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Hi Amanda and Sara, thanks for stopping by. One of the things i miss in the colder climates was when i lived in two places, first one was a place called Bodfish, small town about 350 people at the time, a suburb of Lake Isabella 50 miles south of Bakersfield, it was a two room mobile home w/ shower and an out door patio with guest room or den where i kept my small $3000.00 dollar metal fireplace with a window face inside, there was a couch and a few chairs, outside was my 1500 gallon propane tank which you can peep through a small window next to the fireplace, out back behind that was my tool shed, this was all on a 2 1/2 acre of land which i purchased for a small fee of $5000.00, this i would call Tom's Palace was up in around the 6000 foot level, so in the winter there would be at least 3 inches of snow while in the summer it would get very hot to about 130 in the shade, i spent one year there, had great time playing mountain man for awhile but my facial hair and the 4 foot hair was getting to me LOL, i eventually moved to a place called Pahrump Nevada, the Mojave Indians called that place , water from the rocks. Anyhoot, the place was a rented garage type of house on these folks property who had 2 horses and a couple of chickens, during the day while there were working down the hwy in Vegas i would feed and wash these big puppies and there mascots daily in return of living there for free, but they had scorpions that would come out at night, bats and the surrounding houses few and far between would sometimes catch on electrical fires, i loved the outdoors but wasn't to fond of the heat at all nor the ice cold, i miss some of it, like the lakes i used to go fishing in and stuff like that, target shooting you know "men stuff" lol during those years is where i focus on my guitar playing the most, 1989 to 1999 was the years of my crazy world lol, it did however teach me of God's creation and his natural disasters too, so when i became his back in 1999 i became more sensitive or more aware of my surroundings, now living here in San Diego 1/4 mile from the Pacific Ocean im sort of losing sense of gratitude because i feel so comfortable here with a beautiful ocean, mountains behind me and the laid back surfer type attitude, since I've been here i have visited my old hometown of Burbank and visited my uncles working at the Disney and Burbank studios, same directors and writers still work there , when i was a kid i would visit and play ball or video games with actors at that time were unknown like Nick Cage, Corey Feldman and Drew Barrymore and other friends for a time, so living back in California has its ups and downs but at least i can take the heat or the cold LOL
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