thar hills. IBMD list of movies filmed there.
Serendipity strikes again. We had to see this place. The road is also the one that takes you to the hiking trail porthole to Mt. Whitney. We stopped at place with information and got bearings. This place also had some picnic tables and a stream running through it. Cute Fiancee had to put her feet in the stream.
Decomposing Granite. Besides Mt. Whitney that is all you see. Little kids would climb themselves sick on all those rocks.
Wind and rain have carve these rocks in to all sorts of cool formations.
There are dirt roads taking you all over these places. Lots of places where you can drive up some little cove and camp right up against the rocks.
It was a fun adventure. We hiked around some of the coves, but it was starting to get hot. We still had a long way to get back home. I like the Idea of sticking my feet in the water like the cute fiancee had done. My feet were hot from the hiking, so we found a place to park near the stream.
I balanced my butt on a rock and stuck my feet in the stream. Holy Makeral was that stream cold. I could only do it for maybe a minute it was so darn cold. We got in the truck and headed out. The bones in my feet hurt for a while after that, darn cold...lol
Last picture Alabama Hills with Mt. Whitney behind.
Well you know we found some rocks there and had to put them in the truck too...grin
Cute fiancee gave the go ahead to take a side road back home. This road skirts Death Valley National Monument. We went out this road to maybe go to another Ghost Town Called Cerro Gordo, but chickened out. The town is actually private property and you need permission to go up to it. We did stop at the small community of Keeler. Cute fiancee fell in love with this quirky town. She was even more ectatic when a plaque told her the original name of the town. Hawley.
Her name is Holly so it fit. I think.
At one time Keeler was a busy shipping port, not that you see water anywhere nearby.
Back in the 1800's there was a lake in that valley, but do to the thirsty needs of the City of Los Angeles the lake is now dry. The, now dry, Owens Lake was a key water way that made Los Angeles grow first then they drank from it and dried it up.
Keeler was the ore processing town for the mine at Cerro Gordo up until the Silver Prices crashed in the late 1800's
Keeler had a short but busy life mining Silver, Zinc, Lead and Limestone. It also was the end of the line of a Narrow Gauge Railway that was finally closed in 1960. The train Depot is still standing.
Leaving Keeler we set out towards the town of Trona. There is a mine north of that town that was mining something green out of this black rock. That took us out into the Death Valley area.
Cute fiancee slept most of the way there. She liked the rocks. By the time we left the mine the bed of the truck was full.
We were pulling up this grade when cute fiancee says. "wait go back"
I stopped and backed up. Glad that the road is deserted.
She is pointing at this hole in the hill. "are those figurines or dolls or something in that little cave.
It was for sure a very weird diorama. A Barbie doll with a what looked like a Mr. Bill head on her, and some stuffie toys. Probably the set for Toy Story 4 or something.
It was hot that day and trucks temp kept getting to warm. Drive a little while with the A/C on then at a certain temp shut it off let the temp come down.
The rest of the drive home was uneventful. It was a good time.
I'm so glad I got to finish this story....lol
Junkero
Disney's Grand Californian Hotel
While at Disneyland We always have to go into the Grand Californian Hotel. It is the most fantastic recreation of the Arts and Craft movement from the turn of the last century you will ever see.
I shot some video of the grand sitting room.
The area with the fireplace is awesome.
The Front desk of this Hotel is about as Craftsman as you can get.
It cost several arms and legs to stay at this Resort Hotel but we are saving up to go.
If we win the Lottery or something we may just move in....lol
Blogging away
Junkero
I shot some video of the grand sitting room.
The area with the fireplace is awesome.
The Front desk of this Hotel is about as Craftsman as you can get.
It cost several arms and legs to stay at this Resort Hotel but we are saving up to go.
If we win the Lottery or something we may just move in....lol
Blogging away
Junkero
Natal Anniversary
48. It was my Birthday last week. I took a day off from work so I could take advantage of Disneyland's "get in free on your birthday" deal. We already have seasons passes so Disney gave me the price of admission on a gift card, that I bought a nice Disneyland Hoodie with.
Disneyland was all decked out in festive Christmas displays. Since my Camera is not the best at low light pictures, but can do a tolerable job with video in those conditions I grabbed some video of some of the displays.
I must say that as a kid I really could have done with out the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland. They revamped it this year, with some complaints I might ad, putting in a sprinkling of some Disney characters, in kid form, along the ride. We had to check it out to see if this was done tastefully. It was. The characters are actually fun to try and pick out of the displays. Well this year they re-themed it for Christmas. The dolls are singing "Jingle Bells" mixed in with "It's a small World". It was nice and Christmasy.
We had to wait for dusk to see the lights come on at this ride. It looked like most of the park had the same idea.
I was planning on getting some video of the display and was readying my camera for the shot.
I had turned on the camera and had just looked up when the switch was thrown for the lights.
The best way I can describe the lights coming on at the It's a small World attraction was " a silent boom". I have heard it said several times that Disney wants what they do to be "Jaws dropped, eyes wide open, spectacular". That was what it was when those lights came on. Bam the lights come on and the crowd went WOW and the applause started. Very nice.
The Christmas Tree was tall, festive and well lit.
The Disney Christmas Fireworks show was Magical. It really brought home the spirit of Christmas. I didn't have a good position to get video of the fireworks but I did shoot a minute or two of the Castle.
We had a great time.
More Blogging to come
Junkero
Disneyland was all decked out in festive Christmas displays. Since my Camera is not the best at low light pictures, but can do a tolerable job with video in those conditions I grabbed some video of some of the displays.
I must say that as a kid I really could have done with out the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland. They revamped it this year, with some complaints I might ad, putting in a sprinkling of some Disney characters, in kid form, along the ride. We had to check it out to see if this was done tastefully. It was. The characters are actually fun to try and pick out of the displays. Well this year they re-themed it for Christmas. The dolls are singing "Jingle Bells" mixed in with "It's a small World". It was nice and Christmasy.
We had to wait for dusk to see the lights come on at this ride. It looked like most of the park had the same idea.
I was planning on getting some video of the display and was readying my camera for the shot.
I had turned on the camera and had just looked up when the switch was thrown for the lights.
The best way I can describe the lights coming on at the It's a small World attraction was " a silent boom". I have heard it said several times that Disney wants what they do to be "Jaws dropped, eyes wide open, spectacular". That was what it was when those lights came on. Bam the lights come on and the crowd went WOW and the applause started. Very nice.
The Christmas Tree was tall, festive and well lit.
The Disney Christmas Fireworks show was Magical. It really brought home the spirit of Christmas. I didn't have a good position to get video of the fireworks but I did shoot a minute or two of the Castle.
We had a great time.
More Blogging to come
Junkero
What a storm last night
Last night I went to bed about 8:30, I turned out the lights and laid down under the covers to warm up my side. I could not believe how much rain was hitting the windows. The trees were rocking, and the roar of the wind through the tree limbs was slightly unsettling. There are a couple of trees in front of the house that have to be well over a hundred years old. Tall, Thick, and sturdy looking, but the wind was moving them. I made a mental note: If I hear a loud cracking noise, grab cute fiancee and run to the middle of the house.
I'm not sure it would help but more house between us and giant tree is better than nothing.
The winds last night had to be well over 50 mph.
It was still raining when I got up this morning. Big drops falling off the trees above the house and hitting the roof with muffled smacks. Rather sad actually, we had gotten snow a week before and the rain was washing it all away. I have always thought that rain falling on snow was rather sad.
When we got in the truck this morning to take cute fiancee to work it was trying to snow but not sticking.
It rained by the gallons last night as the road conditions made perfectly clear. Huge rocks and debris around all the corners. It was clearing in the desert when I dropped her off at work. On the way back home I saw something that I just had to take a picture of.
This nice waterfall had started to flow again. It is near this really cool rock outcropping on the side of the road.
I have plenty to blog about so I better get to work here.
Junkero
I'm not sure it would help but more house between us and giant tree is better than nothing.
The winds last night had to be well over 50 mph.
It was still raining when I got up this morning. Big drops falling off the trees above the house and hitting the roof with muffled smacks. Rather sad actually, we had gotten snow a week before and the rain was washing it all away. I have always thought that rain falling on snow was rather sad.
When we got in the truck this morning to take cute fiancee to work it was trying to snow but not sticking.
It rained by the gallons last night as the road conditions made perfectly clear. Huge rocks and debris around all the corners. It was clearing in the desert when I dropped her off at work. On the way back home I saw something that I just had to take a picture of.
This nice waterfall had started to flow again. It is near this really cool rock outcropping on the side of the road.
I have plenty to blog about so I better get to work here.
Junkero
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Bad Blogger
I have been a bad blogger. I have a ton of stuff to post, but I have been busy for the most part and not been posting. The other half has been laziness. I just had a week off and was going to post but still didn't do anything. I will get to it soon.
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