Thursday, January 6, 2011 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
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The Itch, Sandhill Crane, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 5, 2010
LED replacement bulbs
There's been some discussion on one of the Lazy Daze forums lately about replacing light bulbs with LEDs to conserve energy. This has been on my mind lately in light of my recent experience with limited power available while boondocked and I ordered a couple to try. They came today and I installed one in the light in the stove exhaust hood. It lasted about ten minutes. Phsst...
Night camp
Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
- This is a spacious 65 site campground with most sites offering full hookups.
- Locate LoW-HI RV Ranch on my Night Camps map
- Verizon cell phone - strong signal
- Verizon Broadband - strong signal but often slow
- Check the weather in Deming NM
Finding the Words to Fit It
There is an idea current in the prevailing culture that writing about something that pains you heals the pain. I was not, when I began writing my life story, and am not now, healed of my mother. But you do gain a small distance from anything by keeping it in suspension in your mind while you work at finding the words to fit it. The process is so slow and incremental that you don't notice its effect, but the point is that it is a process.
Source: Almost There: the Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, a Memoir by Nuala O'Faolain