Backyard parking

Isn't that sad! There's nothing like sleeping under the stars under the Prairie sky! You feel like you can pluck one out and put under the pillow. We just had the March Full Moon. HUGE! Right over the middle of our EAST/WEST street! It gets even bigger by october's full moon. Monster. If you're luck on a warm evening, you just pull out the sleeping bags and drop them in the yard.

And we get the famous Northern Lights show here. The west coast gets them in late July, especially around Oregon's Whidby Island, during the Jazz Festivals. Ours kind of shape and color-shift from Blues to Pinks. The western ones seem to stay in the greys and white shades.

 

those family outings.

I forget which car it was that pulled our camping trailer out to Rosamond,in the middle of the Mojave desert,for the Ninth Annual World Chili Cookoff in the mid-70's.(1)the family got to meet several celebrities,including Chill Wills and some guy named Carroll Shelby(the Chili Cookoffs were his idea)(and led to his brand of chili fixin's)...(2)us kids got to actually see the Milky Way.The night time sky is not the same when you're not in close proximity to 100,000 street lights...And I too think it's a shame that most Americans seem more attuned to impressing their kids with the interiours of motel rooms than the exteriour world of the great outdoors...Something's amiss in America when theme parks are more important than National Parks.

 

You've got lots of Big Sky country. ND, SD and Montana, and I'll bet Wyoming is gorgeous at night. Kansas and Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle are great too. We drove up from Mexico through those southern states in 1999, and I drove across the US in 1977, from Detroit to Seattle, Washington.

 

I kin see I would not stay all that long in the city.....My day here started after breaky and check out the net in the Hot Tub with the warden...I cut a tree of at eight feet up and took my satellite dish and put it on top of the stump and then put a disc player stereo under the dish...so coffee and good company with the warden started the day....



so off for a two mile walk in the back...Roo just loves the walk and I got to wear off of the winter fat we have put on...you could say we wintered well...

 

She's a hunter isn't she? One alert pooch. I used to raise dogs for moose and deer hunting for my dad.

 

When we got back I took Roo for a ride on the wardens sled...



The two neighbor boys came over so I give one a sled to ride and the other rode with me....we put on some good miles today...I played dem young one's out....well dat me day but the mess in the driveway would just not be allowed I can see right now...it was dark so had a slow shutter speed on the camera so a little shake shake....



Well I had a goooood day....and I is played out....

 

I have a buddy in Palm Dessert and he has a beautiful diesel push motor home and he got a formal letter telling him that it had not moved in two weeks and he should put it away.......I was more than amazed so to say.....I was just visiting and not even going to try to fix or figure it out...I have also heard of lots of other crazy crazy stories that I believe to be true... An older fulla there had some 56 Ford cars and nice ones and convertibles and the like and they had them towed from his property and the next day other folks had his cars and were driving them....them was an eyesore..city council's fulfill their own pockets..all legal like..I afraid dem folks would have become sturgeon food in the Frazer River if it bin me....

 

A virgin sturgeon needs no urgin', but they've got better taste than to eat on the real bottom feeders.

 

I did find a pic of a portion of our parking-situation here. It doesn't include the three parked in the woods, and the 3 in the garage.

 

Here's the backyard, and the driveway where I park the vehicle:

 

Yes!

Have you checked the town's videocam lately?

 

Looks like a June picture? Nice, big yard.

 

Much trouble to keep the grass cut?

 

Yes unfortunately!
There's a few acres of that as well...
As a matter of fact, anyone who wants to cut some is welcome to visit for a few days...ya might catch a fish while you're here, though! I got plenty of trees that need to become firewood too.

 

But he doesn't do seaweeds.