Oct 19, 2019
We have a lot of wildlife along our main highway, and people passing by stop their cars to take pictures and snarl up the traffic flow.This summer's moose in "Downtown Drake:"Note the lady on crutches...
Oct 3, 2019
I found a loose Scrabble letter on the bookshelf in the guest cabin, and figured it came from the Scrabble game that was over there. Today I laid out all the letters to see if it did come from there, ...
Sept 29, 2019
After years of a messy linen closet I decided to take everything out and see what I have and organize it better. I have all my mother's linens plus my own as well as some from my father's mother. I'm ...
Aug 30, 2019
Summer ends here when Mr. TroutBend loads up his Honda and drives back to Las Vegas, and that was this morning at 12:30 am. In some ways it's easier to make the drive at night because there's less tra...
Aug 18, 2019
I've seen the meatless version of this dish served at banquets as the alternative to meat entrees with large sauteed portobello mushroom slices to fill in for meat. I make it with ham for our holiday ...
Aug 17, 2019
Reading through a list of 'Grandma's Favorite Recipes' - meatloaf, fried chicken, green bean casserole, chicken pot pie, and pot roast has me thinking about what recipes are considered the standards a...
Aug 14, 2019
It's never lonely being a baby boomer - there's lots of us to go around. Sometimes I feel like we're sitting on a financial time-bomb. Lately I've read articles about how the boomers are messing up th...
Aug 8, 2019
I like to read a headline and while my slow Internet connection is loading the story, I make up in my head what I think it's going to be about. I do that all the time with the posts here on MyBloggers...
July 24, 2019
We've had a renter in the new house since last June, and thought he was great. Rent paid automatically from his checking account so it was always on time, neat and tidy, no smoking or drinking. Good j...
July 15, 2019
The new house is for rent once again, renter lured away by the big city. He got laid off from his job as a counselor at the local detox center. He'd only worked there a year, and it's his first job af...
July 5, 2019
It's a lovely 75 degree day here in the Rockies, sunny with a nice breeze. It can get into the 90s this time of year, so we are enjoying this. I ran out to the bridge to wave to kayakers on the river,...
June 30, 2019
Friday we went to see a wildfire fighting airplane demonstration at the local airport. It holds up to 2,500 gallons of a gel that is dropped out of the bottom of the plane onto the fires. The gel caus...
June 6, 2019
It was nice to see my classmates from our small town, 50 years after we graduated from high school. Some of them were easy to recognize, others not so much. It was nice to see how some of the shrinkin...
May 30, 2019
We seldom have elk come down here, although there are giant herds of them a few miles to the east and west of us. Today we were invaded by six large bull elk who sampled all of our bushes and grasses ...
May 26, 2019
We don't pay a lot of attention to holidays, except once in awhile I remember to buy something special at the grocery store. This year it was some all-beef hotdogs that if Mr. Troutbend had been along...
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