This evening, as I walked to my cabin, I was delighted to see six tom turkeys. Every year, between mid-November and early December, the...

After returning from the extended power outage, we got enough rain to melt the snow and free the Prius. Within a few days, the turkeys...

We left Camp Cougar on December 28 and returned on February 17, after more than a month in Antarctica and two and a half weeks in New...

It was 10:00 PM, a week ago today, that the phone rang with a recorded message tell us to evacuate. The thunder and -->

We don't typically get foggy days in the summer. →

This is an unusual April so far. Today it rained, hailed, and snowed. The temperature in the evening dropped to →

In the ten years we've been here, this is the first time we've had snow in March. It has been hailing, sleeting, and snowing off and on...

We returned home today to a cold house—40 degrees F. The power was still out, which was partially good news. The contents of →

The power was still not on when we woke up this morning. We checked the road conditions and found out that Black Road was closed due to →

Rain, rain, rain. Living on a ridge, most of the rain has been rolling off the roof, onto the ground, into temporary rivulets, into →

Skyline Blvd. collapsed last week about two miles north of us. The chasm is supposed to be 150 or more feet wide and up to one-quarter of →

Today we had rain, snow, sleet, and hail. What fun! Everything is quite green. One of the roads up the →

It has been raining for days, with more to come. One tree toppled near the lower road and our "creeks" are →

If you look up our property on a map program, scroll down just a bit and you’ll see Shear Creek. It sits in a deep ravine just →

It started snowing briefly around 8:00 AM today, just →

The heat continues! We set up a screen outdoors and watched a →

This morning two foxes walked from under the porch and then hopped up onto it. We suspect one →

It was 81 degrees F at 5:00 AM today but at Rancho San Antonio at →

It was 79 degrees F at 5:00 AM today. But when I arrived in the valley at →