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March 14-15-16 2008 Guzzler Repair at Cima

Mojave National Preserve

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

What a turn out, 38 volunteers participated in this 3 day project. What can I say, from San Diego, Los Angeles, Needles, Yucaipa, Irvine, Victorville, Hesperia, Bullhead City, AZ they all came to work.

Friday was a good day, we managed to get in six hours of work on the guzzlers. Friday night the venison chili cooked in the cast iron pots were emptied, not a bean left. Saturday we left camp after breakfast and put in a good eight hours. Saturday evening Jesse, Dave and Lyle cooked the fish and we stuffed ourselves. Overall five guzzlers were worked on, one completely finished, three with one coat of Merlex and guzzler B90 had a caved in lid. The lid on B90 was removed and brought back to Needles for some repairs and will be reinstalled in April.

Sunday morning we had planned on applying second coats of Merlex and working on B 90, but........................the weather goddess had different ideas. It was to cold for mortar or Merlex so we had to suck it up, eat our breakfast, pack and go home. All I can say about the weather is, if we ever think the desert needs more rain or snow just let me set a date for one of these project, I can pick-em. I think we need to have about six or seven projects in July and August then at the last minute we will cancel, maybe we can fool mother nature and she will make it rain anyway???

I apologize if I did not get to each one of you to say thank you for your participation, so I will say it now,

THANK YOU

You guys and gals are to much. To me there is no better crowd to be associated with, hang around with or work along side, I enjoyed every minute.

I am never going to ask Jesse to cook fish again. I think we all ate way more then we should of, I know I did. I told you, it would be some of the best tasting fish you would ever eat. Thank you Jesse and Debra.

Let me thank some folks,

Ray O. from San Diego

Orange County Predator Callers

Jesse and Debra

Lyle and Marie

Kippy and Judy

Gary, Joe, Dave, Cruz

High Desert Quail Unlimited

You want to try it again, or you want to try one of these projects for the first time, we will have another project April 11-12-13, at the same location in Cima. Maybe we will be the first to experience the first hurricane ever recorded in Cima????????

I will send out some info next week with the menu and more info about this next project.

Sincerely

Cliff McDonald

760-326-2935

Jesse eating breakfast Sunday morning