December 31, 2010
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December Ranch Trip 2010 – V
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By Wednesday morning,
the storm clouds that we knew had been predicted
had rolled in,
and all the children were
in their ecstasies
over white stuff falling from the sky!Our first order of business was to head into town
and do our grocery shopping
at Wilbur’s IGA.
That was a very brief affair,
as I was in a save-money mode,
and we were soon back on the road.We decided to do an explore
(don’t we always?)
and visit the Lower Carrizo Well
(which curiously enough is actually north of
another of our favorite
locales,
Upper Carrizo Well).
By the time we arrived,
the wind had picked up and we were fighting some
bitter cold.
Frozen drinking water…What we did not expect to find here at this
supposedly abandoned site
was that someone had fixed up the fences
and was keeping horses!
Lovely creatures.
I did not envy them having to stay out in the weather though.
Dramatic stormy skies across the range.And then we raced back to the van
and bundled inside to
thaw out our aching fingers, noses, and toes.
Look at those rosy cheeks.
Don’t you just want to pinch them?Oh wait,
that’s just me.
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