Things that Happen

Haydukers Scratch, Double Happiness, and Weekend at Bernie's come by hiking the Hayduke. I ask them to email me from Needle to let me know about water on the trail so I can notify future Haydukers heading down the trail.

Jessie and Teresa found bones inside Hull's Place. Jax and I hiked over to check it out and they're too small to be the Hybrid.

Jessie, much like I did years ago has found the most comfortable place to sleep.

Jax is alive again. All the critters out here but the only one he's allowed to chase are the rock squirrels. Sitting in my office monitoring the parking lot Jax saw a rock squirrel jump up into a guest vehicle. I notified them asking them to open the hood and Jax will take care of the rest. It used to be the fastest known element of time was from the time the light turns green to when the guy behind you honks. No more. Now, if you don't lift the hood of your vehicle fast enough Jax will crash into the hood on it's way up as he leaps from the ground into the engine. In this case, with only two nights here a squirrel has made a nest in their vehicle. Later that day Teresa said there was a bunch of stuffing from one of the chairs on the back porch missing.

I used to own a large luxury hotel in San Diego. As life in general there were good guests and not so good. It's different here. They are almost all outstanding guests and all around good people. My theory is that the road to here weeds out all the weenies. Few guests are expecting a mint on their pillow and if they show up here braving the road it's because they have heart. You can't teach heart it has to come from within. All my guests have heart and are the best of the best. I'm extremely fortunate.

Well This is New

A couple days ago Jax and I are out exploring in our matching vests stll searching for answers to our missing friend the Hybrid. We're hiking up on top above the lodge where we found coyote tracks. Was kind of weird. We followed them and then they just quit with sand all around and no tracks. Like it got swallowed up. Then we got down to the road heading out to the Base Camp sign coming back from the direction of the Wind Caves and headed down the drive way. No mountain lion tracks where she usually comes into the property. We round the corner and get passed by Teresa and Jesse coming back from town. After they drive by Jax attacks me on the road close to where the ghost foxes live. He thinks he's a mountain lion and even when we're hiking and it's 100 degree day I have to wear gloves because he may attack me from anywhere. So he jumps on me and I fall to the ground and we glove fight while he runs around me in circles growling and I try and fend him off with my work gloves. We glove fight for five or ten minutes and then I say "Let's go home." He comes over and I rub his neck and top of his head and we head home. Jax starts walking towards the lodge. I stand up and follow Jax. I've only walked four or five steps and I hear the footsteps charging up behind me. Everything tells me it's a mountain lion. From step to step the time is consistent and then it's not. I figure it has jumped into the air and is going for my neck. I'm sure I have the timing right and I duck down assuming it's going for the throat. If he doesn't jump over me it will be a tenth of a second until I feel impact. There's nothing. I lift my head up slightly and it doesn't land in front of me and there's no impact. I stand back up and look around in a circle. There's nothing. I walk back 20 feet and there are no tracks in the drive way sand. I look at Jax and he's staring at where the ghost foxes live. Maybe he saw something but he's not talking. I'm 100% sure there was something running hard behind me right to me. But, there's nothing.

Jax and I head over to where the ghost foxes live and Jax and I spend a chunk of the day over there searching. We see bobcat, coyote, fox, raccoon and most every over kind of track but no mountain lion.

More Lot of Stuff

Jax and I went down into the sand bag hole next to the river. The Hybrid is beig enough it's going to take a couple days so if it was a mountain lion or bob cat it probably got dragged somewhere or ambushed in it's den.

Haydukers Cruise Control and Silver Bullet came through.

Lot of Stuff

On a sad note the Hybrid is missing. Hasn't showed up for a couple weeks. It seems as if over the years whoever is the leader of the foxes doesn't last very long. Seems like it's been five or so months that the stranger with patchy hair (kid fox), black legs (red fox), and half black tail (gray fox) and green eyes (mountain lion) has made it. I don't know what happen in the desert that night to make the Hybrid four different kind of critters but it was magnificent. Jax and I have been searching most every day. Found bobcat tracks coming up the hill from where the remain of the deer are and coyote tracks up by where Doug's hogan is but so far no mountain lion so we've been holding out hope but something got it. I'd throw out ten hot dogs and it would get seven of them so I doubt the other foxed are going to miss it. More hot dogs for them. Down towards the tamarisk there are some large rocks that made up a room under them and when I got here it had sand bags all around it. I imagined that's where the Hybrid had been living all this time.

The first leader of the foxes I found injured many years ago. He had done battle with a badger and lost. One ear was missing, the other had a chunk missing. It couldn't eat dry food because it hurt too much and the dry food would fall out of it's mouth and it had a serious limp. I fed it chicken, turkey, hot dogs, and fish and after a couple months it had s shiny coat, no limp, and a bit of a belly. Jax and I patrolled the creek bed but just found the remains of the deer from last December or so.

First tour boats, kayaks, and rafts have been coming down the riverr most days.

Disc Golf Day Two:

And it's over and already scheduled for next year. The parking lot is almost empty.

Kobae walks across the driveway and stares at the entrance to his house. I pull the gate open, did out the entrance. Kobae walks in, sticks his head in the hole and then starts walking around in his pen. He finds a little Kit Kaboodle left in the fox bowl and empties that and then sits in the middle of his couple acres or so pretty satisfied with himself.

On the Course: Day One

Disc Golf Tourney Day One

It took Kobae 12 days after arriving before he went outside and it's been about that long since the sun shone. He took a couple meals in the lodge because as he approached the fron door he was able to determine the outside temperature and it's not anything he was interested in.

While most of the disc-ers were out playing Daxton helped Teresa feed Kobae.

So Wednesday forecast said it was going to be a nice weekend. Thursday and Friday said rain and more rain and it won't be a nice weekend. As it turns out Wednesday is smarter than Thursday and Friday put together.