The kids begged to stay another day here at the Shell station. Do
these kids really understand what beauty is? What nature is? We spent a
week in the desert and they were vampires; staying in the trailer all
day and coming out at dusk to play for an hour and today they spent the
entire day outside playing in the dirt piles. The boys found stacked
cardboard and called it their fort. The girls washed their (big)
horses. Jamie and I attacked the mold that started attacking the windowsills in California and dried in the desert and now just looks like
heavy dirt all over the windows. We cleaned all the windows and sills
and screens and then I got the fever and cleaned the floor in the
bedroom where Ellen spilled some very strange concoction that honestly, I
don’t even care to KNOW the ingredients of (suffice to say they
comprised a sort of glue) and then the joints of the walls and floors
and before I knew it I was baking oatmeal/chocolate
chip/raisin/walnut/whole wheat cookies. So don’t say you haven’t been
warned. You know the signs of the dementia.
Our router has been on a very strange trip today; it seems to be
connecting us and then dropping us and the only way I’ve been able to
get online is to wire myself to the router or modem and really, what is
the point of having a laptop if you can’t flaunt your freedom from wires
by posting from the closet of a bathroom? It must have something to do
with these 18wheelers but I can’t figure it out. I’ve tried different
channels and I don’t know what it is.
Tomorrow we head towards Tuscon but I’m not sure how far we’ll get,
other than Red Rock where we have mail awaiting. I’ll leave you all
with another picture from the desert. It was beautiful there. And oh,
so cheap. I’m up to mid-April 2005 on the movement of pictures to
Flickr. I’m going to have to get a lifetime membership to Flickr
because I will NOT be moving pictures ever again. In other news, I’m
wanting to change the blog name from ‘travelogue” to something NOT
boring. It’s The Journey? (I secretly covet MB’s blog name of “Trip to
Wonderful” it is such a gorgeous visualization)
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