The bear is on the road. The Turbo Giraffe prepped and waiting in the sunshine. The man himself, suiting up. Everything is good to go. And away he goes…
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The optimism of a nice weekend in May.
It is the first nice wekend in May and like all Seattlites I am doing all sorts of getting ready for summer things outside. We have an entire week of Sunny days forcast so it’s time to start having tea …
Read MoreKTM 950 Overnight Camping Shakedown cruise (17 april 2010)
Departed home slightly after scheduled time, situation normal, right? Stopped in monroe for fuel and to meet anyone who might have decided to come along and not told me. There is no one there, so about 12:40, I headed east …
Read MoreEvent Report: April Fool’s Trial, 11 April 2010, Walker Valley
Checking the weather forecast on saturday convince me to take the chance and leave my portable shelter at home: 10% chance of precipitation, highs in the upper 50s. If that actually held up, it would be one of the nicest …
Read MorePreparing to go ‘walkabout’
As some you already know, your obedient scribe is planning a trip, what my wife and I refer to as ‘going walkabout’ after the australian tradition of ‘seeing what’s out there’. In this case, I’ll be using a KTM 950 …
Read MoreGardening Report — March 14
Last weekend the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs. Continuing the theme of happy flowering shrubs and brooding conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) buddleias we’ve added more happy and more …
Read MoreGardening at the End of February
It was a busy garden weekend here at Black Dog Farm. We started with a trip to Molbaks to take advantage of their 30% off bare-root and b&b trees and shrubs. We started with something to go in front of …
Read MoreKTM 950 Retrieval Trip, Feb 19 – 21, 2010
So I decided to take a gamble and go to California to retrieve the KTM I purchased 3 weeks ago. It is a 2006 KTM 950 Adventure with 4000 miles on the clock. The weather reports looked OK, if not stellar, …
Read MoreFirst Garden Report
Last fall we dug up and divided a lot of overgrown plants. Among them a patch of iris so thick that it took a tree saw to hack it apart. All eight sections have begun to grown nicely. I’m not sure …
Read MoreEvent Report: Ice Trial, 7 Feb 2010, Walker Valley
Headed out the door at oh-dark-fifteen for our second club trials of the season, the Ice Trial. Weather looks like it won’t live up to it’s name, although it has in past years. Get to the site, get unloaded in …
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