A Fatal Accident Last Night on Interstate 91
I passed this fatal accident last night at about 6:30 pm on Rte 91. Apparently the driver and passenger, 19 and 43, crossed the median and hit head on a vehicle driving southbound. Traffic quickly backed up for miles in the southbound lane. I snapped these shots and quickly emailed […]
A Trombonist Who Mixes Mali with Monk
Last night I had trouble sleeping. I tossed and turned and eventually got up. That’s when I read about Roswell Rudd, American Trombonist and Renaissance man. A story in the WSJ profiled this prolific musical experimenter, who travels to Mali and the Caribbean in search of new beats. Rudd is […]
Peeking at Rooftops From Your Desktop
I sat outside on the deck tonight, it was humid and it really felt like summer. Sad to think that tomorrow is August and then…well, it’ll all be gone sooner than we think. I read the WSJ and a story popped out that compelled me to read further. It was […]
Time to Ham It Up on Brad Shepard’s Show
Brad Shepard and I were joshin’ on the email last week and sounding like corny cowboys, setting up my visit tomorrow on the Morning Show with Bo and Brad, on WHYN-AM. I have been an AM guy for many years now, if you ask me the best radio comes from […]
What’s For Dinner? Cats Dig Raw Rabbit
Today when I checked the mail after a week away, my mailbox was stuffed with WSJ’s. In today’s paper I found out that cats really like raw rabbit more than any other food…and once you give them this, they’ll never eat Friskys again. According the a profile of a Springboro […]
Viewing the Animals on a Montana Evening
While I was visiting the ranches in Montana, I learned that many people in these United States still use dial up to reach the internet and get email. This was difficult for me to fathom and I hardly barely was able to blog, let alone open email attachments. Here are […]
Were Those Camels We Just Passed?
As Donnie and I drove south from the ranch, we passed a curious site on the side of the road in Fairfield, Montana. A series of pens held a gaggle of double-humped camels. A second pen held elk, and in the far corner, a solitary and huge bull camel. We […]
A Grizzly Bear Stares Us Down as Elk Munch Leaves
After a dinner of fine grass-fed steaks cooked on the grill, (about as good as steak can get, and I’ve had Kobe as well as Smith and Wolensky beef), we ventured out for a wildlife watch. These of course can be disappointing, but as we drove over the dirt road […]
Cantering on Toughie Was The Day’s Highlight
Today was a day of exploring and of course, riding, at the SK Ranch in Montana. We headed out over the soft hills on our steeds to round up some cattle that needed a drink. “Cattle are too lazy to walk to the water, they would rather stand in a […]
Tiny Specks on the Rock Face–God,That’s Tall!
We took a long and rough ride over stony roads to make it all the way to SK Ranch in Bynum Montana, arriving about suppertime. We reached the crest at the top of a bluff and looked down on the ranch, about 100 yards away, in front of a great […]
Learning About Scary Things at JD’s Wildlife Sanctuary
I met Dave Trexler today, and he told me some scary stories and showed me some dinosaur bones, just lying there out in the chaparral of Montana. We were in a bar called JD’s Wildlife Sanctuary, a classic biker joint with dollar bills plastered up all over the low ceiling, […]
Inside the Triple J Ranch Lodge
Inside the cozy lodge at the Triple J Ranch. I am sad to say that today I am leaving but have fond memories to bring with me and a sore butt.
Riding Down a Mountain, Leaning Back, and Hoping for the Best
I sat in the lodge with Chris, a lovely woman who cooks on the packhorse trips and lives as a gypsy in the back of her pick-up truck camper, in an RV in Arizona, and in her former home in nearby Eureka. She said she loved the way people here […]
A Summer Camp for Horse Lovers in Augusta, Montana
Sampson and I joined the riders today starting down by the Gibson reservoir. It was sad to see that the water level in this huge water source was about fifty yards lower than usual. We walked our horses over rocks and on a trail that next to a rushing stream. […]
Morning In the Montana Mountains
This morning we got out on our horses and rode for about two hours into the Mortimer Gulch. My horse is named Sampson, and a fine steed is he, knows the way and has lost what I heard was an annoying habit of suddenly trotting when the rider didn’t expect […]
A Clear Saturday at the Cafe
It’s a brisk and cool morning at the cafe. I am trying not to spend too much time here instead, I am going to the dump for the first time in my new dumpmobile, or truck, filled to the edges. I never imagined that so much of the work I […]
"Ride to Your Heart’s Content" at Triple J Ranch
Last night my cell phone rang its groovy new ringtone at 9:30 pm. It was Ernie Barker from Triple J Wilderness Ranch in Augusta Montana. He was calling to advise me about boots. “Don’t wear boots with those lug soles,” he said. “They get caught in the stirrups.” He told […]
Tucker Back from Another Ride
Here is Tucker, my steed, with whom I’ve been learning to ride up in Bernardston. Today’s ride was the best yet…at one point we had to turn around, and as we turned onto Shedd Road, Tucker decided to make a break for it. He jumped into a canter, and I […]