Hammock

My dad gave me an old hammock he has for some time so I put it up.  Since we don't have a good set of trees, I had to dig a post hole for one of the ends.  Our ground is super rocky and hard so it took a while using mainly a digging bar.

Hammock at sunset

Animal Preppers

I recently started seeing a whole bunch of YT prepping videos that were done with AI animated animals.  There are bears, raccoons, tigers, wolves, squirrels, foxes, tortoises and ducks . They are fairly entertaining and often have some good information.  It is fun to see all the errors in the videos that AI generates (e.g. two tails on a fox).  I wouldn't be surprised if these were all done by the same person since they often have similar topics at nearly the same times.

Memorial Day Activities

Lots going on in Highland Pines...

• Happy Hours started up
• Annual Meeting and Ice Cream Social
• Fire patrol near Porter Mt
• Brush clearing

Giant juniper

Mine entrance

Walking Lily

Coffee Greatness

It seems that coffee is really good for you.  Good thing that Prescott is seeing some great new coffee houses in town now.

Boise Trip

We headed up to Boise, ID for a self storage conference.  The conference was well worth it.  We picked up some great information and met good people.

We got an AirBnB in Eagle which is a large suburb of Boise.  It is a very nice town but traffic can get pretty bad.  There are still plenty of farms but I am sure those will be gone in the next few years.

On Saturday, we drove up to McCall.  The drive followed a river gorge up to the mountains and into some beautiful farm country.  We did some hiking in Ponderose State Park and had lunch in a local saloon.  Weather was cool and there was even some snow flurries.

Mother's Day Weekend Activities

• Took NWS weather spotter training at ERAU
• Visited the Chino Valley Cooper Ag Museum
• Attended the MMRG picnic
• Picked up a few items at the Mountain Artists Guild Mother's Day festival

Art Festival

Ham antenna farm

Cooper Ag Museum

Maps!

I love maps!  I have a good collection of topo maps from Tom Harrison, National Geographic, various government agencies and smaller map makers.  The Harrison ones are my favorite but they don't have any outside of California.  I also have many guidebooks loaded with maps.

Over the past decade, I have used various online maps as well.  My go to app for foot travel is CalTopo.  For Jeeping, I use Trailsoffroad and OnX.  As good as the apps are, I always have paper maps when I go on a longer hike.  It is comforting to be able to pull out a map without having to worry about batteries, coverage, etc.