The ghost of silver hills -- A thousand-mile walk to home -- Customer cranky -- Trapping the bees -- Feral child -- Ground truthing the peaceable kingdom -- Lucy the desert cat -- How many bars in your cell? -- A visit from the Mary Kay lady -- The washoe zephyr -- Balloons on the moon -- Guest in the house of fire -- In defense of bibliopedestrianism -- Lawn guilt -- Time for a tree house -- Harvesting the desert shoe tree -- Most likely to secede -- Planting the dog -- My home lake -- Chickenfeathers strikes water -- Anecdote of the jeep -- Mockingbird on the wing -- What's drier than David Sedaris? -- Hunting for scorpions -- Beauregard puppy -- Desert insomnia -- After ten thousand years -- Word and clouds -- Singing Mountain -- Towering cell trees -- Rantosaurus silverbillsii -- Hillbilly cyborg -- Out on misfits flat -- I brake for rants -- Wild Christmas pinyon -- An Assay on Auld Lang Syne -- The bucket list.