Sunday at the ranch...

Have family from so-cal visiting. I give them until 7:30 until they start walking to the highway to go home. It's 101...

Welcome my two teammates.

Crazy Coyote - My mother

and 

Ranch Wife - My lovely wife.

I've added them so we can get another perspective on this crazy life experiment.

and now everyone say welcome.....

In all the confusion I forgot my original post for yesterday

Saturday was clean my uncles trailer day... That is before the flash flood. Apparently a few packrats decided to make the place home. We had the job of relocating them. It took a few hours but we got the job done. It really needed to be done, after all with everything that's happened in the world, we never know who will need to move in.

Just one big happy family, crazy uncle and all.

Some random pictures of the flash flood...

Dry creek isn't always dry....

For those not in the know, we had a flash flood come through today. One of the worst storms ever to hit the area. We lost our driveway, and our main road in and out. Quite an experiance sadly I wasn't present. I was getting new tires on the truck (glad I did wouldn't have been able to get home if I hadn't!) so until next time enjoy the pics....

Flash flood!

And I missed it... But tiff didn't

Oh crap! What's that noise!

Just got home to find the wife on the front porch and all the dogs at attention. I asked what's going on. She tells me about hearing a scream down in the wash, the dogs went bananas, and she's convinced it was a mountain lion.
Personally, I think it's a bob cat (not much of a differance) still left us in high alert. I knew once the monsoons started that the desert would come alive. Yep I was right.

After I left for work there were three more storms that blew in. The wife took the blazer into town one way, and reported no problems. I came in another way and only had a few problems in the washes, and none were the ones I thought would be bad. I guess you can never tell.

So goodnight, I'll see you on the other side. I hope...

Monsoons...

First few storms came through today. A lot of lightning, a lot of thunder but just enough rain to knock down the dust and firm up the road. So far so good.

I'll have to say after the rain is the best time to be in the desert. Everything comes alive.