It’s a good thing June only has 30 days. It gives me an excuse for not getting much done since I last posted. If I had just ONE more day!!! It has been slow going. My main helper broke his shoulder in a mountain biking wreck so has been out of commission. He is getting better but I think it…
Waiting is the Hardest Part
It’s the end of the holiday weekend here and you know what that means? It means that all the Seattle people heading back home this afternoon are sucking up all the cell tower bandwidth as they drive through. I can’t procrastinate my how-to-build a cabin research by falling down the hoof trimming and ear cleaning youtube videos rabbit hole. I…
Back In The High Life Again
When I am traveling, the 2 month mark is usually when I grow tired of trying to figure out where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Finding a place to stay in every new place gets old pretty quickly too. The old towns of Europe lose their quaintness and they all just blend into one annoying cobblestone street…
How Did I Get Here?
Living on a sailboat rent free in the Mediterranean isn’t so bad. Add home cooked meals in exchange for some light handyman work and it makes for pretty good living. My main task was to build a greenhouse out of as much of the remodeling debris piled up around the yard as possible. Just a pile of junk and some…
Sardinia
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…
Sicily
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…
Malta
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…
Always Something There To Remind Me
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…
The End Of 2023 Is Here
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…
Make Sense Of The Mess
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…