Wild Weekend

President Obama has designated September as National Wilderness Month, so get out and do something wild this weekend.

If you are down in the Four Corners area, or actually just about anywhere in those four states (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona), this will be one of the last wild weekends of summer!  There are some great activities if you want to socialize with like-minded desert rats and beer drinkers.

Telluride: Starting today, The Telluride Blues and Brews Festival featuring George Thorogood...and about any type of micro brew you could possibly desire...try them all!!! All at one of the most scenic venues you will ever experience.

Las Cruces, New Mexico, has it's own weekend of celebration to protect the Organ Mountains with free food, music and children's activities...invest in the next generation to protect what is wild!

Elsewhere in Colorado, on Tuesday the Fremont County commissioners took the first steps in designating 125,000 acres as wilderness. Ed Norden, chairman of the Fremont County commission said: "Wilderness designations seem to have an attraction to some visitors." Maybe in some remote plane of existence there is still some hope for us wilderness advocates...even ATV supporting county commissioners realize some of us want/need/expect wilderness.

Here in Utah, you can always go up to Snowbird Ski Resort, for the 38th annual Oktoberfest going on every Saturday and Sunday until October 10.  An excellent write up on the event was done by Utah Beer Blogspot.

Birds: Sunday is the 150 mile stage of the I-Race in Beaver, Utah...I still have 2 birds in the race!!!  A phone call just showed me how fickle this sport can be, as a fire west of the race course may require a week's delay...hard to make plans to go down for the festivities when you don't know what day. 

A pigeon friend out in Chico, California, had one of his birds place 5th in an Auction race with the Pueblo Racing Homer Club, raising him a few dollars. 

Chic Brooks of HappyCo Loft has donated a group of birds for auction in Indianapolis, Indiana...some wonderful Van Loons that my partner would give his right arm for...if interested, contact me and I will give you the info. 

Honey: Bottling wine this weekend, if I survive the local rivalry of high school football. Layton High Homecoming tonight, and we're going with friends...they play the Davis Darts, my old high school and the school where my step-daughter is a member of the drill team.  Should be an interesting night.  GO DARTS!!!