Laurabelle's Blog

Oddly enough, in spite of three days of fairly serious hiking, I feel just fine. A hot bath and a good night's sleep appeased my knee, and only my feet had a little lingering soreness. Yesterday evening, even after a long day at work, I was still full of energy and felt just dandy. Jeff, [...]

Dinner tonight: Chicken Kiev Roasted asparagus Potato pancakes garnished with either applesauce or sour cream and chives Fresh baguette with garlic and herb butter

This weekend Jeff and I hiked a section of the Wonderland Trail at Mount Rainier. The Wonderland Trail winds a 93-mile circle around Mount Rainier, and some day (maybe soon) I hope to do the whole thing. (But not yet!) This time we planned to start from Longmire and hike northwest along the trail with [...]

Yesterday Jeff and I went back to Lower Lena Lake. The weather had been sunny for the last six weeks, so we assumed we didn’t need to worry much about rain. Think again, roared Mother Nature. The water poured down in buckets. Not that we minded (much). Washington is already in an official drought emergency [...]

I miss you, Emily. It's funny, I didn't even think about her today until I ran across her photo album and remembered what day it was. That's probably a good sign that I'm not dwelling on it. Still, I can't quite make myself believe she's gone.

It's amazing, the stuff that accumulates at the back of one's closet. One of the things I found today is a Czech sentence with no vowels whatsoever: Strč prst skrz krk. It means Stick your finger through your throat. Not down your throat, through it. So how did I learn this vitally important bit of [...]

Today I finally finished reading Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection by Colin Wilson and Damon Wilson. It's nearly 700 pages long and incredibly fascinating, even more so than I thought when I checked it out. Each section focuses on the development of certain techniques of crime detection, usually centered on a weapon [...]