Pahrump
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Seven years in Pahrump this month and we have settled in nicely. We are used to all the quirks of the town, we still hate the town council, we don't gamble anymore because you just can't win ANYWHERE here. There are three large casinos that we used to go to, The Nugget, Terrible's Town and Saddle West. Maybe it's just use but we just can't win. People all around us may be hitting stuff, we've seen a guy with over a grand on his penny machine, another lady played the machine I just walked away from and was up to six hundred in no time but can we win a buck? Not even. So, we just stopped gambling. Sure gives us a bunch of money for other things like shopping, food, cigarettes and cat food.
There has been some excitement in or area lately. Just last week-end, three houses down from us a man held his wife hostage, she got away from him and as the cops got there, he shot himself in the head but it didn't kill him. At least not right off and we have no idea what happened to him since both of the town newspapers don't report any news what so ever.
The junk yard house kitty corner from use caught fire a couple weeks ago and burned for a while. Unfortunately it didn't burn everything up but the county is hauling all the crap away so we are finally getting rid of one eye sore.
The economy is just as bad here as it is every where else and this is a town full of lower income people to begin with. We now fall into that category, too. But there's still nothing like sitting outside around sunset and watching the sky turn the most beautiful shades of blue, purple and red that we've ever seen. We feed the Jack's and Cottontails that come right up to us for food, we take the cat for a walk around our property every night and she sits out with us to watch the bats and night swallows every night. It's a peaceful interlude to our daily survival that drives us crazy every day. All hail Pahrump!
Labels: Seven Years and Counting
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
This winter has been very nice, the weather (we actually had weather!) has been rainy, cold and cloudy for a change. We love that! The mountains are covered with snow and just a joy to look at each day. I take our cat outside every day for an hour or so to give her some fresh air and room to run, she's got some bobcat in her and plays rough, she needs to run off some of that energy. After she's tired out, she loves to jump up on the car and just watch the world that she sees. I grab a lawn chair, a soda and a smoke and enjoy the view.
Summer will be here before we know it. The "snow birds" will be heading back north and east, the temperature will be in the hundreds and I'll be wishing for fall and winter again. Another year older, another year come and gone. So it goes in Pahrump. Just trying to stay under the radar and live out our lives, or what's left of them here, as happy as we can be, all things considered, in our early, so called "golden years".
Labels: February 2010 in Pahrump
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Not much changes around here, they keep electing corrupt people to the town council, who in turn keep trying to pass idiotic new laws that get defeated by a majority. The latest bill would be mandatory trash pick up. If you are a land owner, you have to pay for weekly trash pick up whether you live on your property or not. I smell a big kick-back somewhere. Since we already have optional trash pick up at $10.00 a month and a local land fill for those who would rather take their trash themselves, there isn't much need. What they do need to do is get rid of some of the pack rat houses around town that have yards full of used cars, old appliances, carpet rolls and anything else they can pick up. There's a place not far from us that is so bad that their drive way is blocked off. It's an acre of trash with a couple of mobile homes set up on it.
Next up on the complaint list.....the casinos. Talk about tight! The Pahrump Nugget used to be the worst but must have gotten the hint from lack of business and seems a bit looser now. We've been back a few times and I always seem to do well. My husband does well in the poker room, too. Mountain View Casino, on the other hand, has gotten so bad that you could shoot Roman Candles off in there on a Friday night and not hit anyone. You hear people complain, as they go slamming angrily out the doors, that you can't win a thing and I have to agree. They have now opened a computerized poker room that holds tournaments for the WSOP satellite games. I want a dealer siting in front of me, not a computer screen. That means that the game is now run by computer, putting the odds in the houses favor. If Mr. McCaw, the original owner who passed away and left it to his kids, could see what they've done to it, he'd probably leave it to someone else in his will. Terrible's Town and Lakeside casinos we always stay away from, we've never done good at either of them. Same goes for Saddle West (or Saddle Worst as the locals call it). So, since there's no other form of adult entertainment like a movie theater, gaming is about all there is and we don't do much of that any more.
Fireworks....... We have 3 big fireworks stores in town. It's legal to buy them but not to set them off in Nye county. Uh, excuse me? There's something wrong with this. A few years ago the fireworks stores got together with the town council and passed a law that they could be fired off in Nye county in designated areas to be set up by each town. That was passed two or three years ago and no one has done anything about it. You'd think that the store owners would have gotten together with the town council and worked out areas on land owned by Nye county to set up fireworks sites but no. Let's drag our asses on that a few more years. So, it's still illegal to shoot off fireworks out on BLM land at the dry lake but everyone does it, especially on July 4th. California, on the other hand, has road blocks set up going back into Cali from here to confiscate all fireworks bought here as they are really illegal in Cali. The fire Marshall of Inyo county told our Town council one night that we should stop selling them and close the shops down. he was escorted from the building, told to leave and never come back. Yea, Tony DeMaeo!! Our sheriff rocks!!
Medical..... We finally got a hospital that opened a couple years ago and is very nice. They have a good staff, surgery facilities, a maternity ward. I had to use the E.R. once and was in and out fast and taken care of well. The problem in this town is competent doctors, the only one here I trust is Dr. Michael Reiner. He's taken care of our family since we moved here and has proven to be a good, caring doctor. Unfortunately, due to rising malpractice insurance in Nevada, he had to close his private practice and move into a local clinic that is less than wonderful but we still go so he can treat us.
Friends....still haven't found any to speak of except for Doc Reiner and a couple guys my husband knows from poker. I had made friends with a woman that went to my old chiropractor, she seemed nice. Turned out that all she did was bitch about everything. Not that people don't have things to complain about but I can't be around people that are that negative or they start dragging me down with them. Nothing I did for her was ever right. I permed her hair twice, she didn't like the sides, not curly enough. This was true but it was a problem with her hair, not my skills. I bought her a gift card to get her nails done for a wedding she was going to be in, even though I couldn't afford it. I figured that she's be really happy and excited. Nope. She said thanks and laid it over on a table like it was nothing. Hurt my feelings but I should have known by then. She hated the way the girl did them (I did hear all about that) and she was too rough with her so she took them all off after the wedding. She needed a new doctor because her old one didn't like her (in her words) so I recommended ours. Big mistake! She doesn't like him because (she says) he doesn't listen to her, won't put her on the meds she wants to be on and gives her tests that she thinks have nothing to do with what's wrong with her. She has the nerve to bad mouth him to me when she knows he's our friend. The truth of the matter is that no doctor will make her happy. The other truth is, she's a narcissist and cares for no one but herself. if she hadn't heard from me in a week it was never "Are you okay?" it was always "Oh, thank god! I've had such a bad week I have to tell you all about me." It would have been nice if she would have asked how we were doing sometine. I dumped her.
The truth is, we have pretty high standards for picking friends. They can't be druggies, they can drink but not be drunks, they have to like guns, fireworks, Halloween, be Republicans or not mind that we are and aren't bothered by the fact that we aren't Christians. Kind of hard to find that anywhere let alone here in meth land. We thought we found a great couple a few years ago. We took them out to lunch, discussed a bunch of stuff and they assured us that they didn't do drugs. Turns out the husband is high about 24/7/365. That ended that.
But, all in all, we still love living here. We love being close to Vegas, even though we don't make it down there that often, we can go whenever we feel like it. We like living in a state that is still a fairly free society but unfortunately Nevada is starting to turn socialist with the rest of the country, it'll just take longer to sink in here.
Labels: Pahrump Year Six Changes
Monday, August 04, 2008
Heidi Fleiss. Watched the show about her on HBO. She's nothing but a drugged out has-been or never-was that thinks that somehow this town owes her something. All she does is bad mouth it, act pathetic and like everyone is out to get her. Meanwhile, she tries to win people over here. Too bad they all haven't seen her HBO documentary and read some of the magazine articles that have been done on her lately. She can't stand Pahrump or Crystal and thinks we should all bend to her will or change just for her. Narcissistic meth head, that's Heidi Fleiss. I'm ashamed to even admit she lives here!
You'll see her around town occasionally, looking glassy eyed, anorexic thin and wearing sweat shirts in 100 degree weather. She recently opened a laundry mat here since her plans on opening a all male brothel for women fell through. In a way, I feel sorry for her, she looks like she's such a mess. But then I stop and think about her HBO special and I don't feel so sorry. Last we heard of her, she had gotten pulled over with a guy in her car. They were both high and she had a pocket full of Vicodin that wasn't hers. She is awaiting trial on drug charges.
Labels: Heidi Fleiss
One thing I just can't understand about this area.... why do people continue to die in one car accidents because they were ejected, not wearing a seat belt? Is it so hard to buckle up before you start up the car?? Doesn't it occur to people that it could save their life, the lives of those in the car and save their families a ton of grief? People just don't think. I just don't get it.......
It seems to happen so often on Hwy 160, even with the bigger shoulders having been added to the road. A friend of ours lost her son recently to just this kind of accident. I can't help but think that if he had been wearing his seat belt, they'd be sitting around talking about it, he'd be healing and still alive.
It seems to happen so often on Hwy 160, even with the bigger shoulders having been added to the road. A friend of ours lost her son recently to just this kind of accident. I can't help but think that if he had been wearing his seat belt, they'd be sitting around talking about it, he'd be healing and still alive.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
We've lived in Pahrump for a few years now and the thrill has somewhat worn off but it's been replaced with a feeling of "home". The population has grown over the past few years, not as high as Vegas but we did have a growth spurt last year. Now the bottom has dropped out of the real estate market with over 20,000 empty homes in Southern Nevada, 1000 of them here in Pahrump. People that thought they could make a killing selling their house because their neighbor got a mint for his and they failed because of over growth. That'll show 'em!
A Home Depot just broke ground here. They'll add a whole strip mall along with it. We do need a few more places to shop, driving over to Vegas is a pain in the ass. We need a Del Taco and a Wendy's here as well. Pitiful Buger King and Taco Bell can close up and go home.
The casinos have gotten so tight you should just drive by and throw your money out the window because that's about what you are doing. Mountain View was taken over after the owner's death, by his kids, and up went the odds. The Nugget was bought out by a Vegas company and up went the odds. Saddle West, same thing and now we hear that the owners of the Nugget are buying Saddle West (or Saddle Worst as we call it). So far Terrible's Town isn't too bad but it's small and the games are old, none of our favs can be found there.
All in all, this is still a quiet little town filled with nice and sometimes odd people but everyone fits right in. Except those liberals who want to change this to another California, who I still hate and wish they would just go back and leave us alone!
Thursday, February 26, 2004
What can we say about Pahrump, Nevada? It's our new home town and the town we love to heckle! But if any out-of-towners say anything bad about it, watch out! We have beautiful mountains, lovely natural desert, a rural population.
We also have the hordes of left-wingers moving in from the Peoples Republic of California who want to change this into a carbon copy of their old state. Someone needs to build a wall around the borders of Nevada and make everyone take a test before they are allowed to move here. All liberals keep out!!
The town is not without it's problems, of course. It's the meth lab capital of southern Nevada because of the wind, we have a lot of wind! It blows the fumes of cooking it up away so no one can smell it or so we've been told. I guess that's true since a house two houses down got busted late one night and we never suspected a thing!
And then there is the town council...... were do I start? Some of them are fine but some need to have their heads examined because there has to be some reason for the idiotic laws and amendments they come up with. Some are just in it for the money they can fleece people out of and some, I'm sure, are in it to actually do something productive.
We love that the south end of town is home to the famous Chicken Ranch brothel and that they are legal here as well as opening carrying fire arms, concealed weapons permits and the sale of fireworks year round. Every year the local fire department throughs a Halloween Haunt! This will be the 28th year. You gotta love it for that if nothing else!
It's an inexpensive place to live, mostly retirees and we even have a Wal-mart that opened a year ago.
Pahrump...... Welcome to the New Old West!!
We also have the hordes of left-wingers moving in from the Peoples Republic of California who want to change this into a carbon copy of their old state. Someone needs to build a wall around the borders of Nevada and make everyone take a test before they are allowed to move here. All liberals keep out!!
The town is not without it's problems, of course. It's the meth lab capital of southern Nevada because of the wind, we have a lot of wind! It blows the fumes of cooking it up away so no one can smell it or so we've been told. I guess that's true since a house two houses down got busted late one night and we never suspected a thing!
And then there is the town council...... were do I start? Some of them are fine but some need to have their heads examined because there has to be some reason for the idiotic laws and amendments they come up with. Some are just in it for the money they can fleece people out of and some, I'm sure, are in it to actually do something productive.
We love that the south end of town is home to the famous Chicken Ranch brothel and that they are legal here as well as opening carrying fire arms, concealed weapons permits and the sale of fireworks year round. Every year the local fire department throughs a Halloween Haunt! This will be the 28th year. You gotta love it for that if nothing else!
It's an inexpensive place to live, mostly retirees and we even have a Wal-mart that opened a year ago.
Pahrump...... Welcome to the New Old West!!
Labels: Our New Home Town
