Joda turned 13 at the beginning of May. I think that is close to 90 in human years! She still has most of her teeth, and she likes to use them on treats from the butcher shop. Here she is with her birthday treat for this year.
Archive for June, 2010
Joda’s birthday present
Posted in Home, tagged dogs on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Caves at Lava Beds
Posted in state of Jefferson, tagged Jefferson, national_parks on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About 45 minutes south of Klamath Falls, just over the California border, is Lava Beds National Monument. It’s a strange, flat landscape dotted with cinder cones and littered with dark brown basalt rock. When you look a little closer, you realize that it is also littered with lava tube caves. In my opinion, the caves [...]
Summer duty station
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crater_Lake on June 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Crater Lake Science & Learning Center, aka the historic Superintendent’s residence, is my summer office. The library windows are directly above the open garage door. The snow should melt down in two or three weeks, but until then I will be enjoying my sweaters and scarves again!
Correction
Posted in state of Jefferson, tagged Crater_Lake on June 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so I was a little overzealous in my post about the state of Jefferson. It wasn’t until I read some comments thanking me for the science lesson that I started thinking about what I had done. What I did was unscientific, and unfitting for a journalist or teacher (or even blogger) of any kind. [...]
Forty
Posted in Home, tagged Home on June 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Forty. 40. The big four-oh. That’s me now! I had a nice birthday celebration. I had to work and was busy with that, and it poured down rain almost all day. But in the evening, we tried out the new restaurant in town (homemade pasta, sauce, gnocchi, and cannoli! yum), then came home for homemade [...]
