The big trip to Alaska has begun. The house is clean and empty. The bus is clean and full.
Here we are at our first night’s stop.
We’re spending the night in the bus at Sandpipers on the 300 row. No longer do we have 4,219 miles to go to get to Fairbanks. We’ve cut that down to 4,218 ¾!
He had a tough year in gymnastics. His wrists were hurting enough they needed treatment. Six weeks in casts.
When the casts came off, he couldn’t do any exercises for another six weeks. Then he couldn’t do any high impact or high torque moves after that. All he could do was go to gym every day and watch and do conditioning.
So he didn’t compete at all the first half of the season. Then he only competed on three out of the six events for the second half. Then came the State Competition. He did all six events for the first time this year, and advanced to Regionals in Long Beach. He competed at Regionals and advanced to Nationals in Reno. He did the first round of all six events on Thursday at Nationals, but didn’t advance in All-around. He did advance in Floor though, and will compete again, just on Floor, on Sunday.
Go Alex!
We’ve all got yards full of grass here.
The kind of grass is called St Augustine. It looks good all year, requires very little water, but is a little goofy. It grows deep and is spongy to walk on.
It just builds on itself.
Here at the edge of our driveway it’s six inches deep!
It’s like walking through soft sand!
…and tomorrow is the Global Big Day!
Put any bird sightings into ebird ( www.ebird.com ) tomorrow, and you’ll be part of it. Last year the Global Big Day netted about three-quarters of all species found in North America. World-wide, there were sightings of two-thirds of all bird species on the planet on one day! All these sightings go into the ebird database for scientific purposes, and they’re available to the general public as well.
Happy birding.
We all moved our cars and golf carts offsite before they got stranded. We can hike through the mess to get to our cars, then go wherever we need to go. The road out the gate is still open.
It’s a little inconvenient packing the motorhome right now. We park the golf cart as close as we can get it, carry stuff out to it, then ferry it to the motorhome. A little slower process than normal, but not a big deal.
Heavy equipment.
There is a steamroller in the background, with spikes all on it for compacting the soil. “Steamroller” seems like such a dated term. I doubt there has been any steam involved for a lot of years. I wonder if there is a more current name.
And progress.
