[Aquanet] she's back

[thebrashers1]

Well, it sounds like stunning scenery. Maybe you'll be drawn into doing some
landscapes while you're there. Of course, it may grow on you and you end up
loving it. :-)  Thank you for the pronunciation! That does help, though it
still produces a giggle. It's a blessing to be near family, isn't it? That's
great. I wish we could see photos!

 

Welcome back!

Leslie

 

Jon and Leslie

http://www.missioncreekllc.com

http://lesliebrasher.blogspot.com

http://lesliebrasher.imagekind.com 

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From: patchapin at mindspring.com [mailto:patchapin at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:31 PM
To: thebrashers1; Aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net
Subject: Re: [Aquanet] she's back

 

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

 

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