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For Early Risers Who Wish It Could Be Morning All Day

Red, Red Rocks

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We completed the final days of our stay in SW Utah with a visit from our daughter and grandchildren. I week of fun hiking and rock scrambling ensued!

Bold Move

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Our son, who in recent years has acquired the “mariner bug,” has left a perfectly good engineering job and a beautiful Afton, Minnesota house, to pursue his dream of working in a mariner-orientated job near the sea. He and his family have purchased a house on shore of Chesapeake Bay. And, in a week, he will begin a new engineering job, leading a team, designing the propulsion system for the next class of US Navy submarines.

This is quite a leap for our “march-to-his-own-drummer” Renaissance Man who, in his many varied occupations, has driven 18-wheelers, hand delivered impossibly heavy commercial sheet-rock, worked a forklift for a brewer, managed the assembly floor for a furnace manufacturer, overseen the installation of overhead power transmission lines on the outskirts of Kathmandu, achieved patents for large-volume transportation refrigeration systems, become an accomplished sailor and licensed skipper, and has self-learned numerous trades in his personal endeavors.

And all of this as a pup, with the best yet to come.

We wish he and his family the best in this bold, new adventure. And we look forward to visiting their new abode.

We’re Better On Our Days With The Horses

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Okay, the song has nothing to do with the video other than we call our ebikes our horses. And our days are pretty good on them.

This is a recent bike ride on Zion National Park’s famous Scenic Drive.

The music is written and performed by Alberta cowboy-musician Stewart MacDougall. Interestingly, the backup vocals are performed by Billy Cowsill, former teen idol of the 1960s family band, The Cowsills. Billy was a lifelong musician and, sadly, this was his final performance.

70th Solar Orbit

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70 solar orbits and none the worse for wear, yet.

Along my journey, I’ve taken a few metaphorical asteroid hits — as I suspect most of us 70+ solar orbiters have — but I’m still holding together.

February 28th is the closest I will get to a birth date this year.

Mars (With Creosote & Bursage Bushes)

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This is the first significant trip we have made since the Covid days.

Our goal was to find a winter escape, within one day’s drive from home, that offers paved bike trail opportunities. We may have found it here in the St. George, Utah. We are anxious to explore the Zion National Park and Snow Canyon areas via bicycles (ebikes, since there is so much elevation variance around here).