Kalaloch is a very special place for me.  My trips there are points in a lifetime that I can measure the rest from.


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Today, something inexplicable and kind of incredible has happened.  I am amused at how confounded I am over it.  Somehow, against all odds, I have actually managed to put enough life behind me to have turned 50 years old.

I am confounded because I never, ever expected to get here.   I smoked, drank and drugged my way through a lot of years in ( Read more... )

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This was one of my most favorite days on our trip.  We covered an awful lot of ground, and saw some incredible scenery.

It was on this day of the trip that I was introduced to some of the Anasazi ruins that I found out later are everywhere in this area.  Some of what we saw was in the more famous touristy sites, and other places we visited were ( Read more... )

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 Our joy in having a new puppy in our lives was tempered yesterday and today with the passing of Fuzzy.  Fuzzy was one of the feral cats that adopted Jean around a decade ago.  He was the youngest and tamest of the four that hang around here, and there was a reason for that.  Fuzzy was born under Jean’s bed, where his wild and feral mother decided ( Read more... )

It has been one heck of  a couple of weeks for J. and I as we adjust our lives to living with our new puppy.  We have changed his name to Java, which fits us all really well.

He has been very busy learning all about the world and growing big and strong very fast.  He has especially been learning the word "no" an awful lot, but seems very intent on ( Read more... )

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Meet Sampson!  Well, Sampson is the name that he came to us with, and so far we haven't come up with another more appropriate name, so Sampson it is, at least for now.  The first picture is within the first two minutes that J. had picked him up, the second was taken the first hour that we got him home.


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