Pick-up Dogs How Two Rescue Dogs Save the West from Being Won
Origins of the Adventure Buddies name
It’s time to explain the origin of the name Adventure Buddies of Pick-Up Dogs fame. Five years ago, my then girlfriend-now wife Kirsten and I had left Marcos and Lupe, my two rescue pups, and headed to Mexico. It was tough to leave the dogs behind but we did, cringing as we packed the suitcases. […]
Mountain Worship
Adventure Log Date: January 11th, 2013 Location: Artist Point, End of Mount Baker Highway Goal: A sunset view over Mount Baker Temperature: Between 14 and 20 degrees Farenheit Adventure Soundtrack: Recordings of Grateful Dead concerts recorded during their Spring tour of 1972 in Europe. Words of Inspiration: Goin’ where the wind don’t blow […]
Big Black Muddy Elwha River
Black muddy river Roll on forever I don’t care how deep or wide If you got another side Roll muddy river Black muddy river roll Big Black Muddy Elwha River
Therapy Dogs work for hugs, treats and…Drawings!
Marcos made some more friends this week. And we got this nice drawing from a young girl with whom we read stories like Green Eggs and Ham, Max, the Shelter Dog, and Dog of Discovery, which is about the Newfoundland that went on the Voyage of Discovery with Lewis and Clark. The kids are not […]
Hvarf Heim = Disappeared haven
Ágætis byrjun= Towards the end Ég þakka þér þá von= I appreciate your Hope Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust= With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly Inní mér syngur vitleysingur = within me a lunatic sings
Wendell Berry quote
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what was good for the world will be good for us…For it is only on […]
Dogs in Middle Earth
This isn’t really Middle Earth. Or New Zealand. But the rocky outcrops and enormous boulder fields up near Artist’s Point at at the end of the Mount Baker Highway are not unlike those of the Misty Mountain Hop or the mountains of Rohan. The brilliant fall colors, which visit us when we’re lucky in October, […]