February 6

I wanted to mention some of the other critters that are here.  There’s been small yellow, small orange, and a larger black butterfly flittering about the campground. When we sit out at dusk, we watch the bats out on the hunt.

Nancy and Kirk did the Romero Ruin trail this  morning.  For 800 years, Hohokum Indians lived in a walled village on a ridge here, and a rancher built a house on the village and lasted a few years before the Apache drove him off.  Guess who they named it after.

Sitting in the shade

I had the mini-radian electric glider out this morning.  Still working on the propoising issue, but if flew well enough.  Cool SW wind at the time (10-ish) seemed to negate any thermal activity.  Also took the runner down to the Wash, and when I got back, Nancy was tooling around on it.

We’ll make a stocking up trip to the grocery store today, since we’re headed over to the Why - Ajo area tomorrow, and there’s a lot fewer services there.

Nancy also took a picture of what she thinks is the Javelinas rooting holes as they feed.  We're posting it so that Randy, our resident expert, can confirm or deny.

And finally today, they don't believe in culverts around here (or perhaps they fill in with sand).  What they do is have a paved dip in the road, where the wash (arroyo) crosses the road.  There is a large wash crosses the road in the campground, which closed the road during the last deluge.

Looking upstream

Looking Downstream

The problem is that now the bottom of the wash is at eye level.  Next rain, the road will be 4 feet deep again.  Of course, around here, that may be several years.