This is our last day at Empire Ranch, going up to phoenix tomorrow to start the Cowboy portion of the winter. I’ll have to do a time warp to get myself in the mood for the 19th Century for a dozen days.
So today we went down to Patagonia for breakfast at Gathering Grounds, a great coffee shop. Carlene had an egg, cheese and bacon sourdough sandwich while I had eggs, potato, bacon and sourdough toast. Almost the same food in different formats. And plenty of really good coffee.
Follow that up with browsing a few shops
The we had to take Skye for a long walk around town to walk off breakfast. We met a guy with a dog on the green. The green is a wide green space between the two main roads in town. Like a long narrow park. So this guy has lived there for 20+ years after leaving Tucson. He tells us that dogs are very welcome at the library and they are headed over there. The librarian is a German woman who has been here 25 years. She has bags of dog treats and takes their photo to post on the wall. We then continue on our long walk about town.
We get back to camp about 2 pm. I find that the free standing solar panel out front was blown over and has a big rock fracture in the glass-like face. I figure that has broken the function. But as I test it, it appears to still work. The batteries went to float charge, meaning they were at full capacity. So apparently it’s working. We’ll see if that continues. Hoping!
Sometimes the good food is a bonus to a place that has good coffee. The good coffee is sometimes harder to find than the food.
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