Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

It looks like Mt. St. Helens is getting set to erupt again, although not with the ferocity of the 1980 explosion. I thought I would see how close I am to there. so I mapped it out. In 1980 the dust made it up to Rossland but not in great quantities or anything. Loren [...]

So I thought I would be brave and turn on the debate tonight. I tuned out in just as Kerry was just finishing his no doubt umpteenth reiteration of his stance on Iraq and how it has not wavered and then chickenhawk Bush started in with the flip flop talking point. Total time elapsed [...]

Introducing a new meme The View From Your Kitchen Window (inspired of course by my German friend Stu Savory’s Skyline Meme). If you’re like me you spend a lot of time in the kitchen. In many houses it is the focus of all activity and socialization. The heart of the family. I know [...]

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Every year we get infested with these Western Conifer Seed Bugs (Leptoglossus occidentalis) known around these parts as Cedar Bugs or Stink Bugs. They are incredibly annoying. They invade houses in the fall and overwinter in walls and attics. That’s not the annoying part. If that’s all there was to them then we could live [...]

Today I went back to a trail I discovered earlier this summer because I knew it would provide me with some new skylines. This trail hooks around the Southern slope of Red Mountain and parallels for a bit Hwy 22A that runs down to the US border a mere 6 miles away. In the next [...]