is there a limit to how many pics I can post?

Wow, if there is a limit, I haven't reached it yet. Unfortunately they posted in the opposite order than I would have liked but that's okay, I'm not going to redo it.

This is on Antelope Island. Its a nest of baby birds outside of the visitor's center.


Here is Linwood walking down the street after we went to the beach. We were sick of walking through the sand so we took the road. And that's a tumble weed.


The desolate beach of The Great Salt Lake.


You can see where the water is and outside the right of the picture is where the road is. That's why we got sick of walking through the sand.


A "self pic" that Linwood took. He centers them so well. I'm smashing my face against him to get out of the sun.


Here I am doing what I came to do, get in the water.


These next few pictures are to show the bug (insect?) population at the lake. The gray cloud in front of Linwood is made up of brine flies moving out of his way.


He's kicking some more out of the way in this one.


This is the spot on the ground of flies before he kicked them in the last picture. It makes more sense if they were in the right order.


All of that dark area is flies.


Brine flies on a rock.


There are little orangey things in this picture, those are brine shrimp (sea monkeys).


I'm standing in the middle of some rocks.


Now I'm walking.


Here's where I'm about to go in. Note the flies that I have to go through first.


We brought a lunch to eat on the beach and this is Linwood's shirt and the area around him while he was eating. It was a good sandwich though.


I believe the dark areas that are washed up are dead brine shrimp and flies. You can also see that all the little dark spots are flies.


Okay, this is the day before when we were playing rock band with the Bennetts. We make a very good band.


Here is the day before that when we went to Oktoberfest at SnowBird with the Bennetts.


At Oktoberfest. Heidi told us to make loving faces.


This was in the pavilion where we ate German food and listened to polka music.


Here is Linwood's first professional haircut by our friend Delenna.


A view that we might miss when we move. Its the sun setting at the end of our hallway.


This is the recreation of an old picture.


The Mollies


Some Mollies and some Mollies Faithful (the spouse club).


Canning peaches!


This was on Utah Lake a few weeks ago with Burk and his boat.


Me. On a boat. In a lake.


That was tough. I hope it isn't too confusing since its backwards.

*this has nothing to do with me

Movie List Summer 2009

Star Trek
Up
Drag Me To Hell
Year One
Paper Heart
More Than a Game
Adam
Whatever Works
Julie and Julia

Before we leave

The plan is to move back east in a year but before we go I'd like to do everything on this list so I will have had the full Utah experience.

hot springs
this is the place park
ensign peak
swim the great salt lake
goblin valley
float the provo river
copper mine
sun tunnels
sundance film festival
stay a night at that place in midway
sleep at the ranch
eat more mexican food
jazz game
beehive tea room
eat at the soup kitchen
drive Mt. Lebo loop
eat at cotton bottom

I think we will be pretty busy with all of that but I'm open to more suggestions. I did get to see a Sundance movie last week and had what I'm pretty sure is the typical Sundance experience. It was mostly disappointing and the movie that we saw (El General) was extremely boring.

Vegetables!

First, do you know how many blogs I write but don't post? A lot.

I'm making a vegetable tray for my bro Jake and his future wife Karleigh (its for their wedding). For most people, this would just be chopping up some veggies but I have something pretty amazing in the works (in my head). Because this has been on my mind for a while, I've been sorting vegetables out into colors so that I can 'paint' what I want the display to look like. Here are the colors and vegetables that I've thought of. I know that some aren't appropriate for a vegetable tray but you don't have to be picky when you brainstorm.

Red
tomatoes
red bell peppers
radishes

Orange
carrots
orange peppers
pumpkin
sweet potatoes

Yellow
some squash
corn
peppers

Green
broccoli
leafy things
asparagus
celery
olives
cucumbers
artichokes
bean sprouts
peas

Blue
turns out that blue isn't a popular color in the veggie world or really the food world for that matter. Check out this article. So maybe its a Darwin thing and once upon a time there were a lot of blue veggies but nobody wanted to eat them.


Purple
eggplant
beets
cabbage
beans
onions

Black
olives

White
mushrooms
cauliflower
onions
jicama
corn
turnips



I confess, I wrote this list out earlier today but I left it at work. Who will find it, and what will they think?

99 Things

Things you've already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you haven't done and don't want to - leave in plain font

1. Started your own blog.
2. Slept under the stars.
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii.
5. Watched a meteor shower.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disneyland/world.
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis.
10. Sang a solo. I hope that some day I will be able to sing well enough to want to do a solo.
11. Bungee jumped. No desire. At all.
12. Visited Paris.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch.
15. Adopted a child.
16. Had food poisoning.
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
18. Grown your own vegetables.
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France.
20. Slept on an overnight train.
21. Had a pillow fight.
22. Hitch hiked.
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill.
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb.
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Run a marathon. Again, not even the slightest desire.
28. Ridden a gondola in Venice.
29. Seen a total eclipse.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset.
31. Hit a home run. I'd have a very proud husband
32. Been on a cruise.
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors. Sweden and Southern California
35. Seen an Amish community (I'm from Pennsylvania)
36. Taught yourself a new language. This is the year.
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing.
40. Seen Michelangelo's David in person
41. Sung Karaoke. Its never fun.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt.
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant. But only because someone did it for us first.
44. Visited Africa.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight.
46. Been transported in an ambulance.
47. Had your portrait painted.
48. Gone deep sea fishing.
49. Seen the Sistene chapel in person.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Heidi, why is this so France related?
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling.
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud.
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre. Western PA loves their drive-in theaters.
55. Been in a movie. Apparently when I was little I was in a movie.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China (I think I'd be okay if I died without going to Asia.)
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout cookies.
62. Gone whale watching.
63. Gotten flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood. I haven't, because my blood isn't healthy but I might some day. It just makes me queasy to think about.
65. Gone sky diving. No way.
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp. I went to Germany with my family, we were near Dachau but we couldn't find it and felt bad asking locals where it was so we never really went.
67. Bounced a check.
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt.
73. Stood in Times Square.
74. Toured the Everglades.
75. Been fired from a job. It still hurts a little.
76. Seen the Changing of the Guard in London.
77. Broken a bone.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person. I don't remember, but I think I did when I was little.
80. Published a book. Definitely something that I'd like to do.
81. Visited the Vatican.
82. Bought a brand new car. Never will. (If ever I own a brand new car, it will be because I won it.)
83. Walked in Jerusalem.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper. Caption: "Brook Haglund Good Listener" This was over a picture of me at story hour when I was four sucking my thumb and listening to the story. I wasn't a thumb sucker at all but I saw a camera and figured that I should pose.
85. Read the entire Bible.
86. Visited the White House. I've seen the outside. That counts.
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating.
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life. (I don't want to do this, not that I want someone to die but I just don't ever want to be in a position where it is up to me.)
90. Sat on a jury. I really want to.
91. Met someone famous.
92. Joined a book club.
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Had a baby.
95. Seen the Alamo in person. They even took me on a tour of the basement...
96. Swum in the Great Salt Lake. I may have done this when I was younger but I'm definitely going to do it before I move.
97. Been involved in a law suit.
98. Owned a cell phone.
99. Been stung by a bee.

Church Appropriate

You tell me. Which of these things are appropriate for church?

Is it okay to:
tickle?
make out?
sing hymns?
clip your toenails?
cross stitch?
kiss?
back scratch?
pray?
lay down?
clip your fingernails?
give yourself a haircut?
sit quietly and reverently?
bring really noisy kid toys and dance to the sounds that they make in stead of turning them off?

I know, its tricky!