Still extremely hot here in the Pine Ridge area of NW Nebraska. Close to 100 degrees here today and suppose to be above that tomorrow through Saturday. Thankfully the humidity is still down in the single digits, otherwise it would be near unbearable at the trailer without air conditioning. Even now it is nice to be sitting inside with ac for an hour or so.

    My friends, Marge and George are still here with me and we are having a pretty good time, even if it means not doing a whole lot of any thing. Most days we are spending around the trailer drinking copious amounts of liquids, talking and reading books and trying to stay out of the direct sun. It is actually kind of fun just hanging out with them both, besides which, with George on oxygen full time, things to do are a bit more limited.

   We did go to their first play last night out at Fort Robinson. The play was 'A year with Frog and Toad'. More of a children's play, the music and dialogue still had enough in it to keep the older part of the audience interested. For me it was also fun to see how the cast and crew over came limitations and problems with the set or costuming or music. The group out there this year are just superb at working through all of those kinds of problems. Tonight we go back again for the play 'Oklahoma'. I haven't seen this play for more than 40 years so it should be fun to revisit it. Last time I saw it was when I was about 16 years old and took my first girl friend to the 'Country Dinner Playhouse' in Denver.

Here are a couple of pictures from the other night when we went out looking for critters.

A nice sunset looking out over the Pine Ridges in the area. Not as colorful as some, but still quite pretty. We were out looking for deer, elk and turkeys and saw quite a few of each.

A slightly different view of the same sunset.

One of many lonely windmills out in this country. I liked how the clouds looked at this time of the evening. It went ahead and rained about an hour later with some wonderful thunder and lightning.

Wild Morning Glory... I think! This was growing on a small shrub like plant all over the hillsides out here. About the size of a regular morning glory flower, I couldn't find it in any of my books.