Today I moved the van over to my RV space. Usually, it sits in the overflow parking because the car sits in my space. However, I needed to empty out the van and check for any water leakage. The van hs never really leaked but it had two feet of snow on top last week…
One of the guys at the RV park finally cleared off the driveway, by hand! He used a metal rod to chip through the snow and then shoveled it off. It was a ton of work, and every time I see him I thank him profusely. I was able to get out! Other people in…
I thought briefly about leaving Sequim before the snow hit. I stayed because I figured we would get just the 6 inches of snow that the weatherman forecast. That would not be so bad! Of course, in the end it was 2 feet, so I should have driven down to the desert while I had the…
I am not going to lie. Being stuck inside for a week is tough! The problem is that this area is not used to snow and does not have plows to clear away the 2 feet of snow that fell from the sky as we all watched in amazement. We might get a few inches…
Somehow, an unfinished draft of my fish post was published on Christmas Day! I clicked on publish instead of save, but I didn’t notice until weeks later when I started working on the post again. Then and now, I really wanted to click delete. Nutritionists tell us to eat fish twice weekly, but the information I was…
I use Google often to research topics that interest me: public lands use, climate change, cooking, camping, travel and more! I never tire of researching something new and following links and threads that lead to interesting tidbits. I found that any Google search brings up articles from the past as well as the present. More…
What does someone do when they are tired of snow and terrible weather, yet the forecast calls for more? How do you cope when your car and van are buried and there is no hope of getting them out or having safe streets for at least several more days? What do you do when you…
“It never snows in Sequim. At most, maybe 2 inches.” I heard that several times after I decided to hunker down here for the winter. I hoped that would be the case, but I never took people’s weather declarations too seriously. When it “never rains” somewhere, I end up in the worst rain on record.…
Edward Abbey has been gone since the late 1980s. He was then and is still an important voice about lands in the west. Some of his books are iconic, like Desert Solitaire and the Monkey Wrench Gang. He voiced early concerns about development and mining in the west – especially the Red Rock Country of…
I bought three new-to-me soup bases before the winter storm moved in. I decided to use the unsweetened coconut soup base for a new snow-day recipe. Coconut flavors suggest Thai food to me, and I developed a craving for my favorite, green curry. However, all I had was a jar of red curry. Red curry…