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Weekend ride with Carl

March 28, 2010 in Riding Log | Please leave a comment

Carl and I went on a nice little weekend ride around Northwest Oregon over the weekend.  On Saturday we stopped in Newberg to wish Anne safe travels and take her on a short ride before she heads to Ukraine for two years.  We stayed the night at Rick’s house to attend one of his fabulous parties.  This morning we stopped in Sherwood to pick up Eileen and bring her back to Corvallis.

Carl at a rest stop in the mountains outside of Willamina.

My big white bike is prettier :-)

This proves that I actually was there!

In Newberg

Eileen getting dressed

Total distance: about 350 miles.

Gas stop 1: 86.2 miles (including 20 undocumented miles from Friday when I was testing the bike).  1.96 gallons.  43.98 mpg.

Gas stop 2: 101.3 miles. 1.948 gallons.  52.00 mpg.

Gas stop 3: 110.7 miles. 2.180 gallons. 50.78 mpg.

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Halloween 2009

November 1, 2009 in Eye Candy | Please leave a comment

This year’s Halloween was pretty epic.  It got off to a slow start but by the end of the night everyone was having a good time.  Here are some photos to prove it.

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Emily as a Zombie, Carl as a guy with a severed leg, and Matt as a grad student.

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Steve drinking it up.

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My costume.

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Jenna as Lady Gaga.

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Jesus and Lady Gaga: together at last!  One night only!

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And lo Jesus hath come down from heaven for a can of Hams.

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Reanimate the dead: Check!

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Sharon, Daniel, and Steve.

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Jesus is a ladies man.

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Dan came as a fully functional box of Franzia.

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This is a FireFox costume.  FireFox as in the web browser. So awesome!

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Someone dressed up as BookFace from The Office and someone dressed up as Fall?

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Our airplane captain friend who likes to get touchy-feely with the ladies when he is drunk.

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He got down on his knees and pleased Jesus.

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Reanimating the dead with some special Jesus Juice.

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Perhaps the scariest costume of the evening.

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Amber B not wanting a photo taken.

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Lady Gaga’s mid-evening costume change.

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Looks like we have an Anchor Man on the right.

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Pippy Longstockings and a zombie.

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Jacob as Dr Horrible.

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Jesus loves his Hams!

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A stripper and Stacey playing beer pong.

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Leaving the Community

December 22, 2007 in Central America 2007-8 | Please leave a comment

After saying goodbye to the community, we loaded up in a pickup truck and headed down the mountain.

Heading around a switchback.

Standing up in the back of the truck.

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Completion of the Project

December 22, 2007 in Central America 2007-8 | Please leave a comment

The completed structure with a few extra people thrown in for good measure.

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Slap Happy.

Finishing the last odds and ends.

Carrying extra cement for storage.

Heading home in the fog.  We wore machetes at night for protection as did all of the community.  Occasionally outsiders would come from lower towns to try and stir up trouble.  The machetes helped prevent that.

One last visit to the school before we left.

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Tank Progress

December 20, 2007 in Central America 2007-8 | Please leave a comment

Burning the ends of a PVC pipe.

The walk down to town.

Branches in the road mean roadwork in that lane.

Back up on the job site still mixing concrete.

A nicely made security door.

The electricity meter on the school.

A dog came to help.

Hanging the gutter.

Tall guys helped hold it up.

All installed.

Birdie became a favorite with the kids.

The tank in place.

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Keep on Trucking

December 18, 2007 in Central America 2007-8 | Please leave a comment

With the foundation anchors poured, work continued.

Water was brought up from the bottom of the ridges to the school for use in concrete mixing.

The surface had to be leveled flat to make sure the tank would not shift and roll away.

On a walk to another part of the community, we discovered a beheaded coral snake.

Blocks were used to construct a pit where water could be gathered from a spigot off of the tank.

I found a good use for the pipe joints.

A concrete volcano.

Figuring out piping.

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Pouring the concrete pad.

Getting ready for a community meeting.

The sun sets on another day of work.

Putting in stairs for the pit.

The ocean and the sun.

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Night Work

December 15, 2007 in Central America 2007-8 | Please leave a comment

A night-time visit to the springs down the mountain from where we stayed.  This is where we came to get water, to bathe, and to wash clothing.

Working late at the school.

Setting up the foundation forms to pour concrete.

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Mixing up concrete at night.

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The First Days of Work

December 11, 2007 in Central America 2007-8 | Please leave a comment

Dawn over the mountains of El Salvador.

Working on breaking up the ground.

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Carl knows how to rock.

Then I got in on the act.

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It was rock solid.

The sun setting into the Pacific Ocean and the fog rolling in below us.

It was a sea of clouds below us.

Another day, more work!  This is looking out across the ridge tops.

An old water tank that has long been abandoned.

On top of Trembladore (or something like that), the tallest mountain in the community.  The Guatemalan border is somewhere behind me.  The hills in the distance are in Guatemala.

Hard at work on gutters.

Sifting sand for concrete production.

Some flowers on a nearby house.

Another sunset.

Hiking up the road to where we were staying.

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