Goodbye, Nellie

Sort of a sad title, but these were some pictures I took when we went up to the land to bury Nellie.

When I first got there, I thought it was funny seeing Sam, Brandon, and my Dad's trucks. Only Wesley wasn't there.

When I was walking up, they had already buried her, but I thought it was kind of a pretty sunset for it, and you can see the standing around where we buried her.  

And there's a little stake to mark where she is.

Lookout ride - 11/11/11

This is the ride I went on yesterday that according to my bike computer was 18.34 miles. In the beginning I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to make it all the way because of too much water. The spot where I took the first picture is a little swamp right next to the dirt road and its cool because the water is higher than the road level, it's like a natural spillway, because this section of road is always a little flooded, but it is worse than usual now.  In the second picture you can see the swamp water, the natural dam (spillway) and on the bottom you see water also, but the road is actually under the water.  I went through it though, it wasn't too deep and its not soft, because its a hard packed road under all the water, so that makes it a lot less difficult.

The picture on the right of the two below is the one I took first, it was right in that same swamp area.  The one on the left is actually of a part of the road (when I made a wrong turn) around a bridge that must have gotten washed out either from the hurricane at the end of the summer, or from all this snow melt from the storm.  My bet is with the hurricane, I know it was ok over the summer though, because last time I tried to do this ride, I messed up and went the wrong way and crossed this bridge, but kept going.  I made the same mistake this time, but realized it right away, but it was cool because I got to see this, and it was okay because I made it to the lookout :).

This lookout is probably only a mile or so from the one we hiked to during the summer and tried to bump up by the lookout.  This one is further up the chain of reservoirs though.  From this one, if you look left you can see the dam that we were looking at from ours, but this one is right in line with the next dam up.

Here's a picture of me and my bike.  It has to take your place in these sorts of pictures for now.  It came out pretty well though... hope you like my pictures. <3

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 :-)