Saturday, December 19, 2009 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Dawn at Fort Stanton Cave, December 19, 2009
{Shiver me timbers!} I stepped out at dawn to toss my trash and just as I reached the cans a nearby pack of coyotes set up a howling racket, touching off a lengthy conversation with their neighbors. That sent a shiver down my spine I'll tell ya! At least it wasn't one of those big kitties so common out here sneaking up on me....
I'm headed for Ghost Ranch
Friends Kate & Terry are camp hosting at Ghost Ranch. Kate has been bugging me to come up for a visit and she finally convinced me to do it before they leave for the winter. It's getting colder up there than I really bargained for in coming to New Mexico for the winter but it may be quite a while before I get another chance to visit and tour the Ranch with "insiders." I'm going to go for it - then head off to Henderson NV between the holidays to warm up with cousins Ken & Connie as planned.
As long as I'm here, before I head north I'm going to spend Sunday having a look around the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. It would be silly to be so near and not take a gander at the cranes if they are around.
Night camp
Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
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A Call to Nature
"About as far as from here to the station," went on Mr. Baca, "was a graveyard where the gang was supposed to camp out. I rode over to it and found where they had lunched the day before. There were {Begin deleted text}sardin{End deleted text} {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}sardine{End handwritten}{End inserted text} cans and cracker boxes and one thing and another. Then I found where one of them had had a call to nature. I told one of my men to put it in a can. Saiz didn't know about this, and in a little while he went over behind some mesquite {Begin page no. 4}bushes and had a call to nature. After he came back I sent my man over, and by God it was the same stuff -- the same beans and red chili seeds! So I put Saiz under arrest and sent him back to the jail at Socorro with one of my deputies, although he kept saying he couldn't see what I was arresting him for."