My life as a Boomer

Here I am with my first ever blog. When I was born many, many years ago, who knew what a blog was, let alone a computer. My daughter says it's easy to set up a blog, so bear with me as I stumble through setting this up and putting in content.

I hope you enjoy it and can somewhat identify with my life as it pertains to yours, whether a woman's life or a man's life, we share many similar feelings and ideas once we reach this time in our life.

This time in my life means exploration, learning, doing and letting go of the parts of my life that served me so well for so many years. I want to transition from the daily working world to a new kind of work....what I want to do! Tell me about you and your life as a boomer!

The posts below should really be read starting with the oldest first for a better understanding of the experiences.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Nine Mile Canyon - Price, Utah October 2013

What a neat trip this was.  First we traveled to Price, Utah to see Nine Mile Canyon.  Then on to Santa Fe, New Mexico for the four-day Paleamerican Odyssey Conference and lastly to Cortez, Colorado to assist in some excavating at Mitchell Springs Ruins (owned by archaeologist David Dove). We'll concentrateon Nine Mile Canyon!  Someone asked us recently how the canyon got its name as the canyon is really over 40 miles of a 78-mile back-country byway.  According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) website one possible explanation was, explorer of Nine Mile Canyon in 1869, John Wesley Powell, had a cartographer who used a nine mile transect for mapping the canyon. 

The petroglyphs at Nine Mile Canyon defy description...so many and so amazing. Including a few here to give you a feel for what we saw.

The Great Hunt
This was named The Great Hunt and was described as classic Fremont style rock art (circa AD 950 - 1200). It is a scene likely depicting herds of big horn sheep during mating season...usually the November, December timeframe. Also, it's the only time of year rams, ewes and lambs are all together in the same place. This is a very large panel, was very well-preserved and was jaw-dropping!

Here's a picture of my friend, Michael in front of the panel to give some perspective.


A few more petroglyphs:

Petroglyph at Nine Mile Canyon

Buffalo and other animals - Nine Mile Canyon

Petroglyph in color - Nine Mile Canyon
The last one is in color which was quite interesting.  Not entirely sure it was from the same period or not.

The canyon is quite spectacular. There were a few graineries used to store corn still sitting above on the rock cliffs. Incredible they are still there...no doubt some stabilizing was recently done as it has been hundreds of years since they were used.

Grainery high on cliff
Closer view











Here I am on a hike above the canyon where some rock caves were...possibly Fremont Indian caves?

There are also working ranches in the canyon and so we encountered steer everywhere roaming free.  The cowboys do round them up when it's time to go to market but apparently there are some steer not found as we came across two piles of bone and fur.  We're guessing they froze in the canyon over the last winter. Either way they were going to perish. Here's a few pictures we found interesting:



Cows that perished
One large and one smaller


Some views of spectacular Nine Mile Canyon:



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