When you move to a new place, especially in a different state, it’s a lot of work to find new sources of supplies and services that you had compiled over more than 40 years living in the same house. So when our trusty Volvo needed service after we moved to the North Beach, I called …
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I moved to the North Beach in January 2018. I am trying to learn your ways.
True Tales of Rigby, Part 2
It’s hard to know whether it’s best to start at the beginning and work our way forward, or start at the end and go backward. What would make the most sense? Not sure. I guess nothing makes sense anymore, so it doesn’t even matter. So I’ll just start writing and see where we go like …
True Tales of Rigby, Part 1
Tonight woe is we. Homecoming day for Rigby. It was not to be. That’s the haiku version. The whole story is way more of a tragedy. Come along as I walk you through it… In 2016, Ric got caught up in the notion that we needed an RV. Well, it goes back further actually. One …
Won’t Get Fooled Again! (this time FOR REALZ)
So this is not strictly a North Beach story, but most of it takes place on this favored land, so I’m going to tell it here. A while back, I violated a rule I made for myself at least a couple of years ago, to wit: Do not ever, under any circumstances, buy anything from …
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Our Flawed Flea Fiasco
Something we noticed right away after moving to the North Beach was the astonishing number of fleas living here. Now, mind you, we had fleas in Oregon. In fact, they were kind of a constant annoying presence, as in you could rid them from your house but they lay in wait outside for the next …
Something’s strange on the North Beach
I’m not quite sure to break this news, maybe everybody but me already knows it. But if you don’t, this might sound really weird. There is something strange about the—I’m searching for the word but can’t find the precise one… so I'll go with this: I have discovered something strange about the physics of the …
On our way to full-blown frickin’ verdigris
At last. At long last. It took nearly 72 years, but I finally got it!! I had to move to the North Beach for it to happen. Had I known, maybe I would have come here a lot sooner. You know that gorgeous greenish/bluish color that covers the Statue of Liberty? And the roofs of …
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Roadside Detractions
I must be driving a lot more than I used to since moving here because I’m noticing I write about what I see from the car more than anything else. Today’s topic is discarded RVs and motor homes. Dumped alongside the road or someplace where they often sit and fester and decay and decompose. If …
Cheesy Salads
Okay, I need to talk about North Beach salads. More specifically, side salads, house salads. The ones you get with a meal or sandwich, whatever. Not the full-meal-deal salad. I couldn’t help but notice after arriving here that the salads are what seem to me unusual. Different. First, there is the limited number of ingredients: …
A heartfelt plea to the drivers of the North Beach
I’m fully aware it must seem I am rather fixated on traffic matters, having written about mysteries visible from Ocean Beach Road here, the dizzying array of speed limits within minuscule distances here, the way some seem to deeply resent my driving speed here. Actually, I’m not quite finished with that last one because of …
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