Thursday, December 23, 2010 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
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Organ Mountains from Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, January 22, 2009
Where have I gone?
Nowhere - I'm still here at Leasburg Dam State Park on my favorite site. this site has no electric hookups so I've been struggling with power management. The two solar panels I'm using to supply power are having a hard time keeping up at this time of year and I'm not using my laptop, by far my largest power hog, a great deal. So I haven't been editing pictures and by extension haven't been updating these pages. All is well and I'll get back here soon, once I get a couple of projects behind me. Really. I will {grin}.
It's a dusty sunrise
Beautiful. There's just enough dust in the air and a few wispy clouds this morning to create the illumination you see in that old pic above. Wow! Maybe I should have gotten out a bit before the sun popped over the mountains to take a few shots. Ah well...
Night camp
Site 9 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Go to Leasburg Dam State Park website
- Locate Leasburg Dam State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
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."