Taken On Saturday 10/16/10

It was great to have Preston, his Wife & Kid's at the Land. I hope we can get together again soon.

Over the 24th weekend.

Rob's Wife Lucile, It was Very nice to have them come to the Land. Hope that we can get together Again.

Over the 24th weekend.

My old friend Rob Water witching. It was amusing to say the least.

Midnight in the Desert

So curious...

Delilah's first time out in the high Desert, And she loved it, And didn't mind the drive either.

Going to gather some rocks.

New Home for the white '94 ford. I needed a tool box in Montello.

A Self Fought Battle, Read From Here...Thanks

3.21.10

Taken March 21rst.10

My Son Andrew.

Some native American Flute Music

Be Careful.

I'm just putting up this post to let all of us New Comers and to even to those folks that are already in Montello. However not just in Montello,but anyone listening, any where, and to myself probably most of all. In our daily lives, we need to remind ourselves that in the midst of wanting, trying, or doing anything in pursuit of our dreams, or plain daily tasks, that we need to be cautious of these things that can and will be a danger to us and to remind ourselves that unfortunate things can, and will happen to us in a eye blink. One of the last times myself my wife & youngest daughter was up to our property I let my 14 year old daughter take over the wheel to drive down 3/4s of the way in the truck and with the heavy trailer coupled to it, I myself didn't think there wasn't whole lot of concern since there are no cliffs, sharp turns, large boulders, switch backs of any kind for my wife to really worry about.
 But still my wife was very reluctant for her to take over the wheel cause she has no experience driving at all and I said well this will give her some idea how to operate a vehicle. And there was a little bit of YADA- YADA between my wife and I over it. You see my wife herself doesn't drive any kind of motorized vehicle at all and I know my daughter will be in line to get her drivers License soon enough. I have mentioned to my wife, just what if" what if something was to happen to me being I'm the primary driver and what if I was to get hurt (I don't allow myself to think my wife or daughter getting hurt)what would we do then , how would we go to get some kind of help? Well finally I let Tanisha take the wheel and she did a pretty good job doing so.
Ok all this being said and I will finally get to my point, we all need to look out for ourselves and one another when working alone, and being there are no Medical facilities out there in Montello we just need to keep in mind of what can, and will happen to us if we let our guard down. I'm certainly no stranger to a probable accident so I want to be as humble as one can be. Folks be careful, I don't want hear anyone getting hurt while in there pursuit of there dream...

In my travels I've come across this memorial near the air strips.

Trivia Question

Ok this maybe silly, and you may already know, But let's see! What TV series back in the early or mid '90s That Montello was a Mentioned in?

The War for Water in Nevada

Abandoned sights.

Once you have come to Montello you'll find some Abandoned sights like this one however there are others out there in the landscape that is really is an ugly sight, (As seen on Geoff's blog) myself I would like very much to see alot of these sights cleaned up but I haven't come across any landfills in the area. With the aid of an old '63 ford 2 ton dump truck that looks like it belongs in the scrap yard but is a good runner for it's age and someday in the future with the (help of some future Montelloians) would like to get together some day and one by one get these sights cleaned up.

Building Ideas.

Back in '93 I bought 90 pallets at interstate brick of this type of block they are seconds and got them for $10 a pallet with 40 block on each pallet and at that time I had this notion of building a good sized garage with them. Well ideas and times have changed and that isn't going to happen at least not on the residence, after building a small structure (way back then) I still have 48 pallets left and have been thinking about getting them out of here and transporting these block to the land and build a structure with them, It's alot of work involved but I thought it would be a good start on something that I already have to build with. I do realise to some folks this may not be a very GREEN way to go as for as conservation maybe concerned cause of the energy it took to produce this type of product however that being said the energy that took to make these block has already been spent. OK didn't really mean to get into to much detail on this and just wanted to share some thoughts...

My Daughter Tanisha. South East corner post.

Taken Fathers Day '09 Looking South East, Montello Town below in that patch of tree's in the far off distance

Taken Fathers Day '09 Looking South East from the foot hills.

Taken Fathers Day '09 Looking East

Taken Fathers Day '09 Looking East in the foot hills behind the camp trailer.This is BLM Land