Gold

We have joined Nye Gold Seekers. Don and Tom have been out to their claim a few times and have had some nice pickers in each cleanup. They are learning how to use drywashers.

Don is currently putting a new rubber roof on our 5th wheel rv before we start traveling again.

My latest creation

a 3' x 4' latch hook rug

Rhyolite

Today we visited the ghost town of Rhyolite -

Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.

Home of the bottle house -

Around 1905, during the Gold Rush, Tom Kelly built his famous house in Rhyolite, NV with 51,000 beer bottles and adobe. He chose bottles because "it's very difficult to build a house with lumber from a Joshua tree." It took him about a year and a half to build the 3-room, L-shaped building with gingerbread trim. The original cost of the building was $2,500 but most of that money was spent on the wood and fixtures. Some of the bottles were medicine bottles, but most were Busch beer bottle throw-aways from the 50 bars in town.

House update

When we bought the place the house looked like this

 

It now looks like this

 

 

and we are NOT done yet!

 

Don and Tom are still working on applyin all of outside trim

I am rich

Hubby asked what I wanted for Christmas, my reply is this- I have a wonderful husband, kids, grandkids and friends. I have a roof over my head, food on the table and clothes on my back. All of that makes me a rich person, I don't need anything else.

December 21, 2012

Well here it is Dec., 21, 2012and the world is still here so far!

Christmas is fast approaching so I thought I would share with you a picture of my favorite Santa.