Comments on: Thanksgiving bio char, cow pies and plastic pipe http://solar-wind-power.org/general/2009/11/thanksgiving-bio-char-cow-pies-and-plastic-pipe/ Off grid and building in the Joshua Tree high desert in NorthWest Arizona Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:08:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Christine http://solar-wind-power.org/general/2009/11/thanksgiving-bio-char-cow-pies-and-plastic-pipe/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Christine Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:57:23 +0000 http://solar-wind-power.org/?p=331#comment-506 Thanks for the comments, been SO busy, I just haven't had time to update here. No lack of pictures, I constantly take all these pictures and then don't get around to posting them. There USED to be the Smith Ranch and it was sold and is now a tourist hot spot -- mostly Europeans and Asians flying in or bussed in from Vegas: http://www.grandcanyonranch.com/ That's on the way up to the Skywalk and we're just a few miles away. Until they recently paved the lower part of Diamand Bar road up to Grand Canyon West, we got so much dust from the buses driving up. Also, here is Laura's blog: http://gardensindesert.blogspot.com/ Great pics and she's gardening in the Black Mountains near Las Vegas. Thanks for the comments, been SO busy, I just haven’t had time to update here. No lack of pictures, I constantly take all these pictures and then don’t get around to posting them.

There USED to be the Smith Ranch and it was sold and is now a tourist hot spot — mostly Europeans and Asians flying in or bussed in from Vegas:
http://www.grandcanyonranch.com/

That’s on the way up to the Skywalk and we’re just a few miles away. Until they recently paved the lower part of Diamand Bar road up to Grand Canyon West, we got so much dust from the buses driving up.

Also, here is Laura’s blog: http://gardensindesert.blogspot.com/

Great pics and she’s gardening in the Black Mountains near Las Vegas.

]]> By: Laura Gardens In Des http://solar-wind-power.org/general/2009/11/thanksgiving-bio-char-cow-pies-and-plastic-pipe/comment-page-1/#comment-505 Laura Gardens In Des Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:32:04 +0000 http://solar-wind-power.org/?p=331#comment-505 I like your blog, I look forward to your next post. We went through Wickenburg on the way to Phoenix, and when I got home I looked up Wickenburg on mapquest, arial view and stumbled on what I believe is the Smith Ranch. Is that the same area? You can email me if you'd like.~Laura I like your blog, I look forward to your next post. We went through Wickenburg on the way to Phoenix, and when I got home I looked up Wickenburg on mapquest, arial view and stumbled on what I believe is the Smith Ranch. Is that the same area? You can email me if you’d like.~Laura

]]> By: Anna http://solar-wind-power.org/general/2009/11/thanksgiving-bio-char-cow-pies-and-plastic-pipe/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Anna Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:40:44 +0000 http://solar-wind-power.org/?p=331#comment-493 That is my kind of day. Love those exploration trips but don't do them as much as I used to. A recent post about using tubes in adobe could be a way to use those old unsightly pipes. I think the piping is used in the buildings a lot like they used cob, kind of a wattle and dob type of building like in Africa, only they use the piping as reinforment. I loved the wood fencing around the water trough. Thanks for sharing. Those were beautiful pictures. Anna That is my kind of day. Love those exploration trips but don’t do them as much as I used to.
A recent post about using tubes in adobe could be a way to use those old unsightly pipes. I think the piping is used in the buildings a lot like they used cob, kind of a wattle and dob type of building like in Africa, only they use the piping as reinforment.

I loved the wood fencing around the water trough. Thanks for sharing. Those were beautiful pictures. Anna

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