A Home at LAST

Well, the house is in position, and the contractors have NEARLY finished - after 3 months, so they might manage to get all the shimming and trim finished sometime in the next month!!! Not bad for a job which should have been done and dusted in 3 weeks. The air conditioning has been connected up, so we can now live in the house, and start getting some order both inside and out. I have to say that whilst the work done by the concreting guy is really neat and tidy, he has to be the most untidy slob there ever was - his litter just left on the ground to blow around, the same with the empty cement sacks - not weighted down or thrown away. I guess we just have to bite the bullet and live with it!!!

Summer's heat is still with us, so we have sought out another 'cool' location, this time in the 'sky islands' surrounding the Turkey Creek caldera. This locale is known as Pinery Canyon, which whilst being fairly remote, has a number of primitive campgrounds. We stopped for lunch at one of them - amongst the tall pines. It's high, it's cool, and it's very pretty - sadly photos cannot do it justice. This whole area was formed when a volcano erupted thousands of years ago, followed by irregular erosion.