Minnesota Laughter And The Need To Scratch The Portland weather people were at it again yesterday, forecasting great fear and untold troubles that were going to swoop down the Columbia Gorge and bring the city to a dead stand still. One weather personality claimed that the weather was going to be so bad that he …
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Say Hello To My Little Friends Yup. Snowbabies in the house. Gaze upon these petite porcelain statuettes with all your holiday jealousy. I got ’em and you do not. You think you got holiday spirit? Oh no, my friend. You got squat next to my bedecked babies. This is just the beginning – the tip …
Happiness Fashion Spread! More poor decision making: trying to use the Remington 870 to fell your Christmas tree. It’s messy and unless you’re using slugs or good buckshot it’s pretty damn time consuming. (Model: Afrojet, Photographer, DRF from the Verb Squad, Hooded Sweatshirt: Champion Sportswear, Corduroy Jacket: The Gap, Jeans: Levis, Boots: Red Wings, Gun: …
The Holidays Are Magical I should be hung up by my thumbs for some of the loose and lazy thinking on my part this weekend. Indeed, sometimes the best made plans go catastrophically awry. Certainly, chief amongst those poorly thought out weekend schemes was the idea that I might save a few Christmas dollars by …
Going Down South Heading down to Pa Skelton’s Southern Oregon Ranch this weekend. Plans have been made for rural styled wild west target practice, including the purchase of plastic crow decoys! Also, we’ll be bringing down other appliances and “white elephant” household items that have been voted off the home decor island. I’ll be shooting …
The Cuisine of Comfort As the nights turn brisk and the wind more penetrating, the home cooking has hunkered down with heavy carbohydrates. The menu around the Skelton dinner table this week reads like a heavyweight fighter’s dietary training schedule. We shield ourselves from cold temperatures with fortresses built from blocks of cheese and mortar …
Yuletide Technicolor Champions I gave into neighborhood holiday peer-pressure last night and went out and bought some holiday lighting ‘flair’ to give the Ranch a more festive appeal. After this last weekend we were the only house on our side of the street that wasn’t representing some kind of holiday cheer. We were the one …
The Kitten of Alcatraz A patient darkness, filled with cold biting rain, has filled this mornings skies. It looks and feels more like midnight then it does early morning. Yesterday, the Portland weather personalities were prognosticating that significant amounts of snow would blanket our area but their forecasting rubric was a bit off and we …