Do you remember Hell Week in college? That last week of the term when you were frantically finishing the last term papers, turning in projects and studying for finals? (Or you were supposed to be anyway, and not doing things like building giant bunk bed structures, racing mountain bikes in the dorm halls, shooting flaming [...]
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Posted in misc, music, nature on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Eagle Lake
Posted in nature, trips on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling guilty about hardly taking any pictures during my family reunion at Lake Tahoe, I found myself holding the camera in my lap and not sure what to do with it as we made the drive back back to Oregon. Along a very quiet stretch of Highway 139 north of Susanville, we saw this rain [...]
Salmon Watch
Posted in nature on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the last couple of years, I have been volunteering with a program called Salmon Watch. Each fall I spend a couple of days helping local middle-school-aged kids as they do a hands-on field trip and learn about the salmon life cycle and related aspects of the our Northwest ecosystem. The kids work with a [...]
Happy May Day
Posted in house, nature on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
April was an off-and-on month in terms of weather. It seems we had a record number of rainy days (or rain fall – I forget which) but there were some spectacularly nice days in there as well. Today though is May 1st and the sun is out (at least for a few hours) and the [...]
Whitetails in Aberdeen
Posted in nature, trips on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t do a lot of hunting but I try to make some kind of trip every year or two with my dad. I might not always get something (sometimes I don’t even hunt, I just go along to help scout, see the country, work the camp, and carry out whatever others get) but I [...]
