11-11 Ramblings, Catch up

So today's blog is a lot about not having the shots of my bruises be the first thing that pop's up on my blog. Cindy left for Chicago last Sunday. She'll be back on Wednesday, so it was a quick trip. Skye and I have had several little adventures, ranging from a day at the zoo to check out the new gorilla habitat, (a disappointment we all thought), and a fiasco involving the monumental task of cleaning a rented brick saw, (too much to get into), to preparing to help Cindy out on her show doing a ...(can't tell you, much top-secretness on Cindy's movie, Eagle Eye. Oops can I say the title?) and AYSO soccer(they lost this week, so sad)


A beautiful hawk has taken to hanging out in the neighbor's tree.


Skye and Micah checking out the one gorilla that graced us with an audience, the other four were apparently too busy to make it to the gala event.


Skye, Micah and River as condors


I can fly.

The evolution of a bruise

The Aftermath of the Muddy Buddy

One might think that there's not much going on, a slow news day as it were or that this has something to do with the writer's being on strike, but it's really just my fascination with the changing colors of this major bruise. It looks worse than it feels.


Monday 11-05-2007

Tuesday 11-06-2007

Wednesday 11-07-2007

Muddy Buddy Results

Results were posted and we did alright. Not great, not bad. Pretty much right in the middle of the pack. In our age group there were 49 teams that finished. The winners ran it in 37 minutes and 29 seconds. We were 25 with 53 minutes 41 seconds. Interestingly the team that came in behind us at 26 was 1minute and 20 seconds behind us. Less than 2 minutes seperated the 10 teams that came in before us. Next year we'll break the top ten.

Muddy Buddy

Yet another crazy fun race event, the Muddy Buddy. And again Kip Haynes steps up as my racing partner at the last minute. I've been wanting to run this event for a while now and it turned out to be a lot of fun.



The race; 1 teammate starts on a bike, the other starts running, 2-minutes behind. There are 4 obstacles on the course, each serving as a transition point as well when teammates trade biking/running responsibilities. It was a tough one to figure out a good pace, at least for me. I went out pretty strong and was dying by the end, actually grateful to do something as simple as crawl/swim in mud.

One of the obstacles that I "went out strong on" was the balance beams. You know there are like five balance beams alongside one another, a turn around moment for Richard Gere in "An Officer and a Gentleman". Anyway, I started to lose my balance, my legs were a little wobbly from the bike, so I jumped over to the beam next to me, no problem. Oops lost balance again, just jump back. Not so fast, I missed and landed hard on the beam with my thigh, luckily not my ribs, they would of cracked like toothpicks. My leg however could withstand the blow. I shook myself off, told the race officials I was fine, no I didn't need an ambulance and took off running.


This mark is 11" by 2.5", swollen and growing more purple as the hours pass.


We made it!!!


I am going to fire my photographer. Just kidding Cindy.


Their showers consisted of around 20 sets of hoses. This only got more interesting as the day went on.





Check it out. We've got video.

Happy Halloween

We ditched the tree costume. (I have no idea what we're going to do with it. Cindy suggested using it as our Christmas tree this year. I suppose that's the environmentally sound fiscally wise thing to do and it would certainly be different, we'll see.) We scrambled the day before to get a new costume.

My favorite little devil, Skye out trick or treating.





Skye and Amandla checking out their goodies.

Tru as Wednesday

A few days earlier, an amazing sunrise. One of the only good things to come out of the fires.

GOODBYE OCTOBER, WELCOME NOVEMBER