Have you met Bud?

This is Bud having a chat with our dog Teddy.

Reno Castle

This is the landscaping just outside the front wall.









This is a picture of our club house in the distance, taken from the east side of the canyon.

Views from the past trips.

Here we are in Roseburg, Oregon. JoAnne is the pretty one.

Yep! About three weeks away!

Some family pleasures come first; but after that, we shall climb aboard our chariot (Spook: A mini-Winnie) and head east along highway 80. Not really sure where we shall ramble, but our planned destination is Gettysburg with a continuing destination of Carolina and cousins there.

There are a number of possibilities on the way including Mount Rushmore and then nephews home in Nebraska. The arch is a magnet for JoAnne and Bill is open to most possibilities.

Polished up Spook a bit yesterday and once she is loaded, we are ready to ride.

Y'all take care hear.

Looking for a cools spot.

Well, had to sacrifice a cool spot in return for clear skies. The skies in Reno were filled with smoke blown in from northern California, but the price is ninety degree heat. Oh well!

Yeah, hot! HOT!

Not really as bad as expected, but one can feel the heat rising from the soil of Central California.

We actually had a few drops of rain up in Reno the other day and it was accompanied by a bit of thunder in the distance. For sure, that is about the size of the rain for us in the month of July.

Hope to purchase a new laptop tomorrow. I think the one I have in Reno is about to give up the ghost. It shuts off right in the middle of a post and starts back up after cooling off for a bit. (Sure sign of a terminal problem.)

Family Dinner

We will have the family to the house for dinner tonight. Guests will include Ross, Su Chin, Noah and Carisse from Melbourne, Australia. Peter and Laura will be here along with grandmother Anne from Elk Grove.

Hopefully, I shall turn out a perfect prime-rib on the rotisserie.

This will be the last we will be able to hang with the Aussie folks as they will be returning to Australia shortly.

The air conditioning has come on in the house, so that means that indoor temperature has reached seventy-five degrees. May be able to eat out in the back yard depending on how quickly the temperature. drop to the low eighties.

We should have a great evening.