It's Quiet

It's slow in the summer. No one has come up the driveway in the last three days. Couple of bookings per week and it's slow until September. If you can adapt your sleeping schedule it's a wonderful time of the year assuming you can get up early. If not for driving to Dripping Springs each day to release rock squirrels I wouldn't have seen anybody for three plus days. Nearly always somebody at the Wind Caves.

Central Utah is on Fire

A few days ago as the day aged the smoke came drifting in getting thicker as the day went on. By the following day, it was mostly gone.

They Aren't Coming Back

Each morning when I go out to feed the birds, squirrels, and chipmunks, there are less rock squirrels. No issues with all the other morning creatures but the rock squirrels just won't quit destroying stuff. #21, #22, #23, and #24. I quit painting their tails. Nobody is coming back from Dripping Springs. Also had a hat trick in on day. Caught a rock squirrel in the morning, afternoon, and a third in the evening.

OMG #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20

Rock squirrels have had their babies in the last month and it's as crowded as ever. Some of the caged being dropped off are relatively young.

Linster

Linny moved out here with me in 2007 when she was three years old. I thought it was going to be temporary and I tried to discourage her when I moved out here but she kept saying "Tom, I can do this. You know I can do this." She spend a good chunk of the next sixteen years out here until swept away in a flood one day. When she made it up on dry land I remember he calling on the walkie and said "Tom, I'm alive." She went back to San Diego for healing, had a baby and now lives there. Though the last two years she has come out during part of the busy season to help. She did so again this year.

Sometimes

Sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft. This is the shaft.

#13 and #14

We haven't had any blue tails return that we have dropped off in Dripping Springs. One side by side went down by the Wind Caves and the one we have left has windows on it and it's hot. Trips to drop off Rock Squirrels are brutally hot. Jax and I are dropping them in Dripping Springs which true to it's name has springs for water and no view of the water or The Saddle rock formation across the river which is how I think they were finding their way back from the "Train Station" part way up Hurrah where we dropped off 35 of them. Some are young. I feel bad we didn't catch the mothers before they had babies but I can't keep taking the damage they've been doing to the property. The cage which was green is now more blue with the spraying of the tails.