No Bull Ranch

Adaptatat – Sustainable building in an unsustainable world.

Amps – Current  volume of current flow.

Blinking Green – Charge controller signifying the batteries are full and floating.

Brendan McGinty Memorial State Park - Grotto in rocks to be developed.

Bufoley – The valley of the bufo frog in which No Bull Ranch is located.

Bunkalow – A casita comfort zone.

The Cave – A cave to the right of Dome Rock and high up towards the ridge.

Charge Controller – Regulates voltage and current.

The Comfort Zone – Structure that surrounds the trailer. 

Crapitalism – The worship of consumer goods requiring detoxification and recovery.

The Dam – Diversion project for watercourse.

Dome Rock – AKA castle Dome (old volcano).

Ecotecknowledgy – self explanatory.

Ecoteker – Person pioneering new ways to live with nature closer away from the grid locks of western civilization.

Finca Sin Toro – Property without bull.

Fire Circle – Evening gathering site.

Franxious – Frantically anxious.

Funkshui – Creating an aesthetic reality with functional value.

Garden Area – Garden shed, sink and work bench, garden, orchard, and composting operation.

Grassy Knoll – First successful Bermuda grass transplant.

Groovies – Our neighbors.

Hobosexualism -  Non-materialistic, slovenly man trying to attract a mate.

Industrial Zone – Space containing tool room, supply sheds and outdoor storage of resources.

Inverter – Changes voltage from 12V DC to 110V AC.

The manual manual – Instruction manual for the manual operation of the Ranch and its infrastructure.

Meditation Station = Tower of vision.

Morreuse – Bruce’s favorite color blending maroon and chartreuse which initiates the onset of being morose

Nipple Peak – Self explanatory.

Occupied Zone – The area around the comfort zone under development.

Ohms – Resistance in a circuit.

Ohms Law – Voltage = Amps times Ohms.

Palletable – Conducive to the use of pallets.

Panamorism – The practice of loving every people.

Pertners – Peer group partners.

Phone Booth – The vehicle parked where there is adequate signal for phone calls and internet surfing.

Pomegranate Park – Pomegranite orchard area.

Power Point – Solar array for house with batteries, charge controller, inverter, and origin of  110 electrical wiring.

PTSO – Transformational development process using the chaos of emotional stress to create new and more sublime order.

Pumping station – Well, solar array, and origin of water.

Recovery Ranch – The therapeutic environment that supports detox, and recovfery from the old world civilization.

Reverserve Fantasy – Constructing operational narratives to make dreams grow into reality.

The Riviera = Future development site by the watercourse.

Rorshach Roots – Decorative wood dug from the desert, the result of floods and erosion.

Shape Shifter Mountain – Most prominent and closest land feature on the way to Bufoley.

Thatyway – The correct direction.

Three Sisters – Rock formation by the olod stagecoach stop.

Tool Shop – Work area in the industrial zone.

Volts – Unit of measure of potential electricity (similar to water pressure in a water system).

The Wash – The main arroyo.

Wash Psychology – Proactive prediction of what the next rain will do to an arroyo.

Watercourse – Flood plain pathway.

Watts = Volts times Amps.

West Wing – the final addition to the comfort zone.

You Guys – Everybody but me.

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