Pumpkin Carving

Mine is the cat!

Living with the Rents

My Mom just got home from JC Pennys. My dad and I are on the couch watching football.

Jim asks Jeanette, "So, did you find some new Brenda R Averleys?" (bras)

She responds, "Yea, but I was very meticulous which is good. Some of them said that they would cover the nips, but thank goodness I put my shirt on, because they definitely didn't. So that ruled out those ones."

To this, my dad replied, "Darn!"

Then my dad takes a bra and holds it up to himself. "Look at all this padding. This is going to make you look so big."

He holds up the picture on the tag, "Hey, Rach, look. Mom looks better than the girl in this picture. Honey maybe you should put it on. I'll take a picture of you and send it in and maybe they'll use it on their bras."

It makes me even more excited to come see you and get away from these crazy folk!

Also, this is a picture of the "helmet", which is next to the Sphinx, which is one of the mountains we climbed this summer. 

It's cool; you can see it sticking up from far away, then it's just this huge rock outcropping. It's on one side of the saddle, and the Sphinx is on the other. So you hike up to the base of it, and then go across the saddle to the Sphinx.

See my sweet poles? ha they got annoying this hike, though. 

where oh where has Chris gone?

Heyyy my horoscope is right on track today! Except for the insecure part.

"Lack of contact with a close friend or romantic partner might find you feeling lonely and insecure, wondering if he or she has forgotten you or simply doesn't care to be around you anymore."


You poop.

FTR

I know you already saw this, but I don't take very many good pictures, so I figured I would put it up here, just for the record ;-)

Riding 10.22.11

I just thought of something kinda funny.  When I talk about dirt biking, I say "riding" and when I talk about mountainbiking, I say "biking."  That will help you differentiate between what I'm doing maybe.  But anyways, I didn't get any action pics bc its a pain to stop and take out my camera, but maybe next time for you!  We did have a really nice day though and here are the two pictures I did take, besides the one that I emailed you previously when we stopped to check out the old stone building.

This picture was when we were just about ready to go after loading up Casey's quad at his house.  Lookin' cool huh?

This was just before we left to go out on the trails (in BEARTOWN!).  There was a guy out there with his girlfriend that we saw (also a bunch of beaners with brand new bikes which is funny), but they were having problems.  The guy was leading and they came up to a hill which was kinda tough with big rocks and a little steep, and he got stuck or something so Casey and I passed them and went on our way.  Someday I'll let you ride my dirt bike.  I would prefer you try the quad first just because its a little less intimidating, but same sort of shifting, you just dont need to worry about balancing and dealing with a heavy bike that could fall over.

But if you do a good job riding around, maybe someday I could take you for a little ride :-)



Gone Till November

HEY! Your fleece!

G-pa Hogue, rockin the fleece over a nice belly.

How To: Make a Box Separator

Step 1: Measure the length, width, and height of the box you want to make a separator for.

Step 2: Cut out two pieces of cardboard. both should have the same height as your box, and cut one to be as long as the width of your box, and the other as long as the length of your box. 

Step 3: Since you are not a very good cutter, and since cardboard is ugly, cover them in some pretty paper. 

Step 4: Cut a slit in each piece, right in the center, half way through. 

Step 5: Slide the pieces together at the slits. Put them so that the cuts you made are touching, and then push hard to get them together. 

Step 6: Put them in the box and organize your stuff. You may have to cut them down a tiny bit to get them to fit.

Step 7: Organize your stuff!

Haha I thought you would like this. 

Bike Ride 10.14.11

Ok so I'm gonna start off with this map. We did not exactly follow the map (because of the directions mistake, but I double checked the directions from the book and they arent exactly right). I did however, write some new directions, so I think you should make the corrections in the book. :) The point at which things started being wrong with the directions was at point K, but we figured it out. At point L we got messed up though. Thats where we came out to the main road and took the bike path bc I was confused, and then I realized where we were and that we were going the wrong way so we turned around.. (I'm sorry!) But it wasnt completely my fault I promise!

                                              

Corrections to make in the book:

@~22.6 Turn RIGHT at Stop Sign on Terry's Plain Rd.

@~23.7 BARE RIGHT on East Weatogue Rd.

(That part of the directions said turn right at stop onto E. Weatogue at 25.2 so it was all messed up)

@25.3 turn RIGHT onto CT-185

@25.4 turn RIGHT onto dirt road into park etc... (for the tree)

@25.5 turn LEFT at light onto Nod Rd. (the directions said go straight :-/)

@28.6 turn RIGHT onto CT-44

@29.1 turn RIGHT onto Mt. View Rd

@ 29.5 arrive at Sperry Park

.....

Also, at 20.5 you take a left onto Hoskins Rd., but it is a stop sign not a light

And I promise those directions are accurate

So I think sometime maybe we could retry this bike ride? :-) On a nice sunny day, maybe with enough time to rest for lunch...

Anyhow, now that I've solved the problem, here are a few of our pictures..

This one actually came out pretty well, but to put it into perpective...

You could build a little hideout in the middle of the tree... it'd be a good one for a tree house... now we need to go to Red Wood St. Park or National Forest (?) and take the same picture on some of those trees :-)

I thought this one was pretty funny because it worked out pretty well (we were right in the center of the frame and you can see the tree perfectly), but we weren't ready.  I think that makes it even better though.

I LOVE YOU THIS BIG!

-CCS

Me and My Bear

Your lips are soft against my ear, 

The moonlight streams softly down.

Little kisses everywhere,

I don't notice the hard ground.

Curled up in your arms,

In a place that no one knows,

Out here, fireflies and charm.

Somewhere only we go.

This is the place I most prefer,

Beneath the thin silk of a tent.

No two others in all the earth, 

have ever been this content.

A warm glow burning in my heart,

Lighting up the darkest dark.

We doze in our lair,

Me and my bear.