Another SLOW day on the gate...

Hello again, and yes, it was slow day on the gate.  Actually had only 2 vehicles ALL day requiring a log entry.  Just a few that needed assistance with directions.  At least one of those was looking for the drill rig that LEFT here last week, and the other was searching for the frac site down the road. 

If you are in the oil patch, you just have to laugh at the 'lost drivers' on these roads.  Not because the drivers are actually lost, mind you.  I truly feel for the most part it is more or less the 'blind leading the blind'. It is surely either a foreman, a co-worker or some sort of dispatcher giving them directions...and seems purrdy  apparent to me that none of them know how to get there either.

However; we do get visitors that know exactly where they are... 
There are the hundreds of birds  that come by daily. Many I can't identify but I  am familiar with Cardinals, crow, woodpeckers, as well as a pair of QUAIL we saw for the first time today.  The Quail stopped by twice today, both early morning and again in the early evening.  Of course there are several Roadrunners.

Most I only hear within the branches of  Mesquite and scrubb



(Not best quality pic, taken through camper window.) 

       Then there is the female Coyote, she has been coming by almost every day several times a day for the past several weeks.  One morning, JEN spotted her right up on the rug  in front of the camper, he quickly got my attention so I could see her as well.  I had to remind him that the first night we saw her, she actually appeared to be sniffing one of the chairs we use outside.

 

Well, the gate is CLOSED for the night, and I best get some sleep... since we have a planned shopping trip for JEN tomorrow... it would just be my luck for traffic to start rolling in 5 minutes after he leaves.  If there is ANY guarantee,  it is that there is nothing guaranteed in the 'oil patch'.

Roadrunners OUT!