One Day

Jax and I are coming back from the Wind Caves.

In the roughly three mile drive about every half mile or so I realized all the thing that had happened, an incident or so, every short distance over 18 years. This rock Linny and I use to sit under waiting for Kobae to show up. I wondered if it might ever roll but I didn't see any possibility of that. I didn't wonder if it would just break in half and land right where we were sitting. One day when we were hiking back we noticed the rock stuck out in the road a little more than it did previously. During the couple hours that we were gone it had broken in half and fallen right next to part of the white rock that we use to sit on.

Wind Caves, Catacomb Rock, and Honeycomb Rock

On the way to Chicken Corner the sign says Wind Caves, the maps say Catacomb Rock, and lost people always ask me how to get to Honeycomb Rock. In the late afternoon there is lots of shade on the east side of the rock and of course lots of caves. Sometimes when it's hot that's where Jax and I go hiking.

When you walk through the caves if you ever look up you're wondering what keeps the rocks from falling from above you because they don't look stable. But in all the years I never saw one fall down until four or five winters ago when a bunch of them fell down for an unknown reason.

The River

It was going up six inches a day. When it got to 15 feet deep. I stopped the kayaking. The last people that went said they paddles upstreat about an hour and a half and were back in ten minutes. That doesn't sound like much fun. River is working it's way up all the creekbeds.

Next Day and Jax and I

Each day I think this is the day I catch up the blog. Then something happens, something else happens, and it's the next day. Pictures are stacking up, stories are stacking up and then I forget a lot of it and try and mix the story I remember with the pictures. I'm really sorry. Each day Jax and I hike but it's hot and we have to find places where there is shade.

Jax is ten years old now and times seven that's 70 years old and some change. I turned 72 last month and so we're about the same age now and it's showing. Strangely I'm getting my balance back and upper body strength which I thought were permanently gone. I don't know why. The doctor has me take so many pills each day I've lost track of what does what. Jax however is deteriorating some. I see him go to jump up on something and he falls back. He looks confused as he use to do that ledge easily. I'd say over all though we're both at about the same level.

Every Day Life

The desert willow bloomed a day late this year on May 15th. Always the 10th yo yhr 14yh between Linny and Heather's birthday. It has come with a vengeance with hunderds of flowers. The side-blotched lizards own this tree and all the bugs that crawl around it. Teresa has put a couple of feeders on it and there can be up to ten hummingbrds at a time on it. The feeder needs filling most every day.

Though the tourist season has slowed down after Memorial Day as the days grow hotter. Still on a cool day the disc golfers come. We had 48 one day and 35 the next.

It didn't seem like we got a lot of moisture this year but much of the shubbery is pretty green.