It's been a busy week. Our office hosts an annual training program for new fire lookouts, and I helped put that on. There was a day of refresher training for the veteran lookouts, too, and I spent another day hauling gear up to Baptiste with a friend ( Read more... )

I made my first visit of the year to Baptiste a few days ago, and here are a few photos.


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There are quite a few things I should have written about the last three months ... I feel bad about not doing that. So it goes, I guess ( Read more... )

It would be good to start posting here a little more often again ... so maybe I can at least start with some photos. Here's a shot of Emma from one of our walks last week:


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I signed up for LiveJournal 20 years ago today. Amazing.


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I was looking through some of my lookout pictures from last summer, and found a sunset shot of my September wildfire that I liked, but that I hadn't shared because there was a tree messing with the composition. So I played around a little bit yesterday and photoshopped out the tree, and was pretty happy with the result:


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I just wanted to leave a quick post today to wish you all a happy New Year. The dogs and I are doing well, hunkered down in Bozeman for the winter, and still going on long daily walks. This is a shot from a few days ago, when it was roughly 20 below outside, and Emma still insisted we hit the trail for a couple miles. (Lewis freezes up at that ( Read more... )

It was five years ago today that I drove down to the animal shelter in Dillon, and came home with a worried little McNab cowdog.

Happy anniversary, Lewis. We've had a great time together.


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My apologies for nearly a month of LJ radio silence, but things have been surprisingly busy up here at Baptiste the last three weeks. Definitely not something that someone sitting in a fire lookout is usually able to say ( Read more... )