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#2 Whitescreek Trailhead to Dry Pond On our last hike to Church's Pond area we met a gal who suggested another jaunt up the adjacen...

As promised, I'm hiking the trails around Reno/Tahoe and living to tell you.  Sometimes, barely living, with lung busting gusto!  Ou...

This last Thursday started innocently enough.  I decided to make a batch of brownies.  Well, not "real brownies" with 2 cups of s...

I was reminded yesterday that there's only 347 days until Christmas!  What was my reply?  Let's sock away money for a Christmas vac...

It's the third day of the kitchen remodel and I'm developing a certain "flow".  The first full day was rugged, I have to ...

Who will win the war of the rabbits this year?  As I sat in the family room yesterday enjoying my first cup of coffee, I watched my backyar...

I really don't know what possessed me to create this kind of soup.  I guess I'm still grasping for those tried and true French reci...

I got a new pair of shoes yesterday. Trail hiking shoes. In order to condition myself for some hiking in the Costa Rican rain forest, (right...

Who the heck is Fanny Farmer? This is what I asked myself when I came across my old reliable cookbook. This 10th edition dating back to poss...