Unfortunately for the prurient-minded, it has nothing to do with the teen-age male malady known as “blue balls.” Because my fortysomething brain has frequent and severe bouts of CRS (can’t remember shit), I mistakenly called these things shooting stars in…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Sunol with a scramble
by tom • March 23, 2009 • 5 Comments
The idea was to see what the wildflowers were like at Sunol Wilderness. I saw a few but it might be a little early for the bloom there. What Sunol has lots of now is water: Alameda Creek is roaring…
Going hiking today at Sunol Wilderness
by tom • March 23, 2009 • 4 Comments
Gonna see if the poppies are, well, popping. Probably won’t get around to blogging about it till tomorrow, though.
Campingblogger tests out a portable washing machine
by tom • March 20, 2009 • 4 Comments
The contraption’s called a Wonderwash. It looks like a cement mixer and works much like one too, except you pile your rugrats’ dirty jeans into it. Roy made this video explaining how it works. CampingBlogger Review of the Wonderwash from…
Calipidder’s excellent wildflower pix
by tom • March 20, 2009 • 2 Comments
I suppose most of you have seen these, since she posted ’em a week ago, but if not, enjoy. I eventually worked my way up to Merced canyon to see the poppies. They are beautiful! I only stopped in Briceburg,…
Waterfall recommendations in the Mercury News
by tom • March 20, 2009 • 1 Comment
Lisa Krieger’s monthly Wanderlust column covers a few of the usual suspects, waterfallwise, in the South Bay. I hadn’t heard of this one on the Peninsula, though: Brooks Falls On the San Mateo coast, Brooks Falls in San Pedro Valley…
Back in the blogosphere
by tom • March 20, 2009 • 1 Comment
It had to be like this: after a week of wrangling and hassling, the AT&T tech shows up and makes everything work effortlessly while simultaneously making me look like a complete idiot who’d never turned on a computer before. But…
Ack, now I’m in Internet heck
by tom • March 16, 2009 • 2 Comments
And just for fun I have no hikes to my credit (who knew you could have so much crap in one little apartment and that moving it across the street could consume an entire weekend??) Final blessing of moving heck…
Moving, heck
by tom • March 12, 2009 • 1 Comment
I’ll be getting all my exercise toting boxes for the next few days (just moving across the street) but I should be done in time to get a hike in on Sunday and a write-up on Monday. If you’re in…