"NAME THAT MOVIE" CONTEST - 134

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"NAME THAT MOVIE" CONTEST - 133


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Round 133 is still open. I'll have the newest round up before the end of the day. Stay tuned!

"NAME THAT MOVIE" CONTEST - 130




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Round 130 is still open. For all that is good and right in the world, someone PLEASE get this!

Sharky enjoyed our hike last weekend.

He tasted some new things...

...and even swam in the ocean.

Does anyone know what type of plant this is?

We saw it on our hike, but it wasn't in our plant guide.

Fort To Sea Trail - August 2008

Another thing we grow well and large here in Oregon are mushrooms.

A third of that one had broken off and it was still bigger than my head!

I don't know much about mushrooms, so I can't even begin to tell you what kind these are. Any mushroom experts out there?

This one made a tasty snack for someone. Nom nom nom!

Due to extensive damage caused by a horrific winter storm in December 2007, the Fort To Sea Trail we hiked this weekend was closed for months and only just recently re-opened. We saw lots of evidence of the storm's aftermath along a good amount of the trail.

Many trees were snapped in half like this one, but most were just completely uprooted. I can't even imagine what it must have been like up on the ridge when it happened. Giant trees fell across the trail all over the place. It took them a long time to get it all cleaned up and the trail repaired.

I wish we had hiked the trail sooner so we could have seen what it was like before.

I'm currently making this dress (view A) for a client:

She's a vendor at Renaissance Festivals and needed a new dress. We're fully aware that it's not even close to historically accurate, but she doesn't care. She just needed something comfortable to wear while manning her booth.

I can sum up our hike at the coast this weekend in one word: slugs.

We may not do everything big here in Oregon, but we certainly know how to grow our slugs.

I've got a metric buttload (yes, that is a highly technical term) of sewing to get done today for a client fitting tomorrow. If anyone is interested in taking a peek while I work, I will be turning the MooCams back on shortly once I grab a shower and stop looking like Medusa.

From this year's Chick-fil-A calendar, One-Hit Wonder Cows:

What he lacked in talent, he made up for in hair. Ladies loved Mulletcut for his role as Dr. Chaz Navarro on a daytime soap opera. Guys related to his passion for chicken - and pants with 57 zippers. Even after his soap was canceled and his hairline receded, Bobby continued to sell out stadiums. In Germany.

Yesterday, Mr Moo and I hiked the Fort To Sea Trail. Here's my collectible pin for my backpack:

We hiked all 6.5 miles from Fort Clatsop all the way down to the ocean. It was a really nice hike, which passed through many different habitats, and we couldn't have asked for better weather (sunny, but cool). Unfortunately, my knee wasn't too keen on the whole up-and-over-the-mountain thing and I was limping quite badly by the time we were done. By bedtime last night, it had stiffened up so badly, I could barely move. I'm still in some pain, but at least I can walk today.

Hope to have some photos posted soon. Stay tuned!

We're home. We were gone exactly 49 hours. The way Josie is carrying on, you'd think we'd been gone for an entire year. At least it's the middle of the day and we're not trying to sleep. She can cry away for a while.

We're leaving for the coast in about five minutes. Woot! Hope everyone has a good weekend. We'll be back on Sunday. Later, fishies!

We finally made a decision. We're going to Astoria, Oregon, for a couple days this weekend. We leave in the morning and will be back Sunday. Hope Josie doesn't freak out being alone for a couple nights.

It's been a long rough summer for Josie with her cancer treatments and all, but she seems to be settling back into her regular routine of napping and, well, more napping.

Yesterday was our anniversary. Since it was a Tuesday, we both had to work so we didn't really do much to celebrate. We did go to Outback for dinner, where we promptly ate way too much and gave ourselves tummy aches. Mr Moo originally was planning to take the day off. However, since I had a client fitting scheduled in the middle of the afternoon (I forgot what day it was when I set it up - oops!), we changed things around a bit. He's now going to take Friday off instead and we'll do something this weekend. Problem is, we can't decided what to do. Wherever we go, we'll end up hiking. So, do we go to the coast? The forests around Mt Hood? The volcano (Mt St Helens)? The Columbia River Gorge? Someplace completely different? There are too many places to go hiking here!

It's disgusting, but someone has to do it.

Our yard was invaded by ducks yesterday morning.



If someone hadn't moved the camera, there would have been some better captures. The ducks found the cracked corn in the tray feeder and completely cleaned it out.

"NAME THAT MOVIE" CONTEST - 133

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"NAME THAT MOVIE" CONTEST - 132


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Oh look. Another round. Still open. Come on, fishies! These aren't that difficult.