RE:Off To Ridgecrest Tomorrow....
(Date Posted:04/16/2008 11:17 PM)
I'm BAAAACCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK! Yes, I want to walk too! I looked longing at Hansen Dam when we drove it past it. Let's go tomorrow for sure. And hopefully I can squeeze some time in on Friday too. Looks like I'm getting ready for a house guest so I'll be doing some seriously needed spring cleaning before he arrives. But I want to squeeze in walking between the dusting and slipcover washing. and everything else. Desertblog will know who my guest is. Emmett Harder, who wrote These Canyons Are Full Of Ghosts. Emmett got the contract on the Tujunga Dam project and will need a place to stay when he's in town. No place here in Sunland/Tujunga, and it's ridiculuous for him to get a place in Burbank or Glendale when he can have our bedroom and our family room makes a wonderful bedroom for us. I just hope when Emmett gets home from work each day he'll have time to tell us stories about Manson and the Barker Ranch!
Meantime, we had a great trip! Played around a little bit in the Rademacher Hills near Ridgecrest yesterday. The hills are golden with belly flowers! Even saw a few beavertail cactus in bloom. Rubiblue took us to our favorite Mexican restraunt before dinner and we caught up on all the desert gossip and planned more trips, then we spoke at the HSUMD. It was a good turn out, and we had great fun doing the presentation.
Got up early this morning and had breakfast then went into Jawbone Station for The Friends of Jawbone Meeting and finalized plans for Moose Anderson Days. Then we took our favorite retired BLM ranger Myrt, who used to run Jawbone Station, over to the General Store in Randsburg for bbq beef sandwiches. After that we took Myrt over to see where Tonie Seger, who owned Burro Schmidt Tunnel, is buried over in Johannesburg. Tonie's bedframe is her
headstone - in keeping with the rest of the quirky graves at the cemetery. Weather was windy yesterday and a tad cool, but today we had light winds, and 70 degree temps. It was a beautiful day!
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Cecile
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