Please Don’t Take My Free Sign
Fashioned from a paint sample drywall scrap, one of my best free signs was also one of my most quickly pinched.
Vashon Islanders have...
Winter Left the Door Ajar
Mount Rainier as a sundial (from Maury Island)
Winter Left the Door Ajar
Winter left the door ajar, enough to steal a peek,
Perhaps to silence...
Spreading the Chestnut Love
Autumn's bounty: a bowlful of chestnuts, a tabletop of squash
I have a thing for chestnut trees; let me count the ways.
I love the tasty...
Snow Days and the Power of the Outage
Snow days and the beauty afoot!Every year I plan on being prepared for the torrent of Pacific winter storms that buffet coast, home and...
Boz the Bulldog Versus Frosty the Snowman
https://youtu.be/zKdqzIxHGb0
Yesterday Vashon received a primer of snow, and my buddy Jon took advantage of its fine packing ability (and my inability to locate our...
Saving Pumpkins: How to Store Winter Squash
Here's to a long (shelf) life
Fresh food storage is a tricky business; what's good for the potato and parsnip gets a pshaw from the...
Beguiled by a Month of Full Moons
My friend Karen calls January "an honest month." I agree; it is what it is. Mornings are reluctant, evenings jump the gun. The trees...
The Snapshot That Cost Me My Lunch
I had to take a trip "off-island" for some special wire fencing that was nowhere to be found "on-island." After adding a quart of...
A Place Between Too Little and Too Much
Recently my friend Erik shared some Finnish wisdom: Onnelisuus on se paikka puuttuvaisuuden ja yltäkylläisyyden välillä.
What's that, your Finno-Ugric language skills aren't what they...
Kitchen Confrontation: Boz and the Bobblehead Bulldog
Boz vs. the bobblehead: showdown at the Tall Clover corral
Boz was a pretty good pooch this year. Sure there were some mishaps, encounters with...
