The Hot Flash Homestead

  Well, it's been a slow close on a very long summer which only seems to be halted by the spectre of COVID shutting everything down once...

  You know, it's around this time of year that I start singing my favorite Christmas song, "Let It Snow." It's the one tha...

  So for the most part, I like the "new and improved" Blogger, which I've gotten the hang of (or so I thought) and use regular...

  Heat Dome. I like summer, but can honestly say it's not my FAVORITE time of year, unlike many Oregonians. This is because 1) I don...

 So in my former career as a newspaper columnist, it was more or less my job to   ponder The Big Things -- you know, the things that people ...

So here we are smack in the middle of 2021, the unofficial start to the Roading 20's -- 21st Century Edition. I don't know about you...

  I love the way the English language sometimes creates a link between two things that make sense...the word "season" being one of...