Archive for August, 2007

Back in Bisbee (briefly!) to MOVE

August 20, 2007

Very reluctantly on Thursday morning, we left our place In The Woods, to begin the two-day drive back to Bisbee to pack up most of our stuff and move.
The drive down through California’s Central Valley was uneventful, and I-5 was boring but fast. Then we hit L.A. about 7:30 p.m. The outlying highways to the [...]

Blackberries!

August 8, 2007

Before we came down to Sacramento to dog-sit my brother’s dog, I spent nearly three hours picking blackberries on the land.
Near the barn is a huge cedar tree, with a smaller deciduous tree entwined with it. At the bottom of these closely-combined trees is a large blackberry bush, which spreads out on every side.

For the [...]

Drilling a Well

August 2, 2007

This land’s main drawback, the one critical item which has been missing is the presence of WATER in the barn/bunkhouse/studio.
In former years, water was pumped into this building by a small spring bubbling from a tiny fissure on the side of a nearby mountain. All the houses and cabins in the neighborhood were serviced by [...]