After I visited Pipe Cactus NP, I headed to Quartzsite, AZ and made it there from the park in a few hours. I spent the night on BLM land and the next morning fueled up and headed to my brothers place in Rosamond, CA. It’s outside of Edwards AFB where my brother works for NASA. His house is on this steep hill. So steep that I can’t park my RV there and keep the refer running (they need to be close to level to work properly). So I park 100 yards down the hill on a flat side street.
Anyway, while I’m there, I worked on cleaning out his pool. It was hot enough that I was hoping I’d be able to take a swim, or we could have a party or something around the pool. So I spend 3 days running and cleaning the pool filter several times while pouring all these chemicals in there to try to clear it up. The pool filter helped remove the green stuff, but we could never get the water clear. It did have a pretty color, emerald green, but it wasn’t very inviting for swimming. And then the weather got cool and windy so I never got a swim. Then one day, there was a dead kangaroo rat in the pool. Seems that this area of California has been in a drought for 7 years and lots of wildlife is dying off. The rat was trying to get a drink from the pool and lost it’s footing or something. Or it was a suicide.
We never got the pool water to look any better then this. It’s suppose to be crystal clear:
There’s the rat:
There’s the pool filter, that white thing at the end of the walk:
Dan has bunches of cactus plants waiting to be planted, many of them dead because of neglect:
Here’s Dan planting another tree in the yard, I refused to be a party to his method of plant husbandry – neglect, basically a method of planticide. And because of my moral indignation, I didn’t have to work in the dirt 🙂
