Just a little higher

Plan A was to borrow a friendofafriend's scaffold like rig, but we found it was otherwise occupied. Plan B was to configure the ladder in the extension position and lean it against the vault ceiling. Upon experimentation, we decided that might be a good way to put a hole in …

Music to Paint By

S and I had left the previous house with extra cans of paint, which we used in the Hobbit Hole, but haven't used up – so we're continuing these older colors through some of the smaller rooms. The big rooms need multiple gallons, and so we went paint shopping, brought …

Italy: Rome Starts

Italian phrase of the day: Buon Giorno Flying from Portland to Rome takes 14 hours, with a layover. Amanda is a seasoned …

Swiftly done with birds

For the month of September, there is a hillside in NE Portland that fills with picnickers every evening at sunset. The blankets …

Sandy Ridge and a Cloud of Dust

Sandy Ridge Trail is named after the town of Sandy, Oregon, that sits below and west of the trail…or maybe it's named …

A cruise with some music

My honey and I tend to do a lot of activites apart, or in our own heads, but occasionally, we do go …

California 2012 – Yosemite part 1

Navigating across northern California would have been easier if we’d remembered the gazetteer, but we were trusting google…and then we found there …

California 2012: Paradise

  Let’s agree to call this the Kings Range Bike Trail. The path in the Lost Coast is actually known as Paradise …