Good Drumming my Friends..............

Finally, more rain and its a good falling! Kinda warm this rain, I guess its the tropical fetch that the weather service talked about. We do need it and everything is getting fresh again, just in time for Thanksgiving.
Work called me back and I was in Mineral King for a few days in a row. Real nice up there, and since the roads now closed its just us Fire people and our fire. Its was a nice fire and did the job that it needed by clearing years worth of undergrowth.
We had a nice little Thanksgiving meal up there on the last night of the fire, all of about twenty black faced sotty Firefighters squeezed into this garage eating and laughing and knowing that we're all headed for new worlds till next season. Now I'm with the Bear people, working to find the rest of those elusive bear collars. We found 2 more the other day, but its really hard crosssountry hiking to find them, bushwackers are us..........
Great drumming Sunday night!! Started out with a potluck, birthday get together for Marcella that went into big grooves around a fire. Grooves that just rocked the river folk and got us all dancing. Thanks for checking in...........

Hot and Fall Like....

We had a really good time drumming last night...Sunday night. It was just the core...all of us have been playing together for years. We took many drum journeys, which started at dark and didn't end till 10.We had a sparkee fire going on and lots of smiles down in the Meteor Crater in the exact middle of Three Rivers California.
I've been off a week into my new life and today I got called back to work. There's still fire stuff going on. So, you better stay in touch and watch for adventure updates....





Now that I'm off to a new life, I can work on my anti-gravity transporter....




Scott brought River to the Drumcircle last nite. She's getting into the early music



The two faces of Gary in this photo was taken by Mearle Darsey who has some really nice photos on display at the Gallery.

And, eating good too. We still have our weekend potlucks at the Gallery when someone decides to call one. We are actually due getting together and breaking bread aren't we??

My New Life............

Well it was last Friday that I said goodbye's to all my Fire friends at work. The Fire season is officially declared over. We are like a family for those 6 months we all work together on fire in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Adventure is everywhere if that's what you think of when you hear adventure that is what it is. Even when its slow, you always know it could get real crazy, real fast. One lightning strike can make a month of fire, as we learned this season.
So, everyone just scatters into the far reaches of the world it seems.........all the Fire folks I'm talking about, they go on big trips or move somewhere far away like Death Valley. Nobody from Fire in the park is around at all for the next 6 months. It just seems kinda weird to me??
Anyways, so its a new life for me too. New jobs to seek, trails to hike, new rock to climb, More drumming and music and just getting back in touch......so you might wanna check in more often and find out the latest adventure cued up.............

A Day to Celebrate a Great Life...........

Well, hello! those past pics were from the real Halloween which we celebrated at the Riverview Bar in Three Rivers Friday night, where everyone was dressed up in ghoulish ware and we laughed like we haven't in quiet awhile too!! I love it! We won scariest couple and got 25 bucks each Yea! Now its on to more adventures in life. Today I worked with the Bear people in the Park. They put tracking collars on 10 wild bears 2 years ago and those collars were scheduled to fall off at midnight October 31st. Now they are laying somewhere in the woods and I'm helping to find 6 of them. They have already found 4 of those 3000 dollar neckties and today we found one,after hiking lots of miles up and down hills. The data that these collars now contain is very valuable to the research of where these bears have been for the last two years. We had to use telemetry, which uses radio waves and gives us beeps when we come close. We carried along an antenna in our hands and a radio box that hones in on the signals from the collars. Its like finding a needle in a haystack though. We did lots of hiking around in the snow and it was really nice, clear and pretty darn cold. Here's some pics.....................