I have to face the realization that neither I, nor the oasis, is a forever thing. I'm just hoping to keep the oasis going for the rest o...

I'm hoping my sons will fix the road. If not, I'm prepared to hire someone. Meanwhile, I'm working at repairing the severely, ne...

  The BIG ONE is the one I never want to get.  I watched it from town on radar. It concerned me because it's the first time I had seen t...

Lower dirt tank brimful Broken tank More accurately, deluge or drought. This afternoon, it deluged again. The good news is that everything i...

Lately, the oasis has gotten a couple of nice rains, which means pumping water if everything doesn't fill up from a huge monsoon. I hadn...

Not much has been going on lately. My broken toe is better, but I always have pain on the bottoms of my feet when doing a lot of walking, or...

I feel like I survived a near "perfect" storm. Last week our car was in the body shop, my foot had a broken bone, water had to be ...

May 25 May 29 On May 24, I stubbed my little toe on a chair leg. I figured it was broken, but as the swelling, etc. subsided, I could pinpoi...

Normally, migration is the last week of April and the first week of May. However, birding was almost at its best the second week of May. And...

As I was approaching the oasis this morning, a bear was departing. As usual, he left fresh scat at the oasis. But no damage, and no bird see...