Waterloo Rapids

Yesterday Colby and I got to run a whitewater section we have been wanting to run for almost three years. Mirlandra liked our idea of making a party out of it. She planned the party, we took care of the water aspect. When all was said and done, we had a small group of folks to enjoy a very hot Saturday afternoon with on the water. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of the whole group, but I promise Rob and Shae, Rob and Monica, Steven, Lila, Mirlandra, and Mom were all there too.

I never did make it through the shoot upright... but here is a link to my first attempt. I think it's humorous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh26QcQHg84


On this next one I made it through the two big waves, but I was too off balance when I came out the other side and lost it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZcqbzcxVbA

This one is the worst looking of all of them. I'm glad I was the one doing it because if I had been on shore I would have been sure the guy died. I fell out of the boat at a very in-opportune moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmRYoK1pA4

On this last one I tried a drastically different approach. I almost had it! But no... Colby to the rescue again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001C3AXvFwQ

Thanks so much to Caryn for the filming! She did an excellent job, as you can see. And thanks to Colby for being there to fish me out. :)

Day Ten - Finale!

It's coming off. I have answered my self-asked question if I can grow a beard yet. The answer is obvious from the pictures. Maybe I will try again next year... maybe not.

Day Nine

Me and da bunny are good buds.

Mary's Peak Ride

These pictures are a teaser for the full story with is on Facebook. The rest of the photos from that trip are in an album I uploaded called Mary's Peak 7-8-10.

Day Eight

Well, much more exciting things happened to me today than this... I gave Mirlandra a pleasant (or not so pleasant) surprise by showing up at her window that overlooks our garage roof. I was there for other nefarious reasons, (delivering a present to her out of sight of our mother so it could be wrapped for said mother) but I asked her to go ahead and take today's picture while I was in such a good spot for it.

Day Seven

Conclusion: rose in mouth looks extremely stupid. I'll leave that to the other guys in the future.

Day Six

It's gonna take a big KNIFE to shave this puppy off when it is full grown.

2nd load of Scrap Lumber

I also brought home the second load of scrap lumber from my dad's today. One chicken coup for Mom coming right up!

Recycling

We had a good time with the recycling bin, so here are the rest of the shots.

It was kind of painful to get in!

Day Five

Yes... that is our recycling bin. I'm turning my old me in for a new one that can grow a beard.

Day Four

I shaved my neck today. Turns out when I start growing a beard, my eyes turn inward.... bummer.

Day Three

This morning, a five-o'clock shadow is visible in the photo.

Thinking of shaving the lower half of my neck.

Scrap Lumber

My dad built a new house ten feet behind his old one this year. I have been helping him tear down the old one. Lots of it is going to the dump, but lots of it is good wood that is re-usable. I brought the first load of it home to Mom's place today using Dad's truck and trailer. I'm planning to build a chicken coop for Mom with it since there are fourteen chickens coming from the Lindvall's place to live at ours.

Before I start building, all this has to be unloaded, sorted, and de-nailed. Woot!

I'm gearing up some determination before starting.

Yup, meet the king of that pile of wood.

These remind me of my senior photos. I think I was wearing these pants back then too... they were a little newer.

Beard in July?

I have never actually grown a beard before because I couldn't. I probably still can't... but I am going to try this month until it gets too ugly to continue. We will see. There is a family reunion mid-month that may discourage my efforts since I will be meeting a bunch of my step-mother's family that I have never met and I dislike giving bad first impressions.

The plan is to blog pictures of this beard process throughout the month. We will see.

This is a picture of day two. I think you would need a microscope to see that I have not shaved since yesterday morning in this picture. ;)