Life with the mini-crew. Yep, it's pretty quiet around here. Toni had bills to pay so she got a job and moved to our property in Gobernador. Supha found some folks from Thailand to hang out with and went off saying she would finish studying for her nursing exam at the Buddhist wat (temple). Clay and Sholei never returned from fetching their horses. Donna had to return to her work in Canada.
We are focusing on getting projects to closure as quite a few were started but not carried to completion. We started with finishing some corral gates, varnishing and hanging the new doors, trimming the opening where the front door used to be, etc. Of course with this being the average date of the last frost, we've also been getting our chile gardens ready and planted for the season. There are 330 young Joe Parker green chile plants tucked into the various waffle beds within the two gardens. We are growing the jalapenos in the greenhouse, where they are currently blooming. There is one red tomato hanging on the vine, but we also have blankets piled in the garden should the wind turn cold and frost move down the canyon.
The well over at Gobernador isn't pumping water and with Toni in residence, it's got to be fixed. The pump is down about 300 feet, so John and Phil have engineered a do-it-yourself well puller made from the forklift, which Phil brought back to life with a bit of mechanical magic. The forklift got loaded onto a trailer to go north just a few minutes ago. It had sat so long in front of the building that it seems like something is missing without it.
Life goes on. John sold the last of his military trailers (except for Weapons Lab I) and delivered it to Pagosa Springs today. I have been trying to figure out how to arrange a swap wherein I end up with a nice looking filly and her current owners end up with a good deal. Phil has been doing all kind of mechanical magic as he also got the 1952 International Harvester truck running. John and I took a drive across the bridge and back. Life goes on.
But it's a quieter world without my tea-drinking buddy.
Yrs,
JRW
7:48:07 PM 
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