Utah guv comes out against bomb test

I am glad to report that Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has finally spoken out against the upcoming bomb test on June 2nd. Hopefully his voice will add to the growing clamor to keep this evil & detestable act from ever being committed.

http://sltrib.com/utah/ci_3761462

A Very Kind Master

Manuel Lora is one of my favorite contemporary writers and today's essay is sweet and to the point concerning our benevolent Big Brother:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora19.html

And from the old home boy (he hails from the same neighborhood I grew up in) we have Pat Buchanan asking a very important question about our current dictator, Kim Jong-Bush, and the extent of his war making powers:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan40.html

The above ground bomb test, code named Divine Strake, is still a solid go for June 2nd. That means I'll be stationed on the coast when this poisonous material drifts over my county. I'm planning to be 85 miles south of San Diego on Punta Banda in Baja del Norte.

Anybody need me to pick up some really good tequila at the Gigante Super Center located on the south end of Ensenada? My all-time favorite is Real Hacienda, a delicious reposada that is clean to the palette and very easy on the stomach. Great to drink while grilling fish on the beach with a frosty Negra Modelo chaser. I will also be stoppping in Maneadero to get multiple jars of the delicious olives that grow there on the way out to my campsite along the south shore of Bahia de Todos Santos.

Can ya'll hear a rebel yell? Why that was me in a Mexican reverie.

Well hell----with happy thoughts like these I may just keep on driving south to Loreto and live at my friend's compound on the Sea of Cortez, never to return. The smuggling business ain't such a bad way to make a living really. In between long stretches of fishing and rock hounding that is. We'll see.......Happy May Day!

Zion Canyon geology nerd

Contact between Navajo (upper layer) and Kayenta formations

I took a random scoot up the side of Bridge Mountain in Zion Canyon last week. My immediate goals were to reach the base of the Navajo sandstone for some much needed exertion and to scour the talus slopes for dino-prints.

I followed the base of the Navajo ledge eastward into Pine Creek Canyon where I terminated the scoot on the upper switchback right at the entrance to the Zion tunnel. Along the way I took photos of the geologic contact between the Navajo and Kayenta formations, with the intent of illustrating how they interact to bring about the canyon scenery we see today.

Basically it goes sumpfin' like dis here:

The porous and crumbly Navajo sandstone overlies the denser & less permeable Kayenta shale which creates a prominent spring line in Zion Canyon. Famous landmarks that are a direct result of this "contact" are the Weeping Rock, Emerald Pools, Grotto and the hanging gardens of the Narrows. Kayenta is a Navajo word that literally means "place of the springs". This friable shale layer also erodes more quickly, once exposed, causing the softer slabs of sandstone above to overhang. Eventually these precariously perched slabs violently collapse into the canyon depths below causing the thunderous rock falls that Zion is rightfully famous for. In this way the canyon gradually widens as layer upon layer peel off from the walls and are then carried away by the waters of the Rio Virgin.

Simple enough, ain't it?

Cracks form in an over-hanging slab prior to collapse.

Collapse!

View from my perch on the wall.

Editorial on the bomb test in June

The following is an important editorial by our local paper (The Daily Spectrum) on the U.S. government's impending above ground bomb test scheduled for June 2. It is good to see the usually slumbering sheeple of this area begin to stir from their torpor. Protests are being planned. I'll let ya'll know more when I hear something definite.

This vital health and safety issue should bring the people of southern Utah together like nothing else in our history. So come all ye rednecks, hippies, cowboys, Indians, illegal immigrants, trust funded wastrels, ostentatiously retired bureaucrats, second-home scum and navel gazing new agers; let us join together under the banner of righteous indignation at this heinously evil act. We do NOT want to ingest radioactive sludge into our bodies and enviornment just to slake the never ending thirst of the war gods in DC.

To all of my Mormon friends in this area: your God says do not worship false idols and the gods of war are as false as they come. You must remember that this is the same government that deliberately poisoned you in the past (and still officially denies it), but all that I notice you doing lately is cheering on the 222nd National Guard unit in Iraq who are supposedly "defending our freedom". How blind you must be! They want to poison you and your children again, when are you going to finally stand up and use your moral authority against this obvious evil? The 12th Article of Faith, which promulgates obedience to earthly masters could well end up being your undoing. It's time to wake up and smell the Postum!

Big blast, Big mistake

It's not easy to remain calm about the potential for history to repeat itself with the large explosion, code-named "Divine Strake," scheduled to detonate in seven weeks only 150 miles west of St. George at the Nevada Test Site. It is expected to create a dust cloud that could reach an altitude of 10,000 feet. While it may not be seen in Southern Utah, long-term ramifications are feared to be felt without adequate means to control wind shifts of the radioactive particles caught in that dust from earlier nuclear tests.

The government contends the 700 ton blast - equivalent to 593 tons of TNT - is for conventional research purposes, but we've been lied to before regarding activities at the test site. We've also heard sudden changes in terminology to soothe concerns, which has once more yielded its ugly head as the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency altered its original nuclear reference in relation to the test to being merely an "improper" use of language.

Why does the government deem the population of the western United States so disposable? Thousands of downwinders - who have suffered and died from various cancers and other life-threatening illnesses caused by nuclear fallout from the 1950s and 1960s - can attest to the government's past falsehoods.

It is absolutely hypocritical of the U.S. government to initiate a war in Iraq against dictator Saddam Hussein on the basis of the development of weapons of mass destruction, only to create and promulgate low-yield nuclear devices.

Experimenting with the lives of civilians in the name of national defense with the simulation of a nuclear arsenal is a travesty and injustice we'd have thought our elected politicians would've learned from by now. But we won't let their memories fade so easily. The message is loud and clear with a resounding: "NO!"

We praise Rep. Jim Matheson for being the first to publicly express his skepticism to the government. We add our firm voice of dissent because we, too, have every right to be uncertain. We've been lied to before. Underground testing has leaked, and the pretty hues of orange the school children rushed to the windows from their classrooms to view were anything but colorful drifting clouds.

Why should we believe new nuclear weaponry is not be pursued? We dare the government to prove otherwise.

State lines

Utah giving way to Nevada

The state is real and tangibly manifested in asphalt.

Vanessa and I decided to hike a section of U. P. tracks out by the Utah-Nevada state line. We did the usual stuff: mile long games of kick the can, smashing pennies with south bound trains and competing on how far we could walk on a single rail before slipping off.

On our way to railroad fun we stopped, as is the custom, to take tourist pictures at the spot where the pavement changes color along the 114th parallel of longitude. The actuality of a state is, to me, a very bizarre abstraction and no more vividly on display than in this abrupt change of road color miles and miles from nowhere; on the border of Vice and Nice.

Partner in crime


Modena, Utah
Gateway to Nowhere

Dylan made me do it

Naomi Fern Wright of Virgin, Utah asked me last week if the title to my blog had anything to do with the Bob Dylan song Buckets of Rain? I replied that she had hit the nail square on the head. Smart gal she is------and quite fetching too.

So with it being the one-year anniversary of this blog I thought I'd re-aquaint my gentle readers with the words that inspired the title:

Buckets of rain
Buckets of tears
Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears.

Mr. Zimmerman has been a most extraordinary influence upon my life and I'm glad I lived through the wonderful times when one could buy big black petroleum derived discs stamped with his music on them. I'd lay in bed late into the night listening to Bobbie sing in his nasally twang about all of the things that poets are known to dwell upon: villains and thieves, angels in heaven and long lonesome freight trains "riding down the double E".

The last verse of Buckets of Rain seemed to fit my current position in the universe quite well:

Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must.
You do what you must do and ya do it well,
I'll do it for you, honey baby,
Can't you tell?

Utah movie premiere

Drummer Stephen Perkins premiered his new film (A Drummers Life) this past Saturday at The Bit & Spur. In attendance were members of the local community and a few curious tourists, who also got to consume some of Brad's special finger food from heaven.

The film itself was very well received, with audience members clapping and cheering after some of the more extraordinary drum solos performed by Mr. Perkins.

I'm happy to report that he was visibly pleased by their responses.

Stephen----thanks for bestowing upon us this highly momentous event in the long tortured history of Zion Canyon. You'd have to jump back to at least the Jurassic for this much thunderous excitement.

Linkage (not pleasant) to bomb testing in June

I have found what I believe is a legitimate link between the recent announcement by the U.S. government that it will detonate a bomb on June 2nd (that will cause a mushroom cloud to rise over this area) with the looming specter of war with Iran.

Before we get to that linkage I'd like to point out that, thankfully, our representative in DC is speaking up about the dangers of this test, and what he's got to say should scare the shit out of all of us:

http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/NEWS01/604080311&SearchID=73241047101084

I believe that this particular test is intended as a warning to Iran, as was the nuclear bombing of Japan more of a warning to Stalin than a tactical device used to defeat an already vanquished foe. Not only are we being forced to pay for this sinister gesture but we here in southwest Utah get to absorb all of the poison that it will generate.

The following article is from Saturday's headlines concerning the U.S. government's plan for a nuclear attack on Iran. The timing of this upcoming test is no mere accident. (Make sure you scroll down to the diagram in the article, it depicts exactly the same type of bunker busting bomb being detonated at the Nevada Test Site.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=C3HY5I431EHHRQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/09/wbush09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/09/ixportaltop.html

It will not be safe for anyone who comes in contact with this cloud. I personally think IT IS indeed a nuclear test. Detonating it where other nuclear blasts have been conducted in the past will provide a ready excuse when radioactive fallout is detected downwind. This dangerously toxic cloud will be explained away as the residual dust and particles from previous tests. No worrys.

Don't ever forget that we have evil monsters in control who don't give a rats ass about our welfare. Take that to the bank. We are all in deep doo-doo if these things come to pass! Mark my words!

If I'm wrong------we can all thank God later.

Please don't go back to sleep!

It is what it is

The road up ahead.

My one year anniversary as a blogger approaches and I'd like to thank all of you who have participated and to know that it has been a wonderful adventure for me. As life is.

It is what it is:

Quichapa Lake w/Horse Ranch Mountain in the distance.


Eddie strums


Strange ancient weirdness


Midnight at the oasis

Jared's birthday party

Happiness is being home.

Follow up article on Nevada bomb test

A follow up article on the above ground bomb test planned for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site:

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist.

The explosion scheduled for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site is part of an effort to design a weapon that can penetrate solid rock formations in which a country might store nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.

"I am concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without providing Nevadans with any information about the possible impact on their health or safety," said Demcratic Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid in a statement Thursday.

Nevada Test Site spokesman Darwin Morgan said the test will be conducted about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, near the center of the former nuclear testing site.

A Nuke over Nevada.

The test, named "Divine Strake," will involve nearly 40 times the amount of commercial ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive set off in the largest open-air, non-nuclear blast at the site to date. In 2002, 18 tons of explosives were set off at the Nevada Test Site.

"This is nothing that's out of the bounds for us. That's what our expertise is in," he said.

Morgan said the site obtained the required state approvals and air quality permits in January. Officials from the National Nuclear Security Administration, which operates the site, alerted the state's congressional delegation and state government in December.

The Nevada Department of Administration responded with a letter stating: "Your proposal is not in conflict with state plans, goals or objectives."

No elected officials responded to the notice until Thursday, Morgan said. The test site is not required to seek public comment, he said.

"Given the level of contamination in areas where nuclear tests were conducted, I have real concerns about the dust and other pollutants that will be released into the air as a result of this explosion," said U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley.

Disarmament activist Pete Litster said tests at the site violate international law. Litster, executive director of the Shundahai Network, said the site belongs to the Western Shoshone Indian tribe.

I personally plan to be west of here on that day, on the other side of the prevailing winds, somewhere peacefully quiet like the Reel Inn in Malibu, where I'll be pounding Negra Modelos between shots of tequila.

Mushroom cloud planned for this area in early June

This story appeared on the wire services yesterday to little or no national fanfare, but should be of grave concern to those of us living in the direct downwind path of this poisonous cloud of particulate matter.

Just another wonderful gift bestowed upon us by our benevolent government for the safety and well being of Murica. Another valuable tool in the Warn Terror.

The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said.

"I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Tegnelia said the test was part of a US effort to develop weapons capable of destroying deeply buried bunkers housing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

By the way, I've never heard of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, but it certainly sounds Orwellian to me.

The full article:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/30/060330162648.wxde5ocl.html

Related article:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-31-Fri-2006/news/6638525.html

Everybody can go back to sleep now.

The Re-occupation

Welcome my friend. Buenos dias!

There have been widespread protests across the U.S. over the draconian measures that the Congress is half-way through enacting against so-called "illegal aliens".

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border.

This enlightened vision of fortress America is a last ditch attempt at pretending the U.S. even exists anymore in the traditional way the poobahs in DC think that it does. Most of the country has been ignoring what goes on in Washington for years now and this bill seems to stem from their sudden petulance about being dismissed as irrelevant.

Some observations:

1. To start with the U.S. border with Mexico is a sham because it is the result of an unjust war of aggression against a weaker neighbor. The fact that, 158 years ago, the U.S. decided to occupy northern Mexico and draw an unnatural boundary line across empty desert doesn't mean it would be respected by people wishing to move freely across what was formerly Mexican territory.
2. The white folks just ain't having enough babies. A functioning economy needs lots of workers to get things done. You know, stuff like building houses, washing dishes and pruning apple trees. The same is true in Europe, where the white folks there make even less children, with the result that the more fecund Muslims will be majorities in both France and Italy in the very near future and powerful minorities in the rest of "the continent."
   
3. The curse of American public education, after several generations, is finally coming home to roost as it continues to fail at promoting competency in the fundamental skills with which to prepare people for a wide variety of roles in an ever-changing economic landscape. The "illegals" will continue taking the low-skill jobs while the Indians, Chinese, Irish and Malaysians will continue filling more and more of the higher skilled labor niches. As for the multitude of ever dumber fucks crawling out of the armed and gated day care centers the government calls schools, they'll be standing on the sideline saying "like.....duh".
   
4. I can't imagine replacing all of the "illegals" that now perform the tasks of everyday American life. In Springdale alone, a tourist town, there would not be enough local people with either the work ethic or desire to do the jobs necessary to keep that busy town going. Doesn't anyone in Washington ever get out and see who is actually doing what in the community? Do they really think that getting rid of the millions of "illegals" working here would somehow make us all better off? Can't they see for themselves who is doing the road construction, food service, home building, leaf blowing and meat packing? It's not just in the border areas but in places like North Carolina and Illinois where the growth of their numbers has been most dramatic. Where have the poobahs been burying their heads?
5. We are now witnessing the end of Euro-American domination of the world. Low birth rates and the blind self-absorbed worship of the false gods of social welfarism and perpetual warfare have reduced this formerly monstrous beast into a bleating lamb that is now about to be stampeded to bits by the thunderous hooves of destiny.
   
6. As for all of these browner folks we is seeing 'roun here, well they eat much spicier food and that is enough for me already to welcome the rapidly evolving change of guard.
   

A letter to the Salt Lake Tribune about Cedar Breaks

Dear Salt Lake Tribune,

I read with great interest your recent article about changing Cedar Breaks into a national park by extending its boundaries to include Ashdown Gorge and adjacent areas of the Dixie National Forest. While this may sound like a good idea in theory, I think it is important for the local citizenry to ask some questions about what such a designation would actually accomplish and consider the consequences of turning over another parcel of ground to the chronically under-funded, zealously bureaucratic National Park Service.

I wonder if Iron County residents are aware of the elaborate licensure process that the park service has recently imposed on tour companies operating in Zion National Park? Several of these companies have recently begun curtailing their operations at Zion due to the onerous and silly dictates imposed without public input or feedback. The park service now exercises extensive regulatory oversight and charges hundreds of dollars in fees just for the privilege of bringing a tour bus to the park and walking with your group on a paved trail. You now also have to pass a test on your knowledge of Zion regulations! No lie!

Livestock currently graze in the proposed drainage basin of the new park, would this activity be banned because of its impact on water quality? Would light pollution from nearby Cedar City eventually become an issue of oversight, as it was in Springdale a few years back, when the park service attempted to micro-manage that town’s affairs? Would wholesale closures of so-called “pristine” areas, without adequate explanation, be the rule of the day as it is in other Utah national parks?

These are questions that should be asked before assuming that expanding the purview of a massive and lumbering federal bureaucracy would be a good thing for the long-term health of tourism and recreation in Iron County.

Second day of Spring

It was a beautiful second day of Spring here in Quichapa.

Princess of the world

You never know when a fantastic picture is going to appear before your very eyes, so it is always a good idea to have your camera handy just in case. This shot of my friends daughter is so life affirming that I just had to share it with ya'll.

Magic really does exist.

25 years of fun

The Bit & Spur celebrated its 25th anniversary with a music show by John Lee Hooker Jr. A good time was had by all.

Here's to another quarter-century of success!

John Lee Hooker Jr.

Cute young stud muffins

Give the drummer some!

Crowd blur

Eddie flashes gang signs

Dim bulbs

As a nation the U.S. is a land of mostly dim bulbs. Foreigners that I meet are always amazed that I know something about their country or region of the world. They tell me how few Americans they have met seem to know much of anything at all. Even the supposedly "uneducated" Mexicans, that I work with, know quite a lot about their culture and history. Every one of them can name all seven U.S. states stolen by the American military in 1848 and they also possess rich lively vocabularies. Their work ethic and determined purposeful toil is not only propelling their country along with the funds being sent home but is doing the same for ours as well. Imagine life today without illegal Mexicans. I dare you. They don't call it the "Re-occupation" for nothing. But I digress....

The slow insidious takeover of every local school system in the country by the federal gov-mint has finally succeeded in what it set out to do: raise a nation of dependent sucklings that are cluelessly in need of Big Brother to soothe the bumps and pat their rumps then blow them up in wars. The culture of dependence and acquisitive entitlement is instilled from an early age. Actual education is sparse at best. The pierced idiot you see every day gabbling away on his cell phone is the product of such a system. Parents have surrendered their young to Moloch and he has trained them to be the obedient and ignorant serfs necessary for his ambitions of command and control. Never mind that this eventually rots away his power by debilitating the population's ability to engage in productive endeavors and thus sustain the tyranny. A good parasite never kills its host.

Anyway, this is not going to be a sad blog post of woe but instead the celebration of the dawning global era, on this continent, which will make the State run model of education as a prison obsolete. It is already obsolete, as is the liberal arts college degree, but it won't be long now before we can feel the real pain of its dire irrelevance. The rest of the world is about to take over, and that makes me very glad.

My new Apple computer was manufactured in China and the tech support woman, who was extremely helpful, was in Bangalore, India. The electronic revolution now puts workers around the globe in direct competition with one another. The flattening of the landscape for high tech and service work is now exposing America's severe educational vulnerability.

At the low end Mexicans are rapidly taking over the industrial and manual labor jobs, while at the higher end more educated foreign workers are taking the accounting, drafting, engineering, computer tech and customer service jobs. These new foreign workers are multi-lingual and way more highly educated coming out of their country's eighth-grade than most of our dumbed down college graduates could ever hope to be. Have any of you hung out on an American college campus lately? It ain't a pretty sight. "Like whaddya mean dude, like....huh?"

I just want to say BRING IT ON! I much prefer dealing with East Indians, Mexicans, Chinese, Euros and Apaches. The more contact I have with these people the better. They have not been tainted by the false and fraudulently corrupt tenants of the Ritalin dispensing American education system. They are still more informed by the world they inhabit and use the handed down traditions of their culture, which stress family and clan loyalty, informed judgment and the love of learning as a life process instead of a forced indoctrination.

We are about to be bit in the ass. HARD! GOOD FOR US!


May I help you?

The civil war in Iraq

Brain Trust?

With the Iraqi civil war now fully underway it is safe to say that the U.S. federal government has gone and unleashed forces that were destined to finally come to blows in one way or another. After all the Sunni-Shia split dates from the year 632 at the death of the Prophet. It's just too bad our government has spent a half-trillion dollars (of borrowed money), not to mention the loss of 2500 lives and 40,000 permanently disabled bodies (so far) on this bloody nightmare.

The tens of thousands of Iraqi dead, wounded and homeless from our bullets and bombs will burn in the memory of many generations of Muslims to come, and the brutal psychological effects of intense warfare on the 130,000 future U.S. veterans saddled with nightmares and family problems is only now just beginning to dawn on many. Why did it need to cost so much and for who's benefit? We have paid dearly just to hold the exploding bomb.

What did the federal gov-mint really think was gonna happen when they artificially granted the majority group (Shias) the right to vote their own people into power? In this Churchill created divide and conquer oil principality the only logical outcome would be sectarian violence. Mark another victory for truth, democracy and the American way!

It boggles the mind that the insulated poo-bahs in DC are now acting surprised at the strife torn outcome. Could these people: Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Shrub, possibly be some of the dumbest political leaders of all time? This ill-advised military invasion ranks right up there with the vain arrogance and stupidity of the Nazis when they invaded the U.S.S.R., while simultaneously fighting the French and British on a western front. The smoking ruins of that debacle still fill the nostrils with the bitter smell of annihilation and the horrific death and injury of millions. Could Condi be as much of an idiot as Ribbentrop? Rummy as solicitously slimy as Jodl? Cheney as fat and happy as Goering? And the solemn Shrub posed with little children and cute animals just like der Fuhrer?

These silly comic book characters are all now about to reap their harvest of sorrow and I can't wait to witness the sordid end of their cynically written plot line.

A good article on the Iraqi civil war from today:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese26.html

Brain Trust?

Mojave Snow

Suri and I had planned weeks ago to photograph and gather data to complete the final two segments of my Las Vegas to Zion road blog (www.lvtz.blogspot.com) on this particular Saturday. Unfortunately the weather has been quite uncooperative. In fact most of the Utah portion of the trip was either socked in with fog or snowing. It is fairly rare for snow this far south in March. We decided to still take the trip but shifted focus and made the most of our day by drinking and going to thrift stores.

Our first stop was the Dam Bar in Beaver Dam, Arizona where we enjoyed very tasty Bloody Marys served with an olive in a Styrofoam cup. I was thrilled that Suri loved the place because it is definitely one on my favorite joints to have a drink in. She loves to people watch and this is as good as it gets for colorful characters. The place was packed by twelve noon so we decided to head on to Mesquite after buying $5 worth of Arizona Power Ball numbers (today's jackpot is a mere 62 million dollars).

The Dam Bar

In Mesquite, before loading up the car with alcohol to smuggle back into Utah, we hit the Salvation Army thrift store and scored on some very cool stuff, including a 1950's Risk game board that I've needed to complete a vintage set of this classic Parker Brothers game. The store was having some sort of sale and was practically giving the stuff away. Next stop was the Rite Aid drug store where we found more great bargains on alcohol and stocked up on Peeps and malted eggs.

Blue Peeps (who knew?)

We took the back road into St. George on old Hwy. 91 (after a second trip to the Dam Bar) and made a photo stop at the Joshua tree preserve near the Arizona-Utah line. I have never seen snow on these mountains in all my 20 some years of acquaintance with these here parts. I know it snows in the Mojave but this was my very first time actually seeing it. Needless to say it was a breath taking sight to behold.

Beaver Dam Mountains


Mojave beauty


Suri chugs a Tecate (God love her)

After dinner in St. George we stopped at the Deseret Industries store and I scored a biography of Meyer Lansky (my bedtime book....oh boy!) and Suri some cool kitchenware and tacky stationary. Lattes at the Bit & Spur and the end of a wonderful day has finally arrived. All in all not a bad Saturday, with the original mission of the blog still yet to be accomplished. Maybe we'll go in another two weeks. I'll keep ya posted.

Nighty night now.

March Snow

Bridge Mountain

A big wet, juicy, springtime snowstorm has settled over the Beehive State today, even bringing accumulations way down south in Zion's. Oh how purty it is.

Raging in Rockville

Shelter from the storm