Major solar flare eruptions on the sun allowed the the lower 48 to see northern lights may 10, 2024. Hunter, PJ and I got up around 11:30 pm to see them. We heard they peaked around 2 am that night. By the next night they were all gone.
April 29. Skied with PJ today. Is was 24 degrees and dumping. Most definitely not spring skiing!
This past weekend Hunter graduated from his one year program at Montana Wilderness School of the Bible. It’s been a fast 9 months.
Abbie and I flew out to Montana and attended the graduation and then we drove home with Hunter in his rig. He will be home for a couple months getting surgery on his wrist + recovery.
We snapped a couple of cool picks of the windmills and farmland on the north central Oregon plateau on the way home.
Abbie and I are trying to grow some herbs for medicine and tea. We started our seedlings in little seedling greenhouses.
Annual Invitational Oregon Relays at Hayward Field at U of O in Eugene.
Noah ran in 3 races. The 4x400m varsity relay 800m varsity, and the 4x800 mixed relay.
Look at the size of this screen
Here are the 3 races
We went to Santa Clara, California for Abbie’s last cheer competition. They got third place. We had a great time LuLu, auntie Erin, Charlotte, and Anna met us there. We also got to meet up with aunt Katy in San Jose.
End of season cheer banquet. Abbie got the “hardest worker” award. So proud of you, Abbie!
Weekend in Portland for PACWest competition for Abbie. Her team did great!
I had picked up these knives for the boys and one for me from one of my favorite small online businesses - Thunder Crow/Creek Stewart.
A little rainy/snowy/cold today so PJ, Noah and I built our knives today. (Hunter will have to do his when he comes home at some point:).
Here is what comes in the kit:
We started by carving and sanding the handle.
We then uses the resin the fix the blade in the notch, did some burning on the handle to decorate, put some oil on the handles and did the final twine wrap to keep the blade in.
Presidents’ Day weekend 2024. Abbie had a cheer competition in Seaside so we decided to make a mini vacation out of the event!
We arrived Friday and watched the goonies with the kids Saturday we explored around the Astoria area to see some of the famous scenes from the movie.
We did some great hikes and walks along the coast. Here is deadman’s cove across the border in Washington.
Ecola state park near cannon beach
Seaside promenade & Seaside town
Cannon Beach - exploring the town (favorite place)
Haystack rock beach
Wreck of the Peter Iredale (fort Steven’s state Park)
Abbie’s competition
Our place (through Vacasa). Really liked it. 1 block off the beach in Seaside.
