U Pick, I Pick, We All Pick!
September and October are my favorite months in the Pacific Northwest. The mountains are beautiful, gardens are full, mushrooms are...
Might be time to call it a festival: 2015 Pitch and Pick
Labor Day weekend is often a real beaut here in the PNW, and for the last few years Gabe and Dave have taken full advantage by having...
Diving for Oysters on Vashon
In which an undersea adventure yields tasty treats at moderate risk to life and limb. Lessons are learned. I visited Paul and Hillary...
Snails for dinner! You heard me.
Foragers Dinner Club, in which snails are introduced as a locally foraged protein, alongside salmon, pheasant, and crab. The gardens...
Another block party! kinda
The block comes together again, this time around a crushed car. Ours. Late in August an unusually strong storm blew through the...
Of Crabs and Canoes
What could go wrong? Gabe and I crab from a canoe. In my ongoing efforts to figure out how to go crabbing in the various small watercraft...
I Could Wile Away the Hours...
Shane needed to be kept away from his house for the entirety of a day while preparations for a surprise party were underway. Someone...
Take back the streets
With a neighbor's help we barricaded our street with a collection of recycling and garbage bins, hung with a garishly painted cardboard...
Getting Crabby
I have an inherited crab pot sitting in my side yard. It came to me when a friend moved back east, and for a couple of years it has sat...
Skimming along the North Fork of the Payette River
I'm attracted to water -- rivers, creeks, lakes, sounds and oceans I like them all. But I am often not long satisfied to just watch a...
