Tales from my weekend.

I finally got my new chord today. I hope Vlad the sharp tooth will not distroy this one.

And finally the things I did with my weekend- On Saturday I drove up to a special starbucks because I was missing a friend who works there. I couldn't stay long, but it was so great to see her! Then I took my middle eastern brother-in-law to Costco. It was funny watching him go from table to table trying the samples and talking to all of the people sampling. I enjoyed this. It was funny.

Then on Sunday after Josh and I had brunch, were were pleasently suprised by a nice amount of sunshine and decided it was prime time to check out a trail Josh found in Salmon creek. It was along the creek and we saw ducks, and swallows, and cranes, but it didn't give me that out in nature feeling that I crave. This chances are, was because Salmon creek is lined with huge houses to one side of the trail.

Whenever I look at places like that, I imagin what the land used to look like, before we built houses and paved it. What did the northwest look like as virgin land? And as my brain erases the houses and pavement like photo shop in my mind, the image of this place unspoiled is breath taking.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind progress of paved paths, I just like to think about what people who came before me saw, and thought, the same way I think of what what people in the future will see and think. What I will see and think in the future as I grow and change and start taking a family to these spots.

I hope my children will be able to see the beautiful things I've seen. Breath taking views, and landscapes shaped by years of weather and time. I think this is more then anything why I am a conservationist. It's not about global warming to me, or about the ozone. It's about clean water for my children, and places for them to hike and swim. And having beautiful places to dream about taking their kids on nature walks and bike rides as I did on this little walking path.

See this, it started out about the random junk I did on the weekend and turns into a talk about taking care of the earth.