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 …
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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 …
Black FridayAre you digging this hip new modern holiday tradition called ‘Black Friday‘ as much as I am? A quick scan of Wikipedia shows that the term Black Friday in other distant lands marks either; ‘a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest’, ‘the day on which British Dockers and railwaymen’s union leaders announced their …
The New Responsibility 2.0 The misses starts her new job today. I guess in the overall big picture this is good news – but really, it’s pretty damn selfish of her don’t you think? Who is going to keep me company all day? Who is going to make my tuna fish sandwich lunch? Man, I …
Tofurky & Taxes Hope everyone had a darn good feast yesterday. The Skelton household kept their glasses as full as their bellies. There was eggplant and Dewers, broccoli and champagne, potatoes and dark ales. The gastronomic interbreed satiated every department. Time not feasting was spent playing Johnny Cash songs on the banjo, watching football, playing …
Street of Eames Mark your calendars – a home tour like no other is coming in April of next year, “Street of Eames is a new annual city-wide cultural event to celebrate the mid-century and contemporary homes that began appearing in our city in the 1930’s…Street of Eames Modern Home Tour is a benefit for …
Lessons Learned Lesson one: When you’re at the video rental store and the misses instructs you to pick up some microwavable popcorn, do not indiscriminately grab any old bag of microwavable popcorn, because you might just grab a bag of Kettle Corn instead of normal popcorn. This is your first mistake. Then when you get …
It’s Friday, Boss. It’s been a fine stretch of beautiful warm and sunny days here in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of world class tennis has been played. The yard work has been crushed and there’s even been some hiking on the sun drenched trails of SW parks. Our chimney’s got violated and swept out this …
Relish the Jef Joe Futschik aka Jef Designs makes some very cool and simple wall graphics from wood. You can find his stuff here in Portland at the store Relish. Relish is run by a Trisha Guido. She’s very nice, informative and always ready to make a deal. She’s got a big sweet old dog …