November 19, 2005

November 19, 2005

Pahrump, Nevada

YEAR 2 DAY 155

 

Today was sunny and very warm. We spent the day at the Pahrump Pow Wow at Petrack Park in Pahrump.

This morning after regular morning routines, chores, and preventive maintenance, I took Bo for an obedience training session. He did extremely well. Good dog, Bo. For a reward I took him to the fenced dog run area at the back of Pair-A-Dice, for a tennis ball play session. While playing in the dog run, we were joined by 2 other small dogs, a Boston Terrier and a Pug. Bo had a great off leash romp session with the Boston Terrier.

We had an early lunch, then set off for our day at the Pow Wow. While driving to the municipal park where the Pow Wow was, we stopped at an RV parts store and I bought some supplies that were priced well. The part that I went there for, they didn't have. After shopping for it at a few different places, I have concluded that it's not available as a separate part, but is part of an assembly. I don't need it enough to buy the whole assembly just to get one non-essential part. We found our way to Petrack Park for the 7th Annual Pahrump Social Pow Wow. A Pow Wow is a gathering of Natives for feasting, dancing, and music. Many years ago we attended the Odawa Pow Wow in Ottawa, and had a great time. When we heard the Pahrump Pow Wow advertised on the radio, we decided to go. In a small municipal park, food, arts and craft vendors set up in a large circle. Within the large circle there was continually changing exhibitions of Native music and dance. Most of the Natives attending were local Navajos, and some local Shoshones, although there were many other tribes represented as well, including Natives from Mexico. We watched some dancing and music, wandered around the vendors shopping, watched again, shopped again, ate, and so on all afternoon. The weather was great, until the sun set at which time the temperature dropped rapidly. To stay warm I had to wear the Christmas gift Joanne bought me. HA HA HA ! We bought each other Christmas gifts, although, obviously, the gifts will not be a surprise on Christmas morning. While watching the last hour of music and dance, followed by the closing ceremony, we struck up a conversation with a young woman and her 3 young sons. She home schools her children, one of whom is autistic, and one of whom has ADHD. Busy lady ! We had an interesting chat with her about the physical ailments of her mother, and other family members, all of whom are "downwinders". Those are people who lived downwind of the nuclear testing that took place in the Nevada desert many decades ago.

After the daily Pow Wow closing ceremony, we returned to Pair-A-Dice. Joanne carefully put away our purchases, while I walked poor, neglected Bo. Geeeez ... leave him alone for 5 or 6 hours and he feels sorry for himself. I did today's accounting and began to work on today's journal entry while Joanne prepared supper and prepared to do laundry. I worked on downloading and processing all the photos I took yesterday in Death Valley National Park.

We had supper, then I continued working on yesterday's photos while Joanne went to the clubhouse to work on laundry. Bo sat in a corner of the bedroom, chewing on, and guarding the beef rib bones I gave him. Who does he think is going to take them away from him ? Teddy ? When I was finished with the photos, I got online, sent and retrieved e-mail, updated my blog, and researched RV parks in our next destination, Las Vegas.

DSK