We had a pretty busy week last week. Harrison and Mikey had their first crosscountry meet against Paradise and Oroville Highschools. Harrison was smoked by some girl athlete from Oroville...she pretty much smoked everyone, but he came in fourth place overall in his age group. Mikey...well he was very happy to get over the mountain twice, he had to run 3.1 miles and came in all sweaty filled with memories about why he hasn't run crosscountry in two years...because it's tough!
I've been raising two very fun turkeys and Gordon is doing the turkey thing now...isn't he pretty. I love when his face turns all colors. Well, this weekend Gordon and Earlene decided to go traveling I guess. We haven't seen or heard from them in a couple of days. Hopefully they are happy, but I have a hunch they may have be in our neighbor's dog's stomach!!
I went to Mono Lake Basin this weekend with my CSUChico Plant Geography class. The sights were beautiful and I really had fun identifying Conifers, Grasses, and Flowers. The highlight of the trip was seeing salt grass in the morning. It grows in the salt flats right next to Mono Lake, it can't tolerate the salt so when the plant sucks up the moisture it pushes the salt out of its' stomatas making the plant glisten and sparkle in the sunlight. That was amazing to me! We found a Mormon Tea plant too, and that is the oddest looking plant I've ever seen...why the pioneers decided to make tea with it is a mystery to me...so I'm going to do a little research about that.
Well..that's it for one week!
What's Up This Week
Harrison running to the finish line!
Gordon doing his Turkey Thing.
Gordon impressing Earlene...
Elephant Back Mountain...Carson Pass Trail
Frog Lake and Dr. Wood's CSUC plant class.
Hair Grass in the morning near shores of Mono Lake.
Mono Lake isn't the prettiest of Lakes...I was experimenting with the Black and White features on my camera while Dr. Wood was extolling the merits of salt tolerant plants...zzzzzzz.
Big Tufa formation in Mono Lake.
Joey resting, it was so windy that sometimes you would be paddling and go nowhere.
The Beaver House is getting taller and Danielle is prepared to whack a beaver if it comes to attack!
Kayaking on the Forebay, looking at Submarine Hill
Harrison and Danielle wanted to start a water fight and they ended up getting really wet. Dad, Joey, and Mikey all swarmed in and the water started to fly.
Our Island Paradise Family Vacation
Alooooha!
Hmmm....maybe humans did evolve from chimps...
The beach where Lost is filmed. Harrison is looking like he wants to be lost.
Yep, it's confirmed, their ancestors were probably mountain gorillas...
This is one of my favorite pictures, Beauty and the Beast.
Hawaii Temple built in 1955.
Hawaii Temple in Laie (Lah-ee-ay)
The inside of a submarine would be no place for a tall person like Mikey, his head would hit every knob, wheel, pole, metal protrusion anywhere in the sub!
The Polynesian Cultural Center had many interesting buildings and structures to represent each village, this is a Tongan Temple.
Harrison loved surfing...
David and Elissa still happy even though they housed us in their little apartment, and we rode around in their Honda...yes, six of us in a car that seats 4 comfortably.
Mikey making friends with the Tongans. Elissa has the video on her blog.
Harrison's Paradise...sitting behind the biggest guns he's ever seen!
Someone else is having way too much fun sitting behind the big gun...
Harrison standing beside his biggest fan.
1979
Mike & Peggy
Mikey and Harrison. Mikey's first car
Kaylee and Heidi
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Jeremy, Mikey,Harrison and Kim
Peggy, Jeremy and Glenda
Danielle and Joseph
Shauna, Ben, Dave and Steven
Ben and Heidi
Sandy, Kim and Mikey
Elissa and Heidi
Kimberly and Elissa
Harrison
Grandpa and Kaylee
IN Montana
shauna and kaylee
Mikey and Elissa
Kimberly and Elissa
David and Mikey
Ben, Elissa, Mikey, Joseph, Kimberly and Harrison
Oakland temple
The next Fabio
2 comments:
Wow what a week! Mikey is dang sweaty! Looks like someone dumped water on his head! Your turkeys are HUGE! I don't know about cute though. Thats sad if the neighbors dog ate them. Maybe the neighbors ate them! hahaah
I've never heard of a Mormon Tea Plant... I'd be interested to hear more about that! I looked up it's picture online and it looks nothing like what I'd picture a tea leaved plant to look like. Hope your turkeys found their way back home!
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