Washington state is home to 10% of the nation’s alpaca population. That’s a thing most folks wouldn’t know off hand, but for Duane, who runs Alpacas de la Flor with his family, it’s something right at the front of his mind. We leaned on the fence asking silly alpaca based questions while at the opposite …
The city doesn’t really start moving until pretty late in the day on Sunday so that’s a good time to go for a walk.
Another Friday, another Asian food feast! This week we bundled in to the Yodler, my 85 Tercel, and headed down Jackson before settling on Thanh Vi, a Vietnamese place in the strip mall on the northwest corner of 12th and Jackson. Bill is a pretty serious vegetarian, the conscious kind who doesn’t eat meat for …
Last night I dreamt I was having dinner with Ronald Reagan. We were having a big row about the President’s plan to overhaul – I mean privatize – social security. Reagan was saying that we would “create responsible citizens” blah blah blah. You know the line. But I was insistent that the only thing we’d …
I don’t know enough about Vietnamese food to know what I want, or even what I like, when confronted with the menu. I’ve eaten plenty of it, but that doesn’t help because, uncultured slob that I am, I just can’t remember the names of things. I order by animal or vegetable and leave it at …
My survey of snowshoe manufacturers is online here.