Maui Under Water

Sam and myself did three dive over there.
One at Five Caves, and two at the Dumpe.
None were very deep, and had lots of bottom time.

Maui Fun

Sorry, this is so way late in coming out with the video, of Maui.
All the boys are having a great time.
Build stuff in the sand, not sure which ones are having more fun, the little boys or the big boys. LOL



The weather was great, in the 70s most of the time we're there.
It was sad to come home to cold Oregon.

When The Winds Come

Had a little wind the other night.
Started out with thunder rolling for about 10 minutes
then the rain started then the wind begin to blow.
By 5:00PM the power wires were pulled down by a fir tree near Minthorne road.
Both wires broken in two.
Lots of other trees came down, around the valley. Some house got trees down on them, as will.
When I called PPL, to get the lines fixed, said that there was 33, 000 homes with out power, by 6:00PM.
The power was out Sunday night and did not get fixed till 1:00AM Tuesday.

This poor guy's pick up is just not the same.

Book Report " Hidden Creek"

Title: Hidden Creek
Aurthur: Katharine Newlin Burt
Published: 1920
Sheila, a 17 year young lady living in New York, a short time when Her artiest father dies.
A man that was buying her fathers painting, come to pick it up and finds Sheila, on the floor next to here father's body.
Older Mr. Hudson offers to take Her to his home in Milling, WY, to live with his two daughters and help his wife with house work.
After been in Milling, for 3 week Sheila find out that Mr. Hudson real intentions, was to have her be a barmaid, in his bar in Milling.
That lasted about a month, before Sheila, had, had enough, and run off into the wilds of WY, to live with a female rancher by the name of Miss. Blake.
Shelia, must find what she really wants out of life, and meet the man that she will marries.
At time a little wordy, but the story hold your interest.
I gave a 3 out of 5 starts.

The Word of the Day "Flibbertigibbet"

"Flibbertigibbet"

We were watching "Joe Versus the Volcano"
Meg Ryan as a Flibbertigibbet.

is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a young woman. In modern use, it is used as a slang term, especially in Yorkshire, for a gossipy or overly talkative person. Its origin is in a meaningless representation of chattering. ^[1]

This word also has a historical use as a name for a fiend, devil or sprite. In Shakespeare's King Lear (IV, i (1605)), he is one of the five fiends Edgar (in the posture of a beggar, Tom o' Bedlam) claimed was possessing him. Shakespeare got the name from Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603),^{[citation needed]} where one reads of 40 fiends, which Jesuits cast out and among which was Fliberdigibbet, described as one of "foure deuils of the round, or Morrice, whom Sara in her fits, tuned together, in measure and sweet cadence."

By extension it has also been used as a synonym for Puck. Through its use as a nickname for a character in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth, it has gained the meaning of an impish child.^[2]

Flibbertigibbet similarly features as a name in a local legend around Wayland's Smithy. According to the tale, Flibbertigibbet was apprentice to Wayland the Smith, and greatly exasperated his master.^[3] Eventually Wayland threw Flibbertigibbet down the hill and into a valley, where he transformed into a stone. Scott associates his Flibbertigibbet character in Kenilworth with Wayland Smith.^{[citation needed]}

Another historical connection and likely origin of the word comes from "fly by the gibbet". A gibbet can refer to a platform or cage used to execute criminals and display their remains outside a town to warn other would-be criminals. The remains over time would be picked apart by small creatures and birds and thus 'fly away'. "Fly by the Gibbet" may also have been used as a sailing expression to refer to hoisting the gibbet sail. This is a large sail that can be used when sailing with the direction of the wind to capture as much wind as possible. A sail that has not been pulled tight will flap in the wind, which may have also contributed to the association.

Buses

Not a very good picture, but that's me in front of whats left of a bus.
I'm pointing at the bus number 265, I believe I had a bus in Grants Pass with that number about 20 years ago.
This was taken in Maui, two week ago, on the road to Hana, a long driver to no were.
There is about 75 one lane bridges and lots turns getting to Hana.
Way cool rain forest area, with bamboo forest covering hole hill sides.
Most of the water fall had dried up, but still pretty cool to see.
More pictures and info to follow about Maui.

Book Report " The Spy"

Title: The Spy (An Isaac Bell Adventure)
Aurthur: Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
Clive as been adding his name to these books, but not writing at any part of it.
This is not a Dirk Pitt book, but Isaac Bell is the hero in this story.
The story is about US building up sea power, for World War 1.
What nation has the greatest sea power at this time?
The Great White Fleet sailed around to world, to show the sea power of the American had at that time.
The fleet was an aging fleet at the time, but in the other hand, no nation had sent there war fleet, around the world in friend meeting of other nation, so the US was the first.
On the other hand all nation were building a ship called the dreadnought.
You can see more about the dreadnought ship in Wikipedia.
These ship had 12 inch guns that could shoot a 805 pound round, a distance of 6,000 yards to 20,000 yards.

Back to the story, some one killed the head designer, and then another one was killed, and before long, most of the head designers were killed and the US ship building program was in trouble, of not have any ships that could defend the US in time of war, if the need should arise.
I would give the book and 5 out of 5.

Geocaching

I still doing this game/sport.
I'm up to 2300 finds, but my standing have slipped some.
I'm only the 135th out of 1600 in Oregon, these days.
Here are some of the last cache I got before going on vacation.

Lucky # 13
A Pleasant Crossing
Ditch This Cache
A Pleasant Game No More
Dixie Cache

I'm adding this funny picture of a cacher at a stingray park.

The GPSr, will work down to 9 feet for about 30 minutes with out any water damage, will, they don't really work because of the water will blocking the satellites
signal.
It looks like he is just below the surface, judging by the person in the back ground.
This is one of the those caches that require a picture to claim the find, but normal not under water.
LOL
Stingray City- Grand Cayman Islands

Book Report " Waking Lazarus"

Title, Waking Lazarus
Author,T.L. Hines

Starts out, about this boy that falls though the ice and when there get to the hospital, He is declared dead and his body is moved to the morgue.
The boy wakes up, with a sheet over his head, not knowing where He is.
The Nurse comes in to move the body and scared half to death when He sets up.
Later when has grow up, people start to follow him, so He moves to another town and takes a new name and hides for 6 years till, something happens, that He can help fix, with his special power.
I gave it a, 5 out of 5.

Book Report"Guns Of El Kebir"

Title, Guns Of El Kebir

By John Wilcox
In 1882 Simon Fonthill a British solder and his servant number 352 a Welshman who also goes by the name Jenkins.
The two were hired to go under cover and find out great war secirets for the war in Egypt at El Kebir.
The battle at El Kebir is real history and a famous, battle, this story is build around.
Aliceson, a lost love, Simon can't stop thinking about, ever after she has been married for 2 year to a higher ranking solder, but there paths keep crossing, even when far from London in another country that Aliceson should not be in.
Simon end up save Her life 4 time before the story is over..

A good action story and reads will, keeping you interest, pretty much though the hole book.
I gave in a 4 out of 5.

New Years Eve 2010

2010 seen out with a small group of
family this year.
I think most of uses were in bed when
it really happened.
But Auston had the right ideal when He got to the Ford home, as can be seen here.
At midnight, as dose happen in our part of the world, (bunch of rednecks) guns start going off all over the area, people shooting up into the air.
And we were baby sitting Duke the dog, here he comes running down the hall to jump into our bed.
Duke is scared to death of gun fire.
Rochelle spent some time calming the poor dog down so we could all go to sleep. Good job Rochelle. LOL

Chistmas 2010

Had everyone over but Elder Ford and He called and talked for one hour.

The grandsons got to open a bag full of little cars.
This was to hold them off from opening the big boxes.
So there was about 25 + cars in each bag and they still had a little trouble on who's car went into what bag.





We had just about everyone here, but Elder Ford and we sent him a box full of stuff.

He got a 12 inch tree.

and some candy stuff as will.










The video is just show who was here, this just before the big opening started.

Merry Christmas to all.

The MTC, Look OUT

Elder Ford, has left for the MTC in Utah.
He will be there for three weeks, and then move on to California for only 101 weeks in the mission field.
Daniel is the most ready Elder I have ever seen go out, but, me being his Dad, shouldn't have anything to do with my thinking. LOL.
We are really proud of Daniel, He is going because he wants to go, not because the bishop or parents say he should go.
He truly has the spirit of missionary work.
He left on Wednesday November 17.
We mist Him at Thanksgiving, but He will be back, in 2 Thanksgiving from now.
I'll get my letter writing skill tune-up and share in his experience by hearing from him all the time.
And Alex was there, so we hope He doesn't think Daniel is on a plane for 2 years.
I can see it now, every time a plane flys over, Alex will wave at Daniel. :)

Bear in the Neighborhood

The bears are coming out for dinner.
A friend from work, send these to me.
She live down the road about 3 miles from are house.
The bears, three bears come down off the hill be behind the house.
The images are not very good when enlarged.
I had been planning a hike in the area were the bear are coming out of, to look for a old grave marker of a child, from around the 1900's.
Not sure if I do it now.
Very brave bears, most stay away from humans.
The owner of the night camera has a dog, the bears may be eating the dog food?

Book Report " Faces in the Fire"

Faces in the Fire
By T. L. Hines

Really good story.
Starts out with Kurt waking up and not knowing who he is.
The only way he, finds out what his name is, is by check his only piece of ID he had was his driver's license. He had a application for truck drivers school and 10 thousand dollars in cash in a money belt.
He buys cloths at estate sales, and the dead people who owned the cloth before, talk to Kurt.
And he does art work from what they say to him.
At some point this list of ten numbers show up one the scene, and the number play a big part in each stanza of the story.
The story is written will and the story flows will with out any slow spots in the story line.
It one of those books that, once you get in about 5 charters, you can't but it down.
A good 5 stars.

Jack LaLanne, 1000 lbs. ?

The first TV exercise man.

How Jack lifts a 1000 pounds

You can tell this is an really old TV program, by the round screen.

The Jumping jack was name after him.

Book Report "Wheel of Time"

Authur Robert Jordan
Book one: The Eye of the World

Book two: The Great Hunt.

Book three: The Dragon Reborn.

All good books.
Rand the main character and two other friends Mat and Perry are from the same little town and grew up together and each one seems to have there own special power and job to do in there world or in saving the world.
The stories seem to drag a little and then about the last 3 charter they have the big battle.
But the stories seem to improve in the later books, but I have only read 3 of the 13 books at this point.
Time will tell.

Another 50 Miler

Saturday the November 2 I rode from the house, out Evans creek road to Sam Valley back into Gold Hill then to Rogue River, then back to the house.
Was going to start at 7 AM but I did not wake up till 8 AM so that is just as will.
It was colder then I thought it was going to be, I stopped about 12 miles out and found a sunny spot to seat in the sun and warm up, before going on.
The time were good.
Started : 8:30 AM
Back : 12:45 PM
Ride time: 3 hours, 41 minutes.
Distance : 50 miles
Average speed : 13.7 mph
Done on road bike.
I going to try and do this one more time before winter starts on the mountain bike.
Maybe in two weeks.
Up date 10/24/10
Winter is here, the next ride is off for now.

Daniel's Got The Call

Daniel is going on a mission.
To Sam Fernando, California.
And Dad is so happy the can't believer it really happened :)
The mission covers from Mammoth, Bishop, Lone Pine, Ridgecrest, Rosamond, Lancaster, Palmdale, Quartz Hill, Santa Clarita, and finely the San Fernando Valley just north of Los Angeles.

Daniel will be leaving in mid November.

We will let everyone know when we do the farewell party.

Austin Daniel Is Here

Austin Daniel Sutherland

September 26, 2010

12:45 A.M.

6 lbs. 5 oz

18 and 3/4 inches long

13 inch head