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Retired but when I operated heavy equipment (80 ton) I was union. They have their good aspects and their not so good side. A Union can't fix a bad industry, can't fix a bad economy and if you have bad management can't fix that either.

heck , Sunday and Monday both are National Holidays. Monday Labor day and Sunday My 64th Birthday! Everybody can tip one for me on Sunday! ..............................BOB!

After 17 days scouting I made a mistake and shot the wrong buck opening weekend. Scouting went great lots of big and solid bucks. I had a huge hit list and it all went to crap as a group of bucks were coming into my stand the biggest buck was leading. At some point they switched spots and this buck led the group when I shot him at 12 yards. I had my duffel bag stolen from the back of my truck in the great city of Flagstaff. It had all of my hunting clothes, boots misc hunting gear and worst of all my 15s. Sometimes that is what happens.

What brand potato did you take that picture with?

I hauled water for livestock in southern UT for about 10 years. I had a 220 and 500 gallon tank for my truck. But the most ingenious thing I ever saw was some friends homesteaded nearby and used a waterbed mattress to haul their water. No cumbersome tank to deal with and they'd just roll the mattress up when not in use.

Animas is a pretty small place in the middle of no where and we always rely on those special people that help us and support us! Coach Charlie Richardson passed away yesterday, I stole this memory from one of his many that he influenced! Whether you called Coach Richardson, Mr. Richardson, Charlie, Charles, Chuckie, or just Rich. He touched everyone of us that played for him. The greatest Animas Panther coach that ever lived-my mentor, my hero, my friend. I was a 13 year old maybe 4’5” when I started playing for this great man-he instilled my love for the game of basketball to which I never lost. So many memories as a player at AHS but also came and watched me play at WNMU. My 1st job interview they said for you played at Animas for Charles Richardson then you know to WIN! I believe he had a hand in me getting my first coaching job in 1984. I finally made it back home 1991 and got to coach with the man I had always admired. I was his assistant he was my assistant. I coached his kids he coached mine. We taught school together even shared a classroom. We even came out of retirement together. I was refing a volleyball game in 2016 he was in the stands I went and sit by him told I thought I was going back to coaching. I told him I wanted him for jr high and he said yes. We spent 3 more years together. Charles was the most unselfish, honorable man I know. It was never about his accomplishments but always about the kids. True coaching to the core I learned so much from him. I guess my greatest accomplishment was not the state titles we won together but just knowing he was proud of me and thought that I was a good coach too. What a legacy we lost in our valley yesterday no one will ever replace. Thanks for the 30+ years you spent in my life and all the other years you put in to all of the student/athletes at AHS, including my boys, my nephew, my nieces, and coming back to coach my Laikyn so she would know my hero too! To all the Richardson’s thank you for sharing your husband and dad with all of us. I love you all. Goodbye my ole friend I will never forget you. The family brought me a pile of old bleacher material, some old hardwood flooring, some horse shoe welding that Charlie Coach had welded, a bucket of collected junk and said, can you make him a casket!!! Charlie Coach coached in the Animas Valley for 40 years, lost his mom when he was 5 and his dad when he was 16. His first wife passed after 25 years of marriage and lost her life to cancer! One of the great characteristics Charlie Coach had was he never once used his losses as an excuse for trying every day to be a great example for the kids he taught and coached! I hope he can see from above that love and appreciation put his scraps together for what hopefully does the man the respect he deserves!!! I appreciate the opportunity to serve him this one last time!!!

I had a great time hunting the farm today with Chris! The flights were definitely slower than opening day, but I still got a limit and a few Eurasians. The wild game washing bucket cuts the cleaning time in half. I'll never clean birds without one again!!!!

As the time was looking like it was getting close - I went to him and asked if I could build his casket . What a difficult question to ask someone ,almost as difficult as asking for his daughters hand ..... he said I’ve always wanted just a pine box so I built him a pine box . the first pic has his brand in the cow hide then he did incredible things for NPC and the community of many years & the family wanted that incorporated. had the rest of the family over to help line the inside with foam and white satin . my 10 year old sewed the pillow case for her papa as the grandkids called him . i don’t know why the 3rd pic is upside down - no I didn’t put on that way

I was out there Thursday morning and it was slower, but still good. The old dudes in law chairs by the hay barn got all pissy though saying my buddy who was 100 yards away was blocking all there shots.

Gone

Sorry all if us can't all weigh 145 soaking wet! With a 30 in waist. A good mule can easily pack all that elk meat out! At least JJ made it to the elk, even if the mule needed a breather !

Does it jam with bird shot or with buck shot? 2 3/4” shells or 3” shells.

Got some. 22 good cuts and some scraps. Think i will get more tomorrow. Pic is just one loin.

you too man

Thank you!! Finally came together.

spent some quality time with my boy Jake this week chasing Elk and deer. I kind of knew it was getting close to time but not as close as now! Don’t get me wrong Jake is fine he will just be a home bound dog from now on, we put some good miles in checking cams and hiking my bow around and even though he could hardly stand up after a few days in he still tried to go with me this morning. He is a real bad dude, he hated it but I gave him the day off. I’m going to miss some of my favorite time in the mountains with Jake leading the way out in front of the mules or running squirms from tree to tree. Happy retirement buddy, you earned it.

My old phone had a PDF file I had found of a drinker study done decades ago by AZGFD in the Eagletail Mountains. Animals become so dependent on a specific drinker (deer and sheep in particular) that the critters will literally wait there and die at an empty water hole rather than move to one only a short distance away that holds water. So if you do make a drinker in the desert, please check it often for water.

White Mountain reservation is now open for fishing. Post from the tribal chairwoman Brian

I’m in for the traditional massages.

I like the forecast

I’m a drug dealer and wasn’t even thinking that angle...maybe since that’s a given in every rural area anymore.

Glassing anywhere between Rye and 260 should yield animals.

The region around Zane Grey's Cabin is a good place to start. The original location, of course.