Feeling hopeful. Wonderfully colorful out my windows. Packing for Boston, NV.

Today's dump, tomorrow's mines.

Perhaps religion is our way of feeling it's right to have more than one's share.

It's not just for tombstone anymore.

We're having a cold snap, 2 nights below -20* and another forecast for tonight. Turning inclination to virtue, i'm keeping a small carbon footprint, staying indoors, doing deep housework, at least a room or 2. The dormer room is all fresh and dedogfurred, mostly. Ready for company coming . Now on to our own room, i try to change our sheets at ( Read more... )

Today I renamed all my Teddy bears Mohammed, also my stinky little pomeranian dog. The cat will be known as Jesus.

We walked to Crater Lake today, perhaps the last time before the skiers take it over. We walked on 2 inches of snow and the lake has a scrim of ice. It was cold "as a witches tit" when we started (a Petzoldt description from the last century) but the sun blazed. Woody got to ride part way in my new Patagonia pack/bag, in her sweater. The world' ( Read more... )

I'm just back from a weekend in Yellowstone and Bozeman with long time friends from there and afar. We had one night in a room in Old Faithful Inn with a perfect view of Old Faithful from our beds. Heavenly. The bison were teeming, little do they know what Grand Teton has in store for them. It thrills me to see so many of them. I wish every cow ( Read more... )

If you were a moslem would you be a shi'ite or a Suni?

If you were Jewish, would you be Orthodox, Conservative or Reform?