Today!!!!

Today was a great day!!!!Bill, Mama Griffith, her kids, and I went and scaled a mountain today. It was a great feat for all the children. They are 6, 4, and 3. The 3 year old especially I think. To climb Neah-kah-nie is a great feat in itself for anyone but especially for anyone as young as them to climb the entire mountain without breaking down or having any fits! Crazy, huh. It took 2 hours to go from the bottom to the top. The ascent was very beautiful. We went all the way around the mountain or really went straight up one side and down the other side. With many cliffs each child had a designated partner to hold onto and to watch. I do have to say that it was nerve racking to watch the kids climb up the last of the cliff to the top. We stayed at the top eating chips that the nice and wonderful mama griffith to pack before heading down the other side to the bottom. I hope that you enjoyed the pictures.

Memorial Day Weekend Part 2

I forgot to put this picture in the first post which is actually down below. It is oh I don't know about 10 or 20 or 30 miles up to it and there this sign is in the middle of the forest and it makes me think that there is a top secret agency up there. As I was snapping the picture I was thinking that as soon as I did watch there would be black jeeps and helicopters all around, guns drawn and not waiting to ask questions.

Memorial Day Weekend

So this is a view of Buck Mountain you can see from the ocean all the way to the lights of Portland (at night anyway)!

As we were clearing the path so that the truck could get through the opening better we came across this view. Beautiful, huh!

Bill and I doing a self portrait. See the mountains in the background.

Look I'm standing on a cliff. Ok really it is slightly a cliff but it goes down about 20 to 30 ftish and then it goes into a landing. But it is an awesome picture!

Aren't I cute!

Ok so I have no idea what my husband is doing!

This is the grade the we had to climb up because our truck couldn't finish going up it. It doesn't look like much really but it is about a 10% incline maybe more maybe less. I don't really know if those are the right measurements. All I know is that it is extremely steep.

This is Saddle Mountain from the way back down from Buck Mountain.

This was such a good weekend. I didn't really mind the tourists because I wasn't around. It was a beautiful weekend and our exploring nature brought us out to explore and go where a lot of people haven't been or even heard of before.

Parasitic Germs

So I found out by Mama Griffith that there is this person, I'll call him the Germ that is hopping from blog to blog posting notes to check out some video on YouTube about religion. Really if you are going to post a comment on someones blog comment about the blog not about something comepletely opposite from the subject. So if you are the germ please don't post something on my blog if you can help it or if you have to post something comment on what I wrote about. Please stop being a parasite!!!!! I'm not going to view anything that you send to me.

Books

I think that the best creations are the ones that you yourself personally think up. However some profound writers take you to a place that you continuously think about and wish that you were there among the characters taking in the action yourself. Some people have that special gift to write a book that envelopes you into a cocoon and you don't get out until the book is done. I'm often left wondering about the characters. Do they continue to have the happy ending or does something else happen. Did they get married? Did they have any children? Did some other plot take place to make the hero into an even greater hero? Movies have the same affect on me but of course they don't last as long because you can finish a movie in a couple of hours where as depending on how thick the book is it takes a couple of days for me to finish it. Books also give you the chance to put your own pictures inside of it. Detailing all of the characters, there personality traits, where they live, the landscape, the time. It just really makes me want to write a book. It inspires me. One day hopefully I will put pen to paper or fingers to keys and write a book out that will be able to hook someone in and trap them inside a cocoon until they have finished reading it.

Morse Code

I think that codes and code words are simply electrifying. They astound me. I have so much fun trying to figure out the code and deciphering it which I used to be pretty good but know I must say that I'm not very good anymore. Know that I have read The Mysterious Benedict Society it has intrigued me to figure out Morse code and actually learn it. There for I have learned it somewhat. I am still trying to remember all the dashes and dots and remember which letter or number they belong to. For you fellow code people this is for you and I hope that you can read this. For the people who don't know it look it up it is really interesting.

.. ..-. -.-- --- ..- -.-. .- -. .-. . .- -.. ...- . .-. -.-- --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-

.. .- -- ... - .. .-.. .-.. .-.. . .- .-. -. .. -. --. - .... --- ..- --. .... .-.-.-

I hope that it made sense to you. Have fun deciphering it.

Book Review

The Mysterious Benedict Society is a great spy novel for grown ups and kids alike. It tests your mind with all the questions it poses. Which sadly to say that I don't know how to pronounce most of the words within the question. The reasons why I liked it was the fact that it was fast paced (I thought), it talked about Morse code, and there were spies within the book. The title is what grabbed me and told me I had to get it as well as the cover picture. Mama Griffith showed it to me and I was hooked. The only downfall that it had was one tiny little part, really it was only 2 word that were said that have me baffled and little wierded out to the point that I'm not sure about the ending. Sad isn't it. Two words that you read that are so profound in the way that you think it possibly distorts the ending so that you think only about those two little words until you practically drop dead with exhaustion. I think that it could happen those two little words but it is just mind boggling. Anyway, now that I have throughly confused you I think that it is worth the time to read it. If you do read it and get to the very end you'll know which two words I'm talking about I want to know what you think of it. Maybe I'm just crazy. Anyway, Keep Reading!!