We're about to buy almost 70 acres, 10 miles north of where we live now! It is pretty amazing land, and lots of it. Mostly flat where we'd build a new smaller house with a walk out basement and different heating. The rest of the acres we'd love to build cabins and trails and just enjoy wilderness! There was tons of moose tracks and feces all over the property. Makes for easy getting during moose hunting season!

Check out some forest pictures below. Looks normal, but there is a 20-30 foot drop we found walking today, that we would build our walk out basement too. Great clearing views, and maybe mountain! Also, there is a huge lake a 1/2 mile down the road where we'd canoe and fish! WOO! bye bye for now

Astros outfits, the rainbow kind.

It took a birthday to get me to blog.

Quotes from funny parents. And I too needed a birthday to blog! Well, a birthday to free load first and read other blogs, before I could throw words out here.

By the way, I've been trying repeatedly, different weeks to post comments on some fam blogs (namely pseudo ones) to no avail - I just need to be smarter than the log in thing I presume.

Speaking of pseudo ones, I wore a brown pseudobook tshirt to the regional bball games last weekend. The guy in the hospitality room chuckled and said, "Heh, ha, ....so did you have *P(h),,suede......dh....book put on your shirt b/c you're not an open book? heh, heh?....to be read.....you know....?"

I think I gasped, then definitely double took the pronunciation before I said, "heh, yeaup...hehheha".

"You know we're all open books to be read......at some point in our lives....I think....heh" - him

Then a couple hours later, I was to be confronted again, for YES I went to the hospitality room about 1,000 times for various food delectables and treats throughout the weekend, "Hey you put a shirt over your *P(h),,suede......dh....book" shirt, I see what you're doing....."

And what he saw was that I had overly used my "coach pass" to get bunches of brownies and bottled water all weekend. A long sleeve tshirt over a *P(h),,suede......dh....book" shirt wouldn't be able to cover up that atrocity.

CAUGHT!

Nope, what he saw was that not everyone's an open book, at different times of their life, or day, or hospitality room.

I'm into the final four brackets today! Good times! Tomorrow it starts, and yet we're headed to Anchorage to do whatever our hearts desire b/c we're teachers and we get paid tomorrow once and for all (for the bball season actually). WOW! Live it up and then it's back to grading for me. I've had a 3-4 foot pile of movie reviews and random classworks to grade since our first - flying - road trip to Bethel - what? 6 weeks ago?

I can't believe the 3rd quarter ended without my permission!

It is finished. Well, my JV coaching that is.

I'm looking forward to this week though, b/c of the Varsity regional tournament (skip school 2 days!) In Ohio its Sectionals, Districts, Regionals, State. In Alaska, just regionals and state. Not too many people and schools up here you know.

On another hand with this week, I have to go to a "dropout rate conference" all day Tuesday and then we'll be gone for bball! WHOA! Remember when I was a teacher? I don't ....and substitute teachers....notoriously bad and messy :( Oh well, SPRING BREAK STARTS THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON FINALLY!!!!

Today is a day for rest, laundry, tv, computer, dogs, music, and relaxing. Nice! A bit chilly lately with -26's going on. GROSS! Common place push for one last week of winter cold before the thawing starts. Note this: very sunny = very cold!

side bar: no bball tournament out of state this Christmas at all - athletic director scheduled too much else without the input of the new coach b/c I'm not the new coach yet - must wait till after regionals! ahhhh!

Hope you're all still enjoying life! bye bye now