Category: Rambles & Rants
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Ferndale Water Issues – Updated
Jump to Update below I’m coming to the conclusion that most people, maybe even most Ferndale City Council members, don’t really know the full extent of our water issues. And to be blunt, in my view this is because this City administration is fairly opaque rather than transparent as they so often claim about themselves.…
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Where’s George?
You find a lot of interesting things when you hit the road early for a bike ride. Yesterday, as I chugged up the hill leading west out of Ferndale I got a good laugh about money littering the streets of Ferndale. Then as I stopped, just in case it was a $10 or a $20,…
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Our Place
To say that we are more evolved than someone else, or something else, is a misnomer. We are not more evolved, we simply evolved differently. Science, God, God/Science, it doesn’t really matter what your belief system is because it really doesn’t change that we all began our journey “in the beginning” and arrived together “in…
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Thin Blue Line
I am talking about that thin blue atmosphere surrounding our earth, not to be confused with the thin blue lines of masking tape showing support for law enforcement officers,. You all know about our atmosphere, that stuff that makes wonderful sunsets & sunrises while at the same time makes plants grow, allows us to live…
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Fashion
We recently sent off a big boxes of photos from the pre-digital days to be scanned. 1,310 photos in all, most of which were comical due to their age and our personal lack of age at the time they were taken. This single photo though, from around the North Bend area of the Seattle suburbs,…
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Nooksack Loop – Again and Again
I’ve done this loop, my Nooksack Loop, again and again and again, each time refining it just a bit. And the refinements keep getting smaller and smaller as there really isn’t much in the way of new trails or roads happening along this route. It looks like the short section of railroad grade between Cornwall…