November 7-12. 2025 Shoshone, California

 86 an sunny.

My sister has these gigantic oleander trees in her yard, see the left side of the photo. She is getting date palms planted in her yard and is removing the oleanders. John working with a chain saw to cut the front one down. There was another one the same size on the other side of the house. He also cut it down, and then spend a day and a half hauling the branches to the dumpster. Nice job John. The local curious road runner came over the check it out.

The road runner posed backlit for me. Judy took us to dinner at the Crowbar afterwards as a thank you. 

Today was the Fire Dept fund raiser flea market and sale. It was a small sale, but across the street is the 3 day music festival, the Tecopa Takeover. So we had lots of customers come by. This is the booth Judy and I had. I had my jewels, and baskets. Judy does wood work. She made this wooden treadle lathe and 

sets it up at shows. It brings a lot of people over to see it. We also had some pottery our friend Susan makes. We sold a lot more than I thought we would at such a small sale. It was also fun to see all our old friends that live in the area. 

Marlys, pictured in front of the beautiful quilt she made and donate for the raffle to raise money for the fire dept. Every year she makes one for the Tecopa Fire Dept and the museum in Shoshone. Every year I buy a ton of raffle tickets, but am still waiting to win one. I really like this one. Pat Puckett doing a horsemanship demo at the fundraiser. 

Judy and I hiking on the Aqua trail.

Sunset. Woo hoo, I won a couple ribbons at the glass show. 

Ribbons at the Echter's glass show in Arvada. 

Yet another ribbon at the Echter's glass show. Sunset. 

There are auroras up north. Not sure if these are auroras or lights from Las Vegas. The main battery on my sister's 13 year old Tesla died. It is being towed to the Tesla dealer in Vegas to see if it can be resuscitated. 

I am making some curtains for Judy's new house. This is one of the ones I made from the old house 20 years ago when she moved into the last house. She brought them over to her new house, but the new house has more windows. She has just enough fabric left over to make one more. I had to piece it together at little. Hopefully finish it tomorrow. This is my mother's old featherweight singer. She got it as a wedding present in 1940. My sister taught me to sew on it when I was in like 3rd grade. It is still running strong. Sunset.