I love all the smells of fall. Autumn days mean breathing in the scents of cinnamon, cardamon and fresh leaves under my hiking boots. And then I drive home to our cabin full of farting pets. I love the scent of those cinnamon pinecones, cloves and orange essential oils. What I don’t love is all …
Jeremy Clarkson made me do it. This week thanks to that good old British journalist I learned a lot about sheeping, got a big hankering for shepherd’s pie and then I had a hands-on sheep experience at over eight thousand feet. No, it had nothing to do with the sweetbreads found on Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm …
In the last few days, I’ve trekked close to twenties miles, seen Cooper hawks and almost stepped in bear scat numerous times. How can I have so much forest fun legally with the current California national forest closure you may ask? And how is avoiding bear poo my idea of a good time? A slightly …
It’s September 22nd and I just have to wonder if I’m coming down with Covid or if it’s just allergies. This is my life and everyone’s life in an alpine pollen forest in the last sixteen months. I’m sneezing. Again. My eyes are swollen. Again. And now I’m dizzy? Why on earth am I dizzy? …
On a humid summer’s eve as thunderstorms drench our mountain villages this was a fantastic fig korma to whip up in the backyard under the canopy. We cook outside on the BBQ grill’s stove in the summer months to keep our house nice and cool as much as possible on those hot summer nights. Of …