Rescue

About as exciting as it gets out here...freeing a lizard from a garbage can of range feed. 78,89,68,0,W

lizard buddy...

Spent the morning hours watching the desert dry from yesterday's rain.  The plants are gonna really love it.  The road should be good to go by tomorrow afternoon.   Found this small lizard looking for flies on top of one of my 1 qt. dutch ovens.  He was only about 3" long from nose to tail.  I was able to photograph him on macro from only an inch away from his face.  Not always that easy to get a up so close and personal to a wild creature.

Changed the oil in the generator and finally got around to some more spaying late this afternoon.  The sprayer was giving me a hard time - but after cleaning it out 3 times, if finally did the job correctly.  Got kind of windy after 2 hours on the ladder so I only managed to get some spots touched up and the east end tips primed.  To finish the center sections, it will be a lot of up and down on the ladder.  83,92,69, .02", B

Loot!

Walked the new land again and found two nice draws, one of which has a 10' waterfall during rains. Several nice old desert junipers also grow out there. Major find of the day was an old car battery and a motorcycle gas tank. The battery had to have been dropped where I found it but the tank could have floated down from God knows where.

Had a morning of shoveling today....cow poop and sand. No longhorns today due to high winds, I reckon. Thought it was a good sign to start moving the fresh loads to the compost area. Wheeled a couple more loads of sand into position to fill the north and south walls.

Two more signs that spring is here.....my first lizard sighting and my twilight bats were back this evening....sure is hard to get a photo of the bats. 58,75,38,0