Pure Mesquite

Well, quite a lot has changed since the days of "Mild Blizzard Burgers":  We still have the grill, but it's now located in our yard in the Amargosa desert, I Grill with pure mesquite wildcrafted from the dead tree in the driveway, and our garden is busily sprouting in the 80 degree weather and generously watered by a warm mineral spring up the hill from our house.  The neighborhood critters seem to have decided that our house is the coolest spot in town to hang out:  I have already removed a baby tarantula and a baby lizard from our curtains and rousted a giant scorpion out of his hole by the outside wall while doing some heavy watering at dusk earlier this evening.  doves having been coming to graze in the increasingly spongy lawn, and a rabbit has been hanging around in the driveway checking on our progress with the garden.  It's a far cry from Taos, and it's nice to be back in the land of my birth, California.