tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102367862012-01-29T12:46:42.072-08:00Rural living on the Washington Coast in the Great Pacific NorthwestArthur Rugernoreply@blogger.comBlogger1401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-13727887557148260452010-07-19T19:42:00.000-07:002010-07-19T19:45:59.785-07:00

slide show - our vegetable garden 2008. It worked, it worked, it worked and it was a lot of work! At the time I was strongly into growing and eating local, 100 mile diet, shifting to more self sustaining kinds of activities and worked on growing a garden that would feed us. For the most part it worked, but so much to learn, so much work and while we won the slug fest (literally - the slugs

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-821916463885048752009-09-02T11:00:00.001-07:002009-09-02T11:19:06.723-07:00

Kudos to the Congressman and his staff for hosting a successfully civil discourse Town Hall meeting last night in Ilwaco, in Pacific County, WA. And of course, the primary range of questions had to do with Health Care/Insurance Reform. Death threats to the Congressman aside, he still managed to conduct his usual in-person Town Hall meetings in several Southwest Washington counties. What was the

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-30357655950278951252009-07-13T11:42:00.001-07:002009-07-13T11:42:17.210-07:00

Our weekend;   The Story.  I have a peridontist appointment about every three months, in a town about 2 + hours from where we live.  So we have turned it into a weekend getaway, and a visit with my mother who lives in a nearby town to the town where my peridontist is located. Had my peridontist appt Friday and the report was good - some small improvement actually.  Not much improvement, but far

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-55291133309529102632009-04-24T08:35:00.001-07:002009-04-24T08:38:20.306-07:00

Came across this information this morning from another blogger.  An ad she found at Facebook and at YouTube.    I wasn’t able to find what she found at the source on Facebook, so it is copy and paste with a shout- out to her blog.  In Naselle, Washington, just down the road from us, another local business person is having to close up shop.  The why details are included in her offer (below) to

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-5904041390110401562009-04-23T08:07:00.001-07:002009-04-23T08:07:56.927-07:00

  Daughter and son-in-law had flowers sent to my house; meant to arrive Easter weekend.  Since we live as far away as we do from urban centers, it takes UPS a bit longer to deliver, so the flowers arrived a couple days later than they planned, but the flowers did arrive.    Came in a florist box that looked like long stemmed roses might be inside.    Opened the box to find fresh spring

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-57395562833012665812009-04-23T07:24:00.001-07:002009-04-23T07:24:11.985-07:00

After a too long time away from my paints, brushes, and the messy operation that is oil painting, yesterday I completed two paintings! The paintings I've accomplished grow fewer and fewer over the years since 2006. Lots of reasons why, but I hope this change in momentum means 'I'm Back'! I sought out the old painting clothes and found I've outgrown them (that means I weigh more now than I did

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-28031218297609452472009-04-23T06:39:00.001-07:002009-04-23T06:39:40.880-07:00

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-31689122044802946432009-04-08T14:55:00.001-07:002009-04-08T14:55:08.699-07:00

We do have in our little community what is called Bay Center Association.  It is a service-oriented group comprised of willing volunteers from among the community of Bay Center.  Residents of Bay Center are automatically members of the Association.  The Association goes back to the early origins of the formation of Bay Center.  I’ve seen documents in the Association records that show the sense

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-31578443910270083472009-04-08T14:54:00.001-07:002009-04-08T14:54:15.220-07:00

excerpts from article in Chinook Observer BAY CENTER - The Chinook Indian Tribe has moved its office from the Sea Resources building in Chinook to Bay Center. Tribal Chairman Ray Gardner said the move had been in the works for quite some time. "When you look back historically, it made sense to move to Bay Center because 90 percent of our staff live there and there's a very large volunteer

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-51114151093162894612009-04-05T08:55:00.000-07:002009-04-05T09:00:51.899-07:00

Kathy Freston at Huffington Post Excerpt: If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save: ● 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months; ● 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year; ● 70 million gallons of gas--enough to fuel all the

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-22823760764580552372009-02-04T10:30:00.001-08:002009-02-04T10:31:12.660-08:00

Well that is too bad, because we have a beautifully working library system here in Southwest Washington, one I rely on heavily, and hope the voters didn’t vote the  wonderful library services into extinction.   Voters in five Washington counties rejected additional funding for libraries Tuesday The library-funding proposition passed in Pacific and Mason counties, but was overwhelmingly

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-50225822375151823082008-12-28T08:45:00.001-08:002008-12-28T08:45:38.780-08:00

Article I came across this morning at Washington Post turns out to be much more than one article.  It is an article collection in a series on the clean up efforts and lifestyles of the  Chesapeake Bay reported by the Washington Post.  I read with interest, recognizing that I could well be reading the future of Willapa Bay were it to become more densely populated; were it to become less

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-61624169714997399522008-12-26T10:05:00.001-08:002008-12-26T10:05:58.799-08:00

Well, whewww, someone put it together – activism + craft = craftivism.  That works for me!    Because it is possible to go beyond banners, email petitions and chants as ways of fighting for a cause you believe in. You could have a knit-in, papier-mache puppets, teach a crafty class for kids- all ways of turning that energy into a more positive, more useful, force. Atrocities are happening in

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-30567414048486861692008-12-24T12:04:00.001-08:002008-12-24T12:35:10.912-08:00

Our wonderful dog, Jake – Australian Shepherd breed – which means NOT that he is a shepherd breed, nor from Australia. These dogs likely got their names because bred in America, they were most often used by Basque shepherds to do sheep herding. Thus the Australian part of the name and the shepherd part of the name. They are working dogs, guarding dogs, and are bred to be working dogs, herding

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-80635435600002303832008-12-13T11:15:00.001-08:002008-12-13T11:15:07.431-08:00

Lovely holiday luncheon yesterday.  Dear Lady put on a sit-down holiday luncheon for about 20 women in our community.  If  it had been 1950, the luncheon might have looked like women wearing shirt-dresses with petticoats to make them flounce, hats and gloves, and a fashionable purse.   But it isn’t 1950, and that is not what the women looked like at our luncheon yesterday.  Although, our dear

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-55897782252388281102008-12-08T11:22:00.001-08:002008-12-08T11:22:36.429-08:00

This must just be our week for meeting lots of new to us neighbors.  It happens on occasion that my google alerts set to Willapa and Pacific County, alert me to a neighbor who is blogging.  Such was the case this morning, and I encountered this blog  seaviewwa – a couple who moved to Seaview and are refurbishing a home there.  She’s been blogging as long as I’ve been blogging. Where she has

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-73732904149811259872008-12-08T10:41:00.001-08:002008-12-08T10:41:19.130-08:00

Met our  newest Bay Center neighbor via Facebook.  How interesting!  He or they contacted me via my Facebook to let us know they were new neighbors, and paid us a nice compliment on our house.   They bought the house that I so love – the one I’ve been drooling over practically since we moved here and bought our house.  Two owners ago, we were guests of the then-owners of that house and I was so

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-77273538389963292932008-12-08T10:33:00.001-08:002008-12-08T10:33:46.766-08:00

Lovely weekend activities.  Last year at this time, everyone was still digging out from the storm (Dec 1-2, 2007) with those hurricane-strength winds at 140 + mph.  Can’t really know the full strength of those winds because the gadget that measured and registered the winds at 140 mph broke.  This year, no windstorms, some temperate, cool weather, bits of sunshine, some normal rainfall, fog and

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-63132913023138484522008-11-28T17:56:00.000-08:002008-11-30T09:30:40.699-08:00

article at Daily Astorian If a project isn’t sold to the community it will struggle to gain public acceptance There are suddenly plans for a lot of wind-based power generation blowing into Washington's Pacific County, possibly a hint at what may occur in many of the coastal counties of Oregon and Washington in the years ahead. A "joint operating agency" of Washington state electricity

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-38150856544822951652008-11-23T18:39:00.001-08:002008-11-23T18:39:04.990-08:00

      I was capturing some of the scenery on our drive home. We were driving home as the sun was starting to set.  I was able to get a nice set before we lost the light.   Not bad considering these were taken as a passenger in a moving vehicle. photos taken by Lietta Ruger

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-91410346423611244502008-11-12T10:10:00.001-08:002008-11-12T10:10:35.176-08:00

She really did.  She phoned on Veterans Day. I was sitting at my desk in my home in my lounge around the house clothes, working on my laptop.  The dawning of the fullness of the recognition that I was on the phone listening to Michelle Obama, who will very soon be the First Lady hit me like a ton of bricks and blew me away.  Wow, I'm on a phone call with the First Lady -- how cool is that!

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-89321439224693777982008-11-12T09:04:00.001-08:002008-11-12T09:05:51.353-08:00

Returning wounded Iraq veteran, and now Director of the Illinois Dept of Veteran’s Affairs, Tammy Duckworth who lost both legs in combat in Iraq war with President Elect, Barack Obama on Veteran’s Day 2008; ceremony of placing the wreath on Bronze Soldiers Memorial. link - more photos and articleOn a more personal note, Arthur, along with the rest of the veterans living here in our community

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-33051945578665624322008-11-11T11:47:00.000-08:002008-11-11T11:48:09.105-08:00

AP Technology writer, Jordan Robertson has an article at Newsvine.com today that speaks to this subject. Reading the entire article is certainly not a waste of time. Highlights: (1) "The most paranoid people in the world — computer security experts — say it's absolutely fine to bank online. As long as you guard against the person who is likely your biggest adversary: yourself. If you're

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-31065620844419120002008-11-10T12:02:00.001-08:002008-11-10T12:02:25.802-08:00

Released in 2008, the film ‘Crawford’ produced/directed by David Modigliani is a documentary/biography of the small town of Crawford, Texas before George W. Bush arrived at their doorstep, during the time of his Presidency. (And now after as new President-Elect, Barack Obama, is preparing to assume the office of President of the United States).  The film,’Crawford’  is put together in a way that

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-42344535951340326262008-11-07T07:56:00.001-08:002008-11-07T07:56:02.746-08:00

I’m a Will Smith fan, I just like the guy. I  like his approach and attitude and I like his movies,  and yes, he he makes me laugh.  Video of him on Oprah show after the elections results in President-Elect Barack Obama.  Watch the video at this link.

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-34223487754546612902008-10-28T10:05:00.001-07:002008-10-28T14:17:58.099-07:00

Until you notice the orange-suited men clambering around, it's hard to grasp the extraordinary scale of this underground crystal forest. Nearly 1,000ft below the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico, this cave was discovered by two brothers drilling in the Naica lead and silver mine. It is an eerie sight.  Up to 170 giant, luminous obelisks - the biggest is 37.4ft long and the equivalent height

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-9364652669232348942008-10-28T09:59:00.001-07:002008-10-28T14:21:54.407-07:00

Inspiring and Hopeful.  And just a few days away now from becoming a much needed change in our political reality. 

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-48997177278998799092008-10-19T10:10:00.000-07:002008-10-19T10:11:34.882-07:00

The photo Colin Powell referenced in his endorsement of Barack Obama.  The photo of mother at her son's gravesite, a young man, 20 years old, killed in Iraq, awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart.  Emblem on his gravesite is not the Christian cross, the Jewish Star of David, but the Muslim Crescent and Star.  Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Cpl., U.S. Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom, was an American who

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-69843616803515921552008-10-11T12:42:00.001-07:002008-10-11T12:42:27.481-07:00

The Presidential debates (2 so far).  The Vice Presidential debate.  The gubernatorial (Governor of Washington) debate.  Even one of the U.S. Representative debates.  I’m debated out for now.  I’m politicked out and there are still weeks to go till the election.   Running a 2 year campaign cycle for President only to do it again say 2 years later is too much!  And I’m a voter, not campaigning.  I

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1614422300158495182008-08-22T09:13:00.000-07:002008-08-22T09:28:15.276-07:00

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-7141272639433626152008-08-18T13:12:00.001-07:002008-08-18T13:12:00.276-07:00

Survey Report Excerpts from The Pew Research Center for the People & the PressA sizable minority of Americans find themselves at the intersection of these two long-standing trends in news consumption. Integrators, who get the news from both traditional sources and the internet, are a more engaged, sophisticated and demographically sought-after audience segment than those who mostly rely on

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-51427512571795569422008-08-16T08:51:00.001-07:002008-08-16T08:51:03.212-07:00

I hear occasionally that we are going to see more usage of trains, particularly for freight hauling. Read the excerpt below and check out that map.On Willapa Bay the trains are gone and the remaining tracks are rusted. Nearest active rail lines are 30 miles north, 50 miles east and south across the Columbia in Oregon.[Excerpt}BruceMcF at Docudharma.comMidnight Thought on Living Energy

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-51045916578112049242008-08-16T08:17:00.002-07:002008-08-16T08:21:37.130-07:00

No employment duties today, just gardening, house cleaning, no rush no hassle, just me and the little woman.Quiet and side by side reading and writing Internet stuff."hey, look what I found!""Look Honey, what you can get on Firefox.""Does it upload pictures?"" I have too many blogs.""Now this one is a catchall for whining, it's titled THE WAILING."If that cat tries to sharpen its claws on the

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-65236333666843097412008-07-15T08:24:00.000-07:002008-07-15T08:40:39.895-07:00

It's true, visitors should be advised (warned) to follow the speed limits exactly when passing through the nearby towns of Raymond and South Bend on Hwy 101. An article by Stephanie Frieze appearing yesterday in Tacoma News Tribune; In Your Neighborhood section encourages an inexpensive vacation to Long Beach and then offers some tour guide information; where to go, where to stay, where to eat.

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-26363600004856913532008-07-15T06:19:00.000-07:002008-07-15T06:33:15.229-07:00

"Alan Trimble, a researcher at the University of Washington, has noticed similar problems in the wild. Sampling seawater in Willapa Bay, Wash., he found that the oyster and clam larvae had disappeared in the last two years from waters where bacteria counts had been high."Excerpts from L.A. Times articleclick on link above to read entire article.Oyster ’seeds’ are dying as Pacific Coast

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-15582755291715850132008-07-14T09:26:00.000-07:002008-07-14T09:27:09.679-07:00

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-37116174075990500752008-07-10T09:55:00.000-07:002008-07-10T09:59:59.696-07:00

Our dog, Jake, after surgery on his ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). Didn't realize it was going to be such an invasive procedure. He healed, never fully, and has a permannt limp, and we are grateful the veternarian who performed the surgery did as well as he did. Prior to the surgery, Jake couldn't seem to walk at all. It took about a year of recovery, and now Jake bounces in excitement

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1557329398636989472008-07-07T07:57:00.000-07:002008-07-07T08:13:25.402-07:00

The link to the entire origianl article is in this post's title above.The writer, Linsey Knerl - wheverever in rural America she is living - describes herself as a "Stay-at-home Home-Educating Mama of four, I'm just cheap!"The article is Linsey's contribution to: click on image to go there.Excerpts:After landing a very nice job at an insurance-related company, I was slowly seeing the world in a

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-65072280846146191722008-07-05T06:41:00.000-07:002008-07-05T08:11:02.141-07:00

Lietta and I have allocated enormous amounts of our spare time to a serious examination and plan of our response to the implications of Peak Oil, gas guzzling transportation and what to do about potential shortages of commodities, services and medical expertise that stare us in the face as we move into our 60's.All this business causes us to miss some of the prime entertainment and diversion

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-5795775905871023722008-07-02T12:05:00.001-07:002008-07-03T12:21:45.556-07:00

Attended U.S. Representative Brian Baird Town Hall Meeting in South Bend, Pacific County, Washington on July 1, 2008. I had very personal reasons for wanting to talk to Congressman Baird this year based on our experience talking with him at his Town Hall meeting last summer.You may recall that last year Congressman Baird made national news in his support of the 'Surge' (of U.S. troops deployed to

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-46447761545697601892008-07-01T11:23:00.001-07:002008-07-01T11:57:58.686-07:00

Sweetie has been diligent in helping me create our kitchen vegetable garden bed these past several years. He digs it and turns the soil by shovel each spring, and then I add seeds, water and watch it grow. Oh were it that simple! Not!The first couple of years, vegetable garden grew well. When he first laid out the garden bed, I came in behind him, laid down newspaper to cover the soil, then added

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-50577054487583235292008-06-29T12:09:00.000-07:002008-06-29T12:12:03.985-07:00

Here is a slideshow that in photos chronicles some elements of our lives since we moved to Pacific County eight years ago. Windows Live Spaces

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-45856268757036689712008-06-29T11:26:00.000-07:002008-06-29T11:53:41.946-07:00

Sweetie made this blog some time back, and it has been sitting idle as long. We intended to partner blog and were using this particular blog as a vehicle to chronicle some elements of living our life in this wonderful treasure of a hamlet called Bay Center (named so because it is a peninsula that juts out into the center of Willapa Bay). We didn't do what we intended with this blog. Some years

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1007071317282099292008-06-29T11:01:00.000-07:002008-06-29T11:06:09.540-07:00

I'm pleased to have found this great challenge and it is a challenge - Independence Day Challenge 2008 - at Casaubon's Book blog. The blog is full of useful information and worth a look. We (husband and I, oh and our dog and cat) are already into our efforts of trying to learn how to take care of ourselves (primarily feed ourselves) as the oil/food/economic crisis continues. And we recognize we

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-22801734705070516202008-04-21T13:41:00.000-07:002009-04-09T13:56:36.614-07:00

The 18 days we had with my soldier was amazing. Not only for the kids but for my husband and I too. I fell in love with him all over again. I cherished every second I had with him. I held his hand any chance I got. I hugged and kissed him all day everyday. It felt like we were in our own reality and now I am back to some life I don't recognize. Yes we go on with our lives but my life seems at a

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-18820218484023296232007-12-09T19:52:00.000-08:002008-07-04T19:41:47.726-07:00

Pacific Northwest Storm of the Decade, Dec 2007. Declared disaster area in Southwest Washington, Washington coast and Northern Oregon coast. We live in Bay Center, WA, Pacific County, and had hurricane strength winds for 2 days - 119 mph with gusts of 145 mph. Photo slideshow below.Can read more at my account of our experience in Pacific County at Washblog story. Also at my blog 'Life in Bay

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-43230910348232308032007-11-11T06:53:00.000-08:002008-07-02T12:04:25.310-07:00

Excellent video encapsulating wide array of concepts in Sustainable Living. These Urban Pioneers got a jumpstart back when it was called self-sufficiency- meaningful living, abundant living, simplistic living, getting off the grid. And they go even further back ... see the video below. Big hat tip to Path To Freedom Journal blog.from the Path to Freedom Journal blog 'about us'On 1/5th of an

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-17409916634787999412007-07-01T06:26:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:43:23.522-07:00

The video starts off looking like some lecture and I started to hit the stop button, but decided instead to hear it out for a bit, and then I was intrigued. Because she was talking about something as if I should already know what it is and I realized I hadn't even heard of it, let alone realize what it is, so I listened. Do you know what Codex Alimentarius is? And if you do, then you're ahead of

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-44358073369151806242007-06-21T06:37:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:44:27.414-07:00

April 25, 2005Spring clean-up. Weather was unseasonably warm early this year and the yard is abloom before it's seasonal. So getting an earlier start this year, as everything in the yard thinks it's spring in March already. Trimmed the Harry Lauder Walking Stick tree because it grew new limbs rapidly, and I didn't trim the shoots that sprouted last summer. Then I went after the wild fushia bush

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-19799901467249583502007-06-21T06:35:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:45:32.391-07:00

June 14, 2004It has rained all week here and actually, I got a lot done in the yard (see previous posts). Saturday, and I tackled another section of the yard, edging and shovelling out another flower bed. My daughter came to my rescue and helped me with the heavy manual work of hauling off the sod.I planted the rest of last year's iris bulbs and maybe they will take and maybe not as they sat in a

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-42302323424036643682007-06-21T06:33:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:46:40.884-07:00

June 10, 2004Yesterday I got the rock garden planted. There is a rock formation in the yard separating the upper from the lower section. I had thought it would make nice rock garden for succulents and some wildflowers. Well, it's of course, more adept at growing weeds, so I put the black plastic on it, held it down with bricks (laying around the yard from the gradually crumbling brick wall) and

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-39838925299982489672007-06-21T06:32:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:47:34.247-07:00

June 10, 2004I'm a frugal gardener, by that I mean whatever I can do on the cheap, by innovation, as close to free as possible. We reduced last year by choice to one income living and of necessity now, I look for the most inexpensive ways to enhance my yard and garden.Got late start this year. But that didn't stop me, no I bought some starter vegetables and reclaimed 1/3rd of my garden space from

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-69351753418192084162007-06-21T06:31:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:48:56.006-07:00

June 8, 2004Well here goes my new journal for my gardening efforts. Like Pinocchio, I want to be a "real" gardener some day. I've had a hand at growing some vegetables in container pots. Last year I tried the split open top soil bags and planting the vegetables directly in the bags. Hey that worked! I had nice amount of summer squash, zucchini, pickling cucumbers, and even a hint of cherry

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-9217086431420175172007-06-21T06:28:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:49:31.461-07:00

August 2003Our first summer in the house we are buying. It comes with some already mature landscaping. Noteably the front yard has the 90 + year old Monkey Puzzle Tree. But it is showing it's age now, and appears more brown than green.The first year here I asked our neighbor to cut off the lower branches. Since the tree was planted on a corner where 2 streets intersect, it made for poor

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-64379670891091870162007-06-18T06:23:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:50:08.413-07:00

I'm not altogether sure that I agree with the slant or bent of why this was posted - as it has a somewhat anti-illegal immigrant cast to it , which I don't share. But the information pointed out about contaminated and compromised food, food recalls is pertinent. United States Food Supply in Danger?The latest in the craze of America 's food supplies being contaminated. Mini Chip Ahoy Cookies from

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-7031413228575448932007-04-30T19:49:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:50:55.953-07:00

We figured it out! The front area of our front yard (entrance to the house) that has been elevated and rocked with bricks laid for pathway, concrete poured for a patio and three concrete steps to walk up to the elevated 'gardens'. Nice idea, but makes no sense to the lay of the land and we have been trying to figure out if PO intended it to be decorative or why it was installed the way it

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-55176892762218970562007-04-30T19:44:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:51:50.869-07:00

Part 1 of this story and phase; Our neighbor, who grew up in this fishing village of Bay Center, stops by from time to time when we are working outside and shares some stories with us about the old days in this community. We know then, that he was a child growing up when the second PO of this house lived here and their son was growing up. So our neighbor knows the son who inherited this old place

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-82237853750369050852007-04-30T06:49:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:52:25.810-07:00

First year for the tulips in my yard that I planted last Fall. I'm so pleased!Tulips in Mossyrock:I have to toss in a photo of the Money Tree plants growing at the side of the house. I mention, because I planted the seeds last spring and they grew all winter and really sprouted flowers by early spring this year. I'm astonished since I planted seeds, didn't see harvest and thought it was a lost

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-44486332838727408432007-03-21T06:21:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:53:10.391-07:00

I know, I know - I've neglected my blog(s). Quick update to my little adventure of learning to cook Thai (vegan Thai) and yes we are still eating pretty much strictly Thai. I won't add the latest recipes to this post, but I will be adding them to the blog shortly. It's been a month now - my - a month has passed since I began converting us to vegetarian. I've been cooking vegan Thai recipes for a

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-67458425281560043462007-03-21T06:19:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:53:49.999-07:00

Well good for him and his wife and their small child. He decided to put into action and action plan to reduce his family impact on the environment - in the urban setting of New York city. Instead of mouthing all the assortment of platitudes, he decided to make a committment, reduce their environmental footpring and is blogging about it.While I self congratulate on the efforts we have made in our

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-17359394033774045512007-03-10T09:49:00.000-08:002007-09-14T10:23:46.641-07:00

I'm sitting here on a Saturdy morning feeling healthier, wiser and motivated for new vocational directions.Lifestyle changes driven originally by take the RealAge.com test are having an intitial dramatic impact. The incredible dietary change resulting from Lietta's research and committment to change has been augmented by my own promise to exercise frequently.At work - where I'm authorized a

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-66071801924842978382007-03-01T06:17:00.000-08:002008-07-04T19:55:01.850-07:00

I have long believed the WWll concept of everyone having a 'Victory Garden' of their own has more meaning for us now in these times in a quite different way. In the time of WWll, individuals grew Victory Gardens as a response to war-time rationing and as a united gesture of patriotic support.As 'living off the grid', becoming consumer-less, corporate farming, global warming, terminator seeds (

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-58133642900667730962007-02-25T06:46:00.000-08:002008-07-02T12:03:02.434-07:00

Oh, this woman doesn't like the infamous Monkey Puzzle Tree. I followed her comment from one blog to her own blog and she has a post about what another writer calls the Dinosauer Tree.Well, we have one, over 92 yrs old now and I can tell you that the writer was spot on in calling it a Dinosauer Tree. It is left over from that era it seems to me, since it is not exactly a friendly sort of tree.

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-69684037302903236852007-02-24T06:15:00.000-08:002008-07-04T19:56:29.691-07:00

Three Soups Tonight!New batch of Granola.Eggplant Chips. I got busy and made three different soups tonight to go with the big batch of rice I made yesterday. I also wanted to be sure that Sweetie would have 'leftovers' for the rest of the weekend and to take to work on Monday.If we had a bigger refridgerator, I'd do the weekend making up meals ahead, but there is no way with the two of us we

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-5765274235967868432007-02-23T20:14:00.000-08:002008-07-04T19:57:19.708-07:00

I watched Bonus Army on PBS, and then Ghosts of Abu Ghraib on HBO. It remains on my mind today, and I will likely blog on it at my Dying to Preserve the Lies blog and at Washblog. I mention it at this blog, because it is named Bundelz, an effort to have one place that is not a compartment of the many aspects of being me.Sweetie came home from work yesterday raving about the granola. It's time for

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-54444137223442515742007-02-23T06:43:00.000-08:002008-07-04T19:57:40.985-07:00

Weather is confused here, between serious hail, sun breaks, rain, and some winds, it's that time of year again - at least for the weather around here. Tulips, daffodils, croascia peeking up in the yard - a reminder to me that spring is around the corner and I will be back in my yard and garden again soon. My plans this year include creating a red lava rock pathway in the frontyard leading up to

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-20702153798525980822007-02-21T20:12:00.001-08:002008-07-04T19:58:33.559-07:00

Made the Tomato Zucchini Frittada last night. Okay, so-so, not exciting and not quite boring. Primary ingredients are tofu for bulk, zucchini for crust. I could tell while I was making it that it was not going to have any flavor snap, so I did add mozzerella cheese on top which is not in the recipe. I liken the taste to those Bisquick Impossible Pie dinner recipes.Kind of a disappointment after

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-77046137232174720502007-02-21T14:33:00.000-08:002007-09-14T10:23:46.642-07:00

I'm glad Arthur started this blog journal. The idea was to capture a few thoughts at the end of the day to indicate what we did that day. Not because it is exceedingly interesting, or even interesting at all, but for us, as a couple, it is interesting - to us. Arthur has kept just such a hand-written journal in his historical past and I have encountered it and found it a fascinating endeavor

Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-35608507659330998682007-02-20T20:09:00.000-08:002008-07-04T19:59:28.947-07:00

I found a couple of sites today where it looks like people are taking consuming less, conserving more, being environmentally conscientious to the next levels - trying to find alternatives to being purchasing consumers.I love it, because quietly that is what my husband and I have been doing for several years now, rather contrary to the mainstream of buy, buy, buy. Guess I've been a bit self

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-71516439070719311012007-02-19T20:08:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:00:30.995-07:00

We are converting to vegetarian lifestyle. And I've done this a couple of times before, so have a bit of an idea where we are headed. I am old enough to remember the health food of the Seventies and pleased to see that in 2000 there are more choices. I converted us strictly to Dr Ornish diet before, and that was great, and I will borrow again from those recipes. But to really kick us off I wanted

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-8863898702949134252007-02-17T17:16:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:00:58.828-07:00

[Editor's note] Kathleen Sayce is Shorebank resident scientist in Ilwaco. Her column in the Chinook Observer explains the scientific underpinnings of our area. She has started with basic geology. An excerpt is found after the end of my article.Arthur Ruger The Tide is Out - Photo from Wa Dept of EcologyWillapa Bay is not a Grand Canyon-type visual but the view is very much our typical Pacific

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-14142997303927906392007-02-14T20:07:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:01:39.109-07:00

How courteous, a thank you from a 'new friend' - Lighter Footstep. I added as a link and Chris Baskind from Lighter Footstep took the time to comment at this blog and give a thank you for the link. I appreciate the net courtesy.Well, so far this blog is shaping up to be predominantly recipes. I don't intend for it to remain as such, and will be getting around to 'rounding it out', otherwise it

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-21040788437309664012007-02-08T19:40:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:02:29.701-07:00

An Autumn sunset. This photo captures only a percentage of the great sky and even though it's a snapshot, that's one spectacular paintbrush.We have some beautiful sunrises and sunsets here, but there are those days when it is more breathtaking than other days. It registers on us here living in the village. While this photo was taken in Sept 2006 from our stairway window, and it is now Feb 2007,

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-74725735647761147762007-02-08T07:13:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:03:18.723-07:00

The deck coating is peeling and bare wood is exposed. With the forever rain of Pacific Northwest, this is not a good state for the deck and it was in this state when we bought the house. I've worried about it and summer 2006 dear husband made it his project to attend to the deck.We determined what had been used as the original covering, and it looks like the PO used roofing type of compound to

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-18752414858171052812007-02-05T20:04:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:03:59.376-07:00

Leaving an impression of an imprint, an outline of a footprint, instead of Bigfoot evidence of squandering resources - sustainable living. A more respectful way of taking and giving back and leaving something for the next generation(s). Pass it forward.What has been a journey for us that started years earlier, has taken on differing identifying terms as the definitions have changed. Sometimes

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-48572697282437431602007-01-27T20:02:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:04:44.080-07:00

My mom is so helpful. When she knows I have an interest in something, she does a bit of online googling and sends me a few links she thinks might be of interest to me. It's been that way every since she got computer savvy - and I'm pleased to say I instructed her through her first basic lessons in getting acquainted with the computer. Who knew my dear 60 something mother would become as savvy,

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-76016273544923925132007-01-27T20:00:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:05:17.004-07:00

We have done the Ornish diet a few years back, which is primarily vegetarian. Not vegan, though - there is a dramatic difference as I learned from my daughter - see her blog Veganville. When we did the conversion to Ornish, I had to completely rework my kitchen pantry, learn to cook in a completely different way, and I came to have an appreciation for the amount of time it can take to prepare

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-48593530589415625052007-01-27T10:31:00.000-08:002007-09-14T10:23:46.642-07:00

I took Friday off and today we're in day two of "just us" for the weekend.Sunday will mark 11 years and it hardly seems that long. Often in earlier years we would journey back up to Skagit County where we were married and drive out to the water where we were married by a Christian Native-American Shaman in his home.We will view a VHS recording of our wedding tomorrow and celebrate with a wedding

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-38050015155685197012007-01-15T20:26:00.000-08:002007-09-14T10:23:46.643-07:00

Lookin for my lost table salt ....some people say that there's a woooommmaannn to blame ,but I know ..... it's my own damn fault.If you lack courage don't go to RealAge.com You'll be sorry ... but maybe healthier.Lietta found it and told me.I went there, completed the questionnaire,and found out I'm a lot older than my calendar says I am.So tomorrow's the first day of the rest of my life eating

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-78681139391899854172007-01-06T19:55:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:06:30.183-07:00

Introductions and getting started: I'm a child of the Pleasantville 1950s, a teen during the turbulent 1960s, a wife and mother during the 'earth mother' 1970s, a career mom in the 1980s, a grandmother in the 1990s, and now an empty nester in 2007.Spent the past 4 years immersed in activism efforts trying to end war in Iraq and bring the troops home. So immersed, that I let go of a lot of

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-44574712803120621922006-12-25T07:10:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:07:30.850-07:00

Wow, it was April 2006 we made the last entry to this blog! No way to 'catch up' 10 months of no posts. Life has certainly moved on for us, but not this blog.Okay, so Christmas 2006. We purchased (at seriously reduced price) a new artificial Christmas tree. We already have a huge 6 foot tree that completely takes up either the upstairs or downstairs cupola if that is where we place it. Or takes

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1166586428861102222006-12-19T19:37:00.000-08:002007-09-14T10:23:46.643-07:00

Yesterday, Lietta and I drove to Deep River Dental in Raymond and Dr. Hamilton pulled all of my top teeth.I was surprised at how easy and rapidly it went once I was good and numbed up and breathing a little bit of nitrous oxide (laughing gas). I remember some sort of minor interruption while he gave one of my teeth another shot of numb juice, touching my gums with my tongue and saying "4 down and

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-48144057327822505482006-12-02T06:37:00.000-08:002008-07-04T20:07:54.836-07:00

Using Paint tool - digital paintingby Lietta Ruger, digital artistclick on the painting to see more at my Picasa public gallery

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172295263775712006-10-22T10:57:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.644-07:00

Completed preliminary work on two new blogs to replace two current blogs eventually. Idea is creation of new blogs more amenable to commercial intent with blogads, amazon books an downloaded E-books and or PDF files created by me and sold via PayPal.In afternoon I escaped to the kitchen, made some more bread and put more jerky in the drier.Lietta still in paint mode but had phone conference that

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172238055373282006-10-21T10:56:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.644-07:00

Dallied with online blogs in prep to creating one or two commercial blogs with an attempt at ad revenue, marketing things and books thru Amzaon and prepping to put together E-books and/or pdf files of my writings. These would be available as downloaded PDF or E-Book files for a price.I already have the E-book compiler on both Lietta's and my computers.By late afternoon Lietta was ready to paint

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172189419482792006-10-20T10:55:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.644-07:00

My office is tiny. At one point years ago there was talk of "foot-printing" the office which meant reducing staff to a size where one or two workers would accept applications and forward to a parent office in Aberdeen.Never happened thanks to reality checks and timely political intervention. However, staff continually reduced and our actual size is less than "foot-print." More like "toe-print" as

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172143238120562006-10-19T10:55:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.645-07:00

For the past 6-8 months, I have been going without one of my prescription medications, Indomethacin, for help with gout. This is a potent anti-inflammatory drug that is used to combat a gout attack as well as help regulate inflammation in the joints and keep it down.Well, when the druggist announced that Indomethacin was not available a few months ago, I just went without because I have two other

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172098938203802006-10-18T10:54:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.646-07:00

Earlier in the week Lietta and I watched a bio-video of historian Howard Zinn on link TV.If you want to learn something rather than sit in front of the boob tube like a zombie in an opium den, go find LINK TV on your cable channel. Scary, but you might actually learn stuff.Howard Zinn wrote, "The People's History of the United States," a few years back. Colleagues - historians who have

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172051806015532006-10-17T10:53:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.647-07:00

The reason why I take only a week's vacation at a time is because even after a week, when I return I'm swamped with backlog. Office severely understaffed and unable to cover each other's caseloads completely.I'll be playing catch up and treading water on current events for two weeks until it stablizes.Come home ready to be home.

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165172004414305322006-10-16T10:52:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.647-07:00

Moody morning but off to work on time. Within 15 minutes of arrival and I feel like I lost 9 days of rest to 5 minutes of a familiar grind.Busy all day and facing the worst fall-behind in the past 2-3 years of vacations where staff kept my stuff quite current.Interviews were all rough in the sense of hard to use humor around the seriouness of illness, job loss and psycho-drama. In all this I need

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171963111496992006-10-15T10:52:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.648-07:00

Sunday visit to Portland, originally planned as day trip to see autumn colors. But the agenda was rain rain rain.Went anyway to visit stepson Chris Coy in his new apartment in Beaverton/Tigard area near Portland, Or.All day visit including awesome buffet at Sweet Tomatoes which is in reality an all-you-can-eat salad bar with strong vegetarian emphasis since only meat was in salads.Then drove to

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171920295538522006-10-14T10:51:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.648-07:00

The kind of Saturday we moved out here to have.Up after sleep in and updating ourselves on the world situation via intenet until noonish. And reorganization of my favorites.Burnt out on all the social-political babble and Babel and have spent the last three days unsubscribing from all the newsletters except one or two. Then reorganized my bookmarks, deleting an endless array of political blogs

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171863031036952006-10-13T10:50:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.648-07:00

So we;'ve been busy every morning of my vacation chasing our internet priorities and the afternoons continuning or working around the house or yard.I'm an older guy now flying around the hive trying to find the place where I want to fit in, where I want to make and store honey, and where I want to help make a more attractive and livable hive. Still haven't totally discovered what that is so I

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171813270352812006-10-12T10:49:00.000-07:002008-07-04T20:08:25.233-07:00

do online pictures. Lietta was going to paint downstairs in her studio and I was going to be there and be quiet - perhaps working on poetry.But then we both got caught up doing online picture programs. When her computer crashed two weeks ago, I had to scrub it clean and re-install Windows XP, erasing all content. Among what was lost was her photo collection.I downloaded all the photos in my

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171738296797122006-10-11T10:48:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.649-07:00

Today turned out to be reading, writing, designing, updating and candle lighting when the power finally went out.Talked about breakfast but neither of us did anything.Talked about lunch but neither of us did anything.Finally went to the store and bought a couple of grinders, milk, and sweet stuff.Came home after eating and back upstairs. Not for long. Power went out.Drove to the beach, now about

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171462445064032006-10-10T10:43:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.650-07:00

During morning online I thought I'd see what the other MFSO state sites are putting up.Made me decide to build a site-map for our site, simplify the navigation bar and generally do some editing of old stuff.7 hours later I had myself a site map and other than taking 15 minutes to move some sod around the yard for Lietta, the rest of the afternoon and evening was dinner and some television.Mind

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171404480742762006-10-09T10:42:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:23:46.650-07:00

First actual day of vacation.The morning routine whether on vacation or not is always up fairly early and online. During vacation this means online until noon or later.Lots of reading and writing that is so much pleasure!Afternoon we finished reworking the kitchen. Now more shelves, more space and more functionality. I've promised Lietta to become more of a kitchen activist learning new recipies,

Arthur Rugernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10236786.post-1165171219380654892006-10-08T10:39:00.000-07:002007-09-14T10:52:44.437-07:00

My heart yearns for the freedom of retirement.More than 40 years of full-time employment- perhaps with the exception of 1986 whenunemployment lasted more than six monthsand I actually managed to write a 600+ page novelin my spare time while seeking a job.Today, leisurely, I spent all morning onlinethinking about my writing activities in my new variation.I've been to the blogging circus and

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I love October and stay-home-all-day leisureDidn't sleep in this morning. Hip pain woke me up.Made coffee and came upstairs to the lureof the Internet. I'm an online addict. I quit smoking a year ago and abandonedthat addiction successfully. But I also became an online writer and political activist; another addiction of dubious merit. Political activism seemed to satisfy my desire - participation

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Quality Time on VacationI always like Friday nights;the open, lazy momentwhen work is done, nothing demandsand tomorrow there'll be no needto rise early and start workingon my game facenot for two days.Even better but less frequent,next month will see the first nightof my week's vacation.A week in April and a week in October; never two full weeks because I can'tbe gone that long in an officeso

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