Sherlock Skelton We’ve become a Netflix family again. Over the last couple of months I’d visited the video store on three separate occasions only to walkout 15 minutes later completely empty-handed. The video store: a) has 200 copies of Daddy Day Care and not much else, b) stocks totally useless movies, c) carries crap titles, …
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Workbench 1.0 I got busy over the weekend and built myself a proper workbench. The Janktown 9000 model workbench that was built by the previous owner of the home just wasn’t up to the task of supporting my home building projects. If you look closely at the ‘BEFORE’ photo you will see that crap workbench …
Mole Archaeologist The latest critter(s) to breach the fortified perimeter of The Skelton Ranch is the dirty little mole. This burrowing night-raider is tearing up my lawn with its fossorial forefeet, leaving long trails of winding mini speed bumps and sporadic craters all throughout the backyard. One morning, on a day after I had recently …
Back With Even More Cuteness Apologies for the lack of updates. The work load has been punishing me as of late and I have allowed my blogging to slide. For your patience I reward you with a shipyard of cute. First up is a photo I unearthed from my fathers archives. The organ was my …
Teen Wolf vs. I Am The Law Caught some Wolfmother downtown last night. High intensity, good songs, and great musicianship. If you can rate a rock show by how much beer gets spilt on your person, than last night was tops. After the show I smelt like the inside of a beer bottle that’s been …
Sunday Explosions In memory of the Trojan nuclear plant, I am sipping java from my mug that bears a radioactive likeness. When the coffee is hot and steaming, the resemblance is uncanny. They blew the I-5 landmark up yesterday. Did you see it? If you didn’t, here’s video. And there’s also a Flickr pool. In …
More About Maintenance The Master Wrench, an auto repair shop up the road from The Ranch, dishes out the sage wisdom. Every month or so they refresh the sign with some good horse sense. Right now there are no less than five dogs having a shouting match in the neighborhood. It sounds like reality television. …
Sea Songs for Volume & Flotsam for Breakfast A grand weekend at the coast celebrating birthdays (mine) and relationships (ours). Saturday, I had one of those perfect days. Everything was sunshine slow, young, ripe & oceansized. We cruised the beaches, scored at the shops, and the golf balls went far and true. We ate famously …
A Morning Smolder on the Shoulder Daily occurrence. Around 8:30 every morning this week a women in here late 40’s driving a newish Audi station wagon pulls up and parks outside our house. She rolls down her window and lights up a cigarette. She smokes about half the cigarette, blowing the smoke out the open …
Timber Town Portland’s a tuff town for sports fans. It doesn’t have a professional baseball team or a professional football team. Its basketball team is the laughing stock of the NBA. If you were luckily enough to have been born and raised here, then you probably get into the college football thing. But for the …