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and sandy, and muddy, and I’m enjoying it anyway. The wind woke me up around 4:00 this morning. But what can one expect when camping on the Oregon coast 😄? The cats were crying in their crat...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/everythings-wet/

The pictures say it all. Or almost all. Showers are a challenge when camping, and CGs vary considerably in what they do, or don’t, provide. For me, the point at which I get most desirous of a s...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/absolutely-brilliant-and-unique-feature-of-gilbert-ray-cg/

One of the obstacles to trip blogging is that it takes so much time; time that has to be budgeted for, time during the part of my day when I still have energy and a reasonably functioning brain. ...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/catching-up/

J and I have been out less than a week (hard to believe; as usual, travel is stretching my sense of time), but it is already clear that things are working for both of us. So far–of course, we c...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/02/25/things-are-working/

Ok, got three whole comments saying they’d be interested in more about my job as a houseparent (!), so here it is. The group home was one of four run by a private nonprofit organization, one fo...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/houseparenting-addendum/

Way back when–I think it was my first job after graduating from college, which would make it around 1970-71–I had a job as a houseparent at a group home for girls in Walnut Creek, CA. It was ...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/lake-berryessa-addendum/

Since I, like many bloggers, seem to have nearly stopped posting, the answer is, rather a lot. It’s been over a year since my last, trivial, attempt at re-starting my blogging brain, and much...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/so-whats-new/

I’ve decided to (perhaps) revive the blog by doing some shorts, sorta like what I might do on FB but less ephemeral and without the attendant annoyances. And since I have many pet peeves, all o...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/petty-peeves-1/

Note for non-family who don’t know us: our father married twice, first to my mom, then again after their divorce. Two kids with Mom, me and my brother, and four from his second marriage, two bo...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2022/06/12/for-family-for-the-record/

So I didn’t think I’d have anything to post about for a few days, but then this happened. I was up there because the worm gear (or whatever you call it) that deploys and retracts the awning c...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/well-that-was-unexpected/

Which pretty much describes how I’m feeling about this trip following upon the last. My sense is the entire world is trying to get to some degree of normalcy after the height of covid—note I ...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/creeping-back-to-feeling-normal/

This a a definite candidate for the TLDR post of the year, but I’m posting it anyway because 1) I finally got it done, so why not, and 2) I want it up for my future self to come back to for the...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/the-trip-that-wasnt-and-the-trip-that-was/

About three weeks ago—October 17, to be precise—I fell and sprained (I assumed) my left wrist. The next day, Monday, I noticed not all was well with Phantom. He wasn’t eating, which for him...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2021/11/07/phantom-so-far-so-good/

Yes, that’s the real name. I’ve driven past Mt. Humbug on highway 101 many times, and often had the vague thought that I should stop and explore it someday. I eventually realized that I would...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/mt-humbug/

At the end of January, I took a trip up the coast to Fort Stevens (near Astoria, for any out-of-staters who see this. Astoria being where ET was filmed, for any old out-of-staters 🙂 ). As usua...

https://addofio.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/tardy-trip-post/