Geezer Adventures

03/06/2026

Timberframing, Part Three:

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…

02/03/2026

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/

01/23/2026

Very proud to be a Minnesotan today!

01/23/2026

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05/29/2025

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/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…

02/14/2025

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/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…

06/07/2024

Final post from Patagonia:

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…

05/14/2024

Here's more on my trip to Patagonia:

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-…

05/09/2024

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/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…

09/22/2023

Sea kayaking anyone?

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…

08/25/2023

https://geezeradventures.wordpress.com/2023/08/19/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 …