Rain. Rain since sometime around eleven last night.

This is the desert. It’s an arid environment. And I really hate mud*.

It hasn’t been cold enough to waste wood and make a big mess running the woodstove. But I’m gonna fire it up this evening just to dry out the air to the normal and healthy 15 – 20%. I’m expecting to see ferns sprout any minute.
Also the cell signal is crap; I couldn’t upload this at all earlier and I’ll be surprised if it posts this time. Here goes…
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*Yeah, I know we basically had no monsoon at all this year and I have no room to bitch. Plus it’s probably good that we’re not in a wipe-the-Anasazi-right-out-of-history kind of drought. But I don’t have to like it.















































