Life in the desert

Anywhere you are, no matter what you’re doing, could be classified as life in the desert.  I’m really in the desert.  No, there are no sandy sloping dunes running off in different directions, but there are lots of mesquites, creosote bushes, cacti, and a variety of other things that always seem to pierce your skin or stick in your sock if you aren’t careful. I’ve given up feeling like I should mingle with man/womankind and in that sense my social life is a desert but I’m OK with that.  Continue reading Life in the desert

Everything’s running at full speed, I’m in reverse

Man, I can’t catch up!  I feel like I’m stranded on the dark side of Nowhere and the faster I try to run to daylight, the bigger Nowhere becomes. I had Riot out here for a few days.  What a hoot.  We took Scouty to the vet on Friday a.m.  She’d been digging at one ear.  The diagnosis was probably Foxtails.  Check out the dried out ones in the middle picture. Continue reading Everything’s running at full speed, I’m in reverse