Good Afternoon

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.                              ...

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Good Evening

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.      

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Camp Tittyhahaha – Day 5

Camp Tittyhahaha – Day 5

Monday was another beautiful, sunny day at the coast, our fifth and final day of camping with the family.                                              ...

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Camp Tittyhahaha 2005 Day 3

Camp Tittyhahaha 2005 Day 3

Saturday morning, I awoke to babies screaming in a neighbor's tent. Camping in a parking lot, even a pretty one, has its drawbacks. 7/ 26/25 Walter and I took a short walk to relieve ourselves, then returned to camp. The Activities Director was updating the days...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

      2/5//26 6:15 40F (4.4C) Calm, overcast with a light mist. Another tranquil morning . The moon, waning gibbous behind the clouds, lends the sky a dull gray glow. The cat is eating breakfast on the front porch. The dog is in watchful repose on the...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/4/26 6:00 40F (4.4C) No wind, no rain. Somewhere behind the clouds the moon is smiling. Owls call back and forth.  A dog barks up the canyon and Walter  answers. A car hurries by, headlights flashing through the oaks. Overhead,  the distant rumble of a...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/3/26 6:15 38F (3.3C) Calm,  overcast, with a light mist  tickling my face. Not much going on yet. A few cars headed to town. Walter is taking a nap between rounds of the perimeter.  The rooster has crowed but is not yet insistent. I slept well and am...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/2/26 6:00 38F (3.3C) Overcast, calm, dry. When I went to bed it was cold. The full moon shone brightly in the clear indigo sky. This morning it is temperate. The moon is dropping through the clouds towards the west ridge,  a dim light glowing through...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  2/1/26 6:00 42F (5.5C) Overcast, relatively dry, no wind. Somewhere behind the clouds the full moon is hiding. 42F (5.5C) is pretty damned warm for before sunrise on the first day of February. It was a quiet Sunday morning  until the folks living in the RV...

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White Privilege

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...

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Camp Rice & Mushrooms

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...

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Take & Bake Pizza with Wild Mushrooms

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...

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Crab-Stuffed Morels

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...

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