Author Archives: W&W Mudd

About W&W Mudd

Once retired from high tech and education, Warren and Wendy now enjoying part time RV-ing again. Oh yeah, and then there's that un-retired and managing Peoples Storage in Kenmore WA thing.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Posted on December 27, 2021 by W&W Mudd

It’s been quite a while since the last post, in March, where we got to watch people blow something up. That’s hard to top on my playlist, but it isn’t why content has been thin (and thin is being generous!). … Continue reading →

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Fort Worden: A Bomb and a Blast!

Posted on March 24, 2021 by W&W Mudd

We worked a couple of snow days in early February, days when we had so much snow we told the Assistant Managers to stay home and we would fill in. It’s a great deal for us because, hey there’s about … Continue reading →

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Nothing Says Boonies like a Rusted Propane Tank Farm

Posted on January 23, 2021 by W&W Mudd

The big feature of our trip this time was a first visit to Forks, WA. We’ll get to the actuals a bit later in the blog, but our title comes from our first impression, cruising through town on the main … Continue reading →

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A Very Together Thanksgiving

Posted on December 2, 2020 by W&W Mudd

2020 is the Year of The Killer to me. Not so much in a sense of Jack the Ripper, but more along the lines of The Killjoy. For many decades, Wendy and I haven’t had a Thanksgiving just to ourselves. … Continue reading →

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The Well-Traveled Crab Pot

Posted on August 22, 2020 by W&W Mudd

On our recent (July 2020) annual vacation to Orcas Island, we fished for crab as we always do, setting our 3 pots just in front of the cabins at West Beach Resort. There were monster tides during the early week, … Continue reading →

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The Volcano – and My Inner Hippie Update

Posted on May 28, 2020 by W&W Mudd

Patience is a virtue, so they say. And I now know who are the all-time Patience Supremes. Hippies. I mean, here we are almost 60 years after the Age of Aquarius, and what do we have? When pot is legal … Continue reading →

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My Inner Hippie

Posted on April 6, 2020 by W&W Mudd

I have always (mostly) been a “high and tight” kind of haircut guy. I was once accused of channeling Oliver North, that Vietnam-era ultra conservative guy who never had a hair longer than 3/8” long anywhere on his head. My … Continue reading →

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InCARcerated Date Night

Posted on April 4, 2020 by W&W Mudd

A nearly unforgiveable play on words, but it’s my blog, so it is what it is. Two weeks into the Covid Incarceration, we innovated a Date Night by ordering out at the Olive Garden in Kirkland and making the round … Continue reading →

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A Tail We Couldn’t Shake

Posted on April 3, 2020 by W&W Mudd

We escaped from our socially-distant isolation yesterday the same way we have been doing most days, by taking a walk through parts of our neighborhood we haven’t seen on foot before. A road you have driven often looks quite different … Continue reading →

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Have I got a Corona Virus for YOU!

Posted on March 28, 2020 by W&W Mudd

Since getting my rosy “Not Detected” test results, I’ve put on hold calling these times the Hostage Crisis, and instead I’m going full stir-crazy, just like doing 10-to-life for a crime you never committed. Can anyone guess my big accomplishment … Continue reading →

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