Jeff, glad yer still kicking around out there. It looks like one of the places that is fun to go with a car that will get you out of there with ease. It would be zero fun to be there alone and having to walk out and survive on the land. There are places in Utah that look like the moon. No living vegetation at all, just rocks. No big deal in an air conditioned car going 75 MPH but lfe and death on foot.
We are finally done with the drip irrigation system. All that is left is spreading the mulch. The new baby tree is planted. It is only 4.5 feet tall right now so it has a lot of growing to do. It is some hybrid of catalpa that blooms all summer and hummingbirds love em.
We had a total chamber of commerce weekend weather. Very much San Diego like. No wind at all. And it happened on a weekend!