Question Three?

What book are you reading right now and what do you think of it so far?

 

I am reading this book called !Nisa.  It is about a indiginous women that lives in the desert in Botswana.  Botswana is somewhere in southern Africa.  It is really interesting.  It is told in two different perspectives.  Each chapter is divided by the anthropologist writing and then the indiginous woman, !Nisa writing.  The exclamation in front of her names means that you click with your tongue when you say her name.  They use that clicking sound to communicate.  I’ll write more later if you are interested but I am tired now.  We just got home from the weekend because after Bend, we went to Florence to hang out with Harley and Marsii for Harley’s birthday.  I’ll puts some pictures up tomorrow, but Harley got a motorcycle for his birthday so we went to the dunes. 

cioa!

Family Reunion

What a weekend huh?  That was a shit pile lot of people that were there.  A little overwelming but if you took it in small chunks I was able to manage.  It was nice seeing Courtney, Jason and Necko and meeting there significant others, Jason and Nicko.  Josh and I went to Nicko and Jenna’s wedding, when was it, maybe two or three years ago but didn’t really get to meet Jenna but only real quick.  We went after the potluck with them and Jason and Robin (Not Kathy’s friend but Jason’s fiance) and got a beer.  It was a lot of fun.  It was nice in a more intimate setting without the fifty other people hanging around.  

But I was sad that I didn’t get to see you.  I had all these expectations as I usually do of things that we were going to do.  I had planned to get there early and then get all done up and go to dinner with you and Jay.  But then by the time we got there it was late and Josh and I were tired as well as you.  So in saying that I really hope that you and Jay can come over next week  on your day off.  So it can just be the three, I don’t know if Josh will be able to make it, of us.  Not so much craziness and a lot more relaxed.  

j

Added Link

I added a link section to my page if you are interested. It is on the left hand side.  I put a link to your web-page because for some reason I keep loosing it .  I don’t know if I already told you this but one of my classes, Pilates, our instructor asked us the goal question that I asked you.  She gave us a link for idea on what themes we should use for our goals.  So here is the link.  

Ps.  I really liked your goals but you didn’t tell me how you are going to get to them.  I’ll post my goals as well later today or something.  I think I am going to do just the short term, maybe 6 months.

? Question of the Week ?

#2.  

Name four goals that you would like completely by the end of the year and how you plan to achieve them.  Ohhhh I sound like a teacher.  Remember when I used to play teacher and make you guys to school work and go to P.E. and run around the block.  Ha!  That is funny to think about now.  Cioa!

Salmon River 2008

I had so much fun on our float trip. I think we are going to do it again in 2010 and it would so much fun if you two came along.     Brook was with us this year (which is very crazy.  She is Josh’s cousin that was in a automobile accident July 14th of 2007, ironically the same day we put in for the float this year.)  Here are some photos and dialogue. 

Here are two shots of the river.  The first one is day four on the river.  I believe we are about to hit the confluence of where the Snake and Salmon river come together.  And the second pictures is a monsterous hike that Josh, Lili and Kasara, Josh’s cousin and I took above one of our beach camp spots.  It was Joel’s birthday so we had to hurry up and then hurry down.  We made Joel breakfast for his birthday. We did those  bag omlets that Ma and Pa always do.  A couple the night before had made tacos so there were lots of left over toppings.  It worked out really good.  

So this is one of the beaches that we camped on.  You can’t see it in the picture but it goes back about 200 yards.  We played a mean game of kick ball on this beach with a Sponge Bob Square Pants rubber ball.  Josh and I were captains and my team was called the Bikini Bottoms and I can’t remember the name of Josh’s.  But my team motto was cheat when ever possible.  We won!

Tuesday was Joel’s birthday like I said and these were some hats that one of the women, Rae made for Joel and Josh.  Joel just had to wear it because it was his birthday but Josh got the cool MIlwaukee Beast Hat and Joel wanted it so they had to trade.  But we did get to keep it in the end.  We have a picture of Josh with the hat on drinking a beat.  Pretty funny.  

Here is Jon and Carrie with Rae and Jonell.  We put all our camping, cooking, food, everything on the boats including our the shit.  You have to buy or rent this special shitter that seals up because you have to bring everything with you.  It is pretty cool as a girl that we never really have to deal with this except to go poo poo. There were four boats and I think in the beach photos you can see they get loaded up.  

This is a waterfall that is along the way.  The first picture was on a family float drink I think that must have been over 15 years ago.  And the second one is the most recent float. Very cute although I do not know what the hell Nate is doing in the recent one.  

I better go.  I have statistics to do.  What fun!

Cioa

We’re Back…

We made it back to civilization.  We got off the river on Friday which was very entertaining.  It is always crazy unloading boats and getting things to were they need to be.  Josh took care of the money aspect and everyone seemed very happy with the cost.  It was $350 for 5 days of floating.  Not bad when you break it down and add in the boat rentals.  I will post some pictures soon of it.

We rolled into Corvallis last night and it was a mad dash for a sporting goods store.  I needed a tennis racket and some shorts for school today.  Today is the first day of summer school.  One month with my head down, even though there is a lot of stuff still going on such as Pa and Kathy’s Party, Marsii is having a birthday party for Harley for 3 days in Florence the Sunday through Wednesday after that.  I won’t be able to fully participate.  Then that Thursday is the Rainier Gathering.  Then it mellows for a bit.  One weekend off and then one week of class and I think Josh and I are going backpacking.  Are you two interested?  We wouldn’t need to go far but it could be a lot of fun for you and we can aquire the extra gear, which is just a backpack, tent, and sleeping bag.  You should seriously think about it, it would be something new and it is really cheap.  It would be the week of the 18-24 or somewhere around there.  

What is up with you blog?  I couldn’t get to it again.  

Ciao!

J

Favorite Childhood Memory?

So…. for my first question to you, I want to know one of your favorite childhood memories.  As much detail as possible.  

One of my favorite childhood memories was when we were over at Scott & Eric’s house.  Do you remember how they had that rope swing?  Well for some reason we had the rope attached to the limb up high and then to something else.  We were having one another hold on to and try to whip them off, which I believe we were sucessfully doing to you.  I remember you had so much dirt all over your face and we thought that it was so funny.  We ran home and you called mom to tell her what we had done.  I remember that we had taken pictures of it and I wonder if those are around somewhere.

You can most definitely respond to this one.

The Camper

Leaving SoHum

Shockingly we have made it to Joseph.  We had a little trouble on I-5 when the camper overheated and backfired twice.  Josh thought that the engine was blown and therefore had an attitutde that expressed that.  I of course had no clue what was going on.  I was yacking on the phone before he told me to get off to conserve battery life.  Ohhh… that Josh, always the survivalist.  But we found this funny libritarian mechanic in Gold Hill and fixed the problem, which was a loose belt, we got an oil change and we were on our way for under $100.  Not bad.  Josh was not as smiley as he is in the picture below when the engine backfired. 

 

Cruising in Wallowa county made Josh a happy guy!

We are in Joseph now and it is so beautiful were Jon & Carrie live.  I’ll real quick take a picture of their backyard it is amazing.  This is the campers new home.  I hope it will enjoy it more than it did in Shelter Cove. It got very rusty out there and I think that here it should be more dry.  

Jon & Carrie's backyard.

 

 

 

The Campers new parking spot

j

More baseball…

I forgot to tell you about it, but Josh, Jamie and I went to a Humboldt Crabs game on Wednesday.  It was fun. Funny how small the stadium was though especially compared to those major league games we went to in D.C.  The teams were obviously not that good.  You can compare the enthusiasm that Humboldt Crabs had versus the teams we saw.  They just have lot more enthusiasm for it and put that little extra effort out.  But there was the cutiest little girl that was in the stadium.  I tried to take a picture of her but couldn’t do it without looking like a total freak.  She was this little blond girl, maybe only 5 or 6 years old. The cute thing about her is that she had this huge old lady glasses that were big and round, almost circles that were baby blue and they were so thick!  She was so cute. 

 

Josh and I went to dinner after that at this little cafe place in town. It was usually good but this day it wasn’t so good. A bit of a disappointment.  On our way back to the hotel after dinner, these people or should I say idiots were lighting firecrackers and they shot two bottle rockets at us.  Very lame.  Josh said he was going to yell at them but then he saw a little kid standing there next to the idiots.  People can be so dumb.  But here is a cool a couple photos that I took from that day.  

 

How was your 4th of July? Ours was really nice.  We did a little work on the house and then went over to Mandi and Noah’s and barbequed.  Super mellow.  There are all these fires in the area so CalFire banned fireworks this year.  A little sad but we made due.  We got some Bacardi 151 and blew fireballs.  We didn’t get to many fireball pictures but we got some funny failures.  Jamie was hilarious, again!  He just couldn’t do it.  He just would spit all over his hand.  We had a good time.   

4th of July

It is the 4th of July today.  The fireworks have been cancel through out Humboldt.  What does that say? Not good on many aspects.  I compare it some way to our country’s profile.  Are we completely falling apart?  Don’t look to close because you  might see the threads literally pulling apart.  On to another subject…..

I thought of some books that you might like to read.  I am sure you have heard of some of them.  The Life of Pi.  I don’t remember who this is written by, but it is a book that is about a family that owns a zoo in India(?) and are selling their animals.  The family and the animals board a boat destined for America but the boat become involved in a shipwreck of some sort.  The only survivors are a little boy and a 4 or 5 animals. The story is about their travels.  I would recommend it. There is another one that I thought was funny also.  It was is called Lamb.  I am sure you might of heard of this one as well.  It is the life according to Biff, Jesus’s best friend.  It is pretty funny.  Biff does all the things that Jesus is not suppose to do and then is suppose to tell Jesus how it went.  I liked it.  I’ll think of some more later.  

j