Saturday, December 26, 2009 - Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu NM

A Ghost Ranch Christmas, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu NM, December 25, 2009

Ten below zero is cold for this old rig. When I opened the door and took a reading with my infrared thermometer this morning here at Ghost Ranch, that's what it read. My 3,000 watts of electric heat is barely adequate and would only hold the rig to about 60 degrees inside. That translates to a drafty 45 degrees down at floor level. Brrrrr...

Enjoy yesterday's picture - I skipped my pre-sunrise photo walk this morning.

[later] Interesting. By 10:30 or so the bright sunshine warmed the rig to the point I had to turn the electric heaters off. Around noon, thinking surely it was warm enough to go off for a hike, I took a temp reading outside the door. Amazingly, it was still only 10 degrees. Isn't solar insolation a wonderful thing?

Night camp

Ghost Ranch Campground, Abiquiu NM

This is a basic, small campground with full hookups.
Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are not available here.
Locate Ghost Ranch on my Night Camps map
Check the weather here

A Call to Nature

"About as far as from here to the station," went on Mr. Baca, "was a graveyard where the gang was supposed to camp out. I rode over to it and found where they had lunched the day before. There were {Begin deleted text}sardin{End deleted text} {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}sardine{End handwritten}{End inserted text} cans and cracker boxes and one thing and another. Then I found where one of them had had a call to nature. I told one of my men to put it in a can. Saiz didn't know about this, and in a little while he went over behind some mesquite {Begin page no. 4}bushes and had a call to nature. After he came back I sent my man over, and by God it was the same stuff -- the same beans and red chili seeds! So I put Saiz under arrest and sent him back to the jail at Socorro with one of my deputies, although he kept saying he couldn't see what I was arresting him for."

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