Abandoned Mine

The town of Searchlight, Nevada is an old mining town established back in 1898 and at that time was larger than Las Vegas.  The mines were very successful in mining gold, silver and a few other precious minerals.  There are a few mines still in operation but most are abandoned.

One day, CountryBoy and I checked out this abandoned mine by the side of the road...

  
What a gorgeous backdrop!

The cars were pulled up a very steep incline...

Steep stairs with no hand rails.  Wouldn't OSHA love that, hahaha!

CountryBoy leaned over a tad too far and got his shirt caught on a barb!

Thankfully, he managed to get 'uncaught' with no damage to the shirt.

While meandering around the mine, I found a few treasures from back in the day...

I love these old nails...

I'm not sure what this is or what it was used for.  It was up on the hill behind the main building.

I have a lot more photos of the beautiful scenery surrounding the old mine that I will show you another time.  So, stay tuned!

Till next time,

Searchlight Scenery

I really need to go through the rest of the 800 photos that I took while visiting CountryBoy out west so that I can share them with you.

But for now, here are a few photos of Searchlight, Nevada.

This town is a few miles from where we'll be staying.

Not only was the landscape so different than what we are used to but the skies were so blue.

It was a perfect day for taking pictures and I have a lot more to show you including an old, abandoned gold & silver mine.  But again, I need to make time to finish going through all my photos.

Speaking of time, it's just a little over two weeks until we'll be pulling out and heading west.  Yikes!  Am I ready?  N-O!!!  I'm not even ready for Christmas which is a little over two weeks as well.

Part of the problem is, a lot of the stuff we want to take will need to be packed last minute so, I've made a list of all those items so that (hopefully) we won't forget anything.

I had the oil changed in the Jeep last Friday and will take it to our mechanic Monday morning to give it a once-over to make sure it's trip-ready.

The upcoming week is a busy week not only with trip preparations but with Christmas celebrations and parties and ending with our Christmas Cantata the following Sunday evening.  I mentioned the cantata because if I was only singing in it that would be one thing but since I'm directing it this year it adds a bit of stress to the event seeing as this is my first time directing.  I know the Lord will bless it because everyone involved has worked so hard but, I'm still going to stress just a bit about it because I'm human!

Also this week, I'm going to try to get a few Christmas cards in the mail and concentrate on finishing up the handmade gifts for the family.

We'll see how it goes!

How's your week shaping up as we get closer to celebrating the birth of the Christ child?

Till next time,