Welcome Back Brad. Glad your back. Glad you got to enjoy something other than this as well. Take care.

Well, Brad, thinking you'd not be back until tomorrow, I just posted a new piece.

Can't tell you how glad I am you're back.

My turn to give it a rest for a bit, but call me if you need anything.

P.S. Nice to see there's still a little corner of the U.S. the oil cartel has yet to destroy.

Ernie - Not seen in either of the photos, just on the other side of one of those mountains, the entire area is controlled by the mining industry where they are busy strip mining the whole area.

I've got another photo on my iPhone that I'll try to post for you in this thread later which won't make you happy. (Apologies in advance. Oh, and don't rest too long please!)

Possible explanation for Alvin Greene's candidacy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2...s/07candidates.html?_r=1

(Excellent stewardship, Ernest! Thank you. Welcome home, sad Brad! Sorry you had to come back, but we kinda need you and well, I suspect the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep really don't care one way or another about election transparency. Hm...and maybe they've got a point.)

Welcome back, Brad! You were missed!

Ernest, you rock!

Jeannie, dead-on, I bet.

A well-deserved break, Brad! By the way, there are big horn sheep up on Mt. Baldy, right close to you in LA. A friend and I once saw a herd clamber straight up a cliff. A baby one got stuck on a ledge 100 feet up, limping. The adults waited for it at the top, fifty feet higher. We were freaking out, wondering if we could catch the baby if it fell. After half an hour, it recovered, and climbed the rest of the way to join the others. Amazing climbers.

Ernie - Here's that photo I promised you above. Taken in Vernal, UT, the town at the base of the mountains mentioned above (the ones that are stripped mined for miles on end, before one gets to the still-preserved national forest above it):

"I heart drilling," how sick is that?