Posted in vacation on Jul 21st, 2007
Missoula, MT to Bismarck, ND
The day started early with breakfast at The Shack Cafe in the university district. Then we hit the road with a plan to make it to Bismarck before we stopped. Not much to tell. It was above 100 pretty much the whole drive. The hottest it got was 107, the coolest […]
Posted in vacation on Jul 20th, 2007
Everett, WA to Missoula, MT
Things got back on track on Friday. We got up early and I cleaned the coop while Mike started loading bikes and camping gear. Right at 8:00 I started making phone calls and was able to find a kennel on the 5th try. The boys were going to Tails a Waggin’ kennel […]
I originally planned to start this with Day 1 and talk about everything we saw between Everett and Bozeman. But as often happens with road trips, all did not go smoothly getting ready to leave home. I finally got back from Iowa about noon on Wed, we had my MIL over for dinner that night […]
Posted in one local summer, locavore on Jul 19th, 2007
This is a crazy week. I finally got home from Cedar Rapids yesterday at noon after spending the night in Denver. We leave first thing tomorrow morning for our 4,000 mile road trip, and we haven’t started packing. So I wasn’t quite sure when or if we could pull off a completely local meal. We […]
Posted in personal, daily photo on Jul 17th, 2007
So I’m on this business trip to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Center of commerce. Really. No, really. Anyway, it’s a trip that I should have skipped seeing as how I was scheduled to be here for less than 24 hours and it’s been nothing but a hassle.
Last night we had to abort our landing about 10 feet […]
Posted in one local summer, locavore on Jul 16th, 2007
Lately there’s been some interesting posts out in blogland about the eat local movement and feminism. Or really, eating local and still having a normal, modern life and what the effect of all the attention on your average American man or woman is, or should be. Liz over at Pocket Farm had some interesting this to say, […]
Posted in urban chickens, daily photo on Jul 15th, 2007
While the girls have always been paired off Penny and Lucy and Agnes and Pru, these are the 3 musketeers right now. With Agnes broody for 5 weeks and now taking care of the chicks, Pru has been at a bit of a loss. But luckily, Penny and Lucy seem to be more willing to […]
