It’s been 6 years since we visited Mexico and it’s time to head south again. Using our Alaska Airlines $50 ‘twin ticket” we choose Zihuatenajo–a beautiful mini-version of Puerta Vallarta or Acapulco. The Mexican government decided to...
Flash! News Story! I’m working in the net shed this afternoon listening to NPR and having a good time when I hear Martina approach with what I hoped was a cup of hot tea. But it’s a baby black bear instead! It walks right in under my rowboat to within 7...
Abandoned on our neighbor’s beach we pass by this old boat on our daily walks–a 1957 Feathercraft The Feathercraft Company produced these boats in the 1940’s-1960s. After World War II wound down, aircraft companies produced things like aluminum...
We’re off the grid–meaning we generate our own power chiefly with fossil fuels. This is very expensive. As gas prices in the lower 48 have recently dipped below $2 a gallon, we’re still paying $3.90 a gallon here in Petersburg. Further our only...
It’s time to tell the Mercury outboard story. The beauty of the internet is if you google specific words, you can bring to the surface any subject out of trillions of bits of information. Consider the words Mercury Outboard and Lemon….now that’s a...
We’re having a beautiful autumn here with the usual fall colors. Our garden, while mostly under construction, has yielded many potatoes and not much else. Here’s the new bird houses and our local maples above the deer-fenced garden area. B elow is...
