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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

    2/19/26 7:00 33F (0.5C) Cloudy and wet. Currently no wind and no precipitation. My weather app sez it is below freezing  and snowing but I am not seeing that.                          ...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/18/26 6:30 26F (-3.3C) It is a windless morning covered in lumps of ice, clear but for a few wisps of clouds. A brief squall of freezing rain passed through last night, followed by clearing and plunging temperature. The apparent tranquility of a...

Good Morning

Good Morning

      2/17/26 6:00 27F (-2.7C) Cold, still, and dull gray. A dim, frosty morning. Not actually snowing but ice crystals brush my face. The cat's water is freezing. I break through the thin crust so she can drink. By 6:30 Amy is up making the bed. Birds...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/16/26 6:45 40F (4.4C) it's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. The rain is pounding straight down with an incessant, rattling tattoo. The dog is hiding undercover of the front porch,  studiously ignored by the cat. Or so I assume.  I haven't...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/15/26 6:00 38F (3.3C) Cloudy and raining. Walter Dawg is always happy but Sheila Kitty is not a morning person Earlier an owl was calling through the darkness from over near the creek. As light seeped into the gloom birds began to wake. I eaves-dropped...