Another 30 day month has come and gone. And again just one more day would have put me over the line. Hah. I WISH all I needed was a day. I sit here surrounded by piles of almost done projects. Some of which are keeping me from scheduling the big framing inspection. I have to admit that I am dragging…
Poof!!! Summer is over. The last weekend of summer is here. It is going to go out in a warm sunny summery style but has been hinting at its demise for a few weeks now. The jackets and even winter coats are needed in the mornings now. The maple leaves have started to change. They are usually the first to…
In last month’s entry, I was lamenting that June only has 30 days. A perfectly good excuse for not making any real progress. Since July has an extra 24 hours, surely I would have a long list of accomplishments to report. Well, the list isn’t as long as I had hoped. The list may be short but I think it…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…