What's Up This Week

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!

Hot, Windy Labor Day Activity

In honor of Labor Day, we kayaked. We figured that would be a good way to work our muscles, work our arms and work up an appetite! It was pretty fun, but the wind was blowing so hard sometimes that the kayaks wouldn't even move in the water and we would be pushed backwards. There were little white caps about 18 inches high that would break over the front of the boat and kept us pleasantly cool. The only people that really got soaked were Harrison and Danielle, they decided to tempt the king of water fights (your father) and lost. Of course their little raft was blowing all over the place as well, they were doomed from the very first challenging sentence..."Bring it!"