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Pandemic Furlough Campout

Pandemic Furlough Campout

  With fears of the contagion, business was slow. My employers decided to save some money by furloughing me Tuesday through Wednesday morning, so Walter and I took advantage of the relaxed travel restrictions to go camping. The Triumph loaded with gear, we headed...

Saturday Morning Soak

Saturday Morning Soak

Good morning Saturday. Hot tea and a sunrise soak at Bunny Hump Ranch. As the sun climbs the ridge behind me, a line of brilliance falls across the trees and tipi in front of me.                     I can actually see...

Throwback Thursday – Taxi Ride

Throwback Thursday – Taxi Ride

Rick Murray takes me for a "taxi ride" around PIR Saturday, July25,2009 I don't remember screaming but I seem to have lost my voice This was the most excitement I've ever experienced on a motorcycle, let alone on a sidecar. These things are crazy! There is nothing...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/4/26 6:00 45F (7.2C) No wind.  Gray and wet. It is raining here. Apparently it is snowing on the mountain  with the  freezing level  just over 5,000'. That is good. Whether it is good  enough we will discover  come fire season. I expect a long summer...

Good Morning

Good Morning

      3/3/26 40F (4.4C) 3:00 - 4:45 full moon eclipsed like  a round, pink, salmon egg. I slept through my alarm and almost missed the eclipse. It was a red ember when I got outside. Descending into the tops of the oaks, it went from a glowing red...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/2/26 5:00 34F (1C) Clear and calm. The moon, waxing to full, round and bright against the dark sky, hangs above the west ridge between Willow Flat and Middle Mountain. Early tomorrow morning there will be a lunar eclipse. As the nieghbors begin to...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/1/26 6:30 35F (1.6C) Calm with broken overcast. The sky is incompletely hidden behind ragged white tufts. The clouds look like stuffing pulled from a dog's toy. Dawn was beginning to lighten the sky. I rolled over to check the clock just as the...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/28/26 5:45 29F (- 1.6C) Cold, mostly  clear with a slight breeze. It is quiet and dark. The light breeze has not moved the strand of clouds hanging over the trees to the southwest. Overhead it is clear and dark. The moon, waxing gibbous, set hours ago,...