News From
Joshua Tree,
Year 8

Table Of Contents:

Page 1:   The Waterfall

The Trip West And The GPS

Tolls

Page 2:   Dad's Hairbrush

Mom's Dream

Living A Little Bit Better

Molly's Non-Flights

Page 3:   Loosing Molly

My First Snake

Molly's First Snake

Page 4:   Trucks And Neighbors

Carl Hiaasen

Year 1: The 2002 journal

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

Year 2: The 2003 journal

Creeping crud in Nashville, a post and 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 and 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 and fill dirt, finding borders,
moving Tom's trailer, the wonderful Prius

Year 6: The 2007 journal

Lake Havasu and the London Bridge, TomTom GPS, solar power and 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 and Cape Cod, elusive 4th corner, honey bees, Tortoises and birds, the northern route east