Fellow E-10ers:
This past Thursday and Friday, your Hostess With the Mostess, Kocktail Kathy, and her two four-legged soul mates, Sir the Spaniel and Ma'am Da Lab, and I did our annual drive from the Bay Area to Rock Creek, where the first three of these have now set up residency for the summer months (and beyond, no doubt). And what a greeting we received: as shown above, the flowers in our flower beds are fully awakening from their long winter nap, the larch pine are in full "budding mode" (with this glorious flora, the only deciduous member of the pine family, renewing its annual vow of replenishment and expansion, and the grounds of Extravaganza Headquarters are in full expansion mode, as best shown in the last photo of one of our backyard trees now in full resplendent bloom.
Indeed, it is just a month and two days from today (yikes!!) that the ignoble Ones will descend upon the scene and raise the curtain for our eighth annual foray into the wonders and wilds of Montana, Extravaganza 2010. And our family has grown in the past year. Shown above is the official "Wall-Mart Greeter" for E-10, "Ma'am Da Lab", with tongue fully extended in anxious anticipation for your arrival(s). You see, Ma'am, as a retriever, has one built-in genetic wonder (defect?), namely the insatiable desire to fetch and retrieve a ball of any size until, literally, she drops. Right now she is asleep beneath my office desk, having so outdone/over-exerted herself over the weekend that she has developed a case of what I have come to call "driveway foot"--a recoverable injury incurred in the line of (retrieving) duty from having lived the soft life in the Bay Area in current transition to the more rugged Montanaesque environs....all together now, "aaaaaw"!
This week that I will spend here will be devoted, in part, to final preparation for Extravaganza 2010--something that, organizationally, is in apple pie order with all eyes currently focused on the non-runoff that we are experiencing. As to the former, UPS called last evening to see if we would be here today to receive "28 boxes" [read cases of wine...perhaps, just perhaps, enough for Group One?!?]; as to the latter, I spent a few hours fishing Rock Creek yesterday, which, unlike any of the prior three years would be fully unfishable at this time [due to high, turbid waters] and actually got a few fish to salute me--an omen of good things to come. I will know more on Thursday of this week, after spending a full day on the Bitterroot River with our {Double-Up] outfitter, John "The Great But Propaneless" Gould and will promptly report back to "y'all". In the interim, keep your eyes on the Flow Chart (that Patty will update and send out to each of you today--thanks, Patty!] and watch for weather condition changes here. Yesterday it started out in the low 40's and beautifully rose up into the mid-70's (weather here typically will find the daily low about one-half of the daily high)--we were sitting outside on the porch reading until well after 8:30 last evening...yes, it is that light that long in these here parts.
Keep checking Der Blog for further updates and remember the 500th visitor will receive a bottle of cherished Rock Creek Red upon arrival here (we are currently at #439)!!
Best to all from the scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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