Geezer Adventures

Timberframing, Part Three:

Timber Framing, Part Three–Here Be Dragons! When I put my timbers to bed for the winter at the end of October, 2024, I didn’t stop working on my timber-framing project. I liked how things were looking, but I wanted to do something to m…

Part two of my timber-framimg blog post is up:
https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/timber-framing-part-two-ordering-and-cutting-the-timbers-and-carving-mortises-and-tenons/

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https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/maple-syruping/

Maple Syruping There is something magical about gathering buckets of clear, barely-sweet liquid in the woods at the tail end of winter and boiling it over a wood fire, reducing gallons and gallons of stored poten…

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/the-olive-harvest-in-france-italy/

The Olive Harvest in France & Italy Last fall, while visiting friends in France and Italy, we had an opportunity to help out (in a very small way) with the olive harvest. I love olive oil and olives, so the harvest was something that…

Final post from Patagonia:

Patagonia: El Calafate, El Chalten, and Los Glaciares National Park Just a short hike outside of El Chalten Torres Del Paine (which I wrote about in an earlier post) is the most popular park in the Chilean part of Patagonia, and Los Glaciares is the most popular pa…

Here's more on my trip to Patagonia:

Patagonia–Torres del Paine & the W Trek I first saw a photo of the Torres del Paine about ten years ago, and I knew then that I’d have to trek there at some point. The scenery is breathtakingly spectacular–jagged peaks, wind-…

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/patagonia-the-carretera-austral-and-the-marble-caves/

Patagonia: The Carretera Austral and the Marble Caves I recently spent a month backpacking and hiking in Patagonia, both on the Chilean and Argentine sides. One of the highlights was paddling General Carrera Lake to see the marble caves. As I have pre…

Sea kayaking anyone?

Paddling the Apostles Sea caves are a spectacular feature of the Apostle Islands The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands off the south shore of Lake Superior. All of them except Madeline Island are part of the Apo…

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2023/08/19/riding-ragbrai/

Riding RAGBRAI Corn–lots and lots of corn in Iowa. And during RAGBRAI, lots of bikers too. At the end of July, Catherine and I rode in the [Des Moine] Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa …