Freezing in Casa Grande
I was just outside our RV, taking Spyro the boy dog for a brief late-nite visit to the Oleanders bordering the shuffleboard court, and realized it’s absolutely freezing out there. The cold winter has exacerbated and what our inside guage registers outside as 32 degrees is more like 15 or 20 given the wind-chill factor. [...]
Furniture from Costco
As some of you may know we have recently bought a “spring and summer” residence in Bend, Or., and thus have officially joined the ranks of “snowbirds” and will migrate to AZ with the rest of the pack sometime soon or at least by the end of September due to the pickleball tournaments which begin [...]
Throwing Up Emeril’s Food
When you are throwing up it’s hard to wax poetic, but afterward it’s a different story, isn’t it? Emeril’s Table 10 in Las Vegas is not the typical restaurant Irene and I would eat in. We are far too frugal for that, but this one time it seemed like a good idea. We hadn’t eaten [...]
A Different Reality….
When we left Casa Grande for the summer we headed for Las Vegas to hook up with son Roy and watch him play in a racquetball tournament. We could have chosen a more direct route to LV but decided in a fit of curiosity to detour a little by Lake Havasu and check out London [...]
It’s a journey of HOW many steps?
Conventional “wisdom” discusses, among many, many other things of course, how the longest journey begins with but a single step, yes? Well, yes, but then it doesn’t go on to discuss how long that journey may be, does it? And well it shouldn’t as every journey has a different number of steps. Every fly-fishing season, for [...]
The Difference is a Bald Eagle.
In RV-land, many of the parks where we stay begin to seem similar. This is, of course, a matter of design….true RV parks will consistently have certain features that we’ve come to depend upon. Among them are sewer hook-ups, 50-AMP electrical power, good water pressure, aisles wide enough to drive a big-rig without forcing walking passers-by [...]
Missoula Real Estate, Examined
As is now ordinary for us, having done virtually the same thing two years ago, we came last Sunday to Missoula, became re-captivated by this area’s many charms and subsequently spent all of one day (today, in fact) racking up over 100 miles driving the city from one end to the other, two increasingly car-sick but [...]
I’m Totally In Control, Baby!
The title was meant as a joke. I have come to believe I control less and less as I get older. Well, that’s probably true but what I really meant is that I BELIEVE less and less that I’m in control of anything much. Let me give you one example. Fishing in Montana has never [...]
Everybody’s Lookin’ for Somethin’….although admittedly sometimes in the wrong places….
Like you, I have long been searching for the meaning of life. Sometimes in the wrong places, of course…the bottom of a wine bottle, the feel of an accelerator pedal of a very fast car, the rush of sexy new things to own, the possibility in relationships to experience, on occasion places to be. Over [...]
Carp and the Meaning of Life
Today we left Connecticut, leaving behind Shelton, which is a nice old town, a bedroom community of New York, and Irene’s nice family, now mine. The Sullivans have been there forever and will remain there forever, no doubt. Steve can’t go anywhere in town without knowing somebody, where I can’t go anywhere where I DO [...]