Friday, June 3, 2011

airline to heaven
















so last weekend, or the weekend before that actually, we took a little trip, took a little trip, took a little trip hiking. we headed north towards boulder, but turned off west and went hiking in el dorado canyon. this place was awesome. we had to drive through this little town, and i mean little town. the only thing separating the houses was a dirt road with tons of potholes. i had to drive about five miles an hour. you had to pay to get in because it's actually a state park.



the park was awesome. for the first mile or so, it's straight up. you can see in the bottom shot demitria sitting down. we had some water there and i took that shot of her and tried to show how far up we were. even at that point, we had higher to go. we continued up the trail and took a few more shots. there was this giant boulder up there sitting on top of this other giant boulder. so demitria and i climbed up there and took shots of us holding it up.



finally when we were down and came all the way back down the mountain, we sat by the stream and ate some horrible sandwiches we packed. we were pretty exhausted by that point.



the top picture is the night wolf. i've been telling a few people about the night wolf. he's actually a fox and he hangs out in our neighborhood. he mostly sits in one dude's front yard. that's where he's at in the picture. he'll just sit there and hang out. the dude who owns the house said he has no idea why the night wolf hangs out there because he doesn't feed him or anything. but we get a huge kick out of seeing him. we love/fear the night wolf.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

holding onto black metal pt. 2

there is a series going on that is tremendously worth reading. it is a five part series. and four parts are out. they take their titles from clint eastwood movies.

for a few dollars more

fistful of dollars

the good, the bad and the ugly

the outlaw josey wales

unforgiven (still to come)

holding onto black metal

we had a great memorial day weekend. i have some pictures to post soon. saturday i took my FAR test and we cleaned and mowed and cleaned and got ready for sunday. we grilled out on sunday and had a few people over. it was fun. too much fun. i had to hang around the house most of monday.

and then a weird thing happened. i couldn't sleep. i slept about three hours monday night and then four hours on tuesday night. i laid in bed tuesday night from 9:30 to one in the morning and i couldn't fall asleep. you ever have sleep deprevation? the world gets real slow. and work takes a long time. i hope i have some serious sleep tonight. i need some rem sleep. i went into the basement and slept last night. i'm going to try that again. it's pretty depressing not to fall asleep when you want to. you feel powerless.