Vacation @ MindSay 
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The long and winding roads
Well, it went quick, and was a mix of weird and wonderful...leaning more towards the wonderful side. But all good....and weirdly wonderful...things must come to an end.
This has been a great experience though, one I will be repeating again, and again probably. It's nice not having to follow any schedule, time limits, or the dreaded small bickering with another during vacation. It is however, also quite lonely at times. This was especially felt when seeing so many groups and couples on the beach. Guess theres give n take in everything huh.
So, I took a few last pics of this little, beautiful undisturbed part of the world, and here they are.
I have had a few e-mails, IMs, and replies here saying they like my pictures, so I decided to be a bit of a artsy photographer (wellll, a artsy, small digital camera havin' photographer! :p) I took a couple of them in B&W and even played around with exposure times. But, again, non have been re-touched.
1) The General Store in the heart of 'downtown' Cannon Beach. It's the only grocery, household items, etc. type store around. Something straight out of a old western cowboy movie! So cool. 2) Right place, right time for yet another breath taking sunset! (the 2 small pillars are called 'the needles' 'cuz they're right by Haystack Rock)3) Haystack Rock (the 3rd largest monolith in the world!) My 1st attempt at B&W pics. Not bad eh? 4) the 2nd attempt. annnd 5) My fave picture. Another early morning shot with fog on the beach.
This has been a great experience though, one I will be repeating again, and again probably. It's nice not having to follow any schedule, time limits, or the dreaded small bickering with another during vacation. It is however, also quite lonely at times. This was especially felt when seeing so many groups and couples on the beach. Guess theres give n take in everything huh.
So, I took a few last pics of this little, beautiful undisturbed part of the world, and here they are.
I have had a few e-mails, IMs, and replies here saying they like my pictures, so I decided to be a bit of a artsy photographer (wellll, a artsy, small digital camera havin' photographer! :p) I took a couple of them in B&W and even played around with exposure times. But, again, non have been re-touched.
1) The General Store in the heart of 'downtown' Cannon Beach. It's the only grocery, household items, etc. type store around. Something straight out of a old western cowboy movie! So cool. 2) Right place, right time for yet another breath taking sunset! (the 2 small pillars are called 'the needles' 'cuz they're right by Haystack Rock)3) Haystack Rock (the 3rd largest monolith in the world!) My 1st attempt at B&W pics. Not bad eh? 4) the 2nd attempt. annnd 5) My fave picture. Another early morning shot with fog on the beach.
Summer of 2008
Oh my! I haven't written here since June 4th! WOW! Got busy I guess and didn't have time to do much. I'm going to try and get caught up now! Way too much happened over the summer to get everything in, but here goes:
Vacation was ok. Went to a resort in West Virginia, just myself and Husband. For our anniversary mostly.Anniversary number 27! We stopped at Antique malls and shops along the way. Had fun doing that. It was cooler up in the mountains of West Virginia. One night we caught the full moon and went to a pond to lay back and watch it rise and light the sky up, and see a million stars shining brightly. It was a bit chilly that night. But it was awesome.We stayed at this resort for 4 days and 3 nights free of charge if we took their little tour. It was worth it to stay free!The place was nice, but I wouldn't want to live there! With gas prices this year, we couldn't afford to do much of anything. We used 1 tank there and 1/2 tank back. At filling my van up for $85 dollars a pop, that was expensive enough! We bought some antiques, but not a lot. We both were out of work for the whole week in July, and we traveled all over western North Carolina to some Antique malls we had been wanting to go to.
This a picture of the sun setting from our room at the resort through the woods.Nice.
Here's some of the full moon pictures. My camera didn't quite capture the best of
it!
I guess you need a faster lens to capture the fullness and brightness of it.My camera made it look tiny, and it was so huge!
Here's one of the moon in the sky and its reflection on the pond surface. It's pretty cool. Looks like two moons!
The other one is a close up I tried to do.
One morning in late July we got up on a Saturday morning and spied a deer in the back yard. Not unusual as we live in woods and woods surround us, and we live near the Yadkin River.Here's a couple pictures of it:
It wasn't afraid of our dog, and the dog was just sitting and watching it!
One Sunday in early August we went to Cracker Barrel to eat after church, and this strange car was in the parking lot! It had a license tag, so it was driven there! Check it out:
Pretty Cool hUH? People were in the parking lot and taking pictures of it left and right! So low to the ground! Low Rider!
Below here is a picture I took today, August 27th, on Lasater Rd, in Clemmons NC at the water wheel. The wheel wasn't turning because of the huge volume of water, it was awesome! The lake was overflowing the dam and the little bridge I was standing on was shaking as the water roared under it! I took a video too. Hope to get it posted soon! We about drowned today! Some areas got 12 plus inches of rain. We have about 7" in our rain gauge! Areas are under flood warnings and watches. We had tornadoes in the area also. My radio at work kept going off with the warnings and such this morning. It was raining very hard.
It's taking forever for the video to upload. I will post it tomorrow! For now I need to sign off! Will catch up some more tomorrow!
Vacation was ok. Went to a resort in West Virginia, just myself and Husband. For our anniversary mostly.Anniversary number 27! We stopped at Antique malls and shops along the way. Had fun doing that. It was cooler up in the mountains of West Virginia. One night we caught the full moon and went to a pond to lay back and watch it rise and light the sky up, and see a million stars shining brightly. It was a bit chilly that night. But it was awesome.We stayed at this resort for 4 days and 3 nights free of charge if we took their little tour. It was worth it to stay free!The place was nice, but I wouldn't want to live there! With gas prices this year, we couldn't afford to do much of anything. We used 1 tank there and 1/2 tank back. At filling my van up for $85 dollars a pop, that was expensive enough! We bought some antiques, but not a lot. We both were out of work for the whole week in July, and we traveled all over western North Carolina to some Antique malls we had been wanting to go to.
This a picture of the sun setting from our room at the resort through the woods.Nice.
Here's some of the full moon pictures. My camera didn't quite capture the best of
it!
I guess you need a faster lens to capture the fullness and brightness of it.My camera made it look tiny, and it was so huge!
Here's one of the moon in the sky and its reflection on the pond surface. It's pretty cool. Looks like two moons!
The other one is a close up I tried to do.
One morning in late July we got up on a Saturday morning and spied a deer in the back yard. Not unusual as we live in woods and woods surround us, and we live near the Yadkin River.Here's a couple pictures of it:
It wasn't afraid of our dog, and the dog was just sitting and watching it!
One Sunday in early August we went to Cracker Barrel to eat after church, and this strange car was in the parking lot! It had a license tag, so it was driven there! Check it out:
Pretty Cool hUH? People were in the parking lot and taking pictures of it left and right! So low to the ground! Low Rider!
Below here is a picture I took today, August 27th, on Lasater Rd, in Clemmons NC at the water wheel. The wheel wasn't turning because of the huge volume of water, it was awesome! The lake was overflowing the dam and the little bridge I was standing on was shaking as the water roared under it! I took a video too. Hope to get it posted soon! We about drowned today! Some areas got 12 plus inches of rain. We have about 7" in our rain gauge! Areas are under flood warnings and watches. We had tornadoes in the area also. My radio at work kept going off with the warnings and such this morning. It was raining very hard.
It's taking forever for the video to upload. I will post it tomorrow! For now I need to sign off! Will catch up some more tomorrow!
So far Solo good
The solo travels at Cannon Beach OR are going fairly well!
Where to begin? Ah, the train ride down to Portland Oregon. I got to the station about 40 min. before the train departed, n saw a huge line to board had already formed. So, I was a bit bummed. Well when I finally boarded, the car I was in, it was packed full! Not 1 seat. So, I decided to venture to the others. I reached the 1st class coach, with it's plush wide seats, located right before the dining car, and saw it was empty. Oh yes, you guessed it, I sat my lil ass right down! When a conductor came by I showed him my ticket n explained that car was full and I couldn't find a seat. I asked if it was ok to sit here...guess what...he said "sure. we overbooked the other car". Ohhhh hellls yes! I rode in first class for a regular fare! :) nice begining to the trip I'd say.
My 2 hr. drive to Cannon Beach from Portland was really nice. Long open roads, great scenery, and a bunch of music. Life was peachy. The rental place gave me a '06 Toyota Celica, It's a pretty nice car!
My cottage is as cute as it looked in the web page pics. It's only $90 a night, for your own cottage! It's super small, but perrrfect for 1-2 persons. No next door noises, no kids running down a hallway at night, just a large room with a tv, dvd, microwave, small fridge, a big comfy bed, and a fairly good size bathroom. Oh, and it's just 1 block from the beach!
I have done 2 early morning meditation sittings on the beach and both were simply amazing. To wake up early and literally be the only one on a large 8 mile beach, is quite a surreal experience! I had brief moments of loneliness as I thought about my ex being with me last year, but I feel much better now that I made the effort to face it.
Ok, enough rambling already. Here's some pics as promised. It's me at my cottage behind me, a sunset taken my first night there (and to add to the beauty, I didn't re-touch any of these pics!), and a view of a completely empty beach...with morning fog resting right on the beach ground.
Where to begin? Ah, the train ride down to Portland Oregon. I got to the station about 40 min. before the train departed, n saw a huge line to board had already formed. So, I was a bit bummed. Well when I finally boarded, the car I was in, it was packed full! Not 1 seat. So, I decided to venture to the others. I reached the 1st class coach, with it's plush wide seats, located right before the dining car, and saw it was empty. Oh yes, you guessed it, I sat my lil ass right down! When a conductor came by I showed him my ticket n explained that car was full and I couldn't find a seat. I asked if it was ok to sit here...guess what...he said "sure. we overbooked the other car". Ohhhh hellls yes! I rode in first class for a regular fare! :) nice begining to the trip I'd say.
My 2 hr. drive to Cannon Beach from Portland was really nice. Long open roads, great scenery, and a bunch of music. Life was peachy. The rental place gave me a '06 Toyota Celica, It's a pretty nice car!
My cottage is as cute as it looked in the web page pics. It's only $90 a night, for your own cottage! It's super small, but perrrfect for 1-2 persons. No next door noises, no kids running down a hallway at night, just a large room with a tv, dvd, microwave, small fridge, a big comfy bed, and a fairly good size bathroom. Oh, and it's just 1 block from the beach!
I have done 2 early morning meditation sittings on the beach and both were simply amazing. To wake up early and literally be the only one on a large 8 mile beach, is quite a surreal experience! I had brief moments of loneliness as I thought about my ex being with me last year, but I feel much better now that I made the effort to face it.
Ok, enough rambling already. Here's some pics as promised. It's me at my cottage behind me, a sunset taken my first night there (and to add to the beauty, I didn't re-touch any of these pics!), and a view of a completely empty beach...with morning fog resting right on the beach ground.
My Head Hurts
After going to bed around 2 am last night, I finally got out of bed around noon. I turned on TV and search for things to watch. Finding Sabrina the teenage witch, then Yes dear. Also during this time, I consumed my dinner. Which was meat loaf, and a twice backed potato.
Then it was time to get ready and head to work. Arriving there at 430, for yet another crappy shift. Of which was super duper boring. There was no one there to talk to tonight. At least no one I cared for or knew well enough. Ugh. The only positive thing was going across the street to the bank. Finally 1030 came, and I left.
Now I am home, where I am watching the end of WWE Monday night raw. Which isn't really that great. It's just something to watch. It use to be better, back in the day, when they did more wrestling, then talking. To be honest, it's now pretty much a male soap opera.
So, what's on my mind? Not really sure yet if I like this new hair style. It was good before I slept on it. My hair is so freaking wavy. I dunno if there is a cut that will work on it. Any suggestions? And no, I don't want a short hair style. Read yesterday's blog for more hair comments.
Anything else worth mentioning? I'm off the next 2 days! YAY! It will be like a mini vacation, cause I don't know of anything I have to do, or anything I want to do. So whatever happens, or comes up, does. I don't care. It's just nice not to have to go to work, period.
~ Mindfreak 
I think I am still alive
Up here (or down East) in beautiful Stonington, where I will have spent almost 5 weeks in total this year, a record. Eating too much good food, playing mostly lousy but some really excellent golf, doing too much client work, reading some outstanding books, not missing television. Daughter dearest reports in good things from Turkmenistan. Have heard rumors that my son is still the capo de capo of MindSay. Will not believe it until he responds. Rachel is winning in the will. 
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