Late Light Ending

Everyone knows that there's more day time in the summer than the winter, right? And a lot of people know that during the winter in most of Alaska and the Arctic Circle there is almost no light as well. And if there's almost no daylight in the Arctic during the winter, shouldn't that mean that during the summer there should be almost no night time?

If both are true (and they are) then that should mean that as it gets more toward summer and we get farther north, there's longer daylight. I knew that there was daylight up till at least 10:00 Pacific Time at the moment, but I never really thought about it. So when we turned off the lights in our bedroom last night around 8:45 and we could see around the room like it was starting toward evening but wasn't yet fully past afternoon...it kind of startled me a little bit.

It's getting annoying being sent to bed when it's still light out, but when we've got the longest daylight of our trip there will be light in the sky for at least 21 out of 24 hours a day!!!

arches,rock formations, and a nationial park

Something I've wondered recently is how many rock formations there are in the world that are called balanced rock. I mean how unimaginative is that for a name?

Anyway, today we went to Arches National Park at the edges of Moab, Utah.
Once there we saw balanced rock (what a surprise!), fiery furnaces, the "garden of Eden", the great wall, double arches, and the windows (both north window and south window). The arches were interesting, to say the least. When we were below the nourth window, mom took a couple of trick photos... in the first one it looks like I'm holding up the arch, right? Ihe second one is my real relitiveness. I bouldered a bit when we were under the south window.

Oh yeah, we saw the delicate arch as well...

boulder hurts...

so, you know that I've been bouldering indoors at the rec center right?

(if not please go to http://jakobwonders.blogspot.com/2009/02/bouldering.html before you read this.)

a couple of days ago I tried to do some outdoor bouldering on a boulder....
well i tried a couple of times to get a foothold on the curved base and managed it on like the 5Th try. i was standing on the side and trying to get a higher foot hold when my hands slipped off.
i fell and landed on my tailbone on the rockey ground....OUCH!!!

a little while afterward i was climbing again. but this time i was scaling sideward along a wall with lots of ledges for footholds and handholds....

BLUE SKYS!!!!!

you know how most people think that Colorado is really snowy and cold (which would usually mean gray skies), right?


The truth is a lot different, because actually it's really warm except for the occasional snowstorm, unless.... you are up in the mountains, then its REALLY snowy.



Now as for the skies, it's flipping amazing!!!


And the sky's the same bright blue as in the picture almost every day!!!!!

suggested blog

After my last blog one of the readers (no names are mentioned) suggested that I do a blog about what I could be used for if I were a rock, so here goes....


If I were a rock many of my uses would be determined by my size.

If I were a big rock (as in 3-4 ft. tall,5 ft. thick and 2 ft. wide for an example) some of my uses might be things like a outdoor bedrock, a stony jungle gym, or a personal outdoor cooling system.

Now if I were a medium rock (such as 1 ft. tall, 2 ft. thick and 6 in. wide for an example) uses of mine might include; a holder for mucky shoes, a seat for the great outdoors that would keep you clean/dry, a medium rock might also be used as a ice breaker for icy driveway.

as for a small rock (example: 1 in. tall, 1in. thick, and 1/2 in. wide) might be used these ways, it might be used as a mouth moisturizer, a tossing toy, something to practice your balance with (you try to balance it on top of your head).

RV set-up

Setting up an RV can be fun while at the same time worrying. Some reasons I worry are:

-That we'll over tip the trailer.
-That we'll smash the trailer into something when backing the trailer into the spot.
-that it will slide off the hitch and break the brake connector cord.

But it's not all bad... We can have a little fun when moving the RV to level it. (One of the things I enjoy is watching how the trailer moves. I like having responsibility. I like cranking the back stabilizer legs. I like showing Mom how to put the leveler blocks in the right place under the wheels---it's just like legos!)

All in all setting up an RV is okay

Rocky comments

The mountains of Colorado are an amazing sight. They are great when viewed from a distance but are a little scary up close. One of the most annoying things is the ear popping and light headedness from the altitude.