Mark has learned to ride a unicycle, he says it was very hard. It is an added challenge when under attack by kids and dogs.
Special thanks to our friend Richard for the unicycle!
Photo Albums
Favorite Websites
Quotes
- Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Education"Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education." -David Polis
- "Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one becomes to feeling ill... Thus if one just keeps walking, everything will be all right." -Soren Kierckgaard
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard
« March 2009 | Main | May 2009 »
April 2009
April 30, 2009
April 28, 2009
Adventures in Oregon
Our Oregon respite is over, we're all back together in Nevada for a little while. We had a good time on the farm and exploring Bend. Silas especially loved all the volcanoes - every mountain or hill you see in the area is volcanic. Here is Silas pictured at the top of Pilot Butte - an little volcano we hiked in-town Bend, with a view of the Cascades behind him:
I liked Bend, but I loved Northwest Oregon. We spent some time in Portland with our old friends Michelle, Joe and Eli, they gave us a great tour of their new city. Portland seems like a fantastic place to live. The city is lovely, plants and trees were blooming and so green, such a treat for my eyes after all the juniper, sage, browns and dust of the Great Basin high desert, which extends all the way to Bend.
We spent a fun day at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. We all really enjoyed this place, Mark just loved it.
We spent an afternoon exploring the Columbia River Gorge and its many waterfalls - a very beautiful area east of Portland.
After Portland, Mark went back to work and the boys & I met my sister Karen for a beach vacation on the Oregon Coast. We stayed right near the beach on Cape Falcon, just south of Cannon Beach. The coast here is amazingly beautiful.
The tide pools are incredible, we discovered many sea creatures like starfish and giant green anemones.
The headlands on the coast here are covered in green, lush rain forests. Silas and I loved the forests, especially at Ecola State Park, where we hiked the trail to Indian Beach.
Our time in Oregon was a lot of fun and we look forward to returning, especially to Portland and the coast. Now we're back in the dust and wind of Winnemucca to rest from our travels for a few days before tagging along with Mark to Eastern Nevada for a couple weeks of field work.
April 26, 2009
Categories
- A Day In The Life (102)
- Airstream Living (18)
- Blacksmithing (1)
- Celebrations & Holidays (30)
- Cricket (41)
- Current Affairs (1)
- Family Fun (51)
- In the garden (5)
- In The Kitchen (3)
- Inspiring (8)
- Learning All The Time (43)
- Levi (43)
- Life on the Farm (2)
- Metal Work (2)
- Nevada (9)
- Random Snapshots (12)
- Silas (61)
- The Great Outdoors (31)
- Travel (4)
- Yukon (6)
Pages
Download
- Passing It On Again, Ken Huggins
Click here to download Passing It On Again, by Ken Huggins (2006). This is a ~20MB file in PDF format.