Figs and cheese make a simple and pleasant dessert, but recently I accidentally stumbled on another ingredient that elevates things to a whole new level.
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Author Archives: kwinker
Fairy Wonderpants
We’ve had some good snow lately, and it’s welcome. As it gets colder and darker, a good blanket of snow lightens things up considerably. But over the past couple of days we’ve had that magical combination of light snow and no air movement that causes snow to pile up on everything and look fantastic.
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Late-season Silvers
I’d heard about some superb late-season salmon fishing on the Delta Clearwater River years ago, and finally the time came to try it out.
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Better Living Through Chemistry
(This is basically a commercial, though I am not being paid for it.)
The natural life can be wonderful. But sometimes it can suck. The glass on our wood stove door gets seriously gunked up with creosote, and that stuff is a real pain in the elbow grease to get clean. About every two weeks I roll up my sleeves, clean the ashes out of the stove, then set to on the dense, incredibly tough brown-to-black stains on the glass left by burning wood. It can take half an hour or more to scrub that stuff off and have clean glass again. And if I let it go longer, it can take an hour.
If you’ve had trouble with creosote on your wood stove glass, this post is for you.
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Overheated
Rose and I recently enjoyed a great trip to New Mexico and Arizona. The reason for the trip was a celebration of the life of Bob Dickerman. It’s an inherently sad reason for folks to get together when the person so honored has passed away, but it sure was a great group of people to hang out with.
This is a side story, though.
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