Pete Skenandore

This book kept me company on the plane trip to and from my sister’s funeral in Pennsylvania. I needed something to read on the long flight so I stopped in the airport gift store and thought that a spy tale might keep my interest. Over the past year, I have been mostly focused on technical [...]

I miss my sis.

The other day I was on a walk and some guy in a fedora hat, flowered shirt came -roller- skating by us. I will tell you that he was the most “get down” “funky” “groovy” -roller- skating cat this side of Boise. This guy had all the moves. And for the first time in my [...]

Many, many great memories on my Orange Peeler in the 70′s. Paper routes, races, burning rubber & wheelies. More soon…

I woke this morning in a feverish frenzy. Last night as I was driving around the back roads of Idaho, a bright light zoomed by and my truck stopped dead. I don’t know how I got home. And then this…shape,…keeps popping into my head… I went out to do my morning compost turn, and this [...]

In Jan 2009 I responded to an ad on Craigslist. Someone needed some help designing some posters that showed their new bridal center “finished”. From what I heard, they worked great. It was a fun project. Was this my last Architectural Design Project? After the better part of two decades, I think it might have [...]

This was the first motorcycle I ever purchased. Like most teenage boys I had motorcycle fever. I had a stack of motorcycle magazines which were well worn. The story behind this motorcycle goes like this. A friend and I were regular visitors to the local motorcycle shops. One day we went in and I saw [...]

We filled these pots with seeds collected from last years marigolds. Hope Monsanto doesn’t find out.

I’ve moved quite a few piles here to there and turned them, watered them etc. Now I am trying a new method which basically is a big haystack method. I leave a divet in the top so I can water it for a few minutes whenever it starts to get dry.  I continually turn the [...]

The double dig method is one that square foot gardeners make use of to amend the soil two shovel (blade only) heights deep. I would say this is between 16-20 inches or so. If I were normal I would use a wheelbarrow or something to remove the top layer and then work deeper layer. Since [...]