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While the conversion is going pretty good and I'm just trying to get a handle on what will stay old code vs new code for galleries, what's not going so great is the hosting.
And I just figured out yesterday after paying for years that I [...]
Well, not quite.
I've always wanted to find old papers between the walls of a house while remodeling; all the better if that old paper happens to be cold cash currency.
Here's a scrap I found while ripping apart the rotting porch.
It's a' [...]
1. Feed them fresh planked halibut and Hood Canal oysters upon arrival
2. Show them a farmers market or two
3. Take them to a climbing gym
4. Serve them forest pig, bought from the hot men of Vashon's Sea Breeze Farm, grilled' [...]
I never expected that butchering a pig would be a pleasant affair. It's not.
What I was looking for was to understand how much work it would take to process a pig in the event I bought one. As a bit of a foodie, I'm curious [...]
When the wind and rain started 10 miles into my planned sixty mile ride today, I just turned right around to be a bit closer to home. I ended up taking a few pictures of Seward Park and doing the climb up to Madrona for [...]
Seven years ago, I was somewhat lighter, definitely younger, and a touring neophyte. I'd never had my new touring bike out of the city. One Friday night, I packed it in the car and spent a long day riding along the Columbia River, from Wenatchee to Chelan and back. I' [...]
Tricky and conniving, potatoes can take over nearly anywhere you lay them. Hungry feeders, they sap your soil! Those pesky tubers!
I'd be the first to admit though, if you dig them up while they least expect it and rush them to the oven or grill, they're [...]
It's been a while since I've had a week of cycling that exceeds one hundred miles.
As a bike nerd, sure, I'm ashamed and what not, but well, that's just how it's been.
Today's ride got us doing something I've always thought would be' [...]
This morning, I drove out to Ebey Island for a class on pig butchering.
I'm going to post a graphic "How To" and what I learned soon from' [...]
Just before five am, I dropped some friends off at the airport. Caffeinated, I drove north on the nearly empty interstate, waiting for the sun to come up.
The Skagit Valley lies about an hour and half out of Seattle, a broad flood plain, and the [...]
We got a text on the way to Grayland, "Hurry! I am in my tshirt on the beach", but by the time we got their the sun was setting, the clouds gathering and it was time to put on a hat.
We never took off the [...]
The West is filled with broken dreams and dusty waysides where businesses came and went. Mercey Hot Springs is one of these places, forgotten when the highway was built further north and the fashion for soaking and public bathing waned after the war.
Driving down [...]
By most standards you read about in the paper, the San Joaquin Valley is a mess, but a necessary one as a huge percentage of the nation's food comes from here. We're learning that the complex irrigation system is not sustainable and the region is experiencing a [...]
Changes are if you've come to Seattle to visit me, I've suggested that we go visit the Weyerhaeuser Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection.
It's a regional treasure and I can't think of any place like it in the country.
The rationale part of my brain [...]
We have a dirty little patch of ground behind our garden shed where we stack extra lumber from our projects and keep the recycling bin out of sight. It's not a large space, but I got thinking, Isn't there something we could do that's more' [...]
Ah, these little seeds may well be late.
Weeks ago we converted our old dining table into seed table as the seed table went downstairs and the seed room was converted over to a future foster kid's room.
Until today, that table was a' [...]
It's hard to believe it's almost April. It's been down right cold in Seattle...
For the past four and half months though I've plenty warm three mornings a week at Cycle University; at least once I get in the door and get spinning. Friday is [...]
Hotness on Bicycle is something I have been sorely lacking for a couple years now. 
It's snowing again today.
It looks like we're in for another cool week, but the kitchen garden is finally planted for Spring. The cloche is moved from the kale and arugula which will be fine to help get the new set of seeds growing: carrots, favas, [...]
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife. And you may ask yourself, "Well...how did I get here?"
They say it's the last year of the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, one of the largest exhibits of its type in' [...]
Several years ago, my parents decided to set up a home base outside of Fort Worth, Texas. It's a relatively cheap place to live.
They live on a lake and from what I can tell, it's a bit of six-pack resort in the summer as everyone [...]
Until today, I'd been underwhelmed with the food I've eaten in Dallas, though not surprised. It's not like I think of Texas as state with refined culinary tastes.
This morning, I told my parents, "We're going to eat good food!"
I had to [...]
With the failure of Thursday's photo shoot I decided to take advantage of the thick fog to walk around Volunteer Park after spin class.
At 7:45, the park was already busy with dog walkers, joggers, men cruising, and the gardeners tending garbage pick up.
Gray and cold, this morning wasn't the most intriguing weather to go on a photo safari, but that's what I was doing with Pam of Nerdseyeview.
I did not take enough photos, think hard enough about finding things to shoot, and in most ways [...]
Feeling stir crazy with a major project I needed to wrap up, I decided that a bit of fresh air and a walk would do me good. Just starting our second year, we've got a few hellabores in our garden, which we're getting to see [...]
I felt more hesitant switching lenses around in Mexico, drawn by the vibrant color and textures to stick with my standard lens. It seemed risky to me to play around with the Lensbaby, maybe I'd miss a better snap.
It's a different type of [...]
With a free ticket to use...
We went somewhere with some sun.
Having never been to Baja, I was captivated and am excited to get back, go further, and be gone longer! This trip also happened to be my first real stay at [...]
Just like that, we were beyond the inversion gripping Seattle and looking at the Cascades and the Sierras from the east.
And we're on our way to warm, sunny Mexico!' [...]
I hate flying. Tomorrow, we are flying. I hate that.
In light of today's horrible news (down plane despite happy ending for shell-shocked terrified people who may never fly again), it is worth thinking about the amazing thing that flight is.
Click right' [...]
For the last several years, I've been chaffing on Blogger! There's so many features I see around that I think would be cool and maybe even helpful that just don't exist on this platform. And while I've not code-a-phobic, I'm a bit of a dunderhead. So I' [...]
One of Seattle's best known old time string bands, the Tall Boys, are regularly at the Market. It's often a mix of the band and I suppose their pals, and they sing sweetly about murder, broken hearts, and God.
If you see them at [...]
Fifteen days ago, I snapped some pictures of a decent snowfall. Little did I know that it would only be the beginning to a two week decent into madness, futility, and frustration.
We're back from a unexpected car-free trip to Canada and still have a decent' [...]
So much for enjoying our staycation! After being homebound in a foot of snow for what felt like weeks, Vic and I were quite happy to be journeying North on the Victoria Clipper.
While I've wanted to do some camping and hiking on Vancouver Island,' [...]
The last of the tulips went in on Friday. I spent the day whipping around the garden, a frenzy of winterizing.
It's the first time since leaving Boston that I joined my fellow Seattlites in hoarding and brow-bending worry over an incoming storm that the weathermen' [...]
It's been a few weeks now that Pops has been living here at the Gardnovsky Home for Wayward Pets and he's settling in nicely.
Last week, we picked up our ketubah from our pal Larry at Seattle Custom Framing. It's stunning.
A ketubah is a Jewish marriage contract signed as part of the wedding ceremony in front of the gathered congregation. Despite its spectacular framing, it's hanging on [...]
There's some advantage to setting the table with name tags. You get to sit to exactly who you want, knowing the conversation will be a delight and the evening fly by. It did.
In our fortunate life, we have much to be thankful [...]
With some trepidation, I headed over to Capitol Hill to start the Turkey Transitioning. Admittedly, I felt better about it after our Sunday Co-Op get together where roles were discussed, a plan outlined and a "Wild Turkey" toast was made to the seven turkeys Margot and PS [...]
I was starting to get a bit nervous about the upcoming Turkey Slaughter. It's not that as a band of newbies we couldn't do it, but I did want it to be done efficiently and with as little distress to New Tiny and all the rest of [...]
My mother recently sent another batch of pictures they're cleaning out of storage. A friend of mine in Pittsburgh has nearly stopped communicating but for small slices of video. As one might expect when making short clips about daily life, some are rather prosaic. As often as not though, there is a large amount of emotion in the simplest activity. What [...]
I was definitely a side kick on this trip. Up for the Madonna concert, tickets were so much money, that I opted not to go, but rather bum around town while Vic did what he had to do.
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Too say that the month has completely got away from me would be an understatement? Where did it go?
I'm behind in work, not up to speed for the swim team yet, the house is a mess, and it's almost November! It's nearly ski season [...]
For the past week and a half, we've been on a road trip. We're still out there, alternating camping and hotels, site-seeing with sitting around reading books and surfing the net.
In addition to reading, I've also been continuing to learn Aperture, though it is admittedly [...]
For all my seasonal talk about trying to switch up this blog into a more web-friendly experience, swapping in more bicycling again, or delving deeper into content, it's the side projects of content [...]
Our hiking book says that Snow Lake is likely the second most popular hike in the State. That seems about right. I'd never thought we'd end up there, but when we arrived yesterday at the cloudy, drizzling and very cool Snoqualmie Pass it suddenly took on some [...]
My new gig doesn't normally involve sitting a couple hundred feet off the ground looking at containers going to the Far East, but it was certainly a bonus to get to do so over lunch.
I have large fear of heights, so clambering about the catwalks [...]
"Oh, watch out...he's a Mountain Goat!" That's what everyone says about our Northwest pal, J. His wife warned us the whole time, "You're crazy if you try to keep up with him.". As if we could.
They both kicked my butt, and if I hadn't [...]
Starting with nothing but square yard lined with arborvitae, we headed toward our July wedding and summer BBQ season with a vision: flowering madness and food to eat. Despite our March snow and cold June, with the help of professionally grown starts, we're [...]
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On the small scale, our first year garden is a great success. With a wink, I tell Victor, I'm working on many tableau, which is about all we can do as we wait for the anchoring plants to [...]
Harrison Hot Springs is an odd town. It's hard to find anything about it other than the Spa, which sits at one end of the beach front. There are a however a few hotels, restaurants, plenty of camping spots, and most importantly a public [...]
No small goldfish bone of contention, my desire to have fish again in the garden was not getting the go-ahead by Victor. Of course, my last koi pot became a sashimi bar for the racoons before the very last fish met his doom frozen solid during an [...]
When I opened my eyes after the wedding, I wasn't quite sure where I was. Heaven?
It took some time, and Vic's help, to piece together the end of the event, except for the crying, which I remembered. So there we were in the Cloud [...]
Occasionally, I stay up too late working. Usually, I am trying to write a report, which can be very much like a trip to the dentist for me. Not always, but often.
Last year sometime, at the prodding of my boyfriend, I started using a Google [...]
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I ought to be ashamed. What a lovely evening for a spin with my pals. [...]
One thing that I find very difficult about being out of shape is dealing with the memory of being in shape.
There is a joy in confidently running six miles that is hard to find or remember when a 2 mile trot feels like you're [...]
