Tracks

Perhaps it's a proclivity, but the desert offers me more variety of entertainments.

I set up the trail camera this evening.

It's a windy place.

The heat means staying in the shade most of the day.

By late afternoon, when I went out again, they were gone.

Antonito, Colorado

We, Michelle and I, take vacations together. On this trip, we were going to Salida, Colorado. We were exploring the town before moving into the Indiana Jones Bed & Breakfast when

we discovered this monument to Jesus.

Montello

Every day's an adventure.

I'd picked three places off Interstate 80 between Wendover and Salt Lake City that I wanted to visit, but something called me to Montello.

Wiki listed it as having two bars and a gas-station/store with around 30 people.

I had several books on the dashboard to donate and turned off at the sign that pointed toward the post office. A green soccer-mom van was coming toward me with the driver's window down; I flagged it down. I explained about the books and she said there wasn't a library but they'd just, after eight years, reopened the school. I started to hand the books out to her for perusal and she got out. 

She was large, wearing a Sturgis t-shirt and with teethless gums was smoking a cigarette.

I told how the collection of Russian fox tales was illustrated with wood-block prints and how the tale of the Ghost cat illustrations were done in a classical style with a calligraphic influence and depicted a Japan that was likely long gone. She got It, and clutching the books to her ample bosom told of an interesting house around the corner and down the street.

She said his name was Jerry and he used to open the house to the public but I could wander around and wouldn't get shot.

I loudly called his name a few times but no one came forth.

Poetry

The tidbit below came from an article by Blake Smith, a Fulbright Scholar in North Macedonia.

"The challenge of poetry is to restore the broken unity of the world by clearing language of its cliched distractions and letting us, thinking and speaking afresh, discover that we are the apertures into and from which the world, in its wholeness, ceaselessly pours."

You can read the full article here:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/beyond-poetry-laura-riding

My thanks to She of the Capri.

(You may wanna remember the above when some idgit standing next to you looks up at the stars and says s/he/they/it feels small.)

Bee Girl

In case this video gets disappeared, it's of the tapdancing bee girl who enjoys reading.

Blind Melon - No Rain

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watching the puddles gather rain
And all I can do
Is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane
It's not sane

I just want someone to say to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yeah, yeah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, hey
So stay with me and I'll have it made (I'll have it made)

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
Escape
Escape
Escape

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
You don't like my point of view and I'm insane
It's not sane
It's not sane

I just want someone to say to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yeah, yeah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, hey
So stay with me and I'll have it made

I'll have it made (I'll have it made)
And I'll have it made (I'll have it made)
Oh no, no
You know we're really gonna
Really gonna have it made
You know we'll have it made

(I'll have it made)
(I'll have it made)
(I'll have it made)
(I'll have it made)

Songwriters: פורר טל, Graham,glen, Hoon,richard Shannon, Smith,eric Bradley, Stevens,thomas Rogers, Thorn,christopher John.

For non-commercial use only.

Data From: Musixmatch

Rain

We started the day with Irish coffee made with Jameson and chased it with Mennonite tomatoes sauteed with Jimmy Dean pork sausage (heresy R Us!)

Having started we saw no reason to stop until nap time rolled around.

The Granite Mountains (to the east)

Those hay fields in the far middle distance suck up the water from salmon creek which did, before livestock took over, have salmon in it.

The next morning, the area was blanketed

with a beautiful fog.

R2D Debreather II - Soda Lime

As you may have read on previous posts, I contacted Richard Avocet about the possibility of the soda lime cannisters of my R2D having absorbed all the CO2 they could. He confirmed my surmisal and sent this link

https://jorvet.com/product/jorvet-soda-lime-3-lb

In the process of placing my order for the 3-lb bag, I was asked if I wanted full or empty canisters. Thus, for those of you who own an R2D, the link above is a confirmed (by me: 2.Aug.2024) resource for renewing the soda lime in the cannisters or purchasing already filled replacement cannisters.

Despite Exit International withdrawing the chapter on the Rebreather II from the Peaceful Pill Handbook, I still feel this device can be used successfuly. But be aware of the reasons EXIT withdrew their support: the relaxation of the facial muscles makes keeping an airtight seal a challenge.

Also...

I initially placed my order online but was soon contacted by a company representative who said I needed to place my order through their telephone ordering system in order to have it shipped via USPS.

Because I'm nomadic, I get my mail through GENERAL DELIVERY. Jorgensen Labs normally ships via United Parcel Service (UPS). Some post offices (in the U.S.) will only accept mail that is shipped via the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). There may be other caveats having to do with post office boxes, but the representatives I communicated with were very helpful.

The replacement soda-lime arrived without a hitch (problem).