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Did a bit of work on the sky.

Did a little painting on the sky in this one.

Put a drop or two of Oil of Cloves on each little pile of paint so they remain wet for a few days. Tomorrow I’ll work on a similar sky in a different painting, the one I started in the Bighorns in June.

When I was in the Bighorns in June I drove to Greybull, Wyoming several times for groceries and gas. It’s about a 45 minute drive from Tie Flume Campground down out of the mountains west to Greybull. It’s a beautiful drive. These photos I’m thinking about turning into paintings were taken about halfway to Greybull.

I intend to start painting this coming Monday and to paint four hours per day. I figure if I put it writing I might just do it.

In a week and a half I’ll be heading back to the San Juan River in northwest New Mexico for the fourth time I think. This time a friend and I have rented a house in a little town about twenty minutes from the river and have rented a fishing guide for the first day we will be fishing. I’ve always caught fish on the San Juan but could do a lot better with a guide. I’m tying a lot of tiny flies.

On Wednesday, September 7th I’ll start heading back to the San Juan River in northwest New Mexico for a solid five days of fishing. It’s a 4 day drive. I could drive it in three days but why wear myself out? This will be my 4th time fishing this incredible river. I’ll start fishing Sunday, September 11 and will leave on Friday, September 16.

It was necessary to cut my Bighorn Mountains trip short. I’ve been home for almost two weeks. Soon I’ll take a short, maybe 4 days, trip to the Driftless Area to see an old friend and catch a few trout. There is a little town, LaFarge WI, in the Driftless Area that has its own inexpensive campground where I’ll camp. It’s a good deal, $20 with electricity, water, and it has a dump station. Pretty sure I’ll take a Lake Superior Circle Tour this summer.

Someone asked if there is a sitting area in my trailer. There is a sofa that can be folded down into a small bed. There is an unattached table that came with my trailer. It’s in my condo storage room. It is heavy and was in the way. I use a TV tray which saves a lot of room. I take a Blu-Ray player and about 30 or 40 dvds. I installed a pure sine wave inverter in my trailer so I have alternating current for my tv and Blu-Ray player when I don’t have shore power.

Ready and excited to go in one week. All cleaned and organized.

It’s less than a month until my 100 day Big Horn Mountains/National Forest trip. I have many flies to tie, leaders to tie, and trailer and truck preparations so I will probably not do any painting until June when I’m in Wyoming.

Visited Kennedy Space Center today with my brother-in-law John.

Today there were three different rockets on launch pads, the Artemis Moon Rocket, a SpaceX Rocket that will take satellites into space tomorrow, and a SpaceX Rocket that will launch 4 people into space on Saturday. We could see them in the distance but couldn’t get any closer.

Saturn 5/Apollo Rocket lying on its side in stages. It’s huge.

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Hubble Telescope replica

Redstone Rocket that took Allen Shepherd into space. For me it was surprisingly small.