Non-Typical Solutions

Every time I go through that country I think.....dang there has got to be some awesome hunting out there!!! We came through Mule Creek Sunday evening when it was just a solid bucket drop going through the flats and over the line headed to Safford. Then headed back Monday evening it was a beautiful site climbing back over Mule Creek right after 3-Way.......deer, elk and 106 acres for sale that makes me wonder........what would it be like to live right there???? Incredible steep rugged looking country!!!

And this is the clear bubble set up😂

Always love fishing with the kids!!!

Your dad is correct on this issue but hey he's just a yuppie so what does he know

Ill be back up there camping with the family, have you guys been getting hit with rain hopefully?? Has rained every day pretty decent here in Alpine since Saturday except for today! You couldn't tell it by looking though it is soaking up the rain!

One of my wrestlers and next door neighbor got shot in the neck last Friday! Severed his spinal cord and is now paralyzed from the neck down! This is a long read but something all our kids need to hear and learn from! Monday, July 10, 2017 July 10 noon update on Alex. ... some rambling words. The supervising doctor was just here. He made some other recommendations. They will now likely do the tracheotomy in the operating room. (They had planned on doing it in the ICU room). This will give them more help and will have an anesthesiologist there. That means that the tracheotomy may not happen today. It also means that while they have Alex on full anesthesia they may have the oral surgeons fix some of the damage in his mouth. Alex still feels pain in his mouth, head, and back of the neck etc. But, the doctors and nurses try to manage the pain with medication. They are aware of Alexs past drug use and are aware that Alexs benefit from their pain medication may be different than other people. I'm sure that many following these updates are young. And I'm sure you're having a hard time wrapping your mind around what has happened to Alex. It's natural for we humans to think that bad things only happen to other people. But we older folk who have seen tragedy, know that bad things can happen to good people any time any place. That is real life. That is why we tell kids to be careful and follow rules. What happened to Alex can happen to any of us. Maybe in different ways, but living outside the rules increases the likelihood that something bad will happen to you. Some of you are Alex's friends who still are living the type of life Alex was living. You know that I've pleaded for these years for Alex to accept detox and rehab. Yet he never would accept any official treatment. I arranged counseling for him 5 times but he would only go to a couple of meetings then stop, I arranged rehabs but he refused. Drugs, smoking, and alcohol started for Alex in high school as something fun and against the rules, then it became a crutch, an excuse, and something he couldn't live without. Eventually any money or support Alex got went towards furthering the drug lifestyle. No one starts out intending to be a drug addict. But, its what happens. That's why its wrong. For many reasons, Alex would tell me there was no help for him. But he was wrong about that. He fought depression, bad dreams and memories, by being high and drunk. He had heard horror stories from some of you about detox and rehab places. So he believed rehab would never work for him. My response to him was that any rehab facility is no vacation, and that the success or failure of any program was dependent on the person's commitment to change. Now, this injury and paralysis is Alexs rehab. Drug detox and rehab would have been way easier than what he is facing now. Alex is no longer one of you stuck in the drug cycle of misery. For that one benefit of this horrible tragedy, Im grateful. Although Alexs drug use was not the direct cause of him getting shot, it was the certainly the indirect cause. Without Alex living his life outside the rules, and if he had made other choices, he wouldnt have been where he was, with who he was, doing whatever he was doing. He should have been in college, in the military, in bed because he was tired from a job and had to work the next day, or any other place else, but he wasnt. Personally, I dont need or even want to know the details. The tragedy of this sorrowful event started for me, for Wendy, and for Alexs brothers and sisters long ago when we all realized the truth of Alexs addictions. Most of you dont know the whole story of Alexs life. Its too long to tell. But, all of you know that Alex was once a healthy young man with a promising future. Drugs changed that, you who sold and bought for him, from him, or used with him; you changed all that. The drug life changed it, I dont blame you. I dont blame anyone. No one intends these kinds of things. Alex has been no angel, but he was taught better. For some reason he felt attracted to the drug life. Perhaps it was something to do with the fact that when we adopted Alex at 6 months old they told us he was a crack baby. We were told he went through withdrawals as an infant. No one starts out to be a drug addict, no one intends to live a life like that, to have friends die, friends injured, jailed. Mostly, the reasons why Alex was on drugs was because Alex made bad choices, didnt like rules, and found that drugs made him feel briefly happy when he was feeling the weight of life. Alex got to the point where the highs and lows made him forget what normal felt like. Alexs battle with drugs is over. Is yours? Go get help Accept whatever advice, treatment, counsel, rehab that has any chance of helping at all. If you fail, try again, and again. Theres only one person who can actually change you, you. I believe in God. I believe that releasing control of your life to Him can help you. Start doing what he says to do. If you dont know about what God has told us to do, read the scriptures, talk to your preacher, talk to those guys in the white shirts and name tags. But, ultimately it is your choice. As it says in the hymn, God wont force anyone to heaven. None of us are perfect. Ive certainly made an ocean full of mistakes. But, we all have to reach a point where we ask forgiveness, let the guilt go, stop focusing on the past, and work to fix today and tomorrow. I believe in the saving power, healing influence, and power to relieve stress of Jesus Christ. He has already laid down the price for all your wrongs, look to him . Forgive yourself, let your own past go. Stop blaming yourself, parents, siblings, others, or your circumstances. Go get and accept any help offered. Try and keep trying. Lots have people are former drug addicts, it can be done.

East fork black river is correct! Is that a new implant of rams in that area? We used to see them frequently in that area but not sense the wallow fire! I know the herd by rocky flats got taken out by the wallow fire but???

Hanging with a rough crowd! Not really certain about details and prefer not to speculate! The dad has been very up front but details of what really went down is still just speculation!!

All I can say is D A N G!!! Right by the road with thousands of people flying by!!!

And make sure he cleaned his knife before another can of beans!!! Gotta love a knife kill!!!

There is a place on the right hand side of the road headed to Heber....can't remember what it is called......Paleo or something dinosauric like that. Big pull out......before the made that pull out a local gal took my boys there and helped them find some small fossils right in the highway cut out........

Same group of bulls next morning....this guy is out like a light!!!

Would you say this is an accurate description?

That last one you mentioned is the one that caught me wondering???

Found in the middle of the road in 3C! Holler if it's yours and you want it!

Wonder what lake her X is fishing? Can you imagine

Can anybody give me a reference as to where the "wild" horses are located? I have heard of the ones on the salt river and of horses up on the rim but now I have these showing up on my trail cam in 3C Cottonwood wash close to the FS300 and then we spotted a herd on the west side of Heber as well??? I am curious what the "count" is for number of horses in the area? And my favorite picture on my cam!!

Yep......half my SD card is full of horses!!!

Maybe June 20 at snowflake intermediate!

Maybe June 20 at snowflake intermediate!

This one just killed me......... http://abovethelaw.com/2017/06/lawsuit-home-depot-selling-4x4s-that-arent-4-inches-by-4-inches-everyone-else-they-arent-supposed-to-be-you-moron/

Through the years I have built each of my boys a bed! Somehow on boy #4 seems I was busy chasing wrestling or hunting or fishing with #4😳! He left home a year ago and ......... I put his bed in his room today!!!! Probably even too small now! Is it okay better late than never?

Baby if the family left last June and I started this bed 6 years ago and finally finished it this week!!!I am a prolific procrastinator!!

Through the years I have built each of my boys a bed! Somehow on boy #4 seems I was busy chasing wrestling or hunting or fishing with #4😳! He left home a year ago and ......... I put his bed in his room today!!!! Probably even too small now! Is it okay better late than never?