Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/1/25 8:00 Temperate but raining hard. We had a puddle form by the door last night. It has grown  to a lake with a river running into it. Constant rain all night with no hope for it letting up today. The tipi won’t draft and is filled with smoke. We had...
Good Morning

Good Morning

10/31/25 8:00 cool calm and beautiful .  A lovely sunrise Halloween morning out on The Big Lava Bed after a beautiful moonlit night. Got a slow start this morning and had breakfast  for lunch.                    ...
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Good Morning

  10/30/25 6:30 34F (1C) Calm, dark, cold.   The moon,  waxing into  the third quarter has long since set, leaving only the stars to challenge the darkness.  The thermometer shows 34f, but everything is coated with a thin, bumpy layer of ice. It is the first...
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Good Morning

      10/29/25 7:00 40F (4.4C) Clearing skies with a slight, cool breeze. The deck is littered with wet leaves, slick from last night’s rain. Walter is conversing with the neighborhood dogs. It is good to be home.        ...
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Good Morning

  10/28/25 6:30 42F (5.5C) Cloudy,  calm, dark.  Amy is sleeping.  The nieghbors rose earlier, rattling the pipes with their morning shower.  Outside it looks about the same as yesterday: dry, still dark, some traffic and a few people walking.  A bicycle went by...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    10/27/25 6:30 46F (7.7C) The city glows through a thin fog, the sounds of Monday morning traffic muffled by thick curtains and 115 year old brick walls of the Hotel Sorrento. A jet rumbles overhead. An ambulance wails up Madison, climbing the steep hill...