"The River of Kings, A History of Arizona's Verde River" is more than a mere book authored by Steve Ayers.  It is a Dream Come...

First you have to know I despised Idaho Falls from the git go.  Each time we passed through the city in 2004 and 2005 I despised it even mor...

Howdy!  It's December First and THAT's the DAY to announce New Year's Resolutions!  That's right!  NO NEED to wait until the...

Twenty years ago we were "makin' memories" at Bowery Guard Station on the East Fork of The Salmon River in the Sawtooth Nation...

Photo by Diane Joens. Here is an Editorial by Editor-Emeritus Dan Engler that appears in the "Verde Independent" newspaper in Cott...

 This post is in honor of and prepared for Dr. Wallace Baker from Idaho Falls.  Dr. Baker has heaped high praise on the idea of finding posi...

Each phase of Snow Bird Life has its chores.  Coming back to our Idahome involves Chores Galore. A lot of the Chores actually begin weeks be...

 Hum...let's see what we're working on these days... Right now as of July 5th we're hot to trot on our cribbage boards.  We star...

(This is a reprint of an older blog post.) The Camp Verde Town Council voted unanimously in July 2017 to name a 40-acre piece of prime river...

Yesterday June 28 I had my annual physical performed by Dr. Wallace Baker and a very capable Student Assistant. Dr. Baker was his usual ebul...

The abandoned meander LEAPS off the computer screen! Covering wild fires for me is about way more than the nuts & bolts of acres burned,...

The median home price in February for Flagstaff was more than $600,000, according to local real estate estimates. That kind of price makes i...

We're riggin' for our first camp Road Trip in 10 weeks.  When we arrive Back In The Tonto Again Monday it will have been 71 days sin...