I organized photos on the computer and bogged and facebooked till it got light out. When it was light enough I went across the street to the new house and wandered through it. There was a woman wandering through coming from the other direction and we both laughed at our curiosity. It is going to be an interesting house when it is done. While looking around in the house I heard a cardinal outside and got a nice photo. maybe I will use it as a christmas card. went back to the house and brought in the large sunday edition of the newspaper. Jo anne was awake and we decided to go for a walk up past the fence.
It was sunny but still had that early morning cool air. We walked up a road and saw small bobcat tracks. the road became smaller and more rugged until it was a wide path. Jo anne said she had talked with some fellows once who told her there was a cave up in the hills. I would like to see that. we saw birds and flowers, cow-pies and bones.
Jo had read in the paper that morning that saguaro cactus are slow growers and that in there first 10 years they are only 4 or 5 inches tall. they can live to be 200 years old. we appreciated the saguaro a lot more than we had before. We heard a donkey in the distance. I could have kept going right into the mountain but we decided to turn around and have breakfast with Mary and Ron.
On our way back we noticed some tracks that were not there when we had gone up the path. I had no idea what they were. Jo thought they might be from javelina, a small animal that is not a pig but looks like one. I agreed. It must have been following us up the trail for some time and we didn't even notice it. In the desert as soon as the trail turns a corner you can't see it. You could be 20 feet from a trail and not see it.
We made it back with plenty of time for breakfast. when Mary and Ron came out they were not surprised that we had already done so much but they did say that they were getting tired so early in the morning just listening to all that activity.
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