After the rain last night the ground was wet this morning but not really muddy. There are mud ruts next to the camper that are several inches deep, like mud season at home. It was nothing like that. Just enough moisture to make you carry extra gravel into the trailer on your shoes. Last night after all that wind I went out to check the solar panels, you remember, the ones that flipped on their face last month. I had lowered the angle and tied them down to a full 5 gal. gas can. They had stayed up, but moved 8’! They dragged the gas can with them but stayed upright. 😃. So I laid them down and put the can on top of them. Set them back up this morning. No more wind overnight, just occasional rain. Limited wind today.
This morning things were wet as I said, so we were not in any rush to do anything. We hung out and caught up on the pile of backlog emails. Did some reading, small jobs, play with Skye. Walk with Skye. The radar said rain again at 11, more reason not to rush into anything. It rained lightly at 11, only minutes off the forecast. And only for a half hour at most. Sonoita only gets 15” of rain per year and 5” of that is in July.
After lunch we took a walk out the road behind camp. Kept Skye out of the cow pond, too cool today for a wet dog. It only got to 57º, but we’ll see 90 again next week. With nights warmer than today. Tonight expecting 37º.
We saw lots of doves today. Skye put up maybe 8 coveys. They were resting under the Mesquite along the wash. It became a nice sunny afternoon, just not hot. No problem!
Every night I take Skye out for her nightly walk around 8:30. I always turn on the outside lights and when we step out I scan around with my flashlight, looking for critters. Tonight I found a rabbit out in the open. Hard not to be in the open some of time here. It scurried back and forth wondering how to get out of th light. Skye was looking elsewhere so she missed it. Probably a good thing, she would have tested the strength of the leash if she had seen it! As we made our way around the camper she came across the scent and was quite excited.
It's always good to have a day off once in a while.
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