Last night a lone Javelina showed up after dark on the cell cam, as well as a pack rat. Earlier in the day, a jack rabbit came hop walking through; with their long legs, a slow hop looks like a walk. It’s about time the wild things showed up again.
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Maya and Miley came over to invite us to check out a bird nest in the kingpin area of their 5th wheel (Kim gave me that description). The kids had a tire positioned so they can stand and look in; claimed there were three baby birds in the ‘cotton type nest’ in the front. I am tall enough to look in without the need to stand on a tire but couldn’t see what they were trying to point out to me. Kim didn’t have any luck either. Got a flashlight…that wasn’t any help either. Don’t know how they ever figured out there were three babies in there.
Hey, wait! I think I brought the endoscopy camera. I’m sure that’ll work. I think this type of camera is used to look down pipes, drains, etc., but I use it to check the birdhouse in the front yard. The camera is on the end of a flexible tube…plug the other end into a phone, let the camera establish a wi-fi connection, and then just open the app on the phone. Whatever the camera sees is displayed on the phone screen; the app also allows the phone to take pictures. It’s really quite fun and impresses young people. So, I got the camera ready and with Maya holding a flashlight, was able to take a picture of three little naked bird bodies. Then we got the heck out of there so mom could come back and make sure her babies were okay.
Now that three curious children have found the nest, it’s anybody’s guess as to whether those babies reach adulthood or not.
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Right from the get-go, it was obvious today was going to be a warm one. Walked out in the morning and the air felt silky warm in the shade. We had nothing on the agenda, except figuring out how to arrange a queen-sized air mattress in our living space. My mom is flying in on Sunday; she’ll get our bed and we’ll be sleeping on the air mattress instead of on the couches as we have in the past, since we removed them. A 24” queen mattress takes up a lot of space and is cumbersome to move around; but we came up with the best plan of where to put the table, chairs, computer bags, needle felting paraphernalia, etc., so we can set the mattress up in that space. Now we can just spring into action come bedtime Sunday night. It’ll take about 10 minutes for the mattress to self-inflate so we’ll be able to stash the stuff while that’s happening.
After struggling with the mattress in the hot camper and getting all sweaty, it was time to get out on
Arrived at the Sky Rider at 1:45…they close at 2 p.m. The cashier told us to come on in and sit anywhere. We were the last customers in the door and the last customers out the door. We left a generous tip.
Decided to ride Sandario Rd. to AZ 86, then loop on around to IR 15 on the Tohono O’odham Reservation. From there we took Battaglia Rd. into Eloy and on around to the campground. Gone for over 5 hours and put over 180 miles on our butts. It was a good ride with plenty of stops. And I saw one of the crested saguaros that I’ve mentally collected over the years.
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The "moon halo" or "moon dog" is fairly common — especially as the weather gets colder. The ring is actually an optical illusion. It is caused when the moon light refracts off ice crystals in a thin veil of cirrus clouds. Those crystals create a giant lens 20,000 feet above us.
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