01 August 2007

SIMPSONIZED!!!!





These are the Binggeli-Simpson pictures





How do we fit in the the Blogging world now?




HALEY

JAMES






Sound Sleeper and Snake

Story #1

This morning I locked myself out and didn't have my car keys to get to work. James was inside asleep, but he is such a sound sleeper it took a solid 15 minutes of yelling, ringing the doorbell, banging on the door, throwing the dustpan at the bedroom window, and finally jumping up to hit the bedroom window with the broom. Grrrrrrrr . . . I finally made enough noise that he stumbled down to let me in. I think it's time to stash a key somewhere.

Story #2

Yesterday when I got home from work I was greeted at the gate by a snake. YUCK!! It was black and yellow and staring me down. It was only about 6-8 inches, but it totally creeped me out. After I weighed the possibilities of how to kill it, I carefully went in the house to get keys to the shed for supplies. James was already awake though, so I enlisted his help in "killing" the snake. I didn't realize, though, that boys from Box Elder County think it's sinful to kill snakes. To solve the problem, he scooted the snake about 3 whole feet away. Thanks James. I really appreciate it. I have now duct taped around the inside of our door.

30 July 2007

A Hiking We Will Go!

On Saturday, James and I decided to go hiking. We chose our destination: Dog Lake. We chose our path: Mill D Trailhead, Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was supposed to be about 6 miles round trip. It was a gloriously warm day, very pretty, but warm.

Once we got to Dog Lake, we decided it should really be called Pee Lake or Dead Cow Lake. It was not a pretty site. So, with our dissapointment at Dog Lake we decided to go and extra 1.6 miles to Desolation Lake, hoping that the "desolute" would be more lovely than the "dog." So we went from the car, to the dog, to the desolute, then back to the car. Imagine tracing over each part of a large letter Y. Car, Dog, and Desolation are all at points on the Y. Do you understand?

Anyway, to cut to the end of the story. It was a long hike.
Total miles: almost 10. Total time: about 5 hours.
Water consumed: 3.5 liters
Wildlife seen: 1 deer, 3 chipmunks, 2 dogs, misc. birds.
Bug report: Haley=5 bites, James=0

Our legs were really tired, but it was fun. Here are some pictures.

Dog LakeDesolation Lake - Big cottonwood canyon