Tabebuia tree on Oahu
Please feel free to click on any post photo to enlarge it.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

California Tumbleweed and Oil Wells

You really know you're not in Hawaii when you see tumbleweeds in your driveway...


...and an oil well in a neighbor's yard.

Too bad my sister-in-law has the tumbleweed and it's the neighbors who have the oil well.

Then again, would she like having an oil well in her backyard spoiling her citrus orchard?

Would you?

Well... with gas prices in California almost as bad as those in Hawaii, who knows?
Posted by at

20 comments:

  1. That is one heck of a BIG tumbleweed!

    ReplyDelete

  2. I don't know what tumbleweeds look like up close, but that one sure is big.
    I'd rather have the fruit trees than the oil well.

    ReplyDelete

  3. Only pace I ever saw tumbleweeds that large was in Texas. I'd take an oil well in my back yard and with the money I'd buy a new back yard.
    Happy Sunday

    ReplyDelete

  4. No thanks, I wouldn't want either one. Ha!

    ReplyDelete

  6. oh wow, I have never saw a tumble weed before only in the movies, thats huge!!!An oil well in the back yard,,, mmm, I suppose if you had one you could buy all the oranges you could ever eat! I still would rather the orchard, I'm just strange that way I suppose.

    ReplyDelete

  7. Well, well, well...
    that IS a big tumbleweed. Didn't know they had them in California. Oklahoma's are about half that size.
    I'd keep the oilwell, though. (There's one under the state capitol building in Oklahoma City, with the oil being piped out at an angle.) Then I could buy many boxes of Hawaii fruit shipped to my Kansas door! DrumMajor

    ReplyDelete

  8. gas prices are sure high in california. They're a lot better in SC.

    ReplyDelete

  9. That sure is one big tumbleweed! I don't think I would like to have an oil rig in my yard. Who would? It's weird if you ask me. :-)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies

    1. I wouldn't, but it sure has provided them with a steady income.

      Delete

  10. it's curious to have an oil well in your yard? I'm also not familiar with tumbleweed, learn something new every day!

    ReplyDelete

  11. Tumbleweed and oil wells are familiar to me only from films - it's good to have 'reminders' that you're away from home;-)

    ReplyDelete

  12. Seeing tumbleweeds always reminds me of the movies. I have never touched one but I think I saw one in action recently near the California border in Nevada. Can never be sure since my memory gets confused and I never take pictures.

    L...w

    ReplyDelete
    Replies

    1. I've seen tumbleweeds before in our travels, but this one was pretty gigantic. We moved it away, but would you believe when we got home, there it was AGAIN! Sheesh!

      Delete

  13. Thanks for sharing your adventures in my home state. I'm having a lot of fun rereading them this morning. Yes, the Meyer lemons are wonderful here. Perhaps more water? Less trimming....only once a year. You leave me smiling again today.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies

    1. Frankly, I'm beginning to think that what they call Meyer lemons here in Hawaii are NOT the true Meyers. I have no idea what it is.

      Delete

  14. I wonder about the environmental side-effects of having an oil well...I would rather not.. Michelle

    ReplyDelete

  15. That California tumbleweed is sure bigger that ours, from EASTERN Washington, of course.
    I wouldn't mind OWNING an oil well, but not in my back yard.

    ReplyDelete

  16. Our tumbleweeds are smaller than that, too. And I'm SO glad we don't have a blankety-blank oil well. Unsightly and unsanitary, or something.
    K

    ReplyDelete

I LOVE hearing from you!

However, if you sign in as ANONYMOUS, please don't forget to tell me who you are in the comment box by just writing your first name. We would all appreciate it if you kept your comment respectful and kind.

I apologize for having to use Word Verification occasionally, but the SPAM is making me crazy.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)