The Three Amigos... Sage, Dixie & Wingnut!!!

[Coastal Redneck]

I don't think so, I looked for signs of a bite or sting of any sort, but didn't see any... and I'm not sure how many venomous snakes we have at this elevation. I know I once saw a rattler on Stonewall Peak in Dago County, up around 5500' elevation, the peak itself is something like 5700' but I saw the snake lower on the trail. We're at 6300' to 6400' elevation here in Show Low, depending upon which side of town one is on, and I've yet to see a single snake since I arrived (though I have seen lizards). I'm sure there are some snakes in what the locals call "cedar country"---but that's generally 1000' lower. I DID think of a snake or scorpion as the cause of death in my little cat, but I don't think there are that many up here, if any at all. I believe poor little Jingles ate some sort of toxic plant, or ate some bird with agricultural chemicals or pesticide in its system. I read on the Internet that birds will eat grains and whatnot that have been sprayed, and the kicker is that when a bird is poisoned and is in distress, it becomes easier prey for hunters like Jingle Belle. Once the bird is eaten, the cat becomes a victim of "secondary poisoning" (as it is called). But honestly, I still think a toxic plant was probably the culprit, the toxin was so powerful that it killed my little girl. I miss her, but that gal is supposed to come by today with the kitteh she's trying to rehome, so maybe Sage & Crackhead will have a new playmate in short order. I sure hope it works out, as Crackhead is kinda lonely nowadays... poor little dude sits on the windowsill and stares out at the forest, possibly expecting Jingle Belle to appear from among the trees, as she did so many times before.

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Got something funny to tell y'all, I was looking up an old friend on the Internet, a hand I've known since high school... I spoke to him before I left Coronado, and he expressed an interest in getting out of that overcrowded Cali dump. He lives in Imperial Beach, what we always used to call "Venereal Beach" back in the day. He worked for the gubmint at one time, I think he's now on disability or whatever. I found what seems to be a working number, a message machine with his unmistakable voice on it, so I left a message for him, since I intend to ask him if he wants to live here in Show Low.

Anyway, after that search, I decided to Google my own name and see if there was that much info on me out there in cyberspace, right? Well, one website listed my old Coronado address but not much else, except at the end of the little blurb it said, "EVAN IS NOW MARRIED." That's news to me, Boyz, I wonder who my beloved bride was? Hopefully she's RICH, LOL. I don't care if she's ugly as sin and weighs 650 lbs., so long as she can pay the freakin' utility bills and property taxes, BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! She'll be on her own when it comes to the sack, I'll put her in one of the other rooms, 10-4? Just thought I'd share that comical bit of fake news with y'all... it made me laugh out loud when I read it.

ALRIGHT, BOYZ, TIME TO CRACK A COLD ONE AS THE SNOW COMES DOWN, MAYBE GET THAT FIRE LIT IN THE WOOD STOVE. NO SIGN OF THE OTHER KITTEH YET, NO SIGN OF MY FUTURE EX-WIFE EITHER. OH, THAT'S RIGHT, I'M ALREADY "MARRIED"---MEH, THIS IS MORMON COUNTRY, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE TWO NAGS UNDER MY ROOF.

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Good news, THE NEW KITTEH IS HERE!!! Oddly enough, she looks a lot like Jingle Belle, only her paws aren't as dainty and her tail is bushier. She sure is a cutie though, just like Jingles, but she's also a shy little girl, she's hiding under a sofa in the living room right now, growling at Crackhead who is lying near my feet. Got ourselves a Mexican standoff, Boyz!!! Minus the pistolas, rifles & bandoliers, of course... I suppose I could give the new kitteh my Winchester Model 1200 Riot Shotgun, loaded as usual, but I'd probably get my fool head blown off for my trouble.

Should be an interesting night here, good thing I have plenty of food & beer, LOL. Snow's coming down nicely now, I took a few shots which I'll share with y'all in short order. Got the wood stove cranked, sure feels good with the temp outside dropping fast. Saves on natural gas too, and y'all know I'm a notoriously cheap b@stard, LOL. Leaves more for steaks & beers, AYE??? Which reminds me, I bought some primo pork chops, maybe I'll cook those in awhile, as soon as this Mexican standoff cools down a bit, LOL. Goldurned kittehs, they just don't know how good they have it here at the ol' hacienda, 10-4???

Anyway, I can't call this newcomer Jingles or Jingle Belle, even though the resemblance is close, that just wouldn't be right, so I think I'll call her "Midnight"---she sure is black enough. Probably be robbing Circle Ks and jewelry stores in no time, LOL. Damn. I just checked on her now, she's still under the sofa, she sure has huge eyes, but maybe that's just because she's in a new home, and there are other cats present. Hopefully she gets over herself soon, otherwise it'll be a long damned night. Meh, I can handle it, it's just good to see another playmate here for Crackhead... he's trying to make friends, but Midnight isn't having any yet, LOL.

ALRIGHT, BOYZ, TIME TO POST THOSE SHOTS, LOOKS AS IF I TOOK SOME SUNSET SHOTS EARLIER, PROBABLY BEFORE JINGLES MET HER UNTIMELY END... I'LL POST THOSE TOO, SINCE I LOVE THESE WHITE MOUNTAINS SO MUCH!!! ENJOY THE SHOTS, CHEERS!!!



BACK TO "THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN" WITH DEBBIE REYNOLDS, THIS FLICK HAS AMAZING COLORADO SCENERY IN IT, AS AN OLD SCHOOL TECHNICAL ROCK CLIMBER & MOUNTAINEER, I'M SUSSING OUT THE PEAKS & CRAGS IN THE BACKGROUND, LOL.

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Shots taken this morning after the storm:



Midnight the kitteh is in the back part of the house, hiding in the closet in the Pool Room. Last night, I went ahead and shut the hallway door leading to that area, so she has two rooms and a bathroom with her own litter box... food & water too, of course. Gotta earn her trust before I carry on with the cat introductions, LOL... she's a feisty little girl, she took a swipe at Sage yesterday when he came a bit too close. She's a pretty cat too, younger than Jingle Belle by six months or so... I guess Jingles was about 16 months old when she died, way too young for my baby girl. She's in the cold hard ground now, and there's nothing I can do about it, except to see whether this new kitteh will be able to take her place as Crackhead's playmate.

Game day today, I'm looking forward to the matches. I'm hoping cheatin' Brady & Crew get thrashed just like his hand, LOL... hopefully those paid-off dirtbag Patriot refs won't be working today's Jags game. The Eagles-Vikings game is harder to call, I'm thinking the Eagles might have a small edge, but I don't know enough about the injuries on both teams, maybe the Vikings will prevail. Should be a good game, that's for sure... let the best team take the trophy. Alright, heroes, gotta go make breakfast and get cleaned up, gotta run to Dollar General (right around the corner, a few short blocks away) and pick up some cans of cat food, plus I gotta run a laundry load prior to the matches. Otherwise, it's PAR-TAY TIME here at the ol' hacienda, bust out the beer & chronic!!! LOL.

Y'ALL BE GOOD AND ENJOY THE GAMES, I KNOW I WILL, ESPECIALLY IF THE CHEATIN' PATRIOTS GET DROP-KICKED, LOL.

 

[scooter]

Got something funny to tell y'all,

Anyway, after that search, I decided to Google my own name and see if there was that much info on me out there in cyberspace, right? Well, one website listed my old Coronado address but not much else, except at the end of the little blurb it said, "EVAN IS NOW MARRIED." That's news to me, Boyz,

Could it have been one of those drunken Vegas weddings or something?

 

[cjpayne]

Could it have been one of those drunken Vegas weddings or something?

Very possible.lol

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Maybe a drunken Tijuana wedding... I remember some clown in high school who got married to his girlfriend down in Tijuana as a joke, they both knew the certificate wasn't worth the paper it was printed on, LOL. Anyway, here are a few pics of Midnight, that's my roommate's bed she's hiding under and it's a bit messed up, 10-4? Doesn't Midnight look a bit like Jingle Belle? Her tail is bushier and she's physically smaller due to her younger age, but her eyes are beautiful, just like the eyes of my poor little Jingles. Ah, well, I reckon time heals all wounds... I'm back to the game here, hopin' the cheatin' Patriots lose, I know I'm not the only football fan tired of these cheatin' greaseballs. They and their elitist scumbag owner could all die in a plane crash and never be missed. Say, the last pic is of icicles hanging off my roof, Crackhead has been staring at the water dripping off 'em, LOL.



BACK TO THE GAME... CHEERS!!!

 

[Coastal Redneck]

OMFG, this little Midnight kitteh is the funniest cat I've ever seen... she does this "break dancing" number on the carpet and it is HILARIOUS!!! I'm gonna charge the Hero Cam and get some footage of her doing this, y'all will get a good laugh out of it. I still miss little Jingle Belle, of course, but at least Crackhead has a playmate... well, almost, they're still getting used to one another. I have to school Sage now & then, the big bully... but he's learning to accept Midnight as a new housemate. Crackhead just wants to be friends and run around, but Midnight is very shy around other animals. However, she's getting over herself as she explores the house, while warm milk, food & a little catnip kinda grease the wheels, so to speak, LOL. She's such a funny little cat, I'm thinking she must be around six months old, not ten as I previously thought. You'll see what I mean when I get around to photographing the cats together, she must be half the size of Sage, and even Crackhead looms large in her young eyes, 10-4? Well, that's all for now, except to say that one of my brothers is having a kid, kinda unusual since he's older than I am, but I guess his wife is younger and she has a big family, so that may help him with the dad routine.

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Hero Cam is charged, Boyz, WOOHOO!!! Er, pardon me... a mere reflection upon my social life, LOL. Y'all know I despise globalist banksters, but I have no problem with Jewish folks, so I'm watching "FIDDLER ON THE ROOF" on TCM... I remember seeing this flick overseas when it first came out, in that JUSMAG theater outside Athens, Greece, where admission only cost a quarter, LOL. Ah, those were the days, when movies weren't so politicized... dating myself here, but I miss those days. Anyway, I'm enjoying some cold beer and viewing this classic flick, I guess a hand can take something positive out of ANY culture, LOL. Damn. Hey, I took a bong hit awhile ago, and I swear that chronic resulted in "instant munchies." One minute I was burning the weed, the next moment I was raiding the fridge, LOL. Maybe I was hungry, I don't know, I had a productive day and I'm comfortably tired, but I'm gonna still stay up and watch some entertainment, PLUS I'm gonna MACK AGAIN (good weed, LOL), I already pulled some leftovers out to thaw.

Y'all remember that big ol' 22-lb. Butterball Turkey I macked around Christmas? Well, I made so much soup from that bad boy that I had to freeze some of it, and now my roommate & I have thawed some of that soup, the $h!t is the bomb, LOL. Soups always taste better after storage, I don't mean in the freezer but over a period of time, 10-4? I'll hafta make a small green salad to go with that soup, LOL... some Ritz Crackers in the soup won't hurt either, AYE??? Alright, youse fooliots... er, I mean youse HEROES, I'm off to grab another beer, the "FIDDLER" flick is over and it was hilarious, now I'm watching "KILL BILL, VOL. 1" (not a big Tarentino fan due to his politics, but meh, there's nothing else on, LOL). The gal just whacked the darkie and she pulled away in the "PUSSY WAGON"---not a rig I'd care to drive unless I was thrashing the hell out of it on some dirt road, LOL. WTF, I've done some rad offroading in lesser vehicles, including my beloved Arrow and a friend's old Datsun 510, not bad cars, either one, though I've also offroaded in burly American rigs like the three OLDSMOBILES, LOL.

Which reminds me of a classic moment in the great outdoors, I probably already mentioned this in some other post, but bear with me, LOL. I went camping in "CANYON SIN NOMBRE" (Canyon Without A Name, like the Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns), and I drove in the Olds Alero, the last of the three Olds vehicles I drove, the others were a Ninety-Eight and a Delta 88. I was in a remote location in BFE, camping in a desert cove along that beautiful canyon, and I had finished setting up camp in that primo location, yeah? Well, I changed into some GQ garb, a clean long-sleeved white T-shirt with baggy Cabela's field pants, light khaki in color, and my burly Vibram-soled Danner Commanders (the U.S.-made models). I was leaning against the hood of the Olds and drinking a beer when I heard a clash of gears down the canyon... next thing I know, the "San Diego Hummer Club" is rounding the nearest bend in the canyon, and yes, I'm talking about "tricked-out Hummers" owned by morons who didn't know enough to buy a Chevy, or even a Ford for IT, LOL. Lifted with burly tires, CB antennas, full Baja racks, all that wannabe Hummer Bull$h!t, AYE???

Well, these @$$clowns all came parading by, thinking they were some kinda OFFROAD HEROES, when in succession they drove past my sweet little picturesque desert cove, and looked over to see---who else?---YOURS TRULY leaning against the Olds hood in my stylin' GQ duds, drinking a cold beer in a cooler cup, LOL. I'm talking about a location where no Olds had a right to be, there are se-wious ruts and deep sand en route to this cove, 10??? And THERE is some JACKHOLE, leaning against the Olds hood, drinking an ice-cold Crudweiser in almost-insolent fashion, eyeballing the tards as they drove by... had I been drinking a Samuel Smith's WINTER WELCOME ALE or TADDY PORTER, the insult would've been complete, but with the Crudweiser it only rated 99.9%, LOL. I swear upon the ashes of me own dear departed & beloved mother, I could literally HEAR the egos deflating as each moron & crew drove past, "PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!" Funny moment in time, I could practically hear each Hummer-Ownin' Idiot and driver think to himself:

"WELL, GOLDURNIT, I GUESS I DIDN'T NEED THIS OVERPRICED PIECE O' PATHETIC JUNK AFTER ALL!!!"

Funny moment in my checkered wilderness past, y'all would've enjoyed the heck out of it, LOL. Oh, yeah, and it gets BETTER... the next morning, after I had brewed some cowboy coffee and had a good breakfast in the field, then broken camp and prepped for departure, some Ranger came rolling up in his pickup truck, worried that I was stuck (and had been stuck for days on end, LOL). I mean the dude VEERED off the "main road" through the canyon and came SCREECHING up to my campsite (tires actually screeching in the desert sand, LOL), worried that I had been stuck for days and that I was potentially dehydrated, starving, about to DIE on his hands, etc., etc. Well, Boyz, it BROKE ME HEART to inform the dumb@$$ that I was NOT stuck, and there was actually NO F#%NG PROBLEM as far as the Olds was concerned... I even adopted a classic Ricardo Montalban pose in my still-somewhat-stylin'-GQ-duds and elegantly waved an arm toward the Olds in similar fashion, telling the Ranger:

"IT'S AN OLDSMOBILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEN IN DOUBT, MASH ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By that time, the Ranger had figured out that I didn't actually NEED any HELP, unless of course it were the PSYCHIATRIC KIND, LOL. The dude slowly shook his head, mentally catalogued me as some sort of whack job or imbecile, and drove off to carry on his normal routine, 10??? I finished up what needed to be done at the cove campsite, since I'm BIG on leaving a site in better shape than I found it... the true naturalist's code. Fired up the Olds and let it warm up a good bit, since I had to cross 150' of potentially-dangerous sand to get back to the central dirt road. By dangerous, I mean possibly sinking the drive wheels clear to the axles or beyond, LOL. Well, once that car was warmed up to my own personal field standards, and I had revved it multiple f#%ng times, I MASHED MY MOTOR and crossed that dangerous sand in NO TIME, slithering like a snake as the tires wanted to sink, LOL. Once I was safely on the main dirt-and-sand road, no worries, I made my way back to S-2 and went home to the beach. Awesome trip, and I'll NEVER forget the looks upon the poor faces of the "San Diego Hummer Club" as they passed, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Damn, that was some funny $h!t, wish I had the Hero Cam on me when it all happened, LOL.

ALRIGHT, BOYZ, THAT'S ALL I GOT, LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC VIDEO OF "MIDNIGHT" BREAK DANCING IN SHORT ORDER, ALL SHE NEEDS NOW IS SOME SHINY BLING, MAYBE SOME THUMPING HIP-HOP MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND AS SHE GETS DOWN, LOL. HMM... MAYBE I HAVE SOME OLD ICE-T OR CUBE ACTION FOR HER... SHE'LL BE ROBBING STORES & BANKS IN NO TIME, WOOHOO!!!

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Oops, missed a quotation mark after that Ricardo Montalban line... meh, we can't ALL be literary heroes, especially on website probation, LOL. Meh, no worries, I guess I earned it, but I STILL love alla youse dumb@$$es... er, I mean youse MONKEYBIKING HEROES & CRUSTY MINI DEMONS O' DIRT, LOL. Hang loose, heroes, youse gots some CLASSIC CAT BREAK DANCING FOOTAGE coming your way, 10-4???

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Well, wouldn'tcha know it? I pulled a web search, and my little Midnight kitteh is showing all the signs of being in heat... gal who brought her here said she'd been told that the kitteh was fixed, but that was obviously bull$h!t, and I'm left holding the bag as usual. Good thing I haven't let her out, I wasn't going to anyway until she figured out that this is her new home, but now I have another reason. Meh, I gotta call around and find a low-cost spay/neuter program, I heard the White Mountain Humane Society recently got a grant so they're offering low-cost clinics, something like $20 to $30 for getting a cat fixed. I'll be calling them in five minutes, I want this kitteh fixed pronto, she kept me up half the friggin' night with her incessant yowling. But she's a little cutie, as you'll soon see from some video I took... hey, good news is the dumb@$$ male cats are treating her better, though it won't do 'em any good, they're both neutered and their equipment is MIA. The dumb@$$es, LOL... reminds me of all that romantic drama I went through or witnessed when I was young. Now I'm older and wiser, so I avoid it like the plague... I like my life drama-free, and I intend to keep it that way. Now, to call around and see about getting this little Midnight varmint fixed...

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Good news & bad news: good news is I have a low-cost appointment to get Midnight spayed for $25, bad news is the appointment won't be till Feb. 15th, LOL. Soonest I could get an appointment here in the White Mountains, this ain't the big city, Boyz!!! More good news, the two fixed males are treating her better, bad news is she'll still be yowling for a few more days & nights... zero-dark-thirty seems to be her favorite time, 10-4??? More good news, another roommate is coming up from the Valley tomorrow, so I'll have more money to toss into the ATM, plus my natural gas bill was entirely paid, thanks to the recycled or refunded deposit I made a year ago. Same should apply to my electric bill, though I already wore out the deposit on the water, sewer & trash bill from the City of Show Low, LOL. Meh, no worries, spring is almost here and those bills will all drop, so p!$$ on 'em. I'm gonna make it here one way or another, I don't give a damn what I have to do, apart from slingin' @$$ on the street or Internet, LOL.

HERE ARE THE MIDNIGHT VIDEOS, SHE'S NOT DOING HER FULL "BREAK DANCING" ROUTINE IN THESE CLIPS, BUT I'LL POST SOME MORE VIDEOS LATER...

 

[Coastal Redneck]

0400 hours and I'm drinking a beer for breakfast... this little Midnight kitteh has been keeping me up nights with her "heat treatment." I'll be glad when that hormonal bull$h!t wears off, believe me. Got a second roommate the other day, plus I sold a shotgun, so we've been livin' high on the hog with excellent meals, LOL. Had some delicious roast beef with brown gravy last night, some Beaver brand creamy deli style horseradish sauce on the side, a big ol' mountain of homemade mashed potatoes with butter, a little salt & pepper, and some more brown gravy (used milk & a dollop of sour cream when whippin' the taters), and some primo "steamer" veggies with cheese sauce & seasonings. The whole meal was awesome, three dudes sitting around the dining room table MACKING gourmet food while watching the original "GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL" (Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp, Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday). I used the NuWave Infrared Oven to cook the roast beef, that machine is handy, quite versatile for cooking purposes, and it does roasts beautifully, brown on the outside and rare-to-medium-rare on the inside. I peeled & boiled the taters as usual, while the steamer veggies are self-explanatory, would've made a burly salad but we had salad the night before with some excellent chicken (Shake & Bake number) done in the same oven, that $h!t was good too, LOL. Anyway, my new roommate is a culinary wizard as well, so he'll be cooking dinner tonight, looks like we all won't be starving anytime soon, 10-4? Kittehs get table scraps if they want 'em, they're usually too busy drinking my beer and burning that chronic to accept the first offer, LOL. Got two good prospects for renting that RV space on my second driveway... I never use that driveway, so why NOT rent it out, aye? WTF, it's an additional $300 per month, full house privileges included. The chick sent a photo of herself holding an assault rifle... my kind of gal, or my kind of Craigslist Flake & freakin' whack job, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

OTHER RV PROSPECT IS A SOLID HAND, HE'S THE ONE WHO BOUGHT THE RIOT SHOTGUN, LOL... ANYWAY, WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE IN A BIT, AT LEAST THINGS ARE LOOKING UP ON THE DOMESTIC FRONT AND THE CULINARY SCENE.

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Forgot to mention that one roommate is a burly dude with Viking runes tattooed on his shoulders, LOL... guy looks like he could singlehandedly hold off a friggin' army, wouldn't wanna p!$$ him off unless I was holding a firearm, BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[scooter]

Roast beef, gravey and horseradish! Granny on my mom’s side made it best with carrots cooked in the gravey with mashed potatoes- that’s living

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Ya got that right... in this Brave New World, it's good to enjoy the simple things in life, 10-4? Good food, good company, good times, the things that made the world go round before all the greedy political/globalist corporate bull$h!t came along... ugh. Moving here to Show Low was like going back in time to a better era, same way sailing the length of the Salton Sea was like going back in time... I even wrote a story named "SALTON TIME PORTAL" after I completed that voyage, that story is currently floating somewhere in cyberspace, damned if I can remember where, LOL. Might be hidden somewhere on the web, like loot stashed in an abandoned mine in the Old West, one day the goddam story will be unearthed and folks will trip on the not-quite-salty (more like chemical) voyage, LOL. I'll be long dead, the Salton will have vanished centuries earlier, and that Crudweiser shot will make me famous... an immortal spirit, AYE???

Say, that somehow reminds me, I mentioned IT in an earlier post, but he's a member at a different site... IT stands for ISLAND TRITON, which is a cool handle if ever there was one, RAILSPLITTER & SIDEWINDER be damned, LOL. Alright, youse knucklehaids, I'm off to crash, ate an excellent multi-layered stir-fry meal earlier: Oriental noodles as the base, stir-fried veggies as a second layer, stir-fried chicken with more veggies & seasoning on top, plus Mr. Yoshida's Teriyaki Sauce across one half of the plate, Tsang's Szechuan Spicy Sauce across the other. Good $h!t, Maynard, it didn't suck, LOL. My roommate put all that together, and it was dee-licious... I can tell we're gonna get along famously, nothing like good food to bring people together and put 'em in a mellow mood. Beats starving and dealing with heller drama hands down, LOL. Life could be worse, thank goodness I'm now living in the blessed White Mountains!!!

ALRIGHT, HEROES, Y'ALL TAKE IT EASY, I'M OFF TO CRASH FOR AWHILE AND RECHARGE THE OL' BATTTERIES... HASTA LUEGO!!!

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Ah, another glorious day here in the White Mountains!!! Had a big ol' cholesterol feast for breakfast, hash browns plus fried eggs & sausage, almost fell asleep in the hammock afterward, swinging back and forth under the tall pines, LOL. Boy, that view up through half a dozen nearby Ponderosa Pines doesn't suck either, I have 21 tall trees on my property, plus three saplings I am tending with loving care. I intend to be a good steward of this property, so that when it ultimately passes to my niece or nephew, it will be as beautiful as it was when I arrived, or even more so, 10-4???

Think I'll get cleaned up and go visit those Montana roofers, see if they're between jobs or whatever... I can always leave a note if they're gone, those boyz sure are demons when it comes to roofing, I gotta tell ya!!! They live on the other side of town, out a few miles past the airport (general aviation, not big ol' airborne stock cars... er, I mean commercial jets). I wanna visit the airport anyway to see about hiring a charter plane for flying over these primo lakes, as well as what locals call "Rim Country"---might even see about flying over nearby Salt River Canyon, what many refer to as "The Mini Grand Canyon." AWESOME SCENERY THERE...

Bee-yoo-ti-ful scenery down there, the views from the rim are already fantastic, must be one heckuva sight from altitude!!! I'm thinking maybe a roommate or my brother & his German wife would split the cost with me, nothing fancy like a Lear Jet, just an old biplane, a freakin' crop duster, maybe a small Cessna, something along those lines. Hence the recon mission to the airport, figured I'd visit the Montana Boyz while I'm at it, since I'm already driving across town. Alright, youse knucklehaids... er, I mean youse Monkeybiking Heroes & Crusty Mini Demons O' Dirt, y'all be good and I'll holler at youse fooliots later, LOL.

MIDNIGHT IS DOING WELL, I THINK SHE'S OUT OF HEAT NOW, BUT I'M STILL KEEPING HER INSIDE UNTIL SHE GETS FIXED... MUCH AS I LOVE KITTENS, I DON'T NEED A MILLION OF 'EM ROAMING AROUND UNDERFOOT, 10-4???

HASTA LUEGO, HEE-ROES!!! OLD CT, YER STILL A KNUCKLEHAID!!! AND I WANT A REPORT ON MY DESK BY 1900 HOURS!!! SAME TIME WHEN "THE DONALD" MAKES HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, WOOHOO!!!

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Awesome weather here, gonna BBQ some burgers & dawgs pronto, but first I'll post these links to short Hero Cam clips taken yesterday, 10-4???

Here's our local airport, gotta like the elk on the walls, LOL... I'm livin' in REDNECK CENTRAL and LOVIN' IT, BOYZ!!!

https://vimeo.com/253666367

https://vimeo.com/253679434

https://vimeo.com/253680814

https://vimeo.com/253682334

And here's that parcel the Montana roofers bought in cedar country, they're slowly improving it as required by the county while squatting, AYE??? Sheeee-it, if nobody challenges their "squatters' rights" in x number of months, that parcel becomes theirs and the county kicks out a deed in their names... 2 1/4 acres for $308 with water & power to the lot line, best real estate deal since the Louisiana Purchase, LOL.

https://vimeo.com/253683012

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Roommate & I took a little spin out on Rim Road 300 yesterday, stopped in a couple locations to par-tay, crank the tunes, and enjoy the mountain sunshine while walking around sussing the scenery and searching for wildlife tracks. Check out the size of the turkey tracks we found right by the car!!! They look like dinosaur tracks, freakin' Godzilla, LOL... everything grows BIGGER here in the White Mountains, 10-4??? And the wild horses are cool, we saw elk and deer before rolling up on this small herd o' horses, I stopped too early to take the pics, should've rolled a bit closer to snap the photos. Some of those horses might be "strays" turned loose by people who then moved away... that black stallion came roaring outta the woods to protect the herd, he showed up alright in the pics, though I wish I had been a bit closer. Got several rounds of photos to post, enjoy the scenery!!! OLD CT, the Rim Road shots are for you, youse knucklehaid!!!

 

[Coastal Redneck]

Round #2 of pics:



Monster tracks with that 12-oz. Crudweiser in for scale!!! I think those are elk tracks in the second shot, maybe a doe or cow or whatever... while that snow & ice in my hand looked so clean, I had to take a photo, LOL. The bark shots are cool, I like the patterns up close, 10-4?