This Blog Has MOVED :)

You can find this blog at the new location of .. or for you who need the whole link:

http://dragonroasted.com

See you there.

Oh, and by the way, there are LOTS of killer photo's there.

Pat

This is my favorite image from the hike below:

Right below here is the hike that this picture was taken on, and a lot of pictures, like 32 I think, that are all pretty cool.  I really like the one on the Devils Punchbowl, but this is still my favorite.  It is like you could walk into it.

See the rest right below:

K, now I am tired

Marymere Falls and Lake Crescent part 2

This truly is enough to tire me out. I need Pain-a-Trate, and I need it bad! They will probably here me snoring in Ontario.

Well, nobody has commented, sooooo...

So I think I will go ahead and test out Windows Live Writer (Beta) and see if it is "all that."

Seems pretty cool, to tell the truth. You just have to tell it the URL of your blog, and give it your user name and password, and it goes and hunts up the right type of interface, and allows you to insert images, links, even maps, right from the interface.

For example, we are planning on going here this weekend:

Spruce Trail, Lake Crescent, WA

While there I intend to take more pictures like:

Anyhow, a great thing about this is that when you are typing your blog, you don't have to worry about your blog timing out on you and losing all of the stuff you had typed in because you weren't quick enough. You also don't have to worry about the workaround to that, writing it in a Word processor and copy/pasting it into your blog. This is that solution without having to go through all of that.

Yep, it rocks.

Technorati tags: hiking, olympic national park, forest, lake, nature

Here is a great little Hole in the Wall

Today, we took a weee little (1:45) trek up Rialto Beach, near La Push, Washington, to visit the "Hole in the Wall" and other killer wild Pacific Coast scenery. Visit the album below:

Hole in the Wall at Rialto Beach

Jan 1, 2006 - 20 Photos

A little walk around the lake...

Today we took a little hike on the Spruce Trail, on Crescent Lake in the Olympic National Park. Pretty nice walk :)

Lake Crescent from the western Spruce Trail trailhead.

Hoh part 3

Back to the temperate rain forest of Washington we go! Yesterday we bought some "hikie shooooooooes" for Alex so that today, she could hike the entire Hall of Mosses trail with us. Then we plopped her in the pack and finished off the day by hiking the Spruce Trail. Nice :)

The Hoh river, fed by the Blue Glacier.

Check out the luminescence.
All of the trails are JUST like this.
There is Alex in her new Hikie Shooooooooes. This tree that they are next to is something like 300 feet long. You walk along side it for quite some time. 

Hoh Hoh Hoh part 2

Today was our first day out to the Hoh Rainforest, part of the Olympic National Park. WOW. This place flat out rocks! HUGE trees, awesome views, perfect trails (and it wasn't even all that rainy :)

Check out these pictures and the next post as well.




 

Hoh Hoh Hoh part 1

 

Meet our new neighbors

Ok, here goes.

I got a very cool job working in the place that we wanted to live, and so we needed to move. Call up the in-laws "we're moving, can you help drive a truck?" Sure they can. We start to pack. Daughter 1 gets sick, the small one. Then, daughter 2 gets sick. Then Charli starts to not feel so good. Uh-Oh.

Moving day arrives, Charli is wiped out sick, I have loaded about 1/4 of this 28' truck the previous day, and the in-laws pop over to help out. Everything is in boxes, the truck is out front, the second car is loaded on the carrier, we are commited.

Then I get sick. Not your normal start-to-feel-bad-but-it's-ok-cause-it-will-take-3-days-to-get-really-bad sortof sick, no nononononono. I felt a little woozie at 11am, and by 2pm I was on my back incapacitated. I lose all sense of time, and find out that I hadn't moved, I had been laying on the ground, for 7 hours while my wife and mother in-law drove to our new place, and my father in-law (64 years young) unbelievably finishes loading the truck (I still can't thank you enough Wes!). Oh my.

The good thing about this flu (if you can call it good) is that it was, at least for me, very quick. At 8pm I was good enough to eat more than crackers and Gatorade (had a little fruit, yummy), and at 11pm I was good enough to drive that huge truck and trailer 3 hours to our new place. Once there I felt like a grease spot on the bottom of one of those truck tires, but I did make it there.

Then, to bed at about 3am and up again at 4:30am for the infant, and back to work, no more sleep for me. That day, recovering wife and I unloaded the truck, and now sick father in-law (not due to us, apparently he caught this from his sick secretary at home just before they left to come help us) slept for 2 days while the angel that is my mother in-law helped with the recovering children.

So how does this picture come into the story. Well, the very next day, we were feeling well enough (after having the kids sleep together for the first time ever, no baby in our room :) :) ) to take a walk, so we headed out the door on a little 10 minute drive to Bogachiel State Park for some light hiking, and on our way this little family gathering of the furry kind is what we spotted.

"Holy mother of pearl" I says as I whip the little car around for a second look at somewhat less than the speed limit (stopped in the middle of the highway in fact).

If this is what we see on our first day here, I am pretty certain we are in for more suprises.

Pat (now in Forks)

Strong Family Resemblance

She looks just like her mother, nose in a book, AND just like her dad, total geek :) 

And a big welcome to the newest Teglia, Muse!

We did it again, we brought in another stray. We must have been humane, lonely, or insane, can't really decide which, but it doesn't matter. This poor cat had been roming the apartments for days, shortly after the neighbors who owned her moved out :( so we took her in.

Muse is very very mild mannered, doesn't get startled when Alex comes running up to her, and is an absolute lover. She is potty trained, and doesn't seem to have an objection to dry food. She isn't even all that afraid of the vacuum cleaner :)

Welcome Muse.

Touch a tree

This morning I started ranting while we were on our normal morning (6:30am) walk through our local park, when I came across a site of rubbish that should just not happen. I ranted, I raved, I took pictures. I will follow my wife's lead and not post those pictures because it is pretty ugly. I will instead post a picture of what Alex likes to do now, "I want to touch a tree?"

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What kindof cards are you dealing here?

Lion looks a little forlorn about his hand.
For a little while now, after watching Veggie Tales "Jonah" she has been playing cards, and pretty much just being interested in anything cardlike. She loves my old business cards and whenever we go to Costco, guess who gets to be the cardholder? 

What do you mean "Like father..."

I have no idea where she might have picked up the habit of photography :) 

Washington State Parks

The state parks are just totally beautiful, and they are everywhere. This one is Kitsap Memorial State Park, about 8 minutes from our place, and has it all. There are hiking trails like this one, bike trails, ocean frontage with alot of beach (covered in shells) and even these really cute little cabins (picture coming after our next trip there).

There is, of course, a play are for the kids, and Alex had a greeeeeaaaat time sliding down the big girls slide. Biggest slide she has been on to date. And lots of running around space.

There is even a very cool, large, log structure there that looks as if it has been around for 100 years.

The picture that Alex took

Yep, just the other day, after experimenting with an older broken digital camera, I let Alex try her hand with a real digital picture maker. Here is the result!

Not bad, and she obviously likes to take pictures of her sister :)

Pat 

Where is Morgan??? :)

She was really being terribly cute today. She kept hiding behind the cloth, then popping out and giggling. Has her sister in histerics too.

What a nice morning :)
 

OMG, I AM THREE!

 

Sprained Brain

Alex looks like maybe she has had enough hard science for one day.

I can write a better book than THIS!

 Where as Alex seems to be following the geek/scientist role, Morgan appears to be following in Mothers footsteps :)

NEWSFLASH: Baby A. Tention Captured!

Caught on film (ok pixels) was the ellusive Baby A. Tention, fixated, captivated by the twirling frog toy :)

Ok, not much to say today, maybe more later. 

Collage This!

It had been a while since my last collage of photo's (made easy by Picasa2 by the way :) so here is a pile of recent Alex and Morgan pictures! 

New Digs

Oh yeah, I have a new (to me) white spindle crib now, and OOOHHHHHHH am I happy to have room to stretch (and kick and bounce and situp without falling out and grin grin grin :). 

Look, I am an Isosceles Triangle

I just love photo opportunities like this one :) She is sitting up all by herself now, just how she gets there is somewhat funny :)