Here's what we did today. We had breakfast (fresh farm eggs from the farm market yesterday on top of steamed spinach, bacon, and a sprinkle of pecorino). And here's another ship, of course: We drove into Cathlamet to have lunch and stop by the market. Here's an osprey and nest…
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Yesterday afternoon we headed over to Puget Island to the Two Islands Farm Market at Stockhouse's Farm. (May through October every Friday from 3-6:30pm) We met up with my mom and did a little farm shopping: fresh farm eggs, some grass-fed beef for dinner tonight, sugar peas, arugula, salad greens,…
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Distance: 16.6 miles Elapsed Time: 3:34:31 Avg Speed: 4.6 mph Max Speed: 8.7 mph We made ourselves a little figure eight around Welsh Island and Tenasillahe Island this afternoon. Fun! We saw plenty of ospreys, several herons, and one very large bald eagle. This is the southern tip of Tenasillahe Island:…
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I morphed a couple recipes together tonight (along with a little past experience) to prepare this mahi mahi. First, I made a sauce of garlic sauteed in butter and olive oil, then added some oregano, white wine, reduced that, then added diced roma tomatoes and chopped kalamata olives. I bought…
1 CommentKevin just finished his first video in the "Chasing Ships" series. Here's yesterday's Alaskan Explorer (petroleum), headed out to sea. It is passing Morning Menad (Hyundais) on its way into Portland, if I remember right.
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We drove into Cathlamet today to have some lunch and get a few things at the market. Cathlamet has a pretty good little market, a pharmacy, a few restaurants, a hotel, a B&B, a hardware store, a nice marina (with some right-on-the-water camping, a lumber yard, realtors, etc…) It's a…
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Can't wait until he's finished with this video he's making!
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We headed out with the Hobie this afternoon to do a little sailing. The wind had picked up but it wasn't looking quite as rough as it was yesterday (um, whitecaps and 3 foot swells, wind 18mph? Yeah, we were soaked). It was beautiful out this afternoon and we headed…
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Most of the time, the skin of our Airstream looks great. Except for when it's dirty, of course. No scratches or dents or anything. (Well, except the little bits of filiform corrosion, but we're working to keep that under control.) Very occasionally, however, it'll look like there are a couple…
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People standing on the shore while the Pontovremon passes in front of them: Just as this guy — Morning Menad, below — was coming in (carrying Hyundais from Tacoma) we noticed it was going to pass an outbound ship — the Alaskan Explorer, an oil tanker headed to Valdez AK…
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