February 1st through 6th, 2010

Alrighty folks, this weekly updating is MOSTLY awesome, except that  I have been using Abigail’s camera and it resets the time/date that tags the image data…so keeping days straight is wretched :D I will do the best I can to keep it straight.
February 1st was my mother’s birthday, folks, she is officially 36 this year…(just kidding, it’s a joke, she skipped her 36th birthday and decided to be 37 twice).
OY! It is also maddening that due to operator error, my phone was saving my images to the phone and not the mini sd card, and those stinking images have to be moved one by one to the card! GRRRR!
So, February 1, I find myself at Wal Mart after work, in thick fog…because we were out of milk at home AGAIN. Camden always gets the blame for drinking the entire gallon in one day, but he was innocent this time, he wasn’t home :)

February 2, after picking Cam up from the pool, I made him show me all of his ribbons. He got three 1sts, three 2nds and two 3rd place ribbons! Amazing boy! His fly is AMAZING now and we were all very impressed with his 200 IM and hope to see him swim that again! No ‘A’ times, but we weren’t exactly prepared to go to state yet anyhow. He did an awesome job at this meet and we are proud of him!

Wednesday, this photo is basically how I felt. Fighting off some kind of icky tummy bug for a couple of days left me wiped out. We met with Mr. Hinkel, left Camden’s computer there in the process of being formatted to Linux and updating drivers so he could get himself *back online*, however it stays in Mr. Hinkel’s room until Camden begins to show some effort in producing some kind of work. Camden still claims he doesn’t remember that part of the deal.  Remembered or not, that’s the deal (and all of the unreasonable, mean, brutal parents of teens say AMEN).

Alright folks, the dude in the sailboat is CRAZY! It’s cold, it’s raining…and that’s Kurt. We caught him taking half a day off on Wednesday (we were on our way home from Resource Link) to sail the boat to the California Street public boat ramp to pull the Zipporah out of the water for a while. Seriously, blowing rain, we had to run down to the casino parking lot so we could find a place to stop the car and take some photos – his location when we first spotted him was in the area where all of the commercial boats, barges and tugs were, and on the 101 side, there was no place to pull over and flag him down.
Thursday, that would have been the 4th, and I remember having gone in to Gino’s at 3:00AM to roll dough, suspecting that it wouldn’t be there, and guess what…it wasn’t. So instead of rolling dough, I made dough – scared the daylights out of one of the Register Guard newspaper guys on my way out – went home and went back to sleep. Dropped Cam at swimming around 3 PM and waited around for him at Gino’s until Dad called and said he’d pick him up and keep him for the weekend, he had some chores to do. SO, back home and back to bed (to the best of my knowledge).

Friday, PAYDAY. Okay, well, I nearly forgot to pick up my check. I rolled three tubs of dough and piled the car to leave for Lincoln City for the weekend. Hard to tell if we took photos on Friday because Abby’s camera time/date RESETS every time you shut the stupid thing off (yes, need to replace an internal battery because that totally BUGS me).  This suspiciously looks like me, on a last minute check of the *do I have everything we need* visual scan, before we head off toward town/gino’s/grandpa’s and then LINCOLN CITY…3 hours later than I had wanted to be leaving. Whatever. We got out of there and Angie knows about me and my straggling.
AND, I read several chapters in a really cool book, Rowing to Latitude, by Jill Freston that Mr. Hinkel suggested (and loaned me). It’s awesome so far…resulting in my not going to sleep last night until early Saturday morning.
Then for Saturday, February 6th…we have this STELLAR photo of Angie’s arm/hand, some blurry rocks covered with mussels and a wave that you can’t see that caused the chaos. Okay, so I knew lying on rocks only exposed at low tide to get a photo of incoming waves was a little risky, but Angie was already soaked anyhow after trying out a teeter totter rock unknowingly, so what did we have to lose except for a handful and pocket full of electronic equipment. UM…wish I had a nice wide angle, that would have been MUCH more fun than cell phone camera. At any rate, nothing broken. Just a little spray on us. SO, we tried some more :D 




(those are sandwiches they be eatin’)

November 2, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

Beautiful day on the boardwalk, secretly wished I were sailing away on that vessel instead of picking up lunch and going back to the school to eat...but the sushi was mmmm.....mmmm....delicious!! Maybe next time stow away WITH the sushi :D

September 18, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

Reflections of cool stuff on water are fun. Kurt was able to take Kord, Grant, Abby and Cam sailing - and when they got back and a log was blocking the path to where they tie up, and I was shouting from the boardwalk, LOG!! LOG in FRONT of the BOAT - they all looked at me like I was a moron...then they rounded the corner and scrambled...to lessen the impact from hitting the log. It's all good - they hit it but no damage (except to Kurt's knee because he put his foot out there to help...not sure if it was to help stop or if he tried to kick the log...*sore* subject :o) )

September 11, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

She went sailing!! He bribed her with candy...the boat is named after her and she has been reluctant to go sailing because water over the rails isn't FUN to her...it's scary! :)

August 15, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

Cool sky eh?

August 10, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

This cool set-up is a DREDGING operation - to keep our shipping channel safe and open. They scoop out the muck that gets carried down with the river flow and in with the tidal flux - dump it onto the barge - then drag the barge 10 miles or so out to sea and dump it...then repeat :)

July 25, 2009 - Living For Jesus is FUN!!

SHE'S IN THE WATER (Brother and Sister King & Little Brother & Sister {adam & karissa} King - I hope you see this post - CUZ HE FINALLY GOT A BOAT INTO THE WATER!!!! Hooray!

Sailboats look SO MUCH COOLER on water than they do, well, say, on a rusty trailer next to the shop behind your humble abode. :)

FUNNY STORY OF THE DAY:
Camden was helping to dock and tie up the boat today so Scott could get off of the boat and Becky, Alaina and I could get on...

Well, if you are a 13-year-old boy, and there are beautiful young ladies around, YOU MUST SHOW OFF. So he did. He did a super cool jump from boat to dock - landed beautifully and he was very charming. For about 30 seconds. Okay, maybe a whole minute, cuz' that's how long my back was turned and the next thing I know, boat is drifting off and I see Cam sort of drift right off the dock with it...into the water. He TOTALLY tried to pull the boat, with sails up, in toward the dock - while sort of lying on the dock...and it sort of just took him with it. Now, all of you nicey nice people who are going to be shocked and horrified at this point, please don't keep reading down to the part where we were all laughing our fool heads off because then you will think we're mean.

So, here's the kid, hanging from the boat, which slopes, well, in a manner making it difficult to pull him in. The water's COLD and we're all laughing and trying to figure out what fool thing he's tried to do to get himself into this predicament. Scott really was trying to grab and pull him in, but boat is still kinda' spinning around because IT WAS HIS JOB TO BAG THE HEAD SAIL that he left half up when he jumped to the dock to show off (yes, it was classy, cool, and in all other ways cool boy maneuver)...so boat starts coming back toward the dock and I feared my handsome young man would be smashed - and he nearly was, because he couldn't decide if he wanted to continue hanging off of the boat that still wasn't secured to the dock OR if he wanted to hang off of the dock - so for a few seconds he was between the two telling me "MOM, Pull me up!" And I COULDN'T because he had an arm on the boat and one on the dock and, well, we were still laughing.

This whole episode *might* have lasted 3 minutes. Yes he was cold and wet when we retrieved him, however, he wasn't going to die. No hypothermia drama or anything like that. Fortunately NO CELL PHONE IN POCKET either (phew, i asked as he was gaining his composure hanging from the side of the boat as he was drifting away).

And THAT was when he'd decided he'd sailed enough for today and left his deck hand position in favor of riding with Scott to Coos Bay where we were going to end and moore the boat - but didn't have a vehicle down there yet. So he and Scott took my car and met us on the boardwalk with Kord and Becca - and none of us girls (me, Becky, Alaina & Abby) went overboard. Abby did get all wet though, and such is sailing.

April 7, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

My girls playing on the boardwalk while we were having lunch with Daddy - he's been working at the dock in town on some tug boats the last few weeks instead of at the shipyard :D

March 28, 2009 - Living For Jesus is Fun

Kurt got to work on his boat a bit today - right before the downpour!