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Fall
The first two photos are what happens when you let an artichoke flower. The bees are so full of whatever it is they're gathering that they can't get out.
XL vermin
Before planting the garden in the hot tub, on the deck, last spring: Me: "What can we do to keep deer off the deck so they don't eat all the plants?" Captain OCD: "Deer aren't going to go on the deck." "Sure they will. They're all but domesticated. They aren't...
Checker at the grocery store, apropos of nothing: Do you have kids? Yes. Was that a choice? What do you mean? Well, sometimes you make a choice to have kids, and sometimes stuff just happens. Isn't that the same thing? Things are not boding well for her unborn child's...
Baling wire and duct tape in one handy package
These are the tools you use to fix your muffler, right?
Behind the beauty
It's not all pretty flowers and beautiful trees. It's lots of big and loud and heavy machines, diesel and clouds of dirty exhaust, hydraulic fluid, thick and sticky grease, sweat, ugly plastic pots, mud, plastic tubing, beavers, gophers, moles, coyotes,...
Table Mountain
Table Mountain is in the North Cascades in the Mt. Baker area. The photo above is taken after we'd been hiking for awhile. We ended up on top of that flat-topped peak on the left. These photos are from August 13, 2016. I'm not sure how long it should take to drive up...