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Cremona, AB
"The Village with Promise"

Canadian Tire
I'm happy to say that I'm walking out of Canadian Tire with a new Red Dot Scope for my .22 I keep at mom's house. I thought it was ironic given the suckworthy gun laws Canada protects criminals with.

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Fans Sing at the Stanley Cup playoff game Edmonton Oilers vs. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 05/23/06

Kiki's BBQ
Me, Mike, and Uncle Ron probably talking about deer hunting or salmon fishing.

Kiki's BBQ
Here's cousin Laura06 signing in with her palm print. You frequent flyers may see this lovely pilot in your travels.

Kiki's BBQ
New hand and foot print additions to the TeePee are Will and Maya. This is Mikey and Tammy BigCanoe signing them in.

Sunny the Lizard
This lizard has been hanging out on tour front porch this summer, he's actually pretty darn huge in relation to the other lizards that hang out here.

Marble, CO
The white area in the picture is mined Marble. I don't know what is causing the smoke. We took Dad and Cathy up to the mine and found out that there was a 58 ton block mined and is being shipped off to South Dakota to be shaped. It will replace the existing Unknown Soldier's Tomb in DC. The exisiting Marble Tomb has a huge crack.

Indy's 1st Swim
It took little Indy Pants a couple trips to the pond before she followed sister Gema into the deep end. It's actually thrilling to see a lab swim for the first time, almost brings a tear to your eye.

Jolley Mesa Fire 2006

This helicopter made water drop after water drop on the blaze, bucket by bucket, dipped the Colorado river.

Jolley Mesa Fire 2006
Air assault - Crop Duster flies thorugh smoky skies dropping fire-retardent over the fire.

Fire retardants use ammonium sulfate or ammonium polyphosphate with attapulgite clay thickener or diammonium phosphate with a guar gum derivative thickener. These are not only less toxic but act as fertilizers to help the regrowth of plants after the fire (however, the retardants can be toxic to fish if accidentally dropped in water and exposed to sunlight). Fire retardants contain wetting agents, preservatives and rust inhibitors and are colored red with ferric oxide to mark where they have been dropped. Brand names of fire retardants for aerial application are Fire-Trol and Phos-Chek.

Jolley Mesa Fire 2006

Air Assualt - This Lockheed P3A "Orion" can carry 3,000 gallons of fire retardant.

Jolley Mesa Fire 2006

NEW CASTLE - A fast-moving wildfire burned probably 100 acres or more on Jolley Mesa west of New Castle Wednesday and prompted a multi-agency counterattack by land and air.

"This is so bad, it's not funny. I think I've lost about 500 acres so far," said Brett Jolley, who owns the mesa top land with his brother, Kent.

To This
Berthod Motors had their 4th Annual 4x4 Show with a fun obsacle course. The big dogs, one right aafter another, walked right through the course. To me, beating the hell out of a stock jeep is fun, it will go places you never would dream of going. Putting 44's on a jeep or any vehicle is just plain overkill for this part of the Rockies. I do reserve judgement on going big purely for flotation in muskeg. Even then it's a different scene. So a stock jeep would not have made it over these rocks, well maybe with the right driver and plenty of body damage - never say never... Anyway, since I was the smallest vehicle (3" on 33's) to attempt the rocks, plenty of people gathered and were actually cheering. I felt like a rockstar. The spotter said I would never make it, well, kiss my ass, dillweed!

Rock Garden Daisies
I think mom transplanted these from the pond. I'll post some more flower pics later.

Pokies
I'm still surprised the girls don't come back with paws riddled with cactus spines. It's fun to hike around the mountainsides and spy the blooming cactus.

From This
The Rubicon Long Arm suspension was getting kinda squeeky, plus the tranny was leaking from a shift assembly seal. I decided to tear into the beast and completely restore the suspension super flex joints with new races and new rubber bushings. BTW, Thanks Dan for getting the old bushings chisel hammered out. I was shocked to see what 3 seasons of Magnesium Chloride will do to a vehicle given that I don't drive very much anyway. I sure noticed a difference after the restore.

Me and Dr David Schrouf of ever honored memory.

Days of yore.

Blast from the past. Matamoros Mexico 1985 with TJ Jordan, Greg Johnson, Steve Stitch, Chris Bird, Kirk Hullender, Graham Pollard, and Mark Methvin. I can't remember the girls names, I think one was Heather Locklear.

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Gema's thinking, 'I love ducks'

Indy's first day at the pond. She got to watch Gema leap into the water over and over again. I'll let her get into the water when she wants. I can't wait to go swimming with her and Gema this summer in the Colorado River.

I think Gema had enough today looking after Indy, Cassie, and Jackson.

My kind of girl. Here's a snowy fact. Lets say that a guest picks up her plate and licks it clean to the dismay and emabarrasment of other guests, it is good manners and the hosts duty to deflect by picking up his plate and giving it a good lick. I once read something like that, I think it was sipping soup out of a bowl. Although this wasn't really considered a fauxpaux with our guests, I licked the plate anyway.

Riverside 6th Grade team dinner. Joel, Eddie, Terri with an i, Ryan, Cami, Neil, Lindsey, Mike, Dianne, and Delle.

Colorado Rope Tow

We had quite a dump on Sunday, Jan 29. Enough to get out the rock skiis and make some turns down our road. So many times in the summer as I was running or walking up the road in 100 degree weather, I would think that I would ski the road given the chance.

It's a shame puppies have to grow up. I guess the part I won't miss is that Indy had a tough time with Coccidia and got me up 5 times a night for the first month.

These two sisters have been having so much fun in the snow. I would dig a deep hole and bury a tennis ball, Gema would dig, dig, dig, to get it out. Indy finally had to get into it and mostly got covered with snow.

When we went for our first walk around the loop, Indy made it about 3/4 of the way. She got a little cold so I tucked her into my jacket and carried her home.

Cutie Pie

My, what big paws you have little girl!

Little Indy at 6wks

Here's Sickum - Indy's and Gema's dad - with Delle and Kiki.

Here's Bailey with all the rug rats. Bailey is also Gema's mom.

We spent some time with all the pups and decided on this one. Her initial name was Innie and her sisters name was Outie.

Delle's 29th birthday

Christmas dinner soiree at Judy's.

Ah, winter in the Rockies. Makes me think of how many days til summer...

Little Harrison

Tim's 38th birthday with Julianne and Harry.

Bryson and Hal

Hal's 39th birthday with Marie.

This is THE MAN! Smokey JoeQuinton of Nowata Oklahoma (918-273-3125). He and one of his boys builds custom smokers and ships them around the world. This one he custom built for me weighs in at 650lbs and is simply amazing. Hard to tell it was a scorching 105 degrees in the shade. I had loaded up the smoker and Smokey Joe gave mee all the Pecan I could haul. I filled up 9 gunny sacks and got on the road by noon. I think I got home at midnight, that was a long day driving from OK to KS to CO. Let me know if you want to swap BBQ recipies.

From Delle's Flower Garden

From Delle's Flower Garden. Cosmos

From Delle's Flower Garden

So I found this 1968 convertible Mustang in a field and to my surprise the owner thinks it's made of gold. The door says it's an export and the owner says it's a T-5, but it has none of the badging. Anyway, he wanted $20k for it, says it's worth $50k - and that's just crazy. You Mustang nuts out there may be as skeptical as I am even after researching this VIN. If you think it's heisse scheiss, let me know.