Death and the dying

Well, my Black Ghostknife died today or last night actually. To bad really, I rather liked that damn fish.

To be home and lost

As she came out of the water
Matt Bauer "The Island Moved In The Storm"
comes out September 2nd.
Look for it.

Mackinaw

Well, this last weekend I went to Priest. . . Caught a nice mackinaw. 5-1/2lbs. 24 inches. A nice trip truth be told.

The Robots

Well, what you have here are a couple of newish toys. I am still way back at the begining in regards to learning to play these bad boys but they sure are fun/aggrivating. I guess the difficulty lies in the split hand technique with one hand trying to keep up with two. I will get there i'm sure. just give me six months. . . or better yet, ten years.

The beauty of a whiskey and cigarette beatdown

So Sunday, Chris and I decided to hike up tower mountain not far from my house to the towers. . . Well, it was an amazing hike. It was not to bad in the begining and it was fairly easy to find a rhythm. Further along it got quite a bit more strenuous. Humorous when you find yourself taking ten steps, resting, then repeating for say the last 100 yards or so only to wind up at about 3800 feet. Not far from the top we spotted a Moose. He was kind of rusling around and then bedded down in a thicket. Soon, we were at the top. I found it rather funny that these giant towers come down to a point on what appeared to be about an eight inch circle. The other weird thing is when you stand at the base and look up it really seems like the tower is leaning over you. I am pretty sure that is some sort of optical illusion. Well, we hiked all the way down the ridge past quite a few towers until we stumbled upon these huge rock formations on the south side of the ridge looking out over the Palouse. I was later told these are the rocks of Sharon.

We looped around till we found another ridge running back north and made the full loop back around to where we parked the car. All in all it was a great hike and I would gladly do it again. I myself returned tick free but Chris brought home two of the little vampires. I am still amazed that I have lived near here several times during my life and I have never known about this place. Crazy.