Desert Horses

Welcome to my horse blog, Desert Horses. We live in the desert southwest, near Palm Springs, CA, but board our horses up in our local mountains where it is cooler in the summer. I have 4 horses, all rescues. Here is the ranch up the mountains where the horses stay.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Breaking Bad

So, my husband binge watched the first WHOLE SEASON of Breaking Bad one night and I cam into it mid second season and now I'm HOOKED.  We got through Season 2 and are now halfway through the 3rd season.

In other news, there is a 4,700 acre arson fire up by Mountain Center on Highway 74.   Lake Hemet, Hurkey Creek campground, and ALL of Idyllwild and Mountain Center and Pine Cove have been evacuated. 

I went out with Bodie yesterday afternoon so he could...er..."do his business" and looked up and saw SMOKE!   ACK!   That's NEVER a good sign.   Yup.  It was smoke, not thunderheads (although I did hear thunder).   I ran inside to tell hubby and by evening we had a gorgeous sunset, thanks to the fire.   This morning it is still burning and an animal sanctuary has been evacuated...sigh...It was an ARSON fire and a lookout tower spotted the guy and he WAS arrested (THANKFULLY...).

This is the 2nd major fire up in our local mountains in the last few years.   The whole town of Idyllwild was evacuated during the last fire and I heard that all of Anza is now without electricity.   That means no air conditioners in this yeat, NO water for the horses (the water is drawn from electric pumps), no grocery stores open, but the feed store is open and taking CASH ONLY.

I'll keep you updated on the fire's progress...sigh...Our mountains are dry and we are in the middle of a heat wave.   Going to be 120 here today...

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