Blather

Cooking for Guys

Live to Camp
Camp to Live

Poetry
and Other Lies

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

It Was Epic

It Was Epic

This article was first published as Das Boot in Nr. 40, the October 2018 issue of International Sidecar Traveller   It took us almost a week to get packed, after work and in our spare moments. It took longer than that to convince my brother, Andy, and my good...

Unsettled Weather

Unsettled Weather

  The end of summer is collapsing into a cycle of unsettled weather. A hot day with clear blue sky will suddenly cloud up and let loose a torrent of rain. The night will go black and crack open in streaks of lightning, thunder echoing and rolling across the...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/24/25 7:00 44F (6.6C) Cloudy with rain forecast in the afternoon. My arms no longer hurt from the vaccinations I got Monday. That took a little longer than I expected,  but not too bad. Flu, covid, and pneumonia. Still need the second shingles shot. Getting...

Good Morning

Good Morning

        10/23/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Clear, cool, dry, and calm. A bird is chittering. Walter Dawg is napping on the deck with one eye open. Amy is up, probably sitting in her easy chair playing solitaire on the laptop. My tea is exactly the right...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    10/22/25 6:00 39F (3.8C) I awoke to a still  morning, the sky full of glittering stars. It is so dark I had to feel  my way across the deck to the tub. Overhead  in the cold blackness, the twins watch Orion stalk his prey into the oaks. The dogs cavort...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/21/25 6:45 38F (3.3C) Light breeze, new moon, overcast. Cool, damp and grey. I scrubbed the stale taste of last night's dreams from my mouth and my tea is washing the flavor of toothpaste away. Soaking in the darkness I listen to the whir of tires on damp...