Throwback Thursday – Taxi Ride

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...

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A Little Progress is Still Progress

A Little Progress is Still Progress

      I started chopping out the charred wood from yesterday's burn. It went pretty well, but I decided I wanted it to look more like a canoe, so I rolled it over and used a string to measure where I needed to cut.           I...

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Semi-Social Distance Saturday.

Semi-Social Distance Saturday.

We did pretty good today. Amy did have to take the dog to the vet this morning, but otherwise we stayed home, tried to stay clean and maintained some distance betwixt ourselves. Since I am still working at the Ortho Clinic, I've been sleeping in the back bedroom and...

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Fire & Adze

Fire & Adze

  https://vimeo.com/402266036 More work on the canoe. Using fire and an adze to hollow out the cottonwood log. Visit adventuresidecar.com for other adventures, poetry and even recipes. more information about the dugout canoe project can be found at:...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  4/28/26 5:45 44F (6.66C)  Clear with tattered pink clouds moving across a light blue sky. A jay preens himself as an inconstant breeze stirs the willows. The birds sound like an orchestra warming up, playing scales and fragments of stanza. Amidst the honks and...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/27/26 5:30 42F (5.5C) Mostly  clear with the tickle of a breeze. Birds sing in the dull luminosity of dawn. Somewhere, a woodpecker is hammering. Walter has done his lap of the perimeter,  barking where necessary. Now he rests wachfully on the deck....

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/26/26 6:30 42F (5.5C) The  city is quiet for a city. The sirens settled down last night and there is little traffic moving this early on a Sunday  morning. Amy is sleeping. We came north to Seattle for my aunt's burial yesterday. My brother Dave...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/25/26 5:00 38F (3.3C) Clear and calm. Stars dot the dark blue sky above. Birds are bursting with the morning gossip, vying to be heard over the loud rattle of orchard fans. Walter, still exhausted from yesterday's excursion,  sprawls sleeping on the...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/24/26 6:45 36F (2.2C) Clear, calm, and beautiful. I am surrounded by the thunder of orchard fans. Three ducks wheel overhead, twisting and turning, describing great arcs and figure eights as they fly through blue sky tinged with pink. Where are they...

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