Pacific Northwest Perennial Garden

A perennial border is somewhat of a heavy maintenance project. When I started this project, the soil condition was very poor. It consisted of heavy clays and traditional tractor squish em hardpan. Even today when it rains cats and dogs […]

Pacific Northwest Mediterranean Garden

  The Mediterranean garden is a nice garden which receives the afternoon sun. The soil hear was also very heavy in clay. I lost a lot of plants my first winter due to poor drainage. To resolve this problem, I […]

The Pacific Northwest Climate Garden

As you well know, the world can communicate and share each others interests as simply as turning on the computer and viewing the feast of information on the WWW. Of course, my current hobby is gardening (family first) which started […]

Traveling in Africa, Africa Travel by foot

Traveling in Africa by foot Enclosed are emails from a relative about his trip in Africa. They are funny. PART 2 —–Original Message—–  From: KwaZuzulwazi Science Centre [SMTP:kwazuzul@cis.co.za]  Sent: Thursday, August 28, 1997 4:57 AM  To: I@microsoft.com’  Subject: unemployed benefits […]

Hiking in Africa – Travel In Africa

Traveling in Africa. Part 2  From: Phidam Enterprises Ltd[SMTP:phidam@swiftuganda.com] Sent: Monday, November 17, 1997 12:24 AM To: i@uswnvg.uswnvg.com Subject: Dirty in Uganda (me, not the country)  Good Monday morning to all!!!  I hope all is well with my many desk […]

Cabin Solar Power System

This is a modest 12VDC cabin power system with a 1500W inverter to produce 120VAC power for running conventional loads. Some AC loads we will be operating on this system are: laptop computer, compact fluorescent lights (CFL), radio, and a […]

BENSON BOMBER WSU Drink Recipe

If you ever had a chance to drink this while attending WSU, it was the best. I think two was the limit. They taste like a chocolate milkshake. The last one I had was in Hong Kong at the Regency […]