What’s that you say? The temperature is falling to a reasonable level and you are no longer afraid of turning on your oven? Me too! You totally get me. We are like BFFAE (Best friends forever and ever). In honor of the cooler temps I’ve decided to start blogging more about what I’m cooking. Now…
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Playground by the Sound
As the father of a toddler, I’m starting to become quite the expert at what makes a good playground. There needs to be a variety of slides: short ones, steep ones, not-steep ones, high ones and tubes. There needs to be a variety of swings: standard, tire and baby. There needs to be at least…
Gardening update: Watering is fun
Veronica and I have long wanted a garden and now that we own a house we have one. Building a garden box, putting in some dirt and planting seeds is pretty easy, but actually growing fruit and vegetables that can be consumed turned out to be a little bit more difficult than we thought it…
Fun Links for Weekend Reading
That’s me and Cat hiking Mt. Rainier Wednesday. She’s getting to that age where she can spend part of the time in her pack and the rest of the time actually hiking. It’s exciting times in the Traveling the PNW house! Hope you are all having a great weekend. Here’s some fun links for your…
West Texas living
As many of you know, I recently spent a few days in my hometown of Odessa, Texas. While driving around my old stomping grounds I started to think about all the things I enjoyed growing up there. I know I give West Texas a lot of grief at times and it’s no secret that as…
Visiting the farms on Green Bluff
Over the past few years we’ve developed a little tradition when we visit Craig’s parents in Spokane. When we first moved to Washington five years ago we were living in The Tri-Cities about three hours south of Spokane. During our first month in our new home Molly and I made the trip up to Spokane…
Traveling the PNW 