Family summer. What a concept!

Just back from a lovely ride with Little Monkey. She loves speed, as does her horse Honey, so we trot and canter quite a lot when it’s just the two of us. Yesterday’s slower pace allowed us to see a coyote and a buck in the velvet. Today’s pace led to a big backtrack to [...]

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If we succeed or fail it is only us, and relief at not employing anyone.

I just finished a post on the old www.blogduderanch.com blog for Rock Springs Ranch about visiting the lodge to see the finished remodel during an open house there last week. If you are curious about what changes they made, you can read a bit about it there. Many of the changes are upgrades we talked [...]

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Working in a vacuum and changes from the outside

I had a long phone call the other day with our techie-guru friend (at least, from our perspective,) Terry, about the Gill Adventures website. He has been a great mentor for John through the videography learning curve, and took a fair amount of time pointing things out on the site I had not noticed. the [...]

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Kudos to the Big Box; Thanks, Best Buy.

Last fall, when we sold the ranch and started down this path toward our walkabout and building our travel website, I picked up a burly camera. (read Nikon D90) As I mentioned in an earlier post, it had an abrupt and unfortunate encounter with a subway floor last month.

Last fall, when putting out the money [...]

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Purging, after the multi-decade binge

I’ve been purging. For the past several months, I’ve felt overrun by my stuff. Certainly far more than I need, my things seem to be a weight, rather than a comfort. I know it’s a beast of my own creation, those storage areas I have to pick my way though, stepping over boxes, tripping over [...]

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