CAMP

Thanks to Mr. Bond I learned about 20 years ago that I love camp! And 5 years after that he taught me to appreciate it even more by not allowing me to go. I have spent weeks at outdoor ed. and girls camp and later whole summers having the time of my life.



Eventually we all should grow up and in my world this includes a career. Careers don't give you the whole summer off unless you are a teacher. So camp has become a distant but happy memory.



My ward has a camp activity every year. Less than 24 hours at a camp, but enough to remind me just how amazing camp is. Mediocre food, dusty cabins with uncomfortable bunk beds, the chance to stay up late sitting 'round a camp fire, seeing wildlife, and being somewhere where your phone doesn't quite work are all pieces that I love. Somehow my spirit completely relaxes at camp. I stop thinking about work. I stop feeling like I am running in circles. Everything unimportant stops and I remember that I am a child of God and He has given me beautiful places where I can feel closer to Him. So give me trees and mountains and crappy falling apart cabins and squeaky bunkbeds. Give me a chance to be in nature (even if it's just a couple of acres in the middle of a neighborhood)and I will always be grateful for it.

habanero peppers and tomato worms

So, if you've ever spent the summer growing things only to have a tomato worm eat them you may appreciate this photo!

This little guy ate a huge amount of the habenero plant followed by the missing chunk of this pepper and apparently burned to death from the pepper's heat. Definitely not how I want to go.

Conference Weekend

For Conference Weekend I went to Utah for the first time in a few years. Things have changed and I had fun. Thanks to Emily for letting me and a friend stay with her. My friend's mom got tickets to both afternoon sessions. We missed the morning sessions and I have been catching up a little each night since getting home.

On Saturday morning we went to the Salt Lake Farmer's Market. It was fun and there were lots of interesting things and people to watch. Like these guys...

We went to the Cornbelly's Corn Maze on Saturday night. That was tons of fun. We forgot flashlights and it was pretty dark, but we made it out in only 45 mins.

This is what the maze looks like this year.

Mmmmm corn!!!

Is this thing haunted? Someone is in there! (It's just my friend shhh!)

See how dark it was?

On Sunday we drove to Salt Lake by going through Provo Canyon and up to Park City. It is definitely a longer way, but I will do just about anything for even 5 minutes in the mountains. There was gorgeous fall color! See...

Crafty Weekend

Well, it has been a relatively crafty weekend. I finished 2 hats and woke up this morning to make apple-berry pie(yum!!!)



The hats are fun! This was the first stripey one and I am proud of it, possibly the cutest one yet:) They are for a guy at work who's baby girl is due next Monday. Now I just need a gift bag. Maybe I will find one tomorrow morning on the way to work.



That pie sure smells good, too bad it's for MEG after church, I can't eat any until
4:30ish :-( Oh well, if it is as good as it smells it will be worth it.

holy moley!!!

OK, so I understand that we need passwords, but sometimes I forget one. I tried to get help from the blogger/google people, they said that I didn't know enough about myself to confirm that I'm me. Jeepers who else would want access to my blog? I know that my life is super interesting, but not enough to pretend to be me. I mean really!

So anyway while cleaning my messy desk today I found the password, so now I just need to find my camera and downloading cord and I've got some stuff to share.

At least they didn't close my account since I didn't know me.

Vacation over

Well after 2 weeks of vacation I suppose I was going to have to go back to work eventually. It wasn't too bad, but I'm sure more fun will come tomorrow.

On Vacation I learned about geocaching. What an awesome idea! It's an online/outdoor treasure hunt using GPS. Fantastic idea! Today I found one during my work break, about 1/2 a mile from the office was a convenient location.

More, including pictures will come later.

Morro Bay Adventure

On Saturday I made it to the Morro Bay Natural History Museum. Not a bad place, though geared more for 6-10 year olds. It was a little amusing, there were rock shaped speaker things that you held up like a phone and "Rocky the Rock" (aka Morro Rock) would fill you in on what ever info pertained to each display.

Better than the museum, I randomly stopped at a state park on Hwy 1 just north of Cayucos. There was a huge meadowy area on cliffs above the beach. Tons of wild flowers, super green, tide pools on the beach. Really it was a beautiful place. I'll have to figure out which state park it was.

My friends continue to have to work when ever my adventures are planned, so I completed this one alone.

The state park was great, will totally go back. The museum will be great for supervised visits at work. I will have to remember it for that. Somewhere between the museum and the park on the greatness scale was Ben Franklin's sandwich shop in San Luis. I have been driving by for 2 years, thinking I should go there. Well, I have now been twice. Both times got a #4 (Turkey and Swiss on french bread.) I will be returning here too.