Autumn comes subtle to the Painted Desert.

On Thursday, the daily high temps transition to below 90 and into the eighties, with the monsoonal pattern continuing to prolong itself.

I’ve dwelt here over two decades now.

In the beginning, the motivation to turn on the furnace got strong around the middle of October.

As things have warmed, the fall has extended toward the end of that month before local chill arrives.

From now therefore I have five or seven weeks to work outside and get started on the camper shell comfortably.

With a break in the middle of all that to go recover the RME from the place up the road from where the buffalo still ‘roam’ even if it is behind barbed wire.