QUIET AND THIRSTY

Andy somehow stumbled onto my blogspot, made a comment or two over the past year, watched our locations as we wandered south and then offered us his place for a landing in the quiet desert south of Alpine, TX; We gratefully accepted.

This was a perfect boondocking (dry camping) spot for testing our new solar panels and as of this morning everything is book perfect. Even with the furnace motor working to stave off the 41F degree temperature, the 560 Amp hour battery bank is holding firm with only a drop of .2 and the 600 watt inverter has yet to need its fan for cooling.

This is wonderful country, with vistas of mountains and miles of untouched High Desert Chaparral.   Like a lot of Texas, the missing ingredient is moisture. With rain I can envision a profuse blooming of thirsty plants and the coming alive of parched soil.

Cold shroud of clouds over Black Hill Mountain.

Can you just imagine how a little sunshine would light up these mountains?

The summers extreme heat has passed but the death-dry drought it helped create is showing no sign of letting up and may become the worst on record.