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Mojave (Mohave): not OSX

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January 24, 2019
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Mojave is more than the newest OSX.

For those who live outside of the United States, the Mojave Desert in Southern California and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona occupies 47,877 sq mi (124,000 km).

Mojave Desert - Wikipedia

https://www.mdlt.org/about/

The desert is named after the Mojave (Mohave) tribe of native American Indians:

Mojave tribe: Location, Clothes, Food, Lifestyle, History and famous Chiefs***

The Mojave River is unique because it flows inland instead of toward the ocean:

Mojave River

Here is a map from the National Park Service:

https://www.nps.gov/moja/planyourvisit/upload/MOJAmap1.pdf

mojave

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Chuck Uebele

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Just a comment about some of the other write ups that I did. I didn't edit letters to make them PC, so there are some racial comments in some, particularly from my great-granduncle Abe Bonnifield, who was born without legs and fought for the South in the Civil War.

Chuck Uebele

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My grandparents and great-grand parents used to live on the Rosamund dry lake, which is now Edwards AFB. They had a few stories about living out there. My great-grandfather had a homestead there and wanted to grow rice on the lake. That never happened, ended up raising chickens and working in some mines out there. A cousin told me that he would have my great-grandmother drive their car, while he sat on the fender with a rifle and run down coyotes. I looked on Google maps, and it looks like the ruins of their house are still visible near the end of a runway. I wanted to try and get permission to go out there and see, but haven't done it yet. Here's a shot of their home.

gener7

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Chuck, I had read somewhere that the government offered land to WWI veterans to homestead there, but for some the isolation was a bit too much. Must have been a long drive for provisions, and not much in the way of social interaction and services.

Did your grandparents stay there or did they decide to move on?

Trevor.Dennis

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That's a tremendous amount of rain, jane-e. I'm kind of jealous as we brace for next year's mandatory California water limit of 55 gallons / person / day. The national average consumption is 75 gal / day.

We just got a new smart dishwasher that's supposed to sense when dishes are clean and use less water. I'm afraid the verdict is still out on that one. It may use less water but the cycle is slower than a crockpot.

I imagine the California water situation is going to be ongoing indefinitely. 55 gallons would sound a lot if you had to drink it, but when it comes to showers, and washing your clothes and flushing your toilet, and all the other things we use water for, it's going to be quite a problem. We are consented to 15 cubic metres a day, which is just short of 4000 gallons, but it just comes out of the ground with no checks, so I have no idea what we actually use.

We had to have a new well drilled in 2013. The well draws water from 15 metres into the aquifer but the drill hit water at two metres. They ran this pump for a good hour to clear the mud etc. from the drilling operation. That's Mr John Butt, who has drilled most of the wells in Marlborough.

Bored Panda has a series of pictures showing the effects of the Polar Vortex, and some of them are extreme.

50 Photos That Show Just How Insanely Cold It Is In America Right Now | Bored Panda

I keep thinking about Noel's move from Florida to Minnesota. The timing was terrible.

As if the cold was not bad enough, there's some sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers thing going on.

Chuck Uebele

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Photo I shot a few years back while driving through Mojave.

jane-e

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Chuck, that's so beautiful!

Chuck Uebele

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Thanks, Jane.

Chuck Uebele

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I was very young, when I first visited the Mojave. I remember trying to capture what I thought was a land walking lobster. Luckily I didn't catch it!!!

Nancy OShea

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Chuck+Uebele wrote
I remember trying to capture what I thought was a land walking lobster. Luckily I didn't catch it!!!

Not exactly my favorite pet but to each his own.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Chuck Uebele

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That's a big scorpion, Nancy! I only found smaller ones around where I lived.

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