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…
Locals have told me that snow comes in every few years. Well, this is one of those years!. Woo hoo! Schools in Sequim, WA have a snow day. Many businesses have closed due to weather. Sounds like a serious polar vortex event, but it is just a minor storm. Places that don’t get much snow tend…
I have been brainstorming some goals for this summer. After lots of thought, I came up with this list of priorities: Be around people often Create a mix of fun stuff and volunteer work Stay in the Northwest area. There is so much to see here, and I made a commitment to lower my carbon…
I lived in Wyoming for a nearly a decade and then spent 2 winters in North Dakota before I retired. I had my share of blizzards, wind storms, and minus 50 wind chills, so I feel empathy for those people in the current cold snap. Being outdoors in such extreme temperatures is interesting for a short…
It was not short and sweet, just short. That happens, especially when you did not know someone long enough to make an a good decision. That is how it was for me and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I was deeply smitten. I felt like she was the perfect balance to Trump. I hoped that, between his extremism…