The wedding of our son Wiley here at the ranch approaches.  The frenzy intensifies.  I know it is all for a good cause but please everyone keep it to a dull roar.  I guarantee that we are going to have a good time no matter if all the details get worked out or not.  That’s my call.

Gorgeous morning here at the ranch.  This is the July that we all wait for.  I am working hard getting firewood split and stacked for the dark days of winter.  It always looks so good freshly stacked like so much money in the bank.  We had two little boys here yesterday who were full of questions about everything at the ranch.  They were especially intrigued by the firewood.  “What is that?”  “What do you use it for?”  They have such fresh eyes.

The Sunday walk yesterday was with a family from California on a road trip in the Northwest.  The man I met on one of my  film trips.  He is a medical doctor working in cancer rehabilitation, my favorite topic, well next to the Camino of course.  So we grabbed and gabbed.  I think that this is the genesis of some more trips down south.

The corn is tasseling out in the field.  It is a run away scene out there with the weeds gone crazy and the deer eating the weeds.  We are getting to that time of year due mostly to the dry conditions of late summer when the deer suffer for lack of suitable eats.  I have cut down whole trees in the past to feed them during these times.

Those little boys asking questions left a big impression on me.  It gave me a sense of how maybe out of the ordinary we are here on our little island with our little island life style.    Things that I take for granted are out of the ordinary for others.   Well, I guess that is what travel is for, mixing it up.

Mixing it up loves, Felipe.