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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

    5/12/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Calm, partly cloudy. Clouds dot the blue sky like tufts of cottonwood dander drifting by. A robin buzzed me, so low I felt the breeze of his wings beating the air. Amy is home from California. Good morning.      ...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/11/26 6:00 43F (6C) A clear,  windless morning,  calm and quiet. The waning crescent moon floats ghost-like between the trees. A swallow glides by, white belly shining in the sun. The water casks have been soaking overnight. They still leak but are...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/10/26 6:30 48F (8.8C) Calm air, cloudy sky. Tattered white clouds open and shut across a pale blue sky. The sun has climbed above the ridge. Birds twitter,  the dog barks, squirrels run up and down the oaks. It is a mellow Sunday rising. Good morning....

Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/9/26 6:00 47F (8.3C) Clear sky with just a  tickle of a breeze. The ground is littered with stringy yellow-green flowers, fallen from the oaks. We will likely have a bumper crop of acorns come autumn. The corn starts I put in the ground yesterday look...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/8/26 5:00 48F (8.8C) Cloudy with an attempt at a slight breeze. Rightous birdsong fills the morning, still cloaked in the dull blue light preceding dawn. The little black banty didn't make curfew last night and is wandering the chicken yard complaining...