My cousin and his family have a great, old (~13 years) dog Enzo (who was great friends with Willow), and I have been lucky enough to be his caretaker when they go out of town. I can safely say that I am in Enzo’s top 5 favorite humans and he is in my top 3 …
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Nigerian Dwarf Goats. 1 year old Mongo and 3 month old Bongo. Both males. Much like the process of meeting and getting used to the cats Gia has befriended, it took a couple of days for her to fulfill her need to get up close and personal and heartily sniff the goats and get that …
Honestly, we do not go out of our way to find rattlesnakes. It just seems to happen several times a year. Luckily, except for that one time Willow got badly bitten in the San Bernardino National Forest, all the other interactions have been relaxed, non-confrontational and only rarely in need of my Snake Stick skills. …
I think headlamps are a wonderful and useful tool and I find myself using them a lot. Being able to see in dark conditions, aiming the light where you need it by looking in that direction and having both your hands free to work on whatever project or task you are doing in the darkness …
Not including this post, 300,290 words to be exact posted here within 214 posts. I’m sure many of the words adding up to that total include lots of “filler words” such as; “of”, “the”, as well as “and” and more than a few usages of “douche” (and rightfully so) so I am not getting too …
We went east of our home again to enjoy the quiet, green, dense and lush tranquility of one of our favorite spots outside of Sweet Home, Oregon. The last time we enjoyed the area we came across hundreds of meters of string strung along many of the forest roads in the area and, at the …
I bought this filter in the late 1990’s to be used mostly for backpacking. A close friend of mine had (and still has) the precursor to this from the early 90’s called the WaterWorks Total Filtration System. It worked well, he liked it and still uses it occasionally. My MiniWorks was the new, improved, smaller version …
In my extensive travels throughout the breadth of the American West I have seen numerous rattlesnakes up close and personal. Some sadly dead in the middle of a road but many alive and going about their normal, daily snake lives and business. Most are simply moving from one spot to the next and I appreciate …
In early Spring 2017, over the course of several weeks, Willow and I did some extensive exploring around Green Peter Reservoir outside of Sweet Home, Oregon. This happens to be all of 30 minutes from my home so it is quick, easy and cheap (with gas prices as they are and a Tacoma that would …
Relatively soon after accepting Gia into my life and once she was healed from her spay surgery I wanted to get her jumping into the Adventure Life with all four paws. When up in my old Humboldt County stomping grounds we spent close to a week alongside Horse Linto Creek waiting to find out if …