Category Archives: Personal Rambling

If you’re not interested in the personal goings-on in our lives, this isn’t the category for you. Never know what you might learn, watch out!

Never use FedEx

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In less ambitious news, and the latest in the unending string of their fuckups, FedEx has been sitting on my package for 2 days simply because it’s not due. The best part, I find, is that they own right up to it! 

Two opportunities to get it to me, and yet there it sits… Why did I pay $25 for fedex delivery, I might as well just have let USPS do it at this point. 

6 to 5 and pick ’em that tomorrow FedEx shows up at our condo, doesn’t even try to use the callbox, and makes me drive to the facility anyway. Nitwits. 

Not fair

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It’s always the youngest children that get the free ride… (Although we later decided that if you count dog years they’ve become the oldest children, and quite aged indeed, so maybe it’s fair after all…)

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After literally minutes of packing and seconds of contemplation we are finally on the road to the vacation that I’m told will actually be at the beach this time.

Another hike to Silver Falls

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On Sunday we went down and hiked Silver Falls. Haven’t been there since we hiked it last spring. Great day for a hike! Took some pictures to send to out of state friends who are missing the green. 🙂

We went “backwards” this time, so the first falls was one of the smaller ones.

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Artistic Moss shot:

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First falls we get to go behind:

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Slightly damp.

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I love the rock formations under the falls:

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The downside to going backwards is that there’s a rather lot of stairs to get up to above these falls. Couldn’t manage to get a picture of them that conveyed quite how many there were…
Looking back down from above:

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Next falls:

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It’s hard to get the scale of it all into one picture. The next two are from standing in the same spot:

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Part of the trail is not meant for tall people:

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There’s a lot more up to go…

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Made it to the top:

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Two panoramas, because I couldn’t decide which I liked:

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