When the Levee Breaks – Mama, You Got To Move Well, like the rest of the world, I’ve been sucked into round-the-clock Katrina Aftermath coverage. The toxic gumbo that has become the streets of Nawlins gives me a heavy heart. I’m glad I was there to see it before it completely went off the grid. …
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Dahlia Festival Armed with our new Oregon drivers licenses (see yesterday’s post), the misses and I hit the road with friends for our first official outside of Portland excursion. Canby Oregon was the spot for the annual Swan Island Dahlia Festival. If you like dahlias, then this is your Holy Mecca. Fields of dahlias stretch …
Suffering the DMV Back in 1998, when I first arrived back in Minnesota from a long stint of adventures in Guatemala and Mexico, I initially crashed at my parents house for a few months before I found an apartment and a job. During that time, I got a Minnesota drivers license. Over the following years …
86 Inches of Chocolate Love Big day here at the Skelton Ranch. Our new couch arrives in just a few hours. We didn’t think the couch purchase would come so quick but we got a great deal. Also the great room was looking seriously barren and the cats were becoming annoyed from lack of cushy …
Jackleg Plumbers The fun never stops. The first week at the Skelton Ranch has been consumed with the proper flow of liquids. Playing internet has been replaced with playing with PVC pipes. And it’s a damn poor substitute. I feel a million miles away from all the important goings on in the digital world. The …
Emergency Toilet Installation The fun has already begun here on the Skelton Ranch! Not five minutes after we finished moving our stuff from the moving trailer into the house we discovered that our upstairs bathroom toilet had for some time been leaking nasty poo and pee jelly into the walls and ceiling of our downstairs …
Homecoming We have arrived safe and sound to P-town. Two extra long days in the car that covered an insane amount of flat land. Montana is just an endlessly long state. All our stuff arrives in just a few short hours so I don’t have much time to give the full update. For now, here …
Sweaty, Rashy & Grumpy I drank the gallon equivalent of Lake Nokomis in bottled water this weekend. The house is basically empty except for the dozens of empty Aquafina bottles that lie discarded like gun shells all over the wood floors and front yard. I’m happy to report that everything is packed securely in the …
The Return of the Minimalist Awwe Yeah. The total and complete breakdown of my office gives new meaning to the word simplification. For the next few days my set up will have all the professional trimmings of a poorly attended outdoor picnic. The legs on this table are so wobbly, that as I type, the …
White Chocolate Gangster Lit! You might presume from the title that this post is going to be about sweet delectables. Ha. You couldn’t be more wrong. It’s about books fool. Last night the misses and I went to the area Barnes and Noble to pick up a few books for the road trip out West. …