WAAAM Fly-In 2025
My friend Russ Noe suggested I help him ferry people around the air show with our sidecars, so I did. We had a lot of fun, met some great people and saw a bunch of interesting machinery. Here is a photo dump. I may add captions later, when I have more time. ...
A Day In the Woods
We had been hearing rumors of boletes being found at higher elevations, so Amy loaded Michael, Walter and me into the CrossTrek and we headed north of Trout Lake. ...
Good Afternoon
8/29/25 85f (29.4c) 3:00 Clear sky with a few mosquitoes. Mike, Walter and I made an excursion into the woods to escape the heat and look for mushrooms. It felt a good ten degrees cooler in the forest. ...
Good Afternoon
Amy's Uncle Joe and Aunt Judy are visiting from back east. I collected their autographs, then we spent the rest of the day wandering downtown Hood River. ...
Good Afternoon
8/11/25 3:00 105f (40.5c) Clear sky, no wind in town. I had been cooped up in the house with this cold for eleven days. Walter had been cooped up here with me. We were both going stir crazy. I was feeling better, enough...
Good Morning
12/16/25 5:45 50F (10C) Dark and rainy, with the wind dropping off. A hard rain is pelting down, rattling in the drain pipe, splashing through the muddy turf. In between the fog and clouds rests a thin band of not quite light, a slightly brighter shade of gray ...
Good Morning
12/15/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Steady rain, little or no wind. We often have snow by now, it is really quite temperate, but after several warm, dry mornings it feels cold and wet. ...
Good Morning
12/14/25 7:30 38F (3.3C) Partially cloudy, cool, calm, with thick fog in the canyon. There was a brief flash of brilliant color as the sun was about to crest the ridge, then it darkened, the sky turned gray and the fog closed in around me. A lonely goose is...
Good Morning
12/13/25 6:30 42F (5.5C) Overcast with heavy dew. Fog is eddying into the canyon, flowing through the trees from all directions. I woke up at two and lay there in bed for awhile. I decided to try some meditation. I had a good breathing rhythmn going...
Good Morning
12/12/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Cool and dry with a slight breeze. It seems dark, but only a few stars are visible. The moon in its final quarter dominates the cloudless sky. Walter, duty bound, has found something to bark at, but he lacks enthusiasm . ...
Cranberries and Chanterelles
Cranberries and Chanterelles Cranberries ripen at the height of chanterelle season. It was inevitable eventually I would try cooking them up together. I'm only surprised it took me so long to get around to it. Ingredients chanterelles wild cranberries...
Dutch Oven Cornbread
This is a variation of the cornstick recipe I posted earlier. Cornbread recipes are pretty flexible. You can start with equal parts cornmeal, flour, and sugar Use more cornmeal and less flour for more texture; proportionally more flour than meal yields...
Campfire Chili Dinner
Until recently, I seldom used a tripod for anything more than boiling water. Why go to the effort to make a tripod when you can cook directly over the coals? But I have come to appreciate the heat control a tripod affords. You can hang your pot high over a flaming...
Beer Bandoleer
Carhartt 276100 - 6 Pack Beverage Sling - essential summer equipment. Brown polyester exterior, with an adjustable web carry strap and silver insulated inside, the bandoleer fits six cans of beer. We were out for 4 hours in 95 degree(35c) heat. The beer was cool, but...
Cornbread and Blackberries
I enjoyed a relaxing morning, another day off, due to The Contagion, with Dutch oven cornbread and fresh blackberries for breakfast. The cornbread was left over from a recent camping trip; the blackberries were picked this morning. I tarted it up with butter,...
