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fg,

nice touch with the classic pocket knives in there.

Geno

PS, I didn't know the neighbor was "artsy fartsy".

Greg,

I'm going to remember that tern, "protracted spring cleaning". My wife will at least know I'm getting a round twoit!

Cool that you had those cousins of my quail taking advantage of the habitat a nice guy like you provided. (Those Gambel's are just as tasty as their cousins from the west, too!)

One day I hope to get down there to the southern part of the state. You must have it pretty well figured out to get that nice produce down in that heat. I know I had a lot of learning when I lived below Hoover dam and Laughlin. Had to put shade cloth over the tomatoes and peppers. Grew the dangdest serrano plant ever though (well for me at least). About 3' tall with a stem as big around as my wrist and about as hard as some of the yahoos around here think their willies are! It lived thought three winters, under the shade cloth and blankets when necessary for the few freezes we would get.

For those in "regular" gardening ares, this is why I needed shade cloth. It was taken under my carport about 6' off the ground. Taken somewhere around Aug 2005. And it was not the hottest day I saw in my 5 or so years there, rnager station down the road a 1/2 mile had 126-128 recordings one day while mine was "only" in the 124 range:




And no comments about "but it's a dry heat". I call BS. You folks down south with your heat indexes. No need for an "index where I was. When the thermo said 125 ......it was 125.

Went outside for something around 3 am once, it was still 113. I knew we were in for trouble the next day.

Geno

Thanks for those pics Geno. I was out yesterday afternoon running on the trails here on my farm and kicked up a pair of Bobs, first ones I'd seen since back in November! What a great sight and sound it is to hear birds flushing!!