So I was wasted without benefit of alcohol
or drugs.😏 A couple of late nights and hours out in the
fresh air will eventually do that to a person.
Kim wrapped up his imaging early because of the moonlight; I did the
best that I could finishing up the journal and we were in bed shortly after
11. That makes for about 10 hours of
sleep last night.
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Didn’t let sleeping late derail us from our
walk. Thankfully the temperature was in
the 60’s which is middle of the road out here.
Not too hot but not cold either.
Makes for good walking. We did
our 3 miles in record time also...about 1 hour and 5 minutes. And we even dawdled along the way by checking
out the watering system for the pecan groves...the pumps were on, bringing
water up and filling the cement ditches.
There are hoses running from the ditches into the fields and when the
water gets high enough it flows through the hoses into the groves. Yesterday we watched the watering end of the
process...today we got to see how the water gets into the ditches to get to the
groves. This is the first time we’ve
seen the pumps in action.
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Planned a ride to Oracle, home of De Marco’s
Pizzeria which is the home of the #1 BLT on my list. It’s about 60 miles from camp, a little over
an hour’s ride. Unless, of course,
there’s some stopping along the way which there was. But we weren’t on a time schedule...just
wanted to be home before dark so Kim could have plenty of time to set up for
imaging. Finished lunch about 3 o’clock
and headed back to camp the way we came...SR 79 to Park Link Rd. Stopped several times along the way because
one thing or another caught my eye and I wanted a picture of it.
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The railroad system is alive and well out in
the southwest. The sound of the nearby
trains running is an all day noise...like even through the night. There are at least two, possibly three in places, tracks
that run mostly parallel to I-10 and the frontage road. Park Link Road comes to a T at the frontage
road and there are two sets of tracks running across Park Link. Today there was a long train sitting on one of
the tracks blocking the crossing. We
pulled up, turned the bikes off and waited.
There were others in line ahead of us.
The truck in front of us turned around, the driver stopping to tell us
that the guy at the front of the line said he’d had been waiting a half hour
already. Aghh!! Turning around for us
meant going 18 miles back to the Tom Mix Highway (SR 79) and then west into
Coolidge and south back to camp...a significant amount of miles.
We pulled up at 4:05 and at 4:27 I couldn’t
take it anymore. I turned around to take
the long way back to camp. Moving was
preferable to me even though it was back tracking. Kim was going to wait it out and we joked
about who would make it to camp first.
About 11 miles down the road I called him to see if the train had moved
yet. Why, yes, it had...about two
minutes after I left. Figures! So not only was Kim no longer waiting at the train
tracks but he was eating a DQ Blizzard as we spoke. Figures!! So I turned around yet again to take the
shorter route back because I had a mission to accomplish and preferred to do it
today instead of tomorrow. Got lots of
U-turn practice today. 😐
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So...my plan for looking into the hawk/crow nest on Park Link
Road involved my phone, my selfie stick and a stool. Kim said the selfie stick wasn’t long enough
and he was skeptical of using the stool because it wouldn’t get me up high
enough. The stool wouldn’t fit on the
bike so whether it would help or not was a moot point...still I persisted.
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| This didn't work |
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| Inside the nest |
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| My finished product |
Now the inside of that nest was nothing
special...in fact, it looks like the ravens were collecting panty hose and
tissues to line it. No eggs in
sight. But ultimately what was inside
the nest wasn’t important...the important thing to me is that I persisted with
my idea and made it happen. 😎👍
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We like the card game Hand and Foot that we
played with Dan and Vickie. Vickie left
3 decks of cards with us so we could play it if we had the chance. Well, tonight we had the chance to play
because clouds made imaging impossible.
We played two rounds of the game before we realized that there were
twenty 7’s...in 3 decks of cards there should only be 12 of any particular card. Looks like we’re going to have to invest in
some decks of cards before we resume our game. 😃
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Today’s miles: 130
Total miles: 1464
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