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I'm giving everyone a break from the horses and guns

12/15/2021

1, 2, 3, 4, click the pics and wait for more.

I've been putting up so many horse pictures that I decided to give everyone a break and take pictures of something else. But that doesn't mean I'm out of horse pictures yet, I still have a few more.

The cold front swept through Arizona last night, bringing a tiny amount of rain, barely enough to wet the ground, high winds for a couple of hours, and temperatures in the high 30s. But this morning dawned clear, bright, and the highs made it into the 60s.

My time at Ben Avery's is almost up since I have to pull out of here Friday morning. I still assume that I'm going to Picacho State Park. But, on the way to Picacho State Park, I have to drive past the turnoff that would normally take me to Ajo, Arizona, and I enjoy being there so much that being so close and yet having to pass it by is going to be painful. But just like Yuma, I haven't heard anything good about the illegals pouring across the border at Ajo lately.

The first chance I get, I'm going to Walmart and get my Bat flu booster shot. I'm supposed to wait for six months since I got my last shot, and December is six months. So I don't know if any of that is doing me any good or not, and just like at the beginning of all this, I still feel like being around as few people as possible gives people my age the best chance of not getting sick.

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A Saguaro Cactus in the desert... About as Arizona as you can get.

A 10 foot tall Rope Cactus, and yeah that's pretty big.

The lowly shower room at Ben Avery's campground. There's three of them in this campground and they're usually not worth taking a picture of, unless you've been boondocking for a looong time taking nothing but bird-baths, and then it's a magical place with unlimited hot water!

Sun setting at Ben Avery's gun range campground.

This isn't a full moon, or even a pretty moon, but I took a picture of it last night anyway.

Then I zoomed in. I would say that's not a bad picture for a handheld shot of something that's about 240,000 miles away.

4 Comments

Larry Worsham

12/16/2021 05:30:35 am

Have safe travels south.

A couple of news tidbits on the RV front. Thor has 16 billion in back orders. Dang, that is a lot of RV's. I just read on a Northwood blog that they are now adding sur-charges on pre orders. One guy said he had two $2600 sur- charges on his trailer. He was told is was primarily due to increasing high steel costs.

I haven't taken a booster shot as of yet. My cardiologist said to wait unless I knew I was going to be in a high threat environment which he described as flying, going to large events and such. I haven't been able to sort through all the confusion.

The action shooting shots were great.....back in the day I would have enjoyed that. I used to hunt elk on horseback. Trained my horse to stand still while taking a shot but she would back up about 10ft. after the bang. Never shot an elk from atop the horse but she was great packing them out.

Tom

12/16/2021 07:22:17 am

You're right about that Larry, $16 billion is a lot of RVs, where in the world are they going to park them all? I guess a lot of folks are getting stuck with sur-charges, it must be written into their order contract that allows that to happen. But it's a sellers market, so the buyers of just about anything nowadays is pretty much screwed.

I'm glad you mentioned "the high threat environments," because I believe my boondocking lifestyle is definitely "low threat." I think the highest threat environment I'm in is buying groceries at the Walmart.

Thank you Larry, I enjoy taking action shots like that, which partly explains why I like taking pictures of a rodeo, it's nothing but action. I was wondering how those horses deal with all that shooting going on sometimes right over their head. It doesn't seem to bother them, and I didn't see any one-eared horses running around.

I think in Colorado the Quads and other types of ATVs have taken over Elk and Deer hunting. About the only place I would see hunting horses anymore were wilderness areas where motor vehicles weren't allowed.

There are still some hunters that want the experience of a horse hunt, or they enjoy horses, and hunting is just another reason to ride a horse. But during hunting season when Texas license plates outnumber the Colorado tags, it's trailers loaded with ATVs I see going up the road heading for the high country.

Tom

Linda

12/16/2021 03:09:37 pm

I'm still mostly hiding out also. the only outings I've had recently were medical. I had my eye exam but the others have been shots for Covid, flu, and shingles. My main exposure, though, is from my Dave's outings to grocery stores and model railroad operating sessions. He gave up the latter for a long time but is going again now that nearly everyone is vaccinated. His enjoyment of those sessions are what brought us off the road so I'm not asking him to give them up again.

12/16/2021 04:14:14 pm

Well good, everyone should have something they enjoy doing, and be able to do it. And I understand the train thing because it used to be kind of a hobby for me. And in my storage room in Colorado I still have a bunch of antique train stuff, lanterns, posters, oil cans, most anything with a train companies name on it.

I feel that "hiding out" is the best thing to do for now. Of course that's easy for me to say because I was mostly hiding out before the Bat flu came along. For some folks like myself boondocking, and hiding out, go hand-in-hand.

Yeah, if you live with someone, you're exposed to everyone that there exposed to. Of course it only becomes a problem for me when I'm in Denver for the summer and I'm around my family all the time and even though I'm not around a bunch of people myself, they are, so I'm exposed to everyone their exposed to. And that sounds like a lot of exposure.... I can't believe I'm not sick already.

Tom

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