Great big toys. That doesn’t sound right. Implies I drive a backhoe all day. I don’t. I’ve rented one a few times. Great fun, but. No. I don’t have any great big toys. Darn. Not even a used Harley. Not yet. Got a few other things to do before I can by me a toy that costs SIXTEEN THOUSAND FRICKIN DOLLARS. So meanwhile I have to keep myself happy with similarly masculine pursuits such as a social networking tool named after birdsong.
The birdie babies are doing fine, by the way. One egg hasn’t hatched yet. One chick seems to be missing. Do birds eat their young? I would think it would be too small for a hawk to bother with, and the cat can’t get up there. Maybe it wasn’t reading at grade level and the mama decided to cut her losses. Frickin’ yuppie birds and their expectations.
Anyway, my Twitter background. Off the cuff, looked for something, found a picture I took last July, somewhere along the Pacific Crest Trail. Went backpacking for a week, spent the entire time above nine thousand feet, took as usual a boatload of pictures, a handful of which came out. It was a fantastic experience, not just for us dads, but for the boys aged fourteen to seventeen who humped fifty miles in seven days over ridges and around mountains and learned, most of them, that they can do a lot more than they thought they could. You can’t overestimate the value of such a discovery.
For those of us who spend our lives growing soft at our computer desks, a week of hauling seventy pound packs up and down mountains on light-weight, low-fat, high-protein backpacking food isn’t so unhealthy either. Highly recommended. Especially in John Muir's Range of Light.
8 comments:
I prefer small toys, such as diamond bracelets, but I do lurve those photos.
I ache for the Sierra Nevada. So much wilderness, so little time.
The photos are indeed majestic, but eesh. What a fuss you boys make. You can find photos on the Web FFS.
I'm all about big toys, myself.
As for this twitter thing....I can't imaging that anyone wants to know what I'm doing at any given time of the day or night. And frankly, if I'm doing it, why would I want to take the time to SMS and tell anyone about it? I'll just blog about it if it's interesting.
:-)
I do love having the Rocky Mountains just a hop, skip and jump away.
That is a great pic. I heart mountains. And toys of all sizes.
"O, take me east of Suez,
Where the best is like the worst...."
I would love to get up high on the Pacific Crest Trail again. It's been a lonnnnnnggggggg time.
beeeaautiful! Have just finished reading The Last Season, about the missing Kings Canyon ranger, and am now itching to get back up there again. Alas, I've been sitting at my computer too long, and don't know that I would survive the trek up, but hey, that's worth the pain!
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