http://blog.redalderranch.com life at the edge of the world Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:57:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...is a pretty busy time! I don't spend much time on the computer this time of year, and I've fallen way, way behind in photo processing and blogging. My faithful old Mac G4 notebook finally deveoped a personality crisis a couple of months back, and I bit the bullet and ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=68 For the last couple of months, my life has revolved around various springtime tasks, and leading our Elderhostel/Exploritas kayaking groups every other week. This has been a very cold, wet, and windy spring. The picture below was taken on March 28th, on our Leadership Scenarios day in Skamokawa. Today, it ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=67 Everybody loves bacon. Even vegetarians love bacon. I love bacon, too. But knowing what I do about factory farming practices, I never buy bacon from the store anymore. I last made bacon when we lived in Northern California, in about 1997, when we raised our first pig and butchered it ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=66 Ah, March. In like a lamb, and out like a lion, at least this year, anyway! March is one of my favorite months, for a lot of different reasons. For one, my birthday is in March, and has almost always been accompanied by blooming daffodils, and, by the end of the ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=65 Another long break in between blog entries.... I guess I haven't been doing anything interesting enough to blog about! After the end of hunting season, the days seemed to get shorter very quickly, and I kind of went into hibernation mode, feeding wood into the stove, reading, working on next ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=64 When I was a kid, I was really, really into fishing, and somewhere along the way, I picked up subscriptions to Outdoor Life and Field and Stream magazines. I read the hunting articles with gusto as well, and used to read all the outfitters' ads in the back, imagining what ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=63 Well, here it is, almost Halloween and more than three months since I last posted anything! It has been a busy season, and I just haven't felt very organized about blogging and posting pictures to Flickr. I have to admit, Facebook has absorbed a good deal of the time and ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=62 Summer is flying by, and I've had little time to spend processing photos and blogging. So here's a quick handful of pictures from this summer. I do love fireworks, and I can get some really good ones right down the road in Cathlamet. The dog, however, does not think so ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=60 We just got back from SSTIKS 2009 last night, and both Alice and I slept late today. It was a great weekend, made even more amazing by the fact that for the first time in a couple of years, it did not rain! It was mostly sunny and warm, and ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=59 After a few trials and a tribulation or two, Alice's kayak is finally finished. When I last posted, I had a finished and oiled frame. I still had a piece of fabric left from when I ordered materials for my last kayak a couple of years ago. I dug out the ... http://blog.redalderranch.com/?p=58