[No photo with this post since the storm drowned my cell phone.] We had a hell of a weekend. A huge thunderstorm came thru on Thursday. Charlie and I were here at the ranch awaiting visitors, and we did our best to secure things, including leading horses into individual stalls, but it was like going out into a hurricane. Huge limbs were breaking off of trees. The rain was coming down sideways. A couple of times I had to simply bend over and … [Read more...]

On July 10, 2015, son Scott and I climbed Mt. Charleston (an hour NW of Las Vegas). It took 13 hours, and we walked 20.6 miles (75,400 steps according to Scott's pedometer). That was on my bucket list for 40 years, and now it's checked off. … [Read more...]