I went for the final week of camping season at Jackson Meadows – East Meadow camp ground for Tuesday to Saturday and had the entire loop to myself until Friday night. It was fantastic. So quiet, all I could hear were the birds, chipmonks and wind in the trees. Oh, Read More
The neighborhood turkeys are huge this year. Seems like they were little tiny babies just a couple months ago. I found these walking through our front yard and then again in the back of our property. Ben doesn’t even bother to chase them anymore, although Biggs does and feels Read More
Wrights Lake, in the Crystal Basin, just outside of Desolation Wilderness, is beautiful this time of year. This lake is just west of Lake Tahoe. Kate and I hadn’t been here in three years. The first time I came here in 2011 with the RV, all the waters were flowing. Read More
Autumn started this week and I brought it in at Jackson Meadows Reservoir, trip number five this year. Kate joined me for two nites and a day, and also our friends Mike and Vicki and their tiny, cute pups, Wookie and Ginger. No swimming but kayaking, fishing, short hikes, Qwerkle Read More
Jamie and Angela got married on September 5, 2015. The event came off beautifully in spite of the traffic and closed roads due to the Cal football game. It was held in the Botanical Gardens with the actual ceremony in a wonderful amphitheater in a grove of tall redwoods (??). Read More
Back to Loon Lake right after the Labor Day crowds left. I started out at site #28, only to find there is a tit mouse burrow somewhere near the RV pad, so I had mice in my raisen bran cereal box in the middle of the night. Next morning, crack Read More
In August, in fact the week ended 8/21/2015, the market made a significant turn. The weekly indicators (moving averages, linear regression curves) turned bearish for the first time since 7/2011. The Dow downside targets are 14,500-13,700 or as low as 11,000 S&P downside target 1560-1400 The SPY is the ETF Read More
I got this sweet shot up at Jackson Meadows Reservoir in late August, 2015. I just really like it.
It’s the end of August, and I spent 3 days camping at Jackson Meadows, again. This time I had the entire camp loop to myself. Just me and Ben this time since Biggs had stitches that did not need to get in the dirt. I caught 6 trout, kept the Read More
The annual “birthday climb” of Fall Creek Mountain, over by Feeley and Carr lakes, happened this year on 8/23. We had ten participants, and everyone made it to the top followed by a refreshing swim in Island Lake afterwards. Along with Kate and I, we had Stephen & Janelle, Read More