News From
Joshua Tree,
Year 9

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