I decided since we live so perilous close to the edge out here in the pucker brush that needful action is in order for 2014. It is not just the blowdown winds, big hails or buzz tails as big as your arm and long as your leg we gotta worry about doin’ our gate guard thing. King Obama could unleash the hounds of hell on us most any day as well . I think it prudent to get the house in order much as it is possible and that means havin’ two ways to do most things. Two ways to
I am late coming to solar power. Shame on me. As much as we have been off grid over the years, I shoulda done better. I was trying to think the last time I plugged into a pedestal and I am thinking it was maybe August of 2011?
The Princess Palace is not set up as well for offgrid boondocking as the Old Girl. No big battery bank, no onboard generator; there had best be an umbilical close by if you are hangin’ in the Palace. Since I have been thinking alot of late about what would happen
You Can’t Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones from the Let It Bleed cd ca. 1969
For What Its’ Worth by Buffalo Springfield from their debut cd somewhere around late ’67 or early 1968
Yep, that is Stephen Stills in the hat before he really was Stephen-Stills-as-we-know-him. Even a shot of Neil Young later in the video before they even would let him sing a note. If you can’t finish this opening line “There’s something happening here…” you need to youtube it young ‘uns and see what it is I am talking about.
Another Saturday morning in South Texas Brush Country. Unremarked and quickly lost in the whirl of over 100 sunrises Tuco the Dog and I have watched from the same window looking at the same mesquite tree. Sanity conservation and silly habits ensue during long and interminable oil field gate guard assignments like this one. It is the week end, marking a change of wardrobe from Wranglers and long sleeves to shorts and t shirts. The Company Man will be along directly and address me as Jimmy Buffet instead of Cowboy. Even though the gate guard job varies little day to
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