Pine Donkey

This was a horrible few days! I did not know what to do! I tried watching TV, and even surfed youtube but all I could think about was CWT. Then my mind began playing tricks on me...I was hearing voices...I felt like I was lost in the woods and wondered if anybody knew I was gone. Then I started having crazy thoughts...maybe I'll join facebook...maybe I should watch the OWN channel. It was horrible, I am glad the nightmare is over!

Tough to say from just that one picture. Possibly upper 70s.

Chrystie and I wish you a speedy recovery. Hope to see you posting again soon.

Bill, thanks for posting the story. Gets the blood pumping for the coming seasons!

Thanks for posting these pictures. My parents took a similar drive today and reported the the ridges alpng 88 and 88B are also severly burned.

Congratulations Bill. How about some pictures!

That's a beautiful bull. I love that top end.

That's quite a spot you have there.

That's a great Buck?

My son Garrett celebrated his 17th birthday yesterday. His sister made him the cake.

Get the blind set up, the 19th is coming!

Very nice Very nice

Nice kitties. Are those claw marks on the side of the deer?

That buck looked good on 7/05/11. He could be a toad by the 19th.

LMAO. Now I have to clean my drink off the laptop after reading that. Hilarious!

Lark, I agree...what the h e l l is chattel? Also confused about that other funny sounding thing he mentioned, "ethics class for lawyers"...not sure what that is!

36 members of this group have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 repeat 71 Cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 currently are defendants in lawsuits, 84 have been arrested for drunk driving In the last year Can you guess which organization this is? NBA Or NFL? Give up yet? Scroll down, Neither, it's the 435 members of United States Congress The same group of blithering idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

I hope this was written tongue-in-cheek! You could be right, there are a lot of stupid loopholes in are laws; I don't know the legal details on this. What I do know is the difference between right and wrong. Taking another person's property is wrong, regardless of whether a loophole in the law allows it. There are a lot of good poeple in this world who know what is right and wrong, none of them are camera theives! If you feel OK stealing cameras, that tells me a lot about who you are. You may not get in trouble with the law, but...karma is a fickel bitch! Have you ever thought of running for congress, you'd fit right in.

WOW

That is some amazing video! What a great summer.

In the Nutrioso area the seed was down before the straw.

We made another trip to Nutrioso this past weekend. The monsoons have begun to heal the forests, and they look very different then just a few weeks back. Three weeks ago everything was black, and now much of the grass has returned. This picture along highway 180 near the AZ/NM border shows the vivid green "new" growth. We were very fortunate to have front row seats to one of the BAER teams, who are using helicopters to spread straw on the severely burned hillsides. They have set up one of their operations about 50 yards off my parent's back deck. This morning, we were educated on the project by one of the very friendly pilots. Not only did he discuss the operation over a cup of coffee, he took my friend's (MJE1) young son over to his helicopter, let him sit in the pilot's seat, and made a memory that will last his lifetime. During our discussion, he gave us a lot of information: There are several arial straw projects in the burn area. After fixed-wing planes reseed the area, his team covers it with straw. They place straw on all the severe burned areas with slopes between 15 and 50% grades. The project will take about 7 weeks total, staying at each staging area for 2-5 days. In the short time in this staging area they plan to spread 40 semi-trucks of straw (800 tons) on the ridges around Gobbler Peak, and Rodger's Reservior. Prior to setting up at this location, they were in Auger Canyon where they spread 80 trucks (1600 tons) of straw on the hillsides of Auger Canyon and Noble Mountain. The entire project will require over 2000 trucks of straw (40,000 tons). The straw is coming from Yuma, CO, UT, NE, OK, KS, and TX. In the pictures below, the darker straw is hail and tornado damaged straw from the wheat fields in Kansas. At the site, semi's line up to be unloaded, while one crew cuts the bail cord, stacks, and breaks up the bails. Another crew spreads out the nets and uses large John Deere tractors to pile straw on them. As a helicopter arrives with an empty net, a third crew disconnects that net and reconnects a full net. This is done in two different areas about 75 yards apart. In one area they use Hueys that lift about 3000lbs per load, in the other they use large workhorse helicopters that lift 5600lbs (at 8000 ft elevation). As you can see from the video, the exchange of nets takes under thirty seconds in this efficient operation. They entire operation was very interesting and well coordinated with 4 helicopters in the air at a time. Here is a video I took today. Sorry it is sideways, there was a collision between my limited video and technologic knowledge.

Not only did theives steal his camera, they broke into his house and took the "L" key of his computer.

love them long tines!

Hey bowcrazy, In the pictures of the guy messing with your cameras, was he carrying a bag of corn?!?!