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Closed the cabin today. Had too hurry as the weather began to turn cold, very cold. Summer just flew by.

Weird thing, Lassen NP has lakes. Ok I’m a desert rat now….water in late summer, I can’t even imagine it anymore.

Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA. Fun park with some pretty good peaks and mud pots. Dixie Fire July 2021, 70% park burned. Burn scars will show for many yrs.

Farmersville CA today 9/30/26. Just keep getting worse.

Inspiration for my most recent quilt

Sequoia quilt. Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park inspired.

Gas prices Farmersville CA 9/22/26.

These ‘path through a beautiful woodland’ all seem very AI to me. Here’s my forest, Sequoia

I’m really liking all the tree and forest pics showing up in my feed. Some so green it calms my soul. My desert is nice but green is very beautiful! Mineral King, Sequoia NP

Tunnel Rock 1985. Sequoia NP General’s Highway now goes around because NPS got tried of pulling RVs out after getting stuck/crunched.

Opfff. Gas prices at the cheapest station in Tulare County. Farmersville CA. More than half the vehicles at the pumps today were work trucks. This is a farming community, makes that diesel price even more painful.

Hwy 245, Tulare County. True, no mountain views but look at these bright beautiful yellow lines. They will save lives. Every asshole speeding downhill will cross randomly into opposite lane. Bright lines will slow down those mistakes. Fingers crossed

Why yes I did buy new washing machine. It was that or start buying new clothes, been without for 4 weeks. Cheapest, taxes, delivery, hauling etc $800 gulp!

It’s raining in Tulare County, CA In August. Unbelievable. Maybe the promise of El Niño is real. ….I probably just jinked it

I think she brought in another lizard

A visitor to our cabin’s outhouse

How to gauche the tourists. Our current gas prices. (Locals don’t buy here, head down 30 miles much cheaper

Pistachio trees are ripening. Nuts will have to split open a bit more before the trees are mechanically shaken. Shakers have a platform, catching the nuts before they hit the ground.

Walnuts trees. About 4 weeks until harvest begins. Everyone will be working soon. It’s a 106 today Tulare County, CA

Look, my new security system! Shoots far and fast. Bonus if I’m disarmed my ‘weapon’ can’t really be used against me. So Welcome to a STR neighborhood, where strangers are driving around looking and/or casing your garage.

Sequoia. In progress

Poison oak inspiration

Poison Oak. ‘Leaves of three, leave it be’. Finally finished.

Buck Rock lookout. Been in operation since 1908. Back then just a guy on a rock with binoculars and horse. Buckrock.org

Mineral King, Sequoia NP.

Camping at Atwell mill, Mineral King. Sequoia National Park. It a small campground, tent only. Bonus, Sequoia stumps around the grounds. Yup they did attempt to mill sequoias. Failed, just like mining for silver.

New fawn resting on the cool damp dirt, just outside my back porch. His mom has been around for a few years. Easily identified because of her roughed up leg.

I’m on my roof four times a year max. Cleaning the flume & gutters. View is pretty good up there Also the only time I ever think of my dad. He fell off his roof 23 yrs ago, died of his injuries a month later. Old people don’t belong on roofs. (Oops, F! Now I’m old too. Time for a rule change )

Tulare County CA. you continue to break my heart, every damn summer (Edison isnt helping either

Grape hiding in the shade. Should be at your local Grocery store mid Aug., they still working on upping their sugar content Tulare County CA

View of Kings Canyon National Park from Big Meadows, Sequoia National Forest

Some weather at Big Meadows, Sequoia National Forest

Train to Allenworth state park. Juneteenth First stop Corcoran (one of many CA state prisons)

While I feel the pain of any pet loss. If I go thru your past posts and see no pictures of said pet, immediate block. Pet drama for clicks is horrible. Don’t be that douche

When you gotta go, you gotta go! Welcome to Fresno, where every bathroom is locked

Fresno airport waiting for family. Headed to Yosemite to spread BIL ashes near Glacier Point. That’s the only reason to go to Yosemite in June.

@bsky.app my discover feed today 5/29/26

It’s raining and there’s a warm black cat on my lap. Life is very very good!

Treasury’s Judgement fund.

Damn. Another stain. Hazards at the baseball park

Enjoying a baseball game now. Hometown vibes 100%. Visalia Rawhide.

Oh yeah. Stone fruit season begins! The stars of Tulare County farming. (And the only reason to continue to living in this summer hell hole of Airbnbs and 100+ heat

She’s sitting on a lizard and refusing to move.

Western divide. High Sierra trail, sequoia NP. Just another 65 miles and I’d be at the top of Mt Whitney

insects trails on a downed pine log, a beautiful quilt pattern

Tiny mushrooms on a fallen log. Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park

Even the burnt stumps are magnificent

Drove up to Giant Forest today. Sequoias looking gorgeous as always!