News From
Joshua Tree,
Year 13


2014 Journal Index:


Page 1:  Writing It Right

Delayed By A Spore
Untwisted Knee
Prius Teeth For Christmas
How To Drive In California
Rotating Washing Machines
When We Went Blind
Vacuuming The Leaks
Ascending The Hillside
Beauty At The Top
Signals And Sightings

Page 2:  A Community Surrounds Us

As It Was Happening
And So It Continues

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,
Garden patio, Bed and light, Travel by jet, The toilet and its compooposter, Roofs that don't leak

Year 10: The 2011 journal

Traveling twice, new flat bike, triple ceiling boxes, Darby visits, found 4th corner, Zen water
purifier, packrats, wedding ring, eComposter, LazyBoy, new benches, McChesney photos

Year 11: The 2012 journal

Solar Reflection, Broken Pipes, SketchUp, Tankless Water Heater, Lifetime Shed, Christmas,
Eileen's Books, Molly's Arthritis, The 2013 Blizzard, Able Table, Broken Glasses, The Bobcat

Year 12: The 2013 journal

Flying Bridge, Whimsical Idea, Between The Heat, Stop And Fly, Painful Dehydration,
Twisted Knee Syndrome, Writer's Blank, Heads Up, July 4 Tropical Storm, Death by Monsanto

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