Fennel and Garlic Crusted Pork Roast with Quince Compote
In late 2000, Alfred Portale came out with a coffee table type cookbook, based about what he found during a trip to an outdoor market in Italy that brought to life all the images he’d seen in cookbooks over the years. According to Portale, Quince and Apple Compote is a grown-up version of applesause. The apples breakdown […]
Mount Baker
As an introducton to my pictures while I build pages, a couple of years ago my wife and I traveled to Mount Baker, in northern Washington, to see the sights. I am always on the lookout for strange sights along the way and was rewarded with a little shopping area where there was a fence […]
Hot water issues
Daily use of a RV hot water heater can take its toll. A few months ago the control board of our 6 gallon Suburban hot water heater died. It would try to light and then die a few seconds later. $170 it cost to replace the board with a generic. I also replaced the water fittings […]
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
It’s no secret I love snow. Here are a few of my favorite snow pics from this season! They were taked at our favorite camping spot in the foothills of the Cascades in Northern Washington. While I love this location when the sun is out and the weather warm, it just looks prettier when dusted […]
Eli Pariser talking about “Filter Bubbles”
(From his “Ted Talk”) – As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately […]
Memories, cue the music!
Vivid memories. Everyone has them. Good memories and bad memories. They are with you always. Sometimes all it takes to have them be real again is a smell or a glimpse of something innocuous. I don’t know about you, but music brings images and memories flooding back to me. A certain song is heard and […]
Fluid Dynamics
First of all, college was a pain. Boring classes and way too many keggers. Somehow I managed to get through it, not once but twice. Math or anything that required math was as bad as the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard. It was years later before I realized how important the things I […]
Martin Gamba, victim of a coup d’état
Chilean Naval Vessel “Esmeralda” reported to have been a floating torture chamber for political prisoners from 1973 to 1980. In 1970, Martin Gamba was a managing cook. He worked for the government of Chile as a mid level employee. He had a good life with his wife, two sons and a daughter. He went to […]
Our RV History
Renee and I both used to have RV’s in the past before we met and have very pleasant memories associated with them. Myself, a 16′ Kenskill trailer and Renee a 31′ 1975 Airstream. Renee lived in her’s in Florida and I traveled in the California Wine Country. Renee moved in with someone and ended up […]
A Perfect Moment in Time
A perfect moment in time. A perfect gift in an imperfect world. The summer of 2000 was one of the more hectic times of my life. I had just traded the safety and security of living on Whidbey Island for the busier lifestyle of Seattle. By mid-July I needed a break. The past few years […]
