The reign of Woody: The life and times of one of the community’s most well-known canine residents
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”160″ display=”pro_tile” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″]by Mark McDermott Sixteen years ago, Michele Purcell and her family made their annual pilgrimage to the Mojave. It was a family tradition, multiple generations camping and bringing in the New Year together. Upon arriving, one of the very first orders of business, in preparation for many campfires, was to have a cord of wood delivered to their camp site at Dove Springs. They had a guy they called every year. “We called him Tweaker Mike because he was a crazy guy from Mojave, but he was so nice,” she recalled. “We’d call him and get a cord of wood, which is like a whole flat bed, because there were 10 campers.” This time, Tweaker Mike arrived not only with his flatbed loaded with wood, but a buddy to help unload it, as well as a female companion and a large dog. “When we are camping out there, the kids are free, and the dogs are their off leashes,” Purcell said. “Our dogs are roaming around. There’s like 10 families out there, my parents and generations of people. So I said, ‘If your dog is friendly, you can let him out…
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