Five Days

It's been five days now since somebody came up the driveway. That's unusual even for summer. That will end today as there are a couple of check ins. #25, #26, and #27. I have to say we have a shortage of rock squirrels and the sunflower seed/bird seed feeding each morning is going much further without their cheeks stuffed with sunflower seeds.

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.