Patty, that whole setup of the Gila Wilderness was a great idea (from Aldo Leopold, it was the first established US wilderness area) but the USFS couldn't commit and in the end built a long road into the middle of it. Wimps. I'm not surprised there are utilities running along there. You sound like a good candidate for putting a solar array on the roof or on panels in the yard (maybe turn it into a parking structure).

I have to mow and set up the sprinklers. We've had a lot of rain but may be at the end of that episode. My garden has a couple of tomatoes (a lot of foliage, not so much fruit so far) and eggplants. Potatoes. The peppers are puny plants still (my daughter tells me hers look just the same. Something to do with the bedding plants we bought?) and cucumbers will be planted somewhere today.

If the daily rain is finished I'll get out the Ryobi rotating brush and attack the dirt on the den floor. It's dreadful right now.