For years we tried to come up with a term that describes the lifestyle we adopted when we moved away from suburban Southern California to rural North Idaho. Technology made it possible, as we use the Internet to work with clients all over the United States from our bedroom offices in our log home in […]

Here in the backwoods, it’s been cold. I know it’s January and it’s supposed to be cold, but I have to say that the ice situation on our driveway is getting me down. Yesterday, I drove down to the mailbox (which is about 1/2 mile away) because it was busy blizzarding. On my way back, […]

James has been doing a lot of chipping lately because a lot of trees didn’t make it through the winter and I want chips for my garden pathways. The other day, while he was chipping one of the piles of tree branches, he found a litter of four baby snowshoe hares. James has large feet, […]

I was looking at the weather report this morning. The map shows that we have yet another “Hazardous Weather Outlook.” In other words it’s probably going to precipitate in some loathsome way today. Like most people in this area, I am weary of this winter that just won’t go away. Today is March 30, and […]