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<\/a><\/p>\nOur Airstream occupies a huge chunk of Rob & Sadie’s driveway next to their Airstream, forcing them to park on the street, but they were very gracious about our request for a second night. \u00a0 With an electric cord from the garage, a connection to their outside water spigot, and absolutely perfect daytime temperatures, we’ve been very comfortable here. \u00a0 They are lucky that Yosemite is calling us, because otherwise we’d be tempted to stay a lot longer.<\/p>\n
Just across the street are the remains of the first hard-rock gold mine in California, soon to be re-developed into housing. \u00a0 The developer is considering plans to retain some of the gold mine remnants, since the site is somewhat historic. \u00a0 He drove by our Airstream today and paused to admire it in the driveway. \u00a0 I told him to remember to leave space in the development for Airstream parking, and he said, “No problem!”<\/p>\n
Our mail arrived at the little post office one block from the house, two big boxes, two fat Priority Mail envelopes, and a box of ten advance copies of the Winter 2007 Airstream Life. \u00a0 When we get mail, we usually get a lot of it. \u00a0 I sat down in front of the laptop and spent most of the day processing all the business mail that came in. The two big boxes contained a treasure trove of CDs, mostly photographs and past electronic layouts of the magazine that I need to organize and copy. \u00a0 I’ll be buying a new external hard drive soon for this project, and possibly moving my thousands of photos from the Mac’s default program (iPhoto) to something a little more robust.<\/p>\n
By the way, copies of the Winter 2007 magazine should be in the mail to subscribers this week (but keep in mind they can take up to three weeks to arrive!) \u00a0 The magazine has a little surprise about it which long-time subscribers will notice immediately. \u00a0 I’ll let you find out for yourselves.<\/p>\n