In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!

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And of course these kinda trucks are everywhere.😎

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My Favourite.

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And then there are the Haulage vehicles!

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So yeah...we had three months together surrounded by large expanses with few people around and a whole lot of nature...Now,this really is the wild west and not the sort of place to wander of the beaten track as there are Bears and mountain lions and if they are hungry you are on the menu and anything left will be eaten by the ever present turkey vultures overhead.Thankfully my lady has lived here for over thirty years and is a lecturer in Botany and an expert on all the things that grow or inhabit this area...

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It's pretty safe at the house as long as you know what shares the home and garden with you.Hummingbirds are the most obvious and blue bellied fence lizards,blue jays,hawks and alligator lizards.Thankfully rattlesnakes prefer to stay off the beaten track but it is always advisable to check the log piles,garden furniture and anything around the darker areas in the outbuildings for rather a formidable resident crawler...she either squashes them or gives them to the chickens to eat but this time she gave me it to observe.I kept her for an hour or two then let her go in the canyon....

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Even though she was female,i called her Boris. (From the Who song) and it seemed appropriate at the time...😄

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Black Widows are fascinating and although their venom in many times more potent than a rattler they are not aggresive and rarely kill but you would not want to take a bit from one!   I,d take this life over city life anyday.We are all share this planet and i rather liked living in this very real world...To finally be together after two years was all that mattered and the dog ate anything that ventured into the garden during the day.Shebu's are fearless.

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I would spend a lot of time in the garden.A great place to get used to the heat and get to know about her favourite hobby of gardening and growing things...There are about forty kinds of roses,mainly David Austin and the peaches are tropical snow.

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This picture gives you an idea of the surroundings and the spot is less than five minutes from the front door and is where i spent the majority of my time when i was alone...At night it was so peaceful with huge starry skies and just the occasional faint sound of coyotes in the distance....

[Mark J]

Well played Paul, it looks like you're in your elephant.