Good Morning

Good Morning

  5/25/26 6:30 48F (8.8C) Partly overcast with  a breeze beginning. I got up an hour ago, to no wind and colorful strands of clouds stretched across a blue sky. Gordon is the president of the Forest Hills Black Powder Brigade, our host for the Rendezvous.  He is...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/24/26 9:00 Warming with the clouds burning off. I didn’t check the temperature but it was a little cooler than yesterday morning. Around 4:00 I got up to use the latrine. Went back to bed and didn’t rise until 6:30. Robert made bacon and...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/23/26 6:00 49F (9.4C) Clear blue sky, just a tickle of breeze. Birds sing beneath a rising sun. A few cook fires are burning. Tea in hand, I watch the camp come to life. Good morning.                  ...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

4/21/26 65F Calm, overcast and humid. It sprinkled a little this morning,  but not enough to prevent me from mowing. After lunch I returned the keg. Since I was in the neighborhood, I dropped by the range to burn up some black powder. While there, some hungry deer...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

It was shirtsleeve weather and sunny in town, pretty mild for the second day of spring. Mike and I decided to go look for snow. We found it at 3000′ in the Gifford Pinchot. There was no snow below that level and ice flows covering the road above that. Satisfied,...