My oldest son sent me pictures of him and his friend Whitewater rafting in Buena Vista, Colorado, on what looked like a pretty wild ride down the Arkansas. It looked fun until I remembered that the mountain temperature is in the 60s, and the Arkansas at that altitude is mostly ice water. So as much as I enjoy a bucket of ice water in the face, I will leave adventures like that to the young while I look on from afar.

I took the kids to the library this morning, and they picked out a few books to read. Just because school is out for the summer doesn't mean their reading should stop. I read comic books when I was young, which kept me reading no matter what time of year. But nowadays, kids had rather watch something on the Internet or play a video game than read a comic book. I realize comic books were not educational reading, but reading anything is better than not reading at all.

I found out that there is a new gun store just down the road from me that will do gun transfers, so now I can start selling some of my guns again on GunBroker, and the buyer can have the firearm transferred to another gun dealer wherever the buyer would like so they can legally transfer it to the buyer.

This is time-consuming and expensive, but it is almost the only way a person can buy a gun anymore. Unless, of course, you're a criminal, and then there are multiple channels to acquire firearms. Remember that drugs and human trafficking are not the only things brought in illegally over the Mexican border.

Many folks don't have much money nowadays since inflation is eating some folks alive, so they might not have much money to spend on firearms. But I've still gotta sell about 30 or so guns that I have lying around left over from my collection. And putting them on GunBroker to be bid on reaches the most people and, in my previous experience, brings the highest price.

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I've got some free time since my son drove up to Idaho Springs, Colorado, to do some white water rafting. The weather is just about perfect, high 70s in the Denver area but where he'll be in the mountains it'll be a bit chillier, and the river water will be icy cold. But he deals with cold much better than he does with the heat.

We haven't been going places and doing a lot, mostly just talking and catching up on old times. He doesn't have to do much catching up on my life because he can read what I've been up to in my blog, so it's mostly me asking how his life's been going. And he's doing well.

He's working lots of overtime which he likes, and is happy to be out of the heat and humidity of Florida and back in Montana's cool, dry weather. Florida was great for fishing, which he enjoyed more than anything. Still, the kind of humidity he was dealing with in Florida was something he had never experienced before. So he concluded that the cool mountain air of the summer and even the winter snow was preferable to the sweaty summer weather and the horrendous mosquitoes of Florida. I, of course, agree with that, except for that thing about the snow. But fortunately for me, I can escape the snow and the bitter cold by moseying down south every Fall.

He's going to meet up with a friend here in Colorado, and they're going camping in the southern mountains around Durango, Colorado, for the holidays, which sounds great to me, except for the holiday crowds, which I had rather not have to deal with.

He will return to Denver later this summer, hitch up the Arctic Fox and tow it back to Montana. That will give me more time to work on the Arctic Fox, get it all cleaned up, and hook up the new battery he bought. Unlike me, he doesn't need more than one battery because he doesn't boondock.

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When I saw my eight year old grandson laying on the floor coloring I thought he was coloring in a coloring book, but looking closer I figured out that this was an empty notebook, and he has drawn, not traced, and colored all of these cartoon characters in his notebook, I couldn't believe how good they were. His mom and dad are both very artistic so maybe that would explain it.