Wildfire

That's the name of my new Barcelona Red Prius. We bought it on the day of Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Talk about timing. It was hard enough to find a red one. I understand production has stopped and the prices are going up.

I used CarsDirect (a wonderful service), who found one for me in San Jose. It was delivered on Friday and Mom, Angie and I took it for a little spin around the ranch and up to the Casino and back. When I pulled it into the carport, the car was filthy--the ranch is a very dry, dusty place. I cleaned it up and we put Mom's car cover (too small) and a blanket on it so the turkeys wouldn't be attracted to it. Those turkeys would peck at the "turkeys" reflected by the shiny car and then they would jump on it for sure.

There were only 8 turkeys today, down from 12. I wonder what happened to those four turkeys? Among the missing is one of the two females, so I guess we are down to one female and 7 males.

Tonight we had dinner at Live Oak Springs, about 5 miles east of us. We saw a sign advertising Mexican food and that sounded good. The menu also included barbeque and Italian food. Hmmm, not a good sign. However, it wasn't bad for a restaurant in the backcountry. We can't afford to be too critical and the price was right.