I’m going to break a small confidence and relate a thing Steve said to me in the privacy of his kitchen. I was going on about Helen MacDonald, drunk after our detour to the Golden Spur and full of good meat from the Bodio larder. A point at which, in other words, I was babbling. …
Looking for that Pot of Gold
A thunderstorm just before sunset Monday night gave us this big double rainbow as seen from our deck. It and the pyrotechnics of the storm provided dinnertime entertainment for us and Mr. & Mrs. Peculiar (Jackson and Nikki) who we were delighted to have as house guests. The sunset wasn’t too bad, either.
Frozen Dead Guy is a Hot Commodity
The Denver Post ran this oddball local story today. In the small town of Nederland in the mountains west of Boulder, Bredo Morstoel, who died in 1989, lies frozen in a metal coffin, awaiting the day when medical science has advanced enough to revive him and fix the heart ailment that killed him. Morstoel’s grandson …
Why We Blog II
Well, I guess it’s my turn. It may sound a little strange, but at least to some extent I blog because I was invited. Though I had read blogs and commented on them for ages, I really had no idea of doing it myself until Steve asked me to post here. Now it’s hard to …
2Blowhards
We have so been outdone.
Why We Blog
Darren Naish pricked us with the latest self-replicating blogger bug: Why blog? So I’ll start our reply (a brief one in my case) and let Reid and Steve follow up. First, this question is worthy of a real essay. Mary’s was wonderful from a few months back, though I couldn’t find it to link (Mary?). …
Decline and Fall of….Fairfax, Co., VA?
During my father’s tour of duty at the Pentagon, a two-plus year rotation in which we lived in civilian housing and I attended public school, I got a rare taste of American pie. Prior to this, and afterwards until Dad retired, I knew only the cloistered and comfortable life of a military brat on bases …
St. Mary’s Glacier
On Father’s Day I was given the opportunity to pick what I wanted to do for the day, so I picked a hike in the mountains. We decided to go to St. Mary’s Glacier in Clear Creek County near the community of Alice. It’s not a tough trail, only 1-1/2 to 2 miles round trip. …
Absurdistan
Gloom and doom about the growth of nanny-state policies in Great Britain has been an ongoing theme here as regular readers know. Here is one more installment in our continuing series that comes from The Times. Gerard Baker uses the refusal of the British Advertising Standards Authority to allow some egg commercials to run on …
Not Buying It
Steve got worked up over this piece in yesterday’s NY Times on Freegans, a movement I had not heard of. As he is very busy, he asked one of us to take it on. From the article: “The site, which provides information and listings for the small but growing subculture of anticonsumerists who call themselves …