Miss D. and I left this morning on our journey to Colorado, where we’ll join a group of fellow bloggers, writers and shooting enthusiasts for our annual Blogorado gathering. We’re not looking forward to the weather! Yesterday the temperature at our destination dropped by almost 60 degrees (Fahrenheit), and tonight it’s supposed to be in… Continue reading On the road to Blogorado 2019
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Food. Ye Gods and little fishes . . . food!
Our annual Blogorado gathering is coming up next weekend, and Miss D. and I have volunteered to provide supper on Friday night. We therefore hit the road to Muenster, TX this morning, to Fischer’s Meat Market, which I’ve mentioned in these pages before. It’s a truly magnificent German-style meat market, which breeds its own cattle,… Continue reading Food. Ye Gods and little fishes . . . food!
Blogorado 2018, Day 4, and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
Sunday saw our last breakfast with the tribe this year. It was sad to have to say goodbye to everybody, but we’re already looking forward to doing it all again next year. We really have become one big extended family over the years, and all of us enjoy our adopted brothers and sisters. Miss D.… Continue reading Blogorado 2018, Day 4, and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
Blogorado 2018, Day 3
Saturday was much colder than Friday, so everyone arrived for breakfast dressed warmly. More people arrived yesterday evening, so the group was pretty much all there, amid much squeee-ing at the sight of the one-and-a-half-year-old son of one couple (who stole everyone’s heart with his infectious smiles and giggling. Shy, he ain’t!). I decided to… Continue reading Blogorado 2018, Day 3
Blogorado 2018, Day 2
Breakfast at the Obligatory Cow Reference was as tasty as everyone remembered. Unfortunately, this year the owner had forgotten to hire extra help, so the lone waitress on duty had to cope with all her regular customers plus an invasion of a score or so of hungry bloggers and shooters. She was run off her… Continue reading Blogorado 2018, Day 2
On the ground at Blogorado
Miss D. and I arrived in Colorado yesterday afternoon, to check in with the gathering crowd of writers, bloggers and shooters at our annual Blogorado gathering. It was great to exchange hugs and greetings with old friends, and make a couple of new ones, as we rendezvoused at the farm HQ. The chatter was ceaseless… Continue reading On the ground at Blogorado
Rolling research
Miss D. and I are heading out for a ten-day research trip for my next Western novel, the third in the “Ames Archives” series. We’ll be covering large areas of West Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, checking historic locations, following the routes that horse herds and cavalry patrols would have used, and generally making sure… Continue reading Rolling research
Raffle winners!
Thank you very much to everybody who donated in support of Andi’s medical treatment for a stroke. We set a target of $25,000, and by yesterday (the deadline for contributions to qualify for our gun raffle) we’d raised over $18,500 – about 74% of our goal. The fundraiser will continue, but without prizes, so if… Continue reading Raffle winners!
A final reminder: win guns!
I’ve written several times before about the fundraiser we’re holding for Andi, a friend in Colorado who recently suffered a stroke. You can read more about her here. Pictures of the guns and other prizes on offer may be seen at Old NFO’s blog, here, here, here and here. Here’s Andi with her husband and… Continue reading A final reminder: win guns!
A reminder of our fund-raiser for Andi, with great prizes to be won
I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. A group of Blogorado attendees, including yours truly, have come together to raise funds for our friend Andi. She’s had a stroke, and is facing massive medical bills for her treatment and rehabilitation therapy. Details are in my first post, and you can read more about… Continue reading A reminder of our fund-raiser for Andi, with great prizes to be won