Shain Mayer

I love hauling water 21st century style.

Its cold were im at right now, thats about it. Thank god no snow.

Western States Winter Storm 11/2010

This is a photo of the north face of the Flatiron, the eastern Edge of the Suppersition Caldera and Wilderness area. The Flatiron overlooks and hovers like a mighty iron over the Lost Dutchman state park, and Goldfield Ghost Town. This caldera uplift has many hidden canyons to hike, and many surpises to find. There are so many mines in the area its really is a miners delight.

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YouTube - The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band "Persimmon Song"

what a great song!

I was sick my Brithday weekend, had plans to backpack and camp in the Supperstitions, but i was only able to muster a short drive up the 88 to Canyon Lake. There is allot of neat geology in the area and allot of fun rockhounding. Very tough terrian however. This photo from the parking overlook on Canyon lake is a two part composit, since i do not have a wide enough angle lens in my phone's camera, but i like it anyway and wanted to share.

Something about this idea has always inspired me. AS i love spiders, all kinds, and have had many Tarantula encounters, but not for about 2 years now. The last was a hugh guy right in my front drive when i came home one night at the bakery, here is a photo of him that night.

Tarantulas Provoke Brain's Fear Circuits : Discovery News

....and chaos is among us. No matter were i look, or what i do, there is that early feeling of the season in which i hounstly dont like as much as summer. Just tonight on my way home from the bakery, i say a car up a head, the driver managed to make a thrid uturn by the time i passed him. WTF? drunkin snowbird season, yes its true, though im sure they are still mostly male like this uturn driver. And as hard as i try, i keep having problems with one guy at the bakery in which Chaos follows, and problely will till the end of the earth. Poor kid trys so hard, and things still bite him in the ass no matter what. He had two court dates this week, and both simply went into continuance because of prosecutor no shows. Or he just bullshitting me and im the dumbass.
The bakery has really picked up and we got some good press a couple weeks ago. The new shift at the bakery is working really well too, i have a better control on everyones hours, the batch order or mix order, and sweets. We have also been able to develop a better procedure for our Ciabatta which has been coming out top notch.
I have fallen behind this past month on the blog, but I am just trying to transition into the season, my new shift and management responsibilities as best as i can.
I am also working on remixing we are Searchers recordings and posting them to my reverb page. So keep a look out for anything music related i post.
Lastly, on anything rock related, please let me know if you want to come out and dig for rocks in my overstocks. Normally $25, Winterbird speical-$15 per 5 gallon bucket, you dig and haul your own. But you must mention the website in order to get the discount.

Labels: chaos, holiday season, Lapidary, Rockhounding, snowbirds, winter

Humans Crafted Complex Tools Earlier Than Thought : Discovery News

And along with this one,
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/oldest-axe-found-aborigine-australia.html