Good Morning
10/5/25 Good morning. 6:00 and cold enough to see my breath but comfortable by the fire. I am not sure if I hear Walter or Jason, but someone is snoring in the tipi, loud enough to scare the bears. Sipping my tea and listening to the brook babble stories to me,...
Good Evening
10/3/25 8:30 Clear sky cool, temperate weather, The moon waxing gibbous and approaching full. Just got home from the deep, dark forest. Mike and I drove north, looking for someplace we hadn't camped before. ...
Outhouse Camp August 2025
My brother Andy, my friend Jason, and I all had our birthdays within a week of each other. Obviously, a birthday camping trip was in order. It would take some effort to work out the logistics. Jason is employed at an orthopedic clinic, with weekends off. Weekends are...
Good Afternoon
Walter accompanied Michael and I into the woods to look for mushrooms. Even though we have had recent rainstorms, it was too dry and we didn't collect many specimens for the amount of ground we covered. We did find a few rubbery chanterelles, a small chicken of the...
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. ...
Good Morning
4/19/26 6:30 45F (7.2C) Calm, temperate, mostly cloudy. Thin, grey clouds shift above me. Song birds trill. A duck flys low overhead. Somewhere a woodpecker is tapping. A dove coos. A turkey calls nearby. A shotgun blast. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
4/18/26 7:00 38F (3.3C) Wisps of white clouds stretch across blue sky. No wind. Sprayers whine and orchard fans rumble in the distance. The sun climbs over Snakehead Ridge but hasn't quite lit the canyon floor. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
4/17/26 7:00 37F (2.7C) Calm and quiet. I slept late this morning, clinging to dreams which faded and disappeared as soon as I opened my eyes. Patches of white clouds decorate the blue sky. Birds trill sweetly. A dove coos. Squirrels chatter as...
Good Morning
4/16/26 6:00 34F (1C) Cold, partial clearing, no wind on the ground. The temperature has dropped. Orchard fans are thrumming. It rained all day yesterday and through a good deal of the night. There is snow on the hills up behind the house. We actually...
Good Morning
4/15/26 6:00 46F (7.7C) Cool, wet, and gray. A slight breeze wags the birch catkins and flutters the sodden ribbons at the tips of the lodgepoles. It is raining hard. I can barely hear the birds singing over the steady tattoo of raindrops. Perhaps it...
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,...
Stuffed Zucchini
It is that time of year. The zucchini is coming on and gardeners are hiding the stuff in everything trying to foist it off on their friends and neighbors. I don’t go in for the subterfuge – none of that zucchini bread, zucchini cookies, zucchini fudge, or zucchini...
Living My Best Life
Pork chop grilled with herbs from the garden (sage, rosemary, oregano) and a flaming splash of bourbon, applesauce, mashed potatoes, green peas picked and hour before and, of course, a nice salad, Washed it all down with beer from Full Sail in a Lady Washington...
Pie Iron Breakfast Scramble
A quick and easy breakfast for one or two people, this pie iron scramble is a real winner Ingredients 2 servings 2 handfuls Tater Tots 2 slices bacon 1 egg butter pepper, garlic three fingered pinch diced onion (optional) three fingered pinch diced sweet pepper...
