Another vacation I'm not taking...
Lauren leaves early tomorrow morning for Hawaii. Hey! It seems like I just finished not taking a vacation, and now I'm not taking another. Lauren's grandmother (that would be my mother) goes each year and we're all excited that she'll be taking Lauren this year.
It's a nice break to get a little "alone" time for 8 days, but it's also a bit trying since Lauren really provides a lot of the fun and structure to my life these days. And I haven't been feeling to upbeat the last week...
Not that you've heard about my non-upbeatness. I was just telling Kinsey today that I hadn't posted for 2 weeks. I had been waiting to answer the questions about how long I could avoid posting and if I would ever post again. I decided tonight I should say something, so I guess that answers both the questions. As it turns out, it's only been 10 days since my last post, so 2 weeks was really an overstatement. Sorry, Kinsey. 
Anne Marie and I did a few more activities with Lauren this weekend in preparation for her vacation. Yesterday, we went to the Museum of Natural History. Lauren also helped me get a half yard of gravel to patch potholes in our driveway. That was fun!?
Then, today I was looking for a GeoCache to find and saw a new feature on their website about finding survey markers. Sounds kind of lame, but it appealed to me in some way and we were able to find one buried under just a few inches of soil next to a road in Eugene. You can see pictures here of Lauren with her digging tools next to our find and a close-up of the marker itself.
It's curious to find something that's been there unnoticed for 60 years. Reading the history for this and other markers in the National Geological Survey database really reminds one how things change over time. In 1945, this was a spot on a gravel road in a pasture near the river. Now, it's next to a road in a new housing development near a shopping center near a freeway.
I'm thinking about going out to find one near Veneta that has been around since 1903 and hasn't been checked on for 70 years. That could be cool. If you're into that kind of thing.
So you just showed up in the housing development and started digging up someone's yard? Cool!
Comment by Tvindy — 03/06/2006 5:07 PM
So Micheal, does this mean, you'll be able to start working on that book, you've been wanting to write, while everyone is out of the house this time?
Hehe, just kidding, here, now, now, don't start looking for the shovel, here.
When's the next planning stages for the next blogger get together in Eugene, my friend? Hint, hint, Tvindy, give me some help in coaxin' him, willya!
Comment by Jeff — 03/08/2006 2:09 AM
Yes, there needs to be a get-together every month, or it will die. I, of course, can never make it, being in Indiana and all. Just saying, though.
Comment by Tvindy — 03/08/2006 9:01 PM