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Jammin' in Boise

Submitted by Chris Thomas on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 16:35

I am running out of containers and refrigerator space, as my kitchen overflows with late-summer bounty and I feel compelled to do something with all of it before it goes bad.

On my recent drive back from Seattle, I stopped to pick up a couple flats of peaches, fresh from the central Washington orchards. In Boise, it is a bumper-crop year for my front-yard apple tree.

A Summer Surge of Spurge

Submitted by Chris Thomas on Sun, 08/05/2018 - 16:42

I apologize for neglecting this blog in recent weeks. I’ve been pulled away by a combination of work assignments (indoors) and my sheer determination to keep my yard alive and looking halfway decent in the summer heat (outdoors).

News Overload

Submitted by Chris Thomas on Tue, 07/03/2018 - 14:20

 

For my birthday, I got the new memoir Reporter by Seymour Hersh, one of my idols in journalism. Trouble is, I can’t seem to open it and start reading. I’m afraid I'm on news overload.

This weekend’s bizarre “revenge stabbing” of kids at a Boise, Idaho, birthday party hit too close to home – literally. The apartment complex is 2 miles from my house.

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