closed for Memorial Day

RIP Crazy Aunt Jean

slow upload

Visited and explored half the day. Worked on some new video this afternoon but YouTube is bogged down tonight...will upload tomorrow. 77,101,65,0,C

preoccupied

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Mahaday....

Met my new best friends Gary & Terri Mahanay this morning (photo by my buddy Fred Porter). They were in the area but couldn't make it in to the Field Lab due to road conditions...but I was able to make out on the quad to meet them at the GrubShack and hand deliver their tshirt orders - sorry they missed the tour.

Spent the rest of the day in the shipping department. Didn't want to swamp our beloved postmaster down in Terlingua so I packaged up half the orders and dropped them off this afternoon. Filled the rest of the day packaging up the second half of the orders to drop off tomorrow morning. They will all be on their way to their new homes tomorrow afternoon. Thanks again for following and supporting the Field Lab. 79,95,67,0,B

HP

Cranked out a few more tshits early this morning then went for a ride on the quad to check the road. Not too bad except for the famous "you'll get stuck here" spot....still a muddy swamp. I had a feeling that was the case because Benita showed up this morning with mud up to her ankles - a very good indicator of road conditions.

Spent all afternoon cleaning out the house and re wiring my set up for the office corner. Vacuumed up lots of dust, spider webs, and enough beard hair to weave a blanket. The space is clean and orderly again, if only for a short time. Getting cleaned up to shoot a video about my power systems here. HP is going to feature the Field Lab soon because of my unique situation and the fact that I own 3 HP computers. Got all the wiring done and easily fired them all up at once. The old desktop is 8 years old and still runs like a charm - it has data on it from a previous computer so it contains about 15 years of my life pre-Texas. The laptop I bought just before coming out here in '07 and it holds all my Field Lab data. The netbook is only 6 month old - used for live remote broadcasting. All HP...powered by the sun (I made that up today). I'm not getting paid to endorse their products - I just like 'em. 82,92,66,0,B

late storm

Received the final order of tshirts and the extra gift today. Lovingly printed 16 more shirts and had a quick tour for one of the buyers - Bruce Simpson and his wife (I met them at the Starlight last night and invited them out). Each order gets the tshirt, a Benita postcard and official Field Lab business card, and a sliver off my first set of Field Lab Buddhist prayer flags, flown 2 years ago. Cheers and thanks again for placing your order - all shirts to ship out by Friday.

Lots of cow action late this afternoon (including more quality time with Benito) then the storm hit. Brisk north wind and rain and just a speck of pea sized hail. Had a tour scheduled tomorrow for another shirt buyer but that might be a no-go due to the downpour. Too dark to pump water but it is just as well....those tanks are close to full anyway. 81,105,68, .21",W