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Gratitude for All of It
Our Haines daughters were away for the holiday with their in-laws, and Papa Bob was tucked in at my sister's, so we decided to take the ferry to Juneau for Thanksgiving. A quick trip, since the schedule worked out (miracles of miracles), we brought the dogs for their...
The Bear and the Pomeranian: A Fish Story?
If you are going to show up for coffee at seven on Saturday morning-- especially a dark, stormy November Saturday morning perfect for sleeping in-- then you better be cheerful and have something interesting to say. That's why I like Don Nash. There's a a gale blowing...
Deer Season
Chip is getting ready for his hunting trip to Elfin Cove, they leave tomorrow on the Nash troller Shinaku. He's making lists and checking them twice. There is a survival gear bucket on the dining room table, dry bags, socks, bullets, GPS, knives, game bags, a...
A Reflective Vest Story
It's reflective vest season for early morning ( and early evening) walkers and joggers. I was driving home from Morning Muscles, listening to NPR on the radio, and slowly tooling up and around the dark Parade Grounds this morning when out of the corner of my eye I...
First Snow
We woke to the first snow on the ground in the yard, (the mountains have been getting whiter by the day) a light dusting that made the whole world clean and bright and the view from my bed as black & white as an Ansel Adams photo. I want to get out and enjoy the...
Twinkle Twinkle Little iPad?
My house guests from San Francisco have an iPad, and they've been showing Chip and I all the cool things it does, well, as much as we have time for. The videos, and audio, can take a while with the slow internet here. They told me that in London it's 24 times as...
Sunday Thought
Today is All Saint's Day, and here's the Sunday thought from the back of our church bulletin: Let us not tire of denouncing the idolatry of wealth, which makes human greatness consist in having and forgets that true greatness is being. One's value is not in what one...