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Planting Plants, Sunset from Tokeland

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New Tokeland Kitchen Lights

It's the simple things. See: swapping out flat, fluorescent lights for some warm, effective track lights from Ikea....

Tokeland Sabbatical: Day 5

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Tokeland Sabbatical: Day 4

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Tokeland Sabbatical: Day 3

Today was a warm, muggy day which made me think I totally want a storm/screen door on the front of this place to get a better cross breeze. Aside...

Tokeland Sabbatical: Day 2

Yesterday's storm gave way to a clouded in but calm and warm morning today. I went for a walk then spent the rest of the morning inside working. But...

Starting My Tokeland Sabbatical

After packing what needed to be packed I headed out this morning for Tokeland to start my sabbatical. The drive went quick while the weather went south. Upon arrival...

Tokeland House Blooms, Meaties BBQ

I took off "early" (after sleeping in, having breakfast, then packing up) from Tokeland and made it back in time for this month's Meaties BBQ graciously organized and hosted...

Dusk Over the Water in Tokeland

I spent time today cleaning the utility room in the back of my Tokeland house and helping my neighbors with a few miscellaneous computer issues. I wrapped things up...

Birds and Sights on the Water in Tokeland, First Evening Fire

I headed out early for Tokeland today and made it to the incredible part of Hwy 105 that grazes the edge of Willapa Bay for miles. There I saw...

Cleaning in Tokeland, sand pipers, North Cove tree and rock pile, nuclear cooling towers

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In Tokeland with family, Tom the cat, running water in cabin

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Sunny day, trenching, and sunset in Tokeland

I took the day off today to head coast-ward and I couldn't have picked a better day. Slight breeze, some puffy clouds in the sky, and temperatures hovering in...

Cleaning at the Tokeland House

My Tokeland house. After a couple months getting everything organized I signed all the paperwork to make this little house out in Tokeland mine. That being said, I couldn't...

Inside 3004 Kindred

Here's a peek inside (and out, really) of the housing I'm hoping to buy out in Tokeland, WA....

Photos ~ North End Garage Fire

A barrage of sirens followed by the smell of a nearby visible pale of smoke came from a north end fire this morning. The detatched garages of two houses...

Photos ~ New Porch Roof (Day 1)

Today and tomorrow I'm off from work to stay home. It's not really a vacation but more of a work party for one. Since move-in day the flat, tarred...

Need electricity to write

Yeah, the other day we had some downtime with our server and I didn't think much of it. Once we got home, however, we found that one of the...

Election results sans flashy graphics

Sometimes the traditional media has the power to do wonderful work while sometimes they instead rely on babbling anchors and flashy graphics and animation. When it comes to elections,...

The South has won

Time to get political: Ever since the Civil War, the South has been jealous that the democratic ideals of the North have been the defining principals of this nation. Yesterday,...

Gettin' to know the town

Our plan today was to get out and survey some rental possibilities. Sarah, Gavin, Holly and I took off just after 9am this morning with maps and lists in-hand...