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About Me
- Susan
- I am a mom to two beautiful girls, been married 10 years to my high school sweetheart, and I work as a professional engineer. I love to move (especially run)and be crafty. Finished my 1st marathon in Oct. 2007!
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That is a good hike for two little girls! I bet you had a great time.
Thanks for the beautiful fall pictures--Grandma Johnson would love them.
Funny. We went on a hike this afternoon and Jenny made a comment on how pretty the trail was. I retorted "who needs mountains anyway?!" Then Liam tripped on a rock and peed his pants so we had to go home. On the way home, we saw a little tumbleweed roll through an intersection. I made a comment to Jenny that I hadn't seen a tumbleweed in ages. She said she remembered in Washington having so many tumbleweeds that you'd get flat bike tires all the time. I said in my sarcastic way "Oooo, Washington sounds beautiful." So your pictures redeemed Washington just a little bit. Unless you just found them on Google Images and are trying to pass them off as Washington. I didn't see any tumbleweeds.
The tumbleweeds were in Pasco which is in the high desert of Washington, not the mountain area. In a way, Pasco was like Kansas -- flat. There were so many tumbleweeds, we would stack them and burn them or we couldn't get down the little lane to our house. They made a spectacular flame for about 2 seconds and then they were gone.
The thorns didn't come from the tumbleweeds, but from a weed called puncture vine or goathead thorn. (If you'd care to know, the scientific name is "ribulus terrestris.") Interestingly enough, we have goathead thorns in the alley behind our house here. The thorns very easily puncture my Croc-like shoes. Ouch!
Adding to the tumbleweeds story...
Yes, the tumbleweeds are only in Central Washington. Each year, we inspect bridges down near Pasco. Underneath the bridges, we were noticing that many of them were now covered in black. It was a mystery to us until we were told that all the tumbleweeds are burned underneath the bridges. (Not very smart to be burning a fire under your bridge, if 'ya ask me)
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