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Thursday, December 19, 2024

How do you define yourself?

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  I'm still not sure what to say to people who ask what I do.  Well I have an undergraduate degree in art.  Graphic design.. Well for wh...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

You aren't who you think you are

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So I have to just say, I'm kind of lucky to just be here.  And let me say this, it's nice to be able to just type something and not ...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

quiet space

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Since I stopped working I've been doing things.  Like I put new flooring in my kitchen entry and bathroom.  I pretty much redid the whol...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

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Faking it Here's something I wrote a long time ago about faking it   I had to fake my way through a few church hymns. I'm a pretty g...

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Every dog is a service dog It's like every dog is a service dog.  I was in Walmart the other day and there was a service dog somewhere i...

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My Way Back Ok, so I finally got my way back into Blogger.. Good grief. I hate passwords and that sort of thing.  Now I'd better write s...
Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Gonna have to spank you

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When I was in 6th grade I had to do a social studies project.  It had to do with your heritage.  So I was mostly Scottish so it was about Sc...
Monday, January 04, 2021

How love works

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Man,.. I haven't logged into my blogger account for some time and I had used an old email, which I had to try and figure out how to revo...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Less is more

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I used to blog a lot more.  I've been diverted for a while.  I found by tracking this that people would come here look at a photo for a ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Ice cream

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I pretty much cut ice cream out of my life.  The only time I have it is if someone else has it.  I just don't buy it.  It isn't that...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Dog Person

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I've never been a dog person, mostly because I'm allergic, but there are a few dogs I've liked, one was a Boston Terrier.  I h...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Hippies in Golden Gate Park

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Man.. They say you gain wisdom with age,. I don't know how true that is.  Maybe you just get out of touch to what is really going on, li...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Happy President Trump Day

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Well, today is President Trump Day, so of course I have to work.. I would have thought he would have at least let us have the day off.....
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Private enclaves

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I sat here looking at a blank page.  A lot has happened in the last few months but do I really want to air it all out?  Not really.  And it...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Make America Great Again

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We've all seen Donald Trump's private jet,..  and we've seen the Trump helicopter,.. But I found the Trump pickup truck an...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Rock Patio

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While on vacation this summer, Queenie and I built a rock patio down by the lake.  We've been collecting flat rocks and turned a spo...
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Chromcraft Dinette

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I tend to keep buying mid century dinettes.  I found this Chromcraft table at a thrift store for $14.99.  It came with a leaf.  Good deal...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Mid Century Two Tier Lamp

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Here's something you'll really like!.. A while a go I bought this lamp shade off of Craigslist.  I drove all the way across town ...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016

Amana Radarange

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Here's how the new Amana Radarange microwave looks in the Gochenour kitchen.  It's one of the newest things we have in there. Tha...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Steyr Clubman

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So I needed a road bike so I could keep up with Queenie while riding with her in Canada.  She is quite speedy on her new bike and it was ...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016

New and Used

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Been hitting the back roads of Alberta with Queenie for cool old things to add to the Gochenour collection. Picked up a mid century pol...
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Monday, April 04, 2016

Windermere Lake

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Here's a picture of Windermere Lake.  What a lovely morning we had along the shore, and what a difference a day makes.  It is pouring...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Shampoo for bald guys

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So I was in the grocery store the other day and walking down the shampoo isle and there's this bald dude picking out shampoo.  I wanted ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Happy Valentine's day!

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I love you sweetie!
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Thursday, January 07, 2016

Macy's closes in downtown Spokane

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When I was a kid we used to come to Spokane to shop at the Bon Marche.  It was like this really classy place to shop and the whole thing bac...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

Dad's old Concert Tone Banjo

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I tuned Dad's old Fender Concert Tone banjo EBGD so Julie could play it like a tenor guitar.   Dad would have loved that.  He'd l...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

People don't laugh when they are alone

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The strangest thing.  People growing up and morphing into an older version of their high school self.  Men who try and maintain that same ha...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Volkswagen diesel emission

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Funny this should come up now.  In the last week the fall weather has been really nice.  Often the only times I get to be outside are to and...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Open letter to Chrysler Jeep and NHTSA

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OPEN LETTER TO CHRYSLER JEEP AND NHTSA Dear Chrysler Jeep, Stop sending me these worthless recall notices about my Jeep.  And shame on...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

Learning to ride a bike

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I had the pleasure of teaching Queenie's son how to ride a bike the other day. Now there's one more convert on the planet and we c...
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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Light Pollution

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One of the things that has really been bothering me lately is light pollution.  I remember as a kid growing up at Flathead Lake how amazing ...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Ski season 2015

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To say that this was the worst ski season I've had ever is an understatement.. Far worse than 2007 I think it was.  I've never see...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Speaker phone ambush

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I've been in a bit of a blogging lull.  More and more I find myself wanting to be in places where there are less people around.  I'm...
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