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
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
I had a great time with a few good friends to celebrate making it this far, age 69. BBQ baby backs turned out great, Kates version and mine were tied. Katie did an awesome job with all the cooking and planning. She always does. She’s my hero. Here are some Read More
January 11, 2015 Stephen and Janelle’s wedding photos. Highlights from the 230+ photos I took.
My good friend Scott Oglesby has finally been getting recognition as a writer. His first book, the novel, Riding high, was acclaimed but undersold (as he calls it).
Back in December 2003 I was with Bob Scarlet’s Spirit Drum Circle. I had been playing congas in the group since 1997. We had this one gig in Sacramento along with several other drum groups performing. We were lucky enough to have it taped and I have uploaded to youtube Read More
The King Fire that was near my last camp out at Loon Lake is now 43% contained and has covered over 95,000 acres. 8,000 firefighters were utilized, the largest number on a wildfire. Colfax and Auburn and Grass Valley was experiencing much smoke and ash in the air up Read More
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Nate Silver (the guy whose predictions for the last presidential election were right on) has a website called FiveThirtyEight.com. In his sports section he has a neat forecasting model for the NCAA tournament. He calculates the chance of each team reaching each round, taking into account a composite of power Read More