News From
Joshua Tree,
Year 10



Journal Index

Page 1:     The Traveler

Dead Car. New Bike With Flat
Triple Box Ceiling Rack
Darby Comes To Visit
Found the 4th Corner

Page 2:     The Holidays

The Zen Water Filter Purifier
Packrats to a New Home
Visiting Eileen's Son & Family
Wedding Ring Upgrade
The eComposter
The New LazyBoy
The New Benches & Jasmine
McChesney Photos Of Wonder
Eileen Goes East
Coffee, FedEx and More

Year 1: The 2002 journal

Renovating & moving the house trailer, Palm Springs Thanksgiving, rock theory, Laguna twice,
Capistrano hat, moving the steel tank & water collection, Mo, Lightfoot, Missy, music, mouse pee

  Year 2: The 2003 journal

Creeping crud in Nashville, a post & beam deck, burning the past, first water line,
taping the roof, a 1992 Cadillac Deville

    Year 3: The 2004 journal

Eileen into San Diego, Molly the puppy, stone retaining walls, car & generator power,
more deck, invisible CO

      Year 4: The 2005 journal

18 month hiatus, 117 Amazon tools, 1 eBay RamVan, Desert Rosy Boa, Road Runner,
Tempe, Laguna again

        Year 5: The 2006 journal

Cougar, Lynx, box trailer roof, more stone wall & fill dirt, finding borders,
moving Tom's trailer, the wonderful Prius

          Year 6: The 2007 journal

Lake Havasu & the London Bridge, TomTom GPS, solar power & electrical renovation, a refrigerator,
propane heat, a carport over the trailer, new teeth, Laguna, new Capistrano hat, Blakeman history

            Year 7: The 2008 journal

Desert snow, first grandson, renovation, connecting by Blackberry, the water tank, No Trucks!,
Ensenada & Cape Cod, elusive 4th corner, honey bees, Tortoises & birds, the northern route east

              Year 8: The 2009 journal

The waterfall, the trip west and the GPS, tolls, Dad's hairbrush, Mom's dream, living better,
Molly's non-flights, almost loosing Molly, our first Rattlesnakes, trucks and neighbors, Carl Hiaasen

                Year 9: The 2010 journal

Taxes, Crawlspace insulator, Web development and Writing its software, IP cameras,
Water garden patio, Bed and light, Travel by jet, The toilet and its compooposter, Roofs that don't leak

Copyright © 2012, Van Blakeman