Pandemic Arts & Crafts
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Pandemic Furlough Campout
With fears of the contagion, business was slow. My employers decided to save some money by furloughing me Tuesday through Wednesday morning, so Walter and I took advantage of the relaxed travel restrictions to go camping. The Triumph loaded with gear, we headed...
Socially Distant Mother’s Day
The Contagion has made the consequences of my procrastination and disorganization so much worse. Last minute saves are just about impossible to pull off. I realized Mother’s Day was just around the corner, and I hadn’t a clue what to do for Mom. I’ve been keeping my...
Saturday Morning Soak
Good morning Saturday. Hot tea and a sunrise soak at Bunny Hump Ranch. As the sun climbs the ridge behind me, a line of brilliance falls across the trees and tipi in front of me. I can actually see...
Throwback Thursday – Taxi Ride
Rick Murray takes me for a "taxi ride" around PIR Saturday, July25,2009 I don't remember screaming but I seem to have lost my voice This was the most excitement I've ever experienced on a motorcycle, let alone on a sidecar. These things are crazy! There is nothing...
Good Morning
3/6/26 6:30 43F (6C) Cloudy with patches of blue. No wind, no rain. The sun tops Snakehead ridge, flaring golden-yellow through a crack in the clouds. I hear turkeys calling from the tall trees up the canyon. Birds are singing, the rooster is...
Good Morning
3/5/26 5:45 44F (6.66C) Breezy, mostly cloudy, beginning to rain. Trees sway in the wind. The moon, waning gibbous behind the clouds, is setting. Birds are singing it to sleep in the dim grey blue of a morning not quite realized. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
3/4/26 6:00 45F (7.2C) No wind. Gray and wet. It is raining here. Apparently it is snowing on the mountain with the freezing level just over 5,000'. That is good. Whether it is good enough we will discover come fire season. I expect a long summer...
Good Morning
3/3/26 40F (4.4C) 3:00 - 4:45 full moon eclipsed like a round, pink, salmon egg. I slept through my alarm and almost missed the eclipse. It was a red ember when I got outside. Descending into the tops of the oaks, it went from a glowing red...
Good Morning
3/2/26 5:00 34F (1C) Clear and calm. The moon, waxing to full, round and bright against the dark sky, hangs above the west ridge between Willow Flat and Middle Mountain. Early tomorrow morning there will be a lunar eclipse. As the nieghbors begin to...
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