Yes, it’s been awhile; what’s new? From my end of the street, everything is new. I’m busy. I seldom ever have the energy to find my way here after a day at the tables salt mines and filtering through news and promotions that involve poker and searching for the latest news on how to overthrow the wicked government and FORCE them to acknowledge online poker as a viable means to fill the US coffers and let us have our freedom back.
I’m time stressed and fading the money blues…isn’t everyone?
I want to play online poker – freely – at all of the online poker sites if I choose. I’m completely irritated over the loss of my freedom – STILL – and I want to go download PartyPoker or Everest Poker or one of the online poker rooms that is offering the world if you just go sign up. I want to…damn it, I want to.
The Full Tilt Poker mess, who knows where that will end up? The Absolute Poker and UB freaking ugly bunch of surliness, who has heard anything from them? Full Tilt Poker is taking a beating in the media, why are Absolute and UB not receiving the same only with metal poles that have nails pounded through them?
I didn’t start this to write about poker.
We had our annual family reunion in the desert…first time ever…and the last of the family left here on Friday morning. It seems strangely quiet with the household back to me and Scout. One of my boys was here with his family for 11 days, they could’ve stayed forever as far as I was concerned. No stress, no anger, no frustration, just hanging out over a late night fire in the chimenae, filled glasses, tales of the old days.
We did take a drive out to Cathedral Canyon and a walk-about. If you’ve never heard of it, here are a few links to get you going. http://archive.pahrumpvall
This is what it used to look like some years ago.
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It’s now nothing like it once was but IMHO, it was definitely worth the trip. Damn, I had pictures in mind but something is awry with the program. That means I’m outta here for the night. I’ll just have to hope the programmer fixes the wrinkle and I’ll be back soon to start uploading.
Updated:
If you followed the links above, you would see the sign that used to stand above the gate. My family, Josh – the incredible artist from Springfield OR; Jennie – Josh’s incredible wife; and baby Rain – my sweet little granddaughter that definitely has a mind of her own and you are going to know about it.
We pulled up and got out at the rim of the box canyon/Cathedral Canyon. The stairs, swinging bridge, everything that used to be just wasn’t now. *Sniff* We walked down to an area were we could climb/scuttle down into the canyon and after walking through the gate, this is one of the first things we saw on the right wall. Mouse over may help with the pictures.
At the very end of the canyon was a pool area, we assumed it was meant for sitting and watching the waterfall that came down from a pump area above the rim – the description given in the links above implies it was a place for relaxing and finding a peaceful day at Cathedral Canyon.
My family taken in different places in the canyon:
Christ of the Andes – vandalized by mankind that couldn’t wait to break off his head and arms.
Taken from the rim after we climbed back out of the canyon.
This was what it once looked like – image taken from The Center for Land Use Interpretation:
In the Pahrump Valley Times article (link above) it says that Roland Wiley was impressed with the way that religious statues and artifacts survived an earthquake in Guatemala and that was part of the spiritual mood he tried to bring to the canyon. Funny that statues and artifacts can survive natures’ fiery blast but not mankind and the idiocy that drives them to pillage and destroy…just saying…
This leaves me with the thought: The only way to keep a dream alive is to continually feed and build it yourself. Once you leave it behind, it’s subject to the wear and tear of the universe and the beast we know as mankind.
WOOPS! Just checked the published post, the images must be resized…laters
OMG! Finally got it right…I think! Check the images now.
Liked the up-date. Remarkable someone took the effort to take out the bridge. Thanks for pictures.
Googled the blog and got wordpress circa 2005. Ah, the pictures.
I’m still marveling over the canyon and the work that went into it. My son and his gal have been talking about it since they left it – and they’re home and back to their life in OR. I’ve been thinking to go there for about a year now. I tried once when I was taking the Rioteer home one Sunday afternoon, but turns out we were on the wrong road. We found a couple of guys that were riding quads and had stopped to smoke…asked them and they’d heard of it and knew it was back towards Pahrump off Tecopa Road. We gave it up that day and he went home.
I’m so glad we went. It’s amazing what you find out in the desert, just over the next hill or wash or canyon.