• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

A respite from the drought 08/03/14

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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So we had some wild weather for the last two weekends. I ended a race day in a storm in Anza in July, then was treated to a wonderful day of trail riding in the high desert, yesterday. Usually temperatures are in the triple digits by August, but when a thunderstorm comes through, sometimes things cool off rather dramatically. I bet that it was only 70 degrees during the brunt of the storm. So nice. There was that pesky chance that I could get hit by lightning, but as with so many other rides during a storm, the lightning never seemed to strike in the area where I was. There were plenty of other people out enjoying the trails in the morning. That's when most of the lightning and thunder seemed to be moving through. I waited a while....then there was rain and almost no lightning.

Gnarly weather as i was nearing the valley.


Down by the cattle ranch....


It sprinkled lightly on and off, then finally started to come down in earnest.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1W-nlYJHmQ


Just 10 or 15 minutes later, the rain was coming down so hard that it couldn't soak into the ground fast enough, and I was riding a little river instead of a trail in some spots.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Kya9qG7X0


It's been a long time since I got soaked, boots full of water, etc. And the air was like desert perfume. I hope we have a few more summer storms out there...and a wet winter too!
 
Ah DD it is always so good to see your handy work. Looks like you had a blast.Its great when the trail turns into a little creek. Thanks for sharing-love your work.
 
We didn't get that much rain in Napa the other night, but what a welcome sound. I stopped what I was working on at the work bench when I heard a strange sound outside. I sat in a chair in the garage and enjoyed the moment.

That sure looks like fun in the desert. I need to try that some day.
 
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