Mountain Dweller's Activity

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Do you write flash fiction?   1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  Lately I’ve been meeting with a local writers group. They’re a lot of fun to chat with… and write with. We don’t critique our writing… we just write and then read our writing, and enjoy it.

  Every week we choose a prompt. Usually it has something to do with the small town we live in. [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: A Word to Spammers   1 year, 2 months ago
  

  Dear Spammers,

  I am so sorry you have nothing better to do with your time than spam other people’s blogs with unwanted, unwelcome links. There really are better ways to make money, you know. You could, for example, make your own blog and put advertising on it to make money, or you could connect with an [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: No Suburbia Hereabouts   1 year, 5 months ago
  

  I live so far off the beaten path we’ve got no suburbia, no fast food joints, no chain stores of any kind, no stoplights within forty miles, and no traffic congestion whatsoever.

  I don’t miss it.

  What we do have around here is a lot of trees.

  One day after I’d been here about four years I [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: What People Do For Entertainment in the Mountains   1 year, 5 months ago
  

  When you live in a small mountain town many miles from any city entertainment, you have to be creative in finding things to do. There are many in this town who think an evening at the saloon is worthwhile. And yes, we do have one: the Frontier Saloon. (really!) But I’ve never been into that. [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: I Love the Rain   2 years, 1 month ago
  

  Good thing I love rain because we’re getting lots of it this week. It is there to clean the world of dust, provide nourishment for plants, and keep people huddled up inside their houses which are hopefully comfy-cozy and warm.

  On rainy days I exercise indoors on my recumbent bike, and do some aerobic dancing… and [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Climategate - does anyone here care that they may have just been saved from having to pay ”Carbon Taxes”?   2 years, 2 months ago
  

  I’m wondering how hot this topic of Climategate is with the general masses at this point. I know there are many people who have been convinced that global warming is a great danger to humankind and the planet, but now that the truth is coming out, what do people think?

  I’ll bet that most people [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Spam Alert on JournalSpace   2 years, 2 months ago
  

  Is anyone else getting a lot of Ugg boots spam comments? This is something that needs to be taken care of ASAP - even if it means having all comments approved before posting. I’ve just changed my settings under “reading” to force all comments to be approved - and I’ll be notified in email so [...]

• Mountain Dweller and Darkcloud are now friends   2 years, 3 months ago

• Mountain Dweller and Sunny Nelson are now friends   2 years, 3 months ago

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: A Courageous Teenager   2 years, 3 months ago
  

  Like a lot of Americans I’m looking at the condition of this country, the way the US Constitution is being set aside, the liberties lost, and I wonder why oh why are Americans allowing this to happen?

  I am an aging woman living in a remote Northern California forest. I don’t feel empowered to do much [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Klamath River Valley Memoirs   2 years, 4 months ago
  

  Still here in the mountains all these years later. Thought several times that I might leave, but no dice. I’m stuck in a cabin and can’t get out.

  Well, while here I’ve been doing some reading. There are a few good memoirs of people who used to live in this mountain river valley (Klamath River [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Life in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains   2 years, 7 months ago
  

  I’ve been busy since I last posted here… so very busy… so I thought I’d drop by and update this JournalSpace blog by telling you what’s up in my corner of the universe.

  I made a commitment to improve my yard this year. The last few years the yard went to waste and weeds because I [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Jumpstarting My Brain   3 years ago
  

  Some days I sit in front of my blog just wondering what to write. I often feel I have nothing to write about! But I have a few tricks for jumpstarting my brain into writing mode.

  One of my favorite thought-starters is to choose a card. I have several thought-provoking card decks. I’ve managed to steer [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Starving Africans   3 years ago
  

  I came across another line in President Obama’s inaguration speech that I need to comment on:

  “And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Religionists versus What??   3 years ago
  

  I was just over at CNN reading President Obama’s inagural speech, since I have no TV reception and therefore didn’t watch the big inaguration event. I thought the speech was pretty good until I got to this line:

  “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.”

  Um… WHAT???  I am not [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Circadian Rhythms   3 years ago
  

  Ever since I lost my job in September I’ve had the worst sleep habits ever. I used to work in the mornings and my habits were regular. Now I can’t keep a regular schedule. I really like being awake during the morning hours so I keep trying to rearrange my life so that’s possible, but [...]

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: Klamath River Valley   3 years ago
  

  Here are a few photos from where I’m living, the Klamath River Valley in Northern California. I’m near a small town called Happy Camp.

  This is about fifty miles upriver from my home:

  This is about four miles downriver from my home:

• Mountain Dweller wrote a new blog post: So good to see…   3 years ago
  

  It is wonderful to see JournalSpace back online - and with WordPress, a blog I understand.

  To the site owner: Great job… you’ve made a lot of people happy!

  I’ve had a JournalSpace blog for more than five years. I used it to keep notes about strange wild animals that visited my cabin, and other mountain-type [...]