I sit here listening to Disturbed and thinking about what I am going to do with a new triangle of garden space I’m creating. In the middle of my backyard, I fenced in an area about 20×20 to keep the dogs out. I used two pieces of cattle panel that had been affixed to my…

Exposed soil in the desert is vulnerable. Here in the Sonoran Desert, if you go outside of the city and go for a hike, you will not see nearly as much bare earth as in developed areas. You certainly will see bare earth, as contrasted to somewhere like the Northwest where anywhere there is soil,…

I haven’t posted on the blog for quite a while. I have written a couple, but one in particular I have been doing research for it and siting sources so it has been taking a while to write. It is more of an article than a blog post but I will just post it here…

Today is an exciting day for me because I am starting the process of growing lion’s mane mushrooms. Especially in a blog entry, when I am documenting what I did during the procedure it is not to be taken as a guide of how to do something. I intentionally do not title my blog posts…

When I was a teen and into my twenties, I spent a lot of time travelling up and down the west coast of the US, as well as British Columbia and Mexico. I really did not have any close friends… actually I had one. One that I was close with and we have remained friends…