Rain, rain and more rain…

It’s a case of animals starting to pair up in Spokane. If anybody’s building an ark, I have yet to hear it, but we’re more than soggy. I don’t think I’ve seen such a spate of rainy weather since we’ve been here. And our stripped...

Ok, we are about to attempt to fix OSG's avatar…

…and our theory is that we have to delete OSG’s membership, and attribute all her comments to her alter ego, which she has; and then she will rejoin as OSG, with that icon, and then I will wipe her alter ego, attritbuting all alterego’s comments to...

Ok, we are about to attempt to fix OSG’s avatar…

…and our theory is that we have to delete OSG’s membership, and attribute all her comments to her alter ego, which she has; and then she will rejoin as OSG, with that icon, and then I will wipe her alter ego, attritbuting all alterego’s comments to...

We’re back from Miscon…

We were late getting there because it turned out the Stars on Ice tix we bought without looking at dates back at Nationals were for Friday night…and we started out with OSG driving at oh-God-thirty on Saturday. Among first things was to meet with...

We're back from Miscon…

We were late getting there because it turned out the Stars on Ice tix we bought without looking at dates back at Nationals were for Friday night…and we started out with OSG driving at oh-God-thirty on Saturday. Among first things was to meet with...

Breakfast in the rain…

Of the many pleasures of our garden, the gentle NW spring days are one of the greatest. It rains…but this morning we threw towels onto the fabric seats of our patio set and had breakfast (softboiled egg in spaceman-with-helmet egg cup) on our flower plates with...

The wonderful rain suit…

Any of you who garden or work in the yard, pen, or camp in the woods, lakeshore, or beach—let me tell you the wonders of a two piece rain suit, which you can find in the hunter’s section of Walmart, Cabelo’s, or any such place. I wear a size 14,...

Today was Gardening Monday…

…and I ran the pond vac, which is a back-breaking sort of thing: you have to wait 20 seconds for it to void the collection chamber and come on again, and when it starts, the tip of the wand drops 2″, which can bring it down among pebbles (insta-clog!) or...

My cooking scale gets here Thursday…

It has a flat surface, a bowl, a tare weight compensation, and is not expensive. 😉 I am contemplating a rice cooker. It is the ONLY thing that would give me the patience to cope with brown rice.