Now Listening to: “Pussycat Meow” by Deee-Lite, The Infinity Within, 1992.
There’s a kitten living in my hedge. I first heard it Friday night, mewling over and over again, but I couldn’t locate it. Later, I thought I saw it on the back porch, but by the time I’d unlocked the door it [...]
Finally! We had no rain today, for the first time in what seems like weeks, which allowed the soil to dry out enough that I could turn it over. I should’ve waited another day, really, but the starts I bought last Sunday were really wanting to get in the ground. It’s not [...]
Digging around through Shift’s calendar of events, it looks like June is a big month for cycling in Portland. Pedalpalooza 2005 promises to be chock-a-block full of bike events, including our local contribution to the World Naked Bike Ride on June 11th. Mark your calendars.
Uncool: my car wouldn’t start this morning — don’t know why yet — so I biked to work in the rain, sans rain gear.
Very Cool: at the westbound mid-point of the Broadway Bridge, I encountered a crew of folks serving up free coffee and pastries to cyclists. Breakfast on the Bridges only happens the [...]
“Our steward, Edgar, introduced himself on the first evening and let us know he was available if there was anything we wanted. Then, he disappeared for the rest of the cruise. We did however see evidence that he was taking good care of the room, preparing the traditional towel animals and turning down the bed [...]
Biked down to the Mississippi Pizza Pub (1.3 mi) for a late dinner tonight, where we discovered the very pleasant Blue Cranes playing the last four or five numbers of what must’ve been a fairly long set. They’re a laid-back and pleasantly-riffing bass, drum & sax trio that I wouldn’t mind hearing more of. [...]
Life and the weather were good today. Home by 6, no rain, and the advent of Pacific Daylight Time (over which I initially grumble) make for daylight aplenty to address issues of the earth. In short: a bed has been weeded, turned, amended, turned some more, raked smooth, and had 35 lettuce starts plugged [...]
Let there be no doubt — if there’s one thing that I believe the success of a garden rises or falls upon (other than water, without which etc.) it is liberal applications of well-composted chicken manure. I am a lazy gardener. I do not test my soil pH and apply carefully-measured amendments of [...]
A vulture flapped and shifted on the iron roof and Wilson looked at Scobie. He looked without interest in obedience to a stranger’s direction, and it seemed to him that no particular interest attached to the squat grey-haired man walking alone up Bond Street. He couldn’t tell that this was one of those [...]
There wasn’t much biking this winter… other than commuting to work on occasion, and a few round-trips to the grocery store, I fear I availed myself of it far less than I ought to have. I couldn’t say when the last ride of 2004 took place, but a lack of rain gear, will, and [...]
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