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.

Blue Tails #9, #10, #11, and #12

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Fielder Arch

Out behind Chicken Corner.

The Road

After some folks complained to VRBO that I mislead them on the road, despite sending out the same warning and directions for ten years, they show up in a small truck overloaded with stuff on their month long journey. When this happens occasionally I tell them not to yell at me because somewhere out there Karma is listening and the next vehicle or two that pull up will make them look bad. This time was no exception. I loaded all their stuff in my truck and had their empty truck follow me to within a couple miles of town and magically there were no issues with the road on the way back. Didn't stop them from compaining after I went above and beyond. Next two vehicles.