Friday, January 02, 2026

Secret Prescott Christmas Spots






Christmas in Prescott 2025

We hosted the family for Christmas this year at Juniper Ridge.  We scrambled to get enough places for 12 people to sleep but the house did great.  We didn't run out of propane nor water!
  • Food, food, food!
  • A couple of days on the range
  • Local hikes
  • Bill's Pizza

Prescott Square

Lynx Lake with very low water


Monday, December 15, 2025

Weekend Activities

  • Hiked Pioneer Park for the first time
  • Range day with buddy to zero some optics
  • Getting house ready for Christmas
  • Cookie sale at church
Along the trails in Pioneer Park

Pioneer Park trail map


Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Monday, December 08, 2025

Prescott Christmas Weekend

My parents and aunt and uncle came up to enjoy some Prescott Christmas events!
  • Christmas Tenors at the Elks Theatre
  • Courthouse lighting - very nice but super crowded and shuttle was quite disorganized
Local children singing hymns before the lighting

We setup chairs in the morning


Monday, December 01, 2025

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Thanksgiving in Tucson

  • Hiked Bren Mt.
  • Shopping trip to Tubac
  • Annivesary dinner at Moonstone
  • Thanksgiving dinner with the Bakers
  • UA planeterium
Old car in a ravine

Hiking towards Bren

Moonstone

Downtown Tubac


Tuesday, November 11, 2025

20 Year Blog Anniversary

Today is my 20 year anniversary of this blog!
I started it at the heydey of personal blogging.  Unfortunately, most blogs of that era have moved to social media such as Facebook, gone commerical or just died off.
Hopefully I will be here for 20 more!