Why am I starting with a satellite image of the northern California on this post? To show you that there is absolutely nothing between me and the sun today. No clouds, no precipitation, and from where I’m going to be in just a few minutes (the pool), not even a tree to block the insultingly [...]

On Saturday we hit the road for the Napa Valley Wine and Art festival – an annual street block-off featuring local artisans, wineries, and food vendors. It was a delightful experience and I picked up some gifts as well as some unique items for our house. While we were eating I noticed this store and [...]

Last week while I was supposedly on vacation – I say supposedly because I wound up being online nearly every day and answering questions and solving problems instead of relaxing – I drove down to Yosemite to meet my parents who had just made their way up from Bakersfield.
They are on their Round-The-Country camping trip, [...]

Exactly two years ago to the day, I wrote a little ditty about the mosquito.
We had just returned from a camping trip to Sly Park and had been completely devoured by these prehistoric blood suckers. As you recently read, we just got back from another camping trip, this one up in Napa Valley. And once [...]