Sunday, October 18, 2009

CAMERA IS BROKEN!


The sky was blue, the meadow was green...there was a cow...the driveway wasn't covered in water...and my camera was broken!

At about Mile Marker 8, that's a guess, I don't really have a clue, it was around Heart Mountain, because that's what I was trying to get a close up of...and the camera went whir and the picture went out of focus. It whirred again. I tried to shut it off...it wouldn't. The lens went out a little farther, but would not go back in all the way. A message came on the screen... Lens Error....

Oh, brother...it's broken...now I am really sad.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

BEFORE THE SNOW FLIES


The temperatures are dipping into the 30's at night so we will make our last trip to the ranch until the Spring. Drain the lines and the tanks and secure anything that we normally leave out on the property during the rest of the year.

We had hoped to leave yesterday to have a little more time at the ranch today, but it was not meant to be. So the 5 hour drive will commence shortly, with a brief stop in Quemado to see if we can get a room at the new (well, almost a year old at this point) Largo Motel this evening. It's hunting season, so who knows if there will be any vacancies.

The weather is supposed to be beautiful all weekend, no chance of rain, thank heavens, so I know I won't spend the entire weekend trying to dig out the truck! With all the work we have to do, and getting back into town before nightfall, I probably won't get that long walk in either. Oh well, there's always next year, the mountain will still be there.

Onward.... I'll post pictures when we return.