Tiny Adventures

The Northwest is a wonderful place to live, in my opinion.  Around Portland we a wide variety.  You can go from the beach to top of Mount Hood in a few hours.  You can go from the green valley to the east of the Cascade range to the high deserts Read more…

Poker Night

When I was little, probably only five or so, my Dad used to have a group of friends he played poker with fairly regularly.  I remember that I wasn’t much taller than the table, but I could see up there and see the red, white and blue chips, the drinks Read more…

Hunting

My Dad was a hunter.  Every year when I was a kid he and his buddies would go elk hunting in southwest washington in the Blue Mountains outside Yakima.  Sometimes they’d come back with something, mostly they didn’t.  There was deer hunting, there was grouse hunting and chukkars, occasionally some Read more…