Happy Anniversary!

It's summer on the RANGE for all intents and purposes. Graduations galore, cattle out to pasture or moved up to high country on summer allotments. Gardens should be in by now, and there's plenty of front porch sitting to be had as the evenings cool. Shockingly, this week we celebrate one year of RANGE magazine under our ownership. I cannot believe it's been a year already. Where does the time go? Most of the stories are in from our writers for the Fall 2026 edition of the magazine, and we're about ready to start the editing process, along with rounding up a few of our strays -- the writers who haven't yet sent their stories. I was always in this last batch of stragglers, begging CJ for more time, sheepishly confessing to bad time-management or unavailable sources, or horribly written prose. Because of that, the tendency is toward leniency and encouragement, and it does help that they don't all come in at once, allowing for the work to regulate a bit with a natural tempo given work styles and personalities. This has been my favorite part of this whole grand adventure -- getting to know our writers and our readers. Thank you all so much for your calls and letters, emails and little notes -- you mean the world to us as we've learned how to produce a national magazine, and your encouragement has kept us going.