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Installing Wrayal’s Sidecar

Installing Wrayal’s Sidecar

This article first appeared in Sidecar Traveller Nr.46 October 2019 I recently spent a couple days helping a friend swap his sidecar from a BMW G650 GS to a F800 GS. The 650 was his first sidecar rig; he’d gotten a smoking deal on it and it had served its purpose...

First Fall Foray

First Fall Foray

Summer 2020 in Oregon featured plague, drought, and catastrophic forest fires, but it had been raining hard the first few days of fall. Mike and I went up in the woods Friday to see if we could find any mushrooms. Walter Dawg and I arrived before Mike. Once parked, I...

Birthday Furlough Camp

Birthday Furlough Camp

  My corporate overlords asked for volunteers for a one-week furlough as part of their pandemic austerity measures. I was not sure I was in a better place financially to take the hit than they were, but I was certain I could put the time off to good use, so I...

Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/4/25 7:00 67F (19.4C) It is a warm, overcast  morning with no wind. I have a busy day. Walter has an appointment with the hairdresser this morning,  and I need to get the bike cleaned up and ready. I'm doing taxi service with Russ at the...

Good Morning

Good Morning

9/3/25 6:00 60f (15.5c) It is a pretty morning.  Faint breeze, mostly clear sky with clouds still  deciding what they want to do. A squirrel and a jay had a brief but vociferous argument in the maple. Walter is having a desultory discussion with the neighbor's dogs,...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/2/26 6:00 56f (13.3c) Clear sky, calm, cool air. The light is slow to arrive. The morning star hangs against a lavender backdrop, low in the east. This morning feels like summer ending. It won't feel that way this afternoon, when temperatures  climb above 90f...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/1/25 7:00 58f (14.4c) Light breeze with a thin, broken cloud cover. The hot tub chemicals need adjusting, so I  have to wait a few minutes for my soak.                              ...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/31/25 6:30 58f (14.4c) It is a quiet Sunday morning, partly cloudy, with the subdued chatter of birds remeniscent of the low murmer of an audience settling in before a show begins. Somewhere  behind the curtain  of oaks, a dove coos.