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 Evening
8~9~25 7:30 80f Clear, blue sky with the sunning dropping low in the west, casting golden beams of light through the almost invisible haze of fire season. I painted the back decks yesterday, and soaked the soft spots with Minwax wood hardener. This morning I filled...
Good Afternoon
8/5/26 2:30 83f (28.3c) , mostly clear with a light breeze. Apparently , I don't have the contagion. Guess I will run some errands before I run out of ooomph. ...
Good Evening
7/29/25 9:00 79f (26.1c) No wind. Mike, Walter and I took a short walk this evening. The smoke from the wildfires tinted the sky at sunset.
Camp Tittyhahaha – Day 5
Monday was another beautiful, sunny day at the coast, our fifth and final day of camping with the family. ...
Good Morning
2/26/26 6:30 28F (-2.2C) Clear and frozen, with a slight breeze. The morning was brilliant, glowing violet, lavender and blue. It has settled down to a bright, brittle blue with a few wisps of clouds around the edges. Birds are flitting about,...
Good Afternoon
Walter, Mike and I went looking for the snow level today. We found some snow here and there around 1400'. By 1700' there was a solid 6" under the trees and covering the road. ...
Good Morning
2/25/26 5:45 33F (0.5C) Dark, clear and frosty. The the sky and the ground are all a twinkle. I saw a falling star from my bed so I got up to keep it company. Now the dark has gone out of the sky, taking the stars with it. It is replaced by a dim blue...
Good Morning
2/24/26 7:30 32F (0.0C) Calm, overcast and wet. It is sprinkling a light mixture of snow and rain now. It snowed most of last night. At one point we had about 4" accumulation on the ground but that's been reduced to 1" of slush. Even so, schools have...
Good Morning
2/23/27 6:45 40F (4.4C) Cold, hard rain. In the absence of wind, it is pounding straight down. A pair of ducks flew off from the pond, headed towards the creek. No birds are singing, no squirrels are chattering . Everyone is hunkered down, trying to...
White Privilege
I used to call this one "Diabetes in a Glass", but reflecting upon recent events, I have changed the name to "White Privilege", because it tastes so sweet you don't even know it is fucking you up. Ingredients Old Fashioned Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Dr. Mc...
Take-out
Camp Rice & Mushrooms
https://vimeo.com/421069177 I cooked this on my Biolite Campstove2, using pellets for fuel. Any campstove will work. The trick is to fashion a double boiler. I broke up several small branches and tossed them in my large camp pot to form a trivet. I put...
Take & Bake Pizza with Wild Mushrooms
https://vimeo.com/419668102 Of course, take and bake pizza is a cheat but this is, after all, Cooking For Guys. Besides, this post is as much a brag about a successful mushroom hunt as it is about pizza. Amy, Andy and I took the sidecars up the ridge to...
Crab-Stuffed Morels
I returned to a favorite patch of morels for a third picking the other day. Holy Smokes! They weren't just plentiful, they were giant! These were some of the biggest morels I've ever found, several of them were 7" tall with caps hovering between 4" and 4.5", one of...
