We took the seasonal Lake Coeur d’Alene cruise…

Jane and OSG and I…on the littlest dinner cruise boat, the Osprey, in a 40 mph gale with blowing dust. But we love the upper deck…so there we sat, having dinner (the boat was near the hilly shore at that point, which, gave us enough calm to keep the plates...

We took the seasonal Lake Coeur d'Alene cruise…

Jane and OSG and I…on the littlest dinner cruise boat, the Osprey, in a 40 mph gale with blowing dust. But we love the upper deck…so there we sat, having dinner (the boat was near the hilly shore at that point, which, gave us enough calm to keep the plates...

Spokane drivers…

http://www.krem.com/news/Truck-crashes-through-red-light-camera-gets-stuck-on-sidewalk-94581374.html ……strike again. This is a sidewalk and a busy one at that. These traffic cams cost about 300,000 each. Spokane is a city where if you are driving a truck...

So what are you going to do this winter?

We’re headed back to the rink soon: we could have skated through the summer, but there was so much work we needed to do, and of course personal events intervened—so we hope to get back onto the ice without cracking our skulls or anything else essential....

Jane’s been on the roof again…

Gutter cleaning. We got a couple of wheelbarrow loads of compost out of it: gutter-guard keeps the big stuff out, and the chaff composts really nicely. Darn the luck. I meanwhile hauled out the garbage, the recyclables, and the yard clippings, and clipped the roses...

Jane's been on the roof again…

Gutter cleaning. We got a couple of wheelbarrow loads of compost out of it: gutter-guard keeps the big stuff out, and the chaff composts really nicely. Darn the luck. I meanwhile hauled out the garbage, the recyclables, and the yard clippings, and clipped the roses...

Life in Spokane…

Mr. Lector, back in the institution, has now gotten a phone and called the news station. He assures everyone he meant no harm, he is no longer schizophrenic, and the sickle he was carrying was to protect him from mountain lions. A kid at school had a cough. Fears of...

And here comes the chopper again…(11 pm)

Some brilliant functionary decided that it would be nice to give our local prison inmates a holiday at the fair. At the end of the day, they’re missing one, sort of a Hannibal Lecter type, far out of touch with reality, to hear the local news guys, and probably...