April 20-23, 2020 Shoshone, California

78 and sunny. Partly cloudy and even a mist of rain this afternoon.

Sunset last night.  I finished this masterpiece. It is 11 x 11 x 1 1/2 inches. Made of dyed pine needles. The center is a glass tile I fused of the sun rays coming though the mist and trees. There are seen beads round it, frog beads on the side and small golden hex beads extending the sun's rays. 

The frog beads on the latest basket. Beautiful sky this am when I was hiking the white trail.  

There were tons of these bright fuchsia monkey flowers in the washes. Loved this piece of wood.  Nice green view. 

 Sunset tonight with a palm tree.   Wire lettuce flowers, pink monkey flowers with yellow mohavea. monkey flowers with a yellow flowered plant and some white flowers on a small bush. 

A couple shots of sunset tonight. 

The newest masterpiece in progress. The center is a piece of glass I fused from jewelry that didn't sell. It was in the high 80's today and sunny. Thankfully a bit of wind to move the air around. No clouds except these few wisps at sunset. 

 I made chicken mole for dinner tonight. The sauce is garlic, lots of three kinds of chili powder,cinnamon, cloves, lots of cocoa powder, tomatoes and peanut butter. How can that not taste fabulous? It did. Progress on the masterpiece. I added a few more rows and some blue dotted dichroic beads, there will be three at each end. Also started the first row of the sides of the basket. It is now 9 1/2 x 8 inches.  

This white lined sphinx moth was hanging out under the light above me. It is about 1 1/2 inches long. It has a wingspan of up to 3 1/2 inches. When it flys it looks like a hummingbird with the fast wing beats. It's caterpillar is a striped lime green, black and yellow horn worm. 

It was way too hot today. 104 degrees inside the bus, with the fans blowing. We hung out outside where it was only 88 degrees. Judy P with her solar sombrero, Judy D and I working on baskets. John is reading in the hammock. He was so hot he ran through a sprinkler and was wearing a clothes. I had a spray bottle of water to spritz myself with. It is only going to get hotter here.

John cooked dinner outside on his partner camp stove. It was too hot inside. No clouds for sunset, but Venus was near setting. 

I added 6 more rows to the masterpiece today. It is now 11 x 9 1/2 x 2 inches. The plan is to only add one more row. We are sheltering in place in Shoshone, California. A cute little town of about 20 people in a isolated part of the desert. So I keep getting these ads on the computer. Current hourly rates of lawyers in Shoshone might surprise you, Cheap new senior apartments in Shoshone are turning heads, High interest savings accounts in Shoshone you might not know about. What a crack up, there are no lawyers,  apartments or banks in Shoshone. Tells me a lot about the ads I see on the computer. . .