[Aquanet] she's back

[patchapin at mindspring.com]

Can't say as I blame you for the giggle -- after being here for a while, I've got it down to a mouth twitch, and it probably never gets any better!

It is pronounced "pah-RUMP" (and you have to remember that people in Nevada mispronounce the name of the State and say "Neh-vay-da", rather than the true Spanish way of saying 'snowed on').  The town name itself is an Anglo stumble on the Indian Pah-room-psisi, which means "water from the rock" and refers to artesian wells and springs in the Pahrump Valley.  The town itself lies in its long valley and I'm 15 minutes from the California line.  It is high mountain desert, with mountains on all sides, some of them aggressively snow-covered all year, although the foothills and many of the mountains are the scariest things you ever saw -- blank, fissured rock with absolutely nothing on them that grows -- not even brush or weeds.  

My son Chris works for a resort/hotel/casino in Las Vegas, and wanted me to try it out here, so I agreed, but couldn't find anywhere in Las Vegas itself where I could even consider living.  The only good thing I have to say is that I get to see him every week, usually; Nevada itself is not my kind of place, and Pahrump is a sort of Podunk that I didn't think really existed.

I'd post photographs of the place, but I guess we have no place to do that?

And thanks for the comment on the graphic -- Webfreaks did the site and they figured that out.

patch
www.patchapin.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: thebrashers1 
  To: patchapin at mindspring.com ; Aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:55 PM
  Subject: RE: [Aquanet] she's back


  Yay, she's back!!! We've missed you, Pat. Welcome back!  You'll have to catch us up on what's going on. How did you end up in Nevada?

   

  So, how do you pronounce Pahrump?  I'm sorry, but I giggle every time I read that name.

   

  Leslie, still in Alabama

   

  Jon and Leslie

  http://www.missioncreekllc.com

  http://lesliebrasher.blogspot.com

  http://lesliebrasher.imagekind.com 


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  From: aquanet-bounces at thedigitalbraintrust.net [mailto:aquanet-bounces at thedigitalbraintrust.net] On Behalf Of patchapin at mindspring.com
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:38 PM
  To: Aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net
  Subject: [Aquanet] she's back

   

  Hi y'all,

  I'm back, after a much longer hiatus than I ever figured on -- blame my move to Nevada, a bunch of confusions, some major computer problems before a replacement, etc.   I'm now writing to you from the high desert area of Nevada, about an hour and a half out of big, bad Las Vegas, nearest a town with the unfortunate name of Pahrump. A long, long way from Tropic Texas.

   

  patch

  www.patchapin.com

   
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