Sand in the City

I took the girls to Sand in the city in down town Olympia, it is an even to raise money for the Hands on musume.

Diamond Lake Crater Lake

Crater Lake has inspired people for hundreds of years. No place else on earth combines a deep, pure lake, so blue in color; sheer surrounding cliffs, almost two thousand feet high; two picturesque islands; and a violent volcanic past. It is a place of immeasurable beauty, and an outstanding outdoor laboratory and classroom.
Crater Lake is located in Southern Oregon on the crest of the Cascade Mountain range, 100 miles (160 km) east of the Pacific Ocean. It lies inside a caldera, or volcanic basin, created when the 12,000 foot (3,660 meter) high Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago following a large eruption.
Generous amounts of winter snow, averaging 533 inches (1,354 cm) per year, supply the lake with water. There are no inlets or outlets to the lake. Crater Lake, at 1,943 feet (592 meters) deep, is the seventh deepest lake in the world and the deepest in the United States. Evaporation and seepage prevent the lake from becoming any deeper.

Pictures of Iraq

Shawn is not able to add his own pictures or words to the Blog from Iraq. Some must have decided that they do not want the public to hear what soliders have to saw, or see the pictures they may post. Above is the traler that he is living in with a room mate, and a picture of the inside.

Also, is a picture of grandma and grandpa when they visited for Giana's B-day.

Giana is 4

Giana turned 4 today. She had a big day, she got her karate uniform and belt, then we went to Chucky Cheese, then went to Build a Bear, then home for a Dora Cake. She is tired.

Wolf Camping trip

Wolf Haven: I took the girls camping at wolf haven, we spent the night in the tent. The wolf's howled all night, and a train went by about every few hours all night. But, the worst thing was the people dogs that lived in a trailer next too the camping, they barked all night. The coyotes yuped all night at the dogs, who barked at the coyotes. When we left at 9:00 am the 2 dogs were sound asleep in the fenced front lawn, I should have got out of the car and woke them up.

I could not get a good picture of the red wolfs. The tour guide said at one point in time the last reamining red wolfs were rounded up and tested and the population was down to 11 pure red wolfs. THe reason the red wolfs were the 1st to go in the US was because they lived on the eastcoast and we settled the east coast first. The next time you have a mouse in our house or have a rabbit eat your garden think about how useful it would be to have the red wolfs around. They mostly ate small things.

Factoid: Red wolves tend to form pair-bonds for life.
Status: Endangered.
Population: Once hunted to the brink of extinction, in 1980 fewer than 20 wolves were rounded up by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be bred in captivity. The wolves were officially declared extinct in the wild. By 1987, enough animals had been bred to begin a reintroduction program. Thanks to these programs, there are currently 50 to 80 red wolves in the wild.
Threats: Threats to the red wolf include habitat loss because of human development and illegal hunting.
Survival: It is estimated that red wolves live four years in the wild and up to 14 years in captivity.
Red wolves have several coat colors including black, brown, gray, and yellow. The reddish coats for which they are named was typical of some Texan populations.
As medium-sized canids, red wolves are smaller and more slender than their gray wolf cousins, but larger than coyotes. Adult males weigh 60 to 80 pounds. Females are smaller and weigh 40 to 60 pounds.
Red wolves prefer to live in forests, swamps and coastal prairies. Dens are often located in hollow trees, stream banks and sand knolls.
The red wolf's diet consists primarily of small mammals such as rabbits and rodents but also includes insects, berries and occasionally deer. Shy and secretive, red wolves hunt alone or in small family packs. The red wolf is primarily nocturnal (active at night).
Historically, red wolves ranged throughout the southeastern United States from Pennsylvania to Florida and as far west as Texas. Today, only a few wolves roam free in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and nearby Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina.
National Parks: Horn Island, a part of Gulf Islands National Seashore 8 miles off the mainland of Mississippi, is serving as a site for captive rearing of red wolves, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1991, red wolves were reintroduced into Great Smoky Mountains National Park but were relocated in 1998 due to insufficient food sources.

Poor tree

I hate this tree in our front yard so I made the kids cut it down. It had been damaged in a storm last year and looked very bad. The only problem is now it is down what do I do with it?

TV addicts

Hello,

THis is the TV addicts. I can not get them to look at me for the picture.