scrabbly

And yet, there Andrews stood this spring on a scrabbly hill near Starbuck, Wash., looking over his family’s dominion — a 9,700-acre farm and ranch at the edge of the Palouse prairie.

Baehrel has concocted a canny fulfillment of a particular foodie fantasy: an eccentric hermit wrings strange masterpieces from the woods and his scrabbly back yard.

In its opening pages, the two move in together on the scrabbly tobacco farm that Orren has just inherited.

I stepped into the woods, looked around, could not see the crow, but noticed a big stick nest in a scrabbly pine.

Swinging enthusiasts say that risk and responsibility are woven into recreation here, whether it is rafting through rapids, riding a scrabbly bike trail or climbing a rock face.