Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)

@botvolution It's nice to meet you, Zane.

Last week, my brother and I road tripped through the Utah desert. I brought the Braztcam along. Here's some footage.

https://makertube.net/w/tYZU2eWj9K768tczFgsQp7

This was our approximate route, but with about 200 miles of side trips missing because google only lets you add so many destinations to one trip.

@botvolution no, about sixty years after that. He arrived around 1912ish when the railroad was giving away free land to homesteaders.

I actually met him. He lived to be almost 100. I guess there must have been a few short generations in there

Old human artifacts

Things we saw in Zane and Beryl

Someone who lives nearby has a thing for frogs. I saw the giant frog on satellite view before getting here. It was cool to see the same figure on their gate

Nevada roadsights II

Nevada roadsights I

Alien creature sighting

Prospectin' for garnets on Garnet Hill

We stayed at Baker Creek in Great Basin National Park last night. It's very pretty, but very cold. Neither of us was able to keep warm through the night, even with cold-rated sleeping bags and extra blankets

First day in Utah and we went looking for topaz at Topaz Mountain. The mountain is all chopped up from people looking for gems. It was lots of hammering and chiseling with nothing to show for it.

I had better luck finding topaz in the washes, but they were small.

Lots of open country out here.

Beaver, Utah, what a place

Great great grandpa homesteaded out here in Il Zane, Utah, from the 1910s to the 1940s. We found the ruins of the place and explored a bit

There was more water in the valley back then, according to his telling of it, but it was still dry, so he dug this canal himself, with help from our great grandma, who was just a girl at the time.

My neighbor asked me to post an ad on craigslist for the mattress she bought and never used because it's not firm enough for her.

I agreed because she's mostly nice, but then she asked me to take all the inquiries and forward them to her. I said I would just put her phone number on it, so they could cal her directly.

"Oh no, just have them call you and then you can tell me who wants it."

I said no to that

She said she would give me a commission if it sells, but I don't believe her at all, lol. This is the lady whose husband stole all the bananas off my tree after she asked if he could have just a few.

She just came over to tell me she got an offer. Someone text her to say that they want the mattress, but they are on their honeymoon in Wisconsin right now, but that they can send her a cashier's check for $100 over what she's asking and then they'll send a guy to come get the mattress

It would be fascinating to see everyone's list of muted words, phrases, and hashtags on this site