An update...and where I been.

 As to yesterday's MG sale, the buyer texted me today to let me know that he had gone to the post office this morning, gotten them to give him back the letter with the check to me that he'd mailed the day before (because the Post Office does that all the time, right?) and he was now sending it overnight, arrival for Wednesday. Sent pictures of the check and new Priority envelope and signature requested now. So my guess is that no check really got mailed yesterday, even though he'd said one was. And since he's sending a personal check for some reason (?), you'd better believe that I'm going to hold the gun until it clears my bank.

In other news, I'm just back from two weeks out west, camping with Belle on my new mine property.

Belle does not care to camp when it is in the 20's at night. But she tolerates it now that she has her own sleeping bag.

Yep, sale is final and I now own a fair-sized chunk of desert land and over a dozen miles of underground tunnels, drifts, winzes, raises etc., And Belle and I just spent two weeks on-site surveying our new domain and occasionally going into town to meet the new neighbors.  It's definite now. The Lair is moving westward in the coming months, heading out to the great expanse. But it'll be gradual, and of course there will be pics and tales and more blogging than you've seen here recently.

All there, and all mine. And much, much more blogging to follow regarding this shift.

This mine may be mine

 

One of my reasons for the trip west was to take a second look at some property I'm interested in purchasing in the desert. The owner has several parcels for sale and beneath those parcels are several small mines and four large ones, three of which actually connect, creating a network of tunnels that run for mile and come up in all sorts of distant places. I've now logged four solid days in these tunnels and barely seen a small percentage of the underground space though I've walked for miles--it's incredible.

No water or power on site, but I'm researching alternatives and seriously thinking this could be my new vacation home/secret lair/end of times retreat.

And if any of my friends are interested in scenic, remote desert land surrounded by BLM wilderness land with the nearest neighbors being about 15 miles away, hit me up. I can't buy ALL his land but he's looking to get rid of it all and there's some real possibilities here for a cabin/trailer homestead site, even if it means you'd have me and the dogs for neighbors.