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My sympathy to all those affected by the blast. A cautionary reminder that all these refineries, mills, and industries with large storage tanks are not inherently safe. Even when the risk is low, it never goes away.

Here at Backhoes R Us, I stopped using a bike lock. Instead I aim a laser gun sight a couple feet above my bike's top tube. A sticker on the bike announces that the person standing there with a red dot on them is in harm's way. They tend not to linger.

Timely reminder! I hadn't checked my trap for a while. It's up to 8 queens now. Early season trapping makes August and September so much more pleasant for having dinner on the deck.

You would be most welcome at the swap & shop or any other get together and whip up that meal! That meal hits it outa' the park!

So true. Meat eater Salmo understands and appreciates the importance of vegetables, but draws the line at cauliflower and brussels sprouts.

I agree that I would likely benefit by eating a little lower on the food chain than I do, but this notion is crazy. Let's say we all convert to veganism. Then science advances and determines that many fruits and vegetables are actually sentient beings. What then? We all dedicate ourselves...

Funny me, I thought a quickie was like a nooner. Glad to read a fishing report instead.

After Escalante, I drove across Nevada on America's "loneliest highway" Hwy 50. Must be 5 or 6 passes through desert mountains. Wish I had pictures of the vast nothingness. Except it's not really nothing, not counting endless sagebrush. The reason for driving this route was to get to S. Lake...

My campsite for cowboy camping under the stars: Lunch break along the small creek that runs through Death Hollow: After descending Death Hollow for 6 miles, we connected back to the Escalante River, which is merely a trickle upstream of Death Hollow. Along the way is this 400' alcove...

It began about 20 years ago with day hikes on my first visit to southern Utah. Maybe it's the dramatic contrast with my native PNW, but for whatever reason, the SW desert country has taken a hold on me. I thought it would be fun to go backpacking in the desert canyon country, but having long...

If only I can get a new battery for it.

Now I've recently read that the WDS (Washington Department of Salmon) opened the lower Skagit River to fishing for spring Chinook salmon and that the fishery would be intensively monitored by creel checkers. Then I read that the Skagit River will open early in the upper section from Rockport to...

It's always an option! As a younger angler I always retied my tippet to fly knot after landing a steelhead, thinking that the knot may have weakened from playing a fish. Yeah, but what about all those heavy limbs and branches I snagged and yarded in but didn't re-tie? Somewhere along the way...

There is another explanation. My camera battery died on day 2 of my Utah hike, so I took a few photos with my camera (long story). I mainly relied on photos from my hiking companions for the trip. I needed to get my camera and phone photos loaded onto my computer to share with the group (a...

I was away from home for two weeks, so it was nice to return and things in bloom and my garden not dead. This is a native rhodie, two plants actually. I got them as seedlings from the conservation district 20 years ago. Transplanted them when we moved into the "new" house in 2010. They're...

Unidentified, so must be some kind of foo foo fish dish. Might as well put tartar sauce on it.

I would have said mud pie.

? Inconceivable!

You did notice that the addition of flavoring was conditional for salmon that had been frozen too long, right? No, I won't be encouraging blue cheese on chicken wings or cool ranch doritios - good grief! And hey, old timer, haven't you noticed that some good wines now come in screw top bottles?

People who add rubs and other stuff to their salmon must not like the flavor of salmon. I learned to cook salmon over an alderwood fire. Admittedly, that is a very time consuming process, plus you need the right place to do it. After my divorce and moving into a townhouse, I needed an...