Sunday,
April 22, 2007 5:00 PM
I was at the Lost Cities Museum in Overton today, 45 minutes
before they closed, and I'll be back in the morning after
breakfast with my camera. More to say about that then, the
whys and wherefores.
Windstorm here but great temperatures. I'm in some sort
of hunting wildlife preserve just a mile from downtown Overton.
There are only 6 spots here and it is free, and you know
how I love that! However all the spots are taken, so I've
driven past those spots and sort of made my own. I think
it will be fine for tonight.
I've been reading the hand outs of the Great Turning, since
I don't have the actual book, You know me, I won't key a
car but I also won't trade my labor wages for anything I
don't have to. Every dollar I don't spend is freedom to
be idle for me. I love not working. It suits me. So I went
on line to find it, and instead found a much more erudite
examination, a review, of it and it spun my head around,
again. If I keep embracing contradictory thoughts I'm quite
sure my head will simply fall off.
The Archdruid
reviewed the Great Turning and it is well worth the
read. It starts about 1/2 way down the blog, and there are
three different essays - go all the way down and start with
number 1 and read them in order. I like the way this guy
thinks, and how he laughs at the idea of intelligentsia
leading a world new values. His bedrock thinking is that
nothing replaces personal responsibility and acceptance
of natural limits to resources during the de-industrialization.
Sunday, April 22, 2007 7:35 AM
Just pics this morning - it is moving day. Talkie talk later.
1st petroglyphs from Valley
of Fire are here
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have many petroglyph pictures to put up, and organize.
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:11 PM
I took
about 50 petroglyph pictures and canyon pictures and will
begin to put them up tomorrow. It was a beautiful day and
I had an interesting interaction. I was at the full extent
of an easy hike down petroglyph canyon when I found a group
of college kids with spray bottles washing the graffiti
off of the rocks- current graffiti, not petroglyphs. I asked
them what they were doing and they told me it was part of
their Earthday celebration, and that they hoped to be able
to clean up the entire 1/2 mile canyon. Just when I think
the world is populated by FF, Future Fertilizer (except
for my friends and blog readers, of course), I am brought
nose to rock with my generalizations. There are people willing
to do something, wanting to do something good and right.
It reminds me that the young are not locked into hopeless
conformity, and are anxious to do. To do instead of mope.
I'm a much better moper than doer but it gave me a lift
that has lasted all day. That and flying around on my moto
bicycle between all the things there are to see in the Valley
of Fire. Perfect warm weather, just shorts and tee and sandals
and helmet, it is very good. I'm going to celebrate with
another long shower, and then another tomorrow morning.
That should finish my four yearly showers in two days.
I created the bones of the heirloom child's seed garden
and started learning Quanta Plus on the Linux machine this
afternoon. Quanta Plus is my replacement for Dreamweaver
on the non Windows side of the isle. I actually made progress.
It was fun.
Tomorrow I head back south about 10 miles to Lake Mead and
try to find the boondocking area that is supposed to be
on the side of the north shore road just before Overton.
I want to get into town, to the museum and I'm hungry for
a coffee shop with cute baristas to look at. I hope your
day was fun and uplifting too. This is Earthday weekend,
time to remember we're all part of the a large symbiotic
herd (most of whom will die off in the next 10 to 20 years
-just had to say that).
Lastly, I joined several yahoo groups yesterday having to
do with responses to decreasing energy and I'm reading back
through some really good cob home building posts. It certainly
seems sensible, local, cheap, and waterproof. There are
houses that are over 500 years old in England made of COB.
It is really just dirt, straw and sand mashed together by
treading in it with bare feet. Sounds squish and fun.
Saturday,
April 21, 2007 7:24 AM
Good morning! The weather is about perfect this morning.
Today I'm headed off on a petroglyph expedition. I found
yesterday that many of the glyphs are identical to the ones
in Q on Tyson's wash, "my petroglyph site" and
I want to pictures of many of them for later designs. There
is something about the durable reality of the "hohokum"
that the glyphs have that intrigues me. We can hardly have
a car style that last 3 years, yet these symbols seem to
have remained nearly identical for at least 2500 years.
If my airstream design is "classic", what do you
call a design that last 2500 years?
Hot showers are free with the camping fee. It is $8/night
plus $6 to be in the park for a total of 14/night. I bought
two nights - and I am getting the most out of the showers.
Endless hot water, big private rooms, clean. Breakfast now,
pictures soon. I'm also going to collect some of the brightly
colored sand for those of you who I know will want it.
Friday, April 20, 2007 12:21 PM
Here
I am in the Atlatl campground in the Valley of Fire, a Nevada
state park, the oldest Nevada state park actually, and it
is cloudy but I thought I would give you a brief look at
it now. There are many things dear to my heart here and
I will see them all. Petroglyphs, so extensive that some
of them almost obliterate the rock they are chipped into,
petrified wood (who me, no no, don't think that!) AND the
ancient fossil sandstone that fails my cheap camera completely.
IT is luminescent. If you see the rock behind the trailer,
that is the direction of the satellite, and the dish just
caught it at the top edge. There was only one other choice,
and by the time I was done testing the dish it had was gone.
I made a good decision to come here today instead of tomorrow.
There are only about 20 sites here - construction has closed
off parts of the campground. Luck was with me when the Overton
Marina turn showed the campsite sign painted over. I continued
on, thinking I would go to Overton, another 8 miles and
go to the museum today, but then I just thought but I want
to go see what people say is the prettiest camground they
have ever stayed in. One thing I like already - they have
hot showers!
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