Oh, and Carl, you know I meant "the Barneses" when I said Bairds. This has been my brain for the last month.

Honcho, yeah, everything is tight, money, schedule, tempers. She's fast tracking and I'm more or less on the struggle bus. But the Dude will abide...

Well do what you can, But yeah, that's pushing for time considering its already the last full week of June.

Alright, the movers are booked and a tighter schedule is set.

Looks like the last week of July, 30-31st. Hoping the Bairds will be home that week, haven't seen Carl and Billy Sue since the original Gathering. It's a 13+ hour drive from here to our new digs, so an overnight in the Abilene area is warranted for this old guy.

I'd still love to do one more daytrip to see friends in Hawk Springs, but I don't know if time and money will allow.

More as we get closer!

We got to 98 here. The A/C quit at around noon.

Whew, had a scorcher yesterday, 104 for several hours and a 25 mph wind.  90s this weekend then supposedly going to drop back into the 70s Monday, and then a string of days with thunderstorms and showers, but man it cooked off all the moisture we had hanging around in all but the deep ponds.

Good to know the AF has everything under control.

We had to have gotten an inch or more yesterday. Lots of hail too. Tornadoes in the mountains even. Woodland Park & Divide both had close calls.

Naw, heck the ones out of Ellsworth, went down to Dyess with their airwing and launched from there to do some airstrikes with them on Iranian Quds force in Iraq and Syria last year.  Funny How the "He's going to start WW3!" chanters weren't making noise then. 

I had to take Mom down to Cheyenne for laser eye surgery on Monday, F16s were making simulated runs on the airport runway is all I can figure, they weren't doing touch and goes, at least 3 of them would come down low fly just off the deck, I never saw wheels down, then turnout out burn hard and climb hard to pattern altitude, come around immediately and do it again, did it several times.   I don't know, maybe a general wanted an airshow or something.  Was cool to watch anyway, what little I could see.


Anyway, we had a teaser throwback to spring yesterday, rain at 5am, and barely made 70, didn't get much, couple tenths, which is fine because someone still has hay down. Once again we got lucky, missed the down pours and huge hail and twisty wind others got, But the next few days has us in triple digits they tell us.

Don't tell that to Dyess AFB here in Abilene.  They are one of the B1's bases.   Along with Ellsworth, Andrews, and Mc Connell.

And just now a pair of B-1 bombers flew over. I thought they were mothballed in the 90s.

Still on track for the 1st week of August.

Our land pimp is chomping at her bit to put the sign up, but Terrin wants the house empty for showing, so we'll be on our way before she can list.

The new landlord is busy "repairing" what the previous tenant broke. I'm debating reinstalling the Crimson Trace dot on my full size 9, either that or get some night sights...Decisions, man.