Sunday, early evening! Time for a hike at Cougar Bay Preserve, a Nature Conservancy site. I had previously been to the nearby National Forest Ranger Station and stocked up on information about hikes in the area. I support the work of the Nature Conservancy and I have never been disappointed by a hike on their…
So happy that Coeur d’Alene has an abbreviation – CdA. I saw it first in a newspaper article. Apparently others decided that typing that lowercase d followed by an apostrophe is a bit cumbersome. So CdA it is. CdA is a small city with 55,000 people, in the Idaho Panhandle. It is 15 miles from the…
I grew up with self-proclaimed bibliophiles. I became a bibliophile myself. At least one brother loves books too. Then, a recent word of the day was bibliotaph: a person who caches or hoards books. Huh? What happened to the word bibliophile? Is this a new term for e-book collectors? What? There must be an explanation,…
Reentry into civilization. Culture, coffee shops, healthy food, people, glorious people. In the parking lot, a cheery guy playing guitar to his lady, who was sitting in her car. Man in the choral concert Tuesday night with a man bun, something I have seen online but never in person. A friend from online who opened her…
I am learning the ways of Blue Moon– a camper twice the weight and height of Half Moon. That means camper blooper stories and lots of them. But first, I pulled into a Corps of Engineers (COE) campground near dark. I was so excited to find a wooded and gorgeous place right on Johnson Creek.…
I am from Ohio, the Buckeye State. It’s not like you see Buckeyes everywhere.If you really try, you can find chocolate/peanut butter buckeyes in the store. Never real buckeyes. Now I am hanging out in Washington, which has one of the best nicknames ever: the Evergreen State. State nicknames are fun. Never know when a trivia-type…
Blue Moon is snug and safe in a storage place. I need to keep the battery charged so I dug out the solar panel and hooked it up. I checked with the front office guy to make sure it was okay and he said no problem, and also “we have lots of sun here”. Really?…
Sunday late afternoon. I look online for nearby hiking trails and also download from Amazon a book about local hikes. I zoom in on Dishman Hills Natural Area, only a few miles away from the newlywed’s apartment. C’mon Tango, C’mon Miles (furry granddog). Let’s go explore. Woohoo hoo. Dishman Hills has several access points and a…
My work in ND is finished, and I like the idea of staying in the Spokane area while I await the next interim call. I wasn’t sure when I left ND if I would hang around here, but I’m loving it. I am reintegrating into city life while living so close to the great outdoors.…
In the past, I wrote about simple living in rural areas. It seemed to me that the only way to a simpler life is to be removed from the mayhem of modern culture. However, I am discovering that life is simpler, in some ways, IN the city. What the heck? Yesterday morning. My to-do list included:…