• Since it’s been so challenging to keep the content coming the last few weeks, I thought I would give my predictions for the 13 things that I will greatly miss from American culture when we leave the country in just (YIKES!)…13 days. They will be listed in totally random order…as I think of them. Free…

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  • It’s funny how not having a true home changes one’s blogging patterns.  I’ve become an every-other-day blogger instead of an almost every day blogger.  Apologies. I’m fortunate to have access to the Internet at all so I’m not complaining.  We’ve been staying with our friends, the Finches, and it’s been great.  The budding romance between…

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  • If you like Havalina (aka Havalina Rail Co.) and I do, you can download one of their entire albums for free online. It’s called Russian Lullabies. It’s out of print, so I was pretty stoked to happen upon it while looking at their website the other day.  Everybody polka, everybody polka, everybody body polka–footloose!

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  • I’ve had a day or two to recover, so I thought I’d let you in on some wisdom about this mysterious enigma commonly referred to as the yard sale. Predicting that you will get two sunny days in a row in the greater Seattle area is absurd. Don’t kid yourself! Anticipating that you will sell…

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  • I’m so tired from all the bartering, rain-tarping, heavy-lifting, haggling, and yard-sale schmoozing that I think I’m just going to throw the yeti-speak into the mix and put it up for sale to the highest bidder!  Will anyone give me ten dollars for it…? Anyone…anyone? Buehler? OK, five dollars and I’ll throw in a few…

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  • Typically, when you have a yard sale isn’t there more stuff left inside the house that isn’t for sale then what you drag out into the yard to sell.  I thought this was a pretty simple concept until I tried it. I guess we should have called it a moving sale.  We’ll be moving ALL…

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  • Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately.  I’m not hiding…just dismantling my yeti lair.  By the way, we’re having a HUUUUUUGE (/Mike Myers Scottish accent) yard sale on Friday and Saturday.  Everything must go! If you live near Mountlake Terrace, WA and would like to buy some sweet (/Napoleon Dynamite accent) stuff, I can give you…

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  • He’s only hitting .277 for the season!  In this particular game, he’s 2 for 4 with a solo home run and 2 RBIs. The home run was off of Randy Johnson if that matters to anyone! His name:  Jeff Cirillo.  Oh, you haven’t heard the last of him.  You know him as my least favorite…

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  • As the Yeti nears the three week mark before his departure to more moutainous regions…(weird to say that being in the mountain-endowed state of Washington!)…I have been feeling a bit displaced.  I liken the experience to what it must feel like for a document to be "cut and pasted".  If you’re a computer degenerate (not…

  • Here, at Ribbon’s End (June 3, 2000) Ancient Chinese Legend When children are young, gods tie an invisible red string over the ankles of the couple who are supposed to wed later. As the years go by, the string becomes shorter and shorter until the couple are united. Nothing in this world can sever the…

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