works of wanderlust

Month: April 2021

  • A Blogging Good Anniversary

    A Blogging Good Anniversary

    I occasionally allude to an interesting-to-me fact: I’ve been posting my thoughts online in the form of blogs for a long time. To give that claim some context, as of today I have been a blogger for twenty years. That’s right. On April 20, 2001, twenty years ago to today, I posted my first dispatch

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  • Can I use an outdoor grill or campfire to season my cast iron pan?

    Iron. Oil. Heat. These are the three foundational ingredients needed to season any cast iron pan. If you have a cast iron pan, a bit of oil, and a heat source then you should be able to season that pan. And so the simple answer is, yes, if your heat source is a campfire or

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  • Running: What is Hill Training?

    Sunday Runday and while the weekends are reserved for distance training, the springtime has rebooted our training schedule and put us back into proper-training-mode. This includes regular and progressively longer hill training runs. If you happen to live beside a hill where runners train maybe you’ve seen folks like my running friends and I, climbing

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  • Suburban Fire Craft (Part Two)

    Back in early March I introduced my readers to my simmering big plans to upgrade my backyard fire pit set up. For years we’ve not made campfires in our backyard a priority, mostly because we could go camping any time we wanted and evenings in the city were otherwise filled with social visits and travel.

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  • Douglas Fir

    Look up but watch where you’re going. On a recent trip to the mountains I was reminded of the diversity of the forest and the interesting world of trees. I may not work in the field, but I have a four year university degree in biology which included more ecology, botany, and entomology coursework than

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