America feels tense like our step-Dad started on Friday with wine coolers but now it’s Monday morning and he’s passed out with an empty fifth of vodka beside him. You know the whole week is just going to be dealing with his crash out and who knows where it’s goingContinue Reading
I moved to Dysmal Nitch just over a year ago buying an unusually discounted priced condo from an older man eager to move fast mumbling something about, ‘discs that fly in across the water’ – sure, whatever man – go get those meds refilled. As a widow woman starting lifeContinue Reading
Deep in the heart of the forest 72 year old Dereck Mason clears downed limbs and cleans up around the cabin he built thirty years ago but he says he couldn’t do it without the help of his six-pound coworker, Princess, a rescued tabby who spent five weeks in aContinue Reading
Majestic, beautiful, peaceful – those are a few words that tourists use to describe our PNW elk, but recently locals claim they are violent, lazy and refusing to do their job. The elk site poor working conditions and a lack of hay.Continue Reading
Every March Dysmal Nitch hosts, ‘The Big Run’ and although it mostly caters to people from Portland and Seattle who enjoy the country setting our own trailer park hero Josie has been spotted running / training with her cat Ruffles in a jogging trolly on the winding trails around the park. Continue Reading