love ya ma!

wool over your eyes

next time you think somethings is to good to be true, well,, it is.

While I was traveling two huge storms hit Seaside back to back. The rain soaked everything and then the wind knocked down tons of trees, We lost power for a week and had much damage all around. Our illustrious president even declared the Oregon coast in a state of emergency. The largest Sitka Spruce in North America was ripped in half and fell. The spruce was less than 10 miles from our home and had already sustained lots of damage over the years. Al and I went and saw it a couple months back. Above is a picture I took of it. You can see a huge gash that the tree received after getting struck by lighting a few years ago. I guess the tree was on its way out, but its still a shame to see it go.

I just got back from a trip half way cross country. I was helping my friends Joe and Rachel, move from Portland to Ashville, NC. The plan was to ride with them all the way but we hit everything possible to slow us down. I ended up ditching them in Denver and flying back to PDX for a job. It was a crazy adventure and I sure wish I could have stayed with them all the way. Their still on the road now and last I heard they were in Oklahoma. We took a couple days off in Colorado to go skiing. On our last day driving to the mountain we came across cattle being herded down the highway. It must have been 500 cows at least, what a sight.