Karen is the first person I met when I moved to Seattle in 1998. A friend of a friend that moved there just before I did. We kept in touch for a while after she chucked it all and moved to Sardinia around 2005. I figured that since I was going to be in the neighborhood, I would track her…
Writing, editing and formatting from my phone. Please excuse the results….. My travel planning is pretty simple. I see a picture of a place that catches my eye and i go there the next time I am even remotely in the area. It a risky proposition in these days of glitzy photoshopped ad campaigns by local tourism boards but so…
I only have my phone and limited internet on this trip so content and formatting is limited. I really didn’t do any research on what Malta has to offer a one week visitor. Especially in the off season. A week later I am still not sure. It’s got its own unique look that’s some where between Italian Renaissance and Middle…
I am happy to report that country 71 is checked off my list. Finally made it to Malta. Everything from here on is just gravy until I head back home went the winter weather gives way to spring. Getting to Malta was no easy feat though. I came down with a cold/sinus infection/ relentless dry cough just before I left…
Winter came a couple weeks before the calendar said it would. Lots of snow but also lots of rain that washed it all away. Temps are hovering around freezing and humidity is staying at just this side of drowning f you take a deep breath. It hasn’t bee too windy though. It would be miserable to have a freezing windy…
It is feeling like I have overstayed my welcome up here. Except for a really wet weekend that rolled through a few weeks ago, November has been cold and damp. The property has turned into a cold wet mud pit. Nothing is drying out. No real snow to speak of for me yet but I can see the snow piling…
It has come to that time of the year again. The days are getting short. The temps are getting low and I am getting tired. No more new projects. Just scrambling to finish what I have started. And being realistic, that’s not going to happen. I am just focused on protecting what I have done from the wet winter ahead.…
Early apologies for any typos on this entry. The batteries didn’t charge under the cloudy skies yesterday. I am typing this pre-sunup with fat thumbs in just above freezing temps on my phone keyboard. Definitely winding down the building season here. Fall arrived last week and kicked sunny dry weather to the curb almost immediately. The short wet cloudy days…
It is convenient and inconvenient that I am on a wind hold at the moment. Convenient in that it is the end of the month and I need to get a post uploaded and inconvenient in that I still have a lot of work to do before the real wet fall weather settles in. Every day counts at this point.…
I have some new neighbors up here. They bought 20 acres with a little one room cabin a couple of properties closer to the main road then mine. They have high hopes of building a nice Log cabin soon and being able to stay for all but the worst of winter. This summer has been prep work for them. Getting…