Elijah_Brown and I agreed that we could do with getting away from work and from fussing on the house for a few days so we arranged for a trip to San Juan Island before the high season begins. It still wasn't cheap but it also wasn't particularly crowded and, though we were only there a couple of nights (and about a day and half), we managed to get slightly ( Read more... )

As the dedicated Imaginary Reader already knows, after more dithering than you would believe possible, Elijah_brown and I committed to a tree on over the weekend. Today the tree was delivered and this evening the tree was planted. Naturally, photos were taken though not nearly enough, no, so I am padding this post with a few snaps from the last day in Newport ( Read more... )

Quite some time ago I was given a gift certificate for a couple of nights at the Sylvia Beach Hotel about which, frankly, I had mixed feelings. But over time the idea of a few days visiting my old pal Poseidon became more and more attractive until finally, a few weeks ago, I called to see what rooms would be available over one weekend or another. ( Read more... )

elijah_brown and I spent the last few days on the Washington coast, staying at the neither good nor bad Ocean Crest Resort. It happened we were in town (either Moclips or Pacific Beach, take your pick) for the Kelpers Festival, an event that celebrates shake rats and seaweed pickers which, you know, I think says everything that needs to be said; certainly it ( Read more... )

I begin to fear that Myrna (that'd be my not-as-young-as-she-once-was G4 iBook) is plain not well. I implore the Imaginary Reader to explain to me why devices plugged into her (specifically, an external hard drive, a thumb drive, and, for that matter, my iPod) no longer appear on her desktop nor does the finder seem aware of their existence though ( Read more... )

I'm back from what was, for me, a rather long vacation trip: something like nine days on the Oregon coast. It felt more like three days, really; time simply flew. I had a lovely time as did, they say, my various companions. I had four nights at the Wee Wakonda Wigwam aka "Captain's House" and another five nights at the honestly named Ocean Close ( Read more... )

A post started while waiting for the Café Gelato to finish baking a waffle cone so I can get my limone gelato which, please god, will bring some calmness to my state. Which is absurd given that I’m mid-vacation but today started early, with packing up the Mother-of-Three, and the Three, and the Father-of-Three and, eventually, shifting from one ( Read more... )