Poobird's Rarities: Field Notes: mechanical meltdown

Jenn sporting her bunny ears and cooking up our Easter feast...

Well the last few days have been riddled with headaches... Feels like the universe is testing our resolve...
Before we left Vegas we had all our equipment serviced to avoid these kind of headaches. Nothing sucks more than wasting your day trying to fiddle stick around with equipment that should be in good working order. The darn thing isn't even really broken only the pull cord is messed up so that shut down our entire dry washing operation... Needless to say we are both a irritated and depressed.
On a more positive note,our claim neighbors are incredibly kind and we all try to help each other out when possible. Thanks to one neighbor loaning us an electric leaf blower we rigged it up to the dry washer and can limp by until our engine gets repaired.
If mining gold was easy there probably wouldn't be much left. The going has been tough on this trip and I sure hope the sun shines again on us tomorrow!

Anderson's Wolfberry

At least the weather has been beautiful and the desert is blooming. Everyday new flowers are unveiling themselves to us. I even discovered the Anderson wolfberry growing on our claim. This was a staple of the local Indians diet. They look like tiny tomatoes and have a sweet flavor to them. They taste great fresh off the branch but you can also turn them into juice, dry them out like raisin, or cook with them. A delicious sweet treat.

This morning we ran into town for the first day in 6 days out in the desert. After getting another 75 gallons of water we headed to grocery store. We got a real kick out of it when we were walking down the isle and a man wearing a six shooter, spurs, and dusty chaps, asks me where the baby carrots are... The best part, there was a Wells Fargo bank in the grocery store just a few feet away... Gotta love a town where the common vehicle is a dusty off-road rigg and wearing a gun on your hip is more common than not:)

We loaded up on water, oranges, a big ole' Easter ham and some beer... Gonna cook us up an Easter Feast this weekend.

Griswold Dutch Oven.... Seriously the best thing ever too cook in!

They were selling baby bunnys and chicks outside the grocery store for Easter Weekend. I couldn't resist picking one up. Adorable little guy and so sweet. I remember going to the local feed store in my home town with my mom once a year and picking out baby chicks for our chicken coop. Nothing better than warm, fresh brown eggs.

Matt dropped me off in town to peruse a few shops while he filled up the water tank. I managed to find some really cool old treasures! My favorite item was an old wooden Ironing board. I can't wait to get this home and start using it. I never thought I would be excited over an ironing board:) I also found some great old metal boxes that would make great memory boxes and an old sewing box filled with little goodies. I love the old wooden spools of thread.

So we are half way through our trip and the loaned generator literally worked for about 2hrs before dying and the electric leaf blower sucks. So while we are in town Matt is picking up a Stihl gas powered leaf blower to get us through the week and we are going to relocate our 200lbs, that is empty, more like 260lbs with gas in it, to a new location so we can move to a better section of the wash and get some serious concentrate accumulated.

Matt is so fed up with this trip he is ready to pack it in... I refuse though to admit defeat... I told him I will move that darn generator with or without him but it's going to get done. So on our way home from town we will scope out a path and make way for the truck to get up a hillside. If we can't get this accomplished we aren't going to have any material for the Gold Show....