As a nature lover, I really don’t want to have rage in my heart when it comes to little varmints but all the relaxing lake days on earth can not soothe my soul when the local ground squirrels treat my front yard like Souplantation, Big Bear Lake. I have spent way too much of my …
Earth Day was a week ago and all over California thousands of Californians are celebrating Mother Earth by treating her like a toilet. I simply adore the wilderness and kind of hate the city-iots (An Idiot from the city that does stupid city things in rural areas. … Look at that city-iot putting snow chains on in the middle of …
When I think of California’s central coast I think of camping along the chilly Pacific Ocean and evenings spent enjoying the most colorful sunsets at our beachfront campsite. A few days camping and adventuring along California’s central coast means miles of sand dunes. Or hiking through a eucalyptus grove forest all with the crash of …
Lightning can be a real bitch. That is if you are one of the 49 Americans struck and killed by lightning each year. Lightning strikes are no joke as anyone who has been around live lightning can tell you. But at the same time, I love the smell of rain, that petrichor aroma, the crash …
“But did you die?” Thanks to a run-in with one hell of an asshole coyote this evening, the short answer to that question is no, my rescue pup did not die today. We did have one hell of a adventure during our shenanigans in the national forest today. Here Carly is during happier times, at …

