The bat flu? What's up with that?

There's many reasons to click the pics... I just can't think of any of them right now.

Sunsets just aren't the same when there's no clouds around. Unfortunately this is the kind of sunset I see almost every night, but at my age I'm glad to see ANY sunset.

Another beautiful day in the desert means it's yet another cloudless blue sky, which is not all that great for taking pictures and definitely not good for beautiful sunsets. Fortunately, Monday is predicted to be a cloudy day, which will be the first time I've seen a cloud in the sky since I took that last sunset picture almost a week ago, no rain predicted, of course. Still, hopefully, the clouds will give me at least a chance at a sunrise or a sunset picture.

As far as the Bat flu situation goes, I seem to be in a pretty good location. The County of La Paz, where Quartzsites located, is underpopulated, to say the least, with about 21,000 people living in the entire County. Still, a lot of that population is relatively old. The Health Department lists 969 cases of the Bat flu at the moment, 78 people hospitalized with the bat flu, and there have been 20 deaths since the Bat flu started last spring. So I figure that sitting out in the desert, barely able to see my nearest neighbor, and avoiding casual contact with people unless absolutely necessary, is probably about the best one can do in today's Kung flu environment.

And it's not difficult for me to live the kind of life I'm living now, and I'm certainly not miserable living this way. In fact, other than hurrying to get in and out of Walmart, carrying a mask around in my pocket, and not going to a restaurant once a month like I used to do. I'm living the same full-timing life that I lived before the Bat flu surreptitiously slithered into the scene.

                                             theboondork

Quartzsite sign maker. RVers love their wooden signs, their names, their pets names, where their from,  and in my case... "Will work for food".

One of my boondocking neighbors.

For decades Government Anthropologists, paleontologists, and proctologists, have been studying these mysterious campfire rings scattered throughout the desert in the Quartzsite area.

 After conducting numerous DIY-DNA and carbon fiber dating tests, costing millions of dollars. They have determined that these fire rings date back thousands of years when Stone Age man......Cavemen, Cavewomen, and non-binary Cavepersons ruled this desert for several months during the winter.

But the most astonishing discovery is while digging through the debris of the campfires, which contained dinosaur chicken bones and cigarette filters, which was surprising  since everybody smoked unfiltered cigarettes back then, scientists discovered the remains of what atomic spectrographic analysis and squinting modifiers has shown to be... Aluminum beer cans. Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Stone Age man discovered aluminum, and perfected ways of beating it with a rock to form it into a near-perfect can rivaling the finest beer cans made today.

Having solved that mystery, government scientists have received extensive grant money and are now moving on to study mysterious tire tracks in the desert made by ancient indigenous peoples that flourished here after the glaciers melted but long before pickup trucks were invented.