The Greer Family

Sam wrote a Christmas wish list. Here it is, with original punctuation:

Shoe phone! [like in Get Smart]
Real Light Saber!
My Sims Wii Kingdom!
Car’s!
Brown Horse webkinz!
Lil’ Kinz chickade!
Scoter! [scooter]
T.V.!
Little Laptop!
Video and picture camera!
Dormax DDR!
New bed!
desk!
Nice nes gun! [niceness gun - an invention of Sam and Izzy. Not in current production]
Back ogone! [no idea what this one is]

On Saturday, Bruce and I (and Jax and Lexi) hiked up to the f tree. On the way up, there was more snow than I expected, so it was one step at a time, so Bruce lead the way. The way down was pretty much straight down stepping through the snow. At the top, we were in a cloud, so we couldn’t see much at all.

Also included in this album are pictures of Jax digging in the snow. I am trying out picasa web. If you click on the picture above, you get the picasa web stuff. If you want the old stuff click here.

As I was falling asleep last night, I saw this bug, a Jerusalem cricket, running across the floor. Being the human being that I am, I put a box over it. When the box started to move, I put something heavy on it. Well, I forgot about the box and when the kids went downstairs they uncovered the bug much to their surprise.

Pokie got herself a new kayak. It is an Eddyline Fathom. It is a sea kayak as opposed to our other kayaks that are simple recreational tandems. Much nimbler and faster. Now she just has to get better so that she isn’t the limiting factor. Sam was my photographer.

Another Halloween has come and gone. This year wasn’t as crowded (a little rain), so we only had about 1000 trick or treaters. We had the usual open house as well and everyone brought too much food.

Wonderdog Jax treed a bear this weekend. He was down behind Bruce’s house barking his head off. When I finally got there, he was about 10 yards from a bear at the base of a tree. I first thought it was a cub and mama would be there soon, so I got Jax back in the house. We all went back out and took pictures and watched the bear for a while. He was obviously freaked out and after a while he ended up going WAY up in the tree.

I finally got to go to Interbike this year. It is the trade show for bike shop owners. I ended up just going to Vegas for the day and wondering around the show floor. It was really neat. All (almost) of the names in cycling were there. I spent a lot of time talking to the guys from Xtracycle. This was while I was building mine. Just took a few pictures of a couple of the things I saw there. Next year, I want to go back for demo days.

We picked the kids up at Skylake today. They had some pictures from their time there. Katy’s pictures are here. Margaret’s pictures are here.

Margaret and I in one kayak, Elizabeth and Sam in the other, made the trip from D. L. Bliss State Park to Emerald Bay. We stopped and had lunch in the Tea House on Fannette Island. After that, we went to the mainland and swam a bit. It was a 9.2 mile round trip. By far, the longest trip any of us have done in the Kayak. Margaret did really well paddling on the way there and she took most of the pictures. You can see a map of the trip on the Rusty’s Rides site.

Roy and I went up the canyon and behind Twin Peaks where the Tahoe Rim Trail meets the Pacific Crest Trail, then down through Alpine Meadows. The walk along the PCT was absolutely amazing. Either walking along ridge where we could see down to the lake, or down just below looking out through Granite Chief Wilderness. We will have to figure out how to do this hike so that we don’t have to walk back through Alpine Meadows. A map of the hike and some details can be see here.