August 10, 2006 Bonus Blog
Big, dramatic skies again this afternoon. Samantha just stuck her head in my office door and said, "The sky is totally black east of here." Speaking of dramatic skies, here's one of the shots Robert Ray took the other day (see reference, August 6 Bonus Blog). This is the view out my office window (Robert actually went out back for a fuller view) , and this is the storm that dumped a ton of rain up on Continental Mountain that closed off both Spur Cross and School House Roads (and we didn't get more that ten drops!).

Going up to Prescott in the morning to be on TV for the Phippen Art Show. I planned on staying at Ed Mell's cabin but Kathy can't go and I decided to go up, do the TV show, come home then go back on Saturday to the Phippen for my talk at one. I'm supposed to have lunch with Janet Childress. Looking forward to that.

Still hanging out on the next Classic Gunfight. Had planned on doing Mike Meagher in Wichita vs. Sylvester Powell, but I just did Meagher and the Caldwell shootout with James Talbot for the October issue (at the printer right now). I may do Billy Thompson vs. Sherrif Whitney in Ellsworth, Kansas.

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, nad (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
—Abigail van Buren