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I own no land, instead I have wheelestate. I’ve been a full time RVer since 1997. Working summers as a Park Ranger takes me to many beautiful places and playing during the winter takes me to many more. This blog is simply the story of my life's adventures.

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Walk a dry wash


On the way to Stanton last Sunday we stopped to take a walk into a dry wash tributary to Antelope Creek.
Dry falls
Presumably, a lot of gold has been taken out of the washes in this area and almost all the public land has been claimed for mining. There are stakes and markers everywhere.

Water smoothed schist
But we really weren’t out gold mining, well maybe a few pretty rocks.
Quartz in schist
The surrounding rock in the Weaver Mountains is primarily granite and schist. The granite was formed by slow cooling in the earth’s crust about 1,000 million years ago. It is typically medium- to coarse-grained and created by magma made up of various combinations of primarily hornblende, feldspar and quartz.

Schists are formed from sedimentary shale or sandstone, igneous basalt or metamorphic slate under temperature and/or pressure. In fact schist is a Greek word meaning to split as the rock will break easily into slabs.

Mica in granite
Within certain areas of these rocks are found thin quartz veins which carry pyrite, galena, and gold. We did find some pyrite and a lot of mica in the rocks.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Let it snow

10am
Yesterday it poured with very heavy winds. Today it snowed on and off all day and dropped a little more than 2 inches.
5pm
More is predicted to fall over night and into tomorrow. Sure glad I don’t have to go anywhere.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

SWF - Last light


This is just one of many from a most spectacular sunset last Saturday night.
To view more skies from around the world, or to share your own, go to Sky Watch Friday by clicking here.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Crazy Doves


How does one sex a bird? I mean there’s no obvious way to know if the doves are male or female. Just the word from the last owners that there’s one of each. I can’t even tell them apart.

Three weeks after the first four Christmas eggs didn’t hatch Don and Angie, guess I’ll stick with those names, began laying again. Last Saturday one egg, then Sunday number two but it had a chip in the shell.

By Monday morning three eggs but by afternoon only one left (they eat these unfertile eggs).

Tuesday morning no eggs and by afternoon they’re starting over again with one egg. This makes a grand total of eight dove eggs with, so far, no babies. Sure have to give them credit for trying.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Photo play


Looking NW
On the way back home from Sunday’s drive, yesterday’s post, the sky started to show some darker clouds as a rainy front moved in from the southwest.

Towers are east of town
Then decided to play with the photo a little. It may have looked like this an hour later. Today’s been gray all day with on and off drizzle. We really do need the rain.

Monday, January 18, 2010

MWT - Gold fever in Stanton Arizona

Old Stagecoach Road to Stanton
You can camp and hunt for gold on Richy Hill but don't be a claim jumper.  Discover the, almost, ghost town of Stanton, Arizona here.


Sunday, January 17, 2010

One more egg or Here we go again


Yesterday I got around to posting about the first batch of four dove eggs not being fertile. Last night, they laid another egg. So, here we go again, waiting 13-19 days for a hatch.

BTW, I want to introduce you to Mike the owner of Don and Angie Turtle Doves. He started his own blog last night at blogwithnoname. Check it out.

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